Learning intentions

Playing sport requires training and fitness. It is both a team and an individual journey. Every player makes a commitment to themselves and their teammates to be match fit and bring their A-game.

Learning intentions for this experience are:

• Investigate individual journeys and challenges.
• Understand that skill and fitness contribute to enjoyment.
• Create a game pool schedule.

Kōrero | Discussion

• Why do people play sport?
• What behaviours and values are shared amongst players?
• What does it take to be in a national team? For example, training and fitness.
• Do you think game pools are a fair way of organising a tournament? Explain your views.
• What is another way of organising a tournament?

Ngā ngohe | Activities

Sports reporter

• Select one or two countries who played in a major sporting event.

  • What is the history of your sport in the country?

  • Who did they play in the qualifying rounds? 

  • What were the highlights of the games?

  • Who was in the team? What do you find most interesting about the country,  team or players?

  • Identify the following features of the country:

    • Location, names, flag, capital city.

    • Greetings. 

    • Interesting facts and statistics. 

• Record audio or visual interviews, or write a report or story; or create a timeline poster or mural to share what you have learned.

Local leagues and legends

• Identify someone in a local sport team you can interview about what they enjoy about their sport.
• Create a script of questions, or storyboard an interview for an audio or video recording. Include the following:

  • Whakapapa.

  • What they enjoy about football or futsal.

  • Where they play and train.

  • Interesting personal stories and highlights.

• Record your audio or video documentary or write an essay about them. 

Game pools

• Organise a team tournament. This could be a global, local or school-based event.
• Investigate and design a game pool.
• How are participating teams chosen?
• Identify how many teams, pools, and games? 
• Decorate your pool chart with flags or icons from each country.
• How many playing fields will be needed? 
• Which games will be played concurrently and which will be played consecutively? 
• How many games would the winner play if there were 20, 12, 104 or 10 teams?
• Use a coin or dice to decide the outcome of each game. For example, heads or the highest number wins.
• Complete the pool chart as you go. 
• Keep playing and identifying winning teams until there is one winner. 
• Make a game pool for your football festival. 

Kuputaka | Glossary:

• Consecutive: one after another.
• Concurrent: at the same time.