Year 4 Invasion games: maintaining possession and stopping an attack in ball games worksheet

“Passing and receiving together” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 4 PE unit “Invasion games: maintaining possession and stopping an attack in ball games”, for children aged 8 to 9, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 4 to 6 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Passing and receiving together

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 4 · PE · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can pass and receive the ball while keeping on the move.

A Look back3 min

1.
Which step is missing from the blank? Pick one card to go in the blank.
Catch with two handsCatch with one hand behind your backClose your eyes
2.
Which step comes first in a PE lesson? Pick one card to go in the blank.
Warm upCool downPlay a game
3.
Take five throws at a hoop. Write 1 for a hit and 0 for a miss in each box:

B Watch me, then you4 min

Priya wants to pass the ball to Leo across the hall. Watch how she passes it.

Watch me

Step 1: point your hips at Leo's hands.

Step 2: let go of the ball.

Step 3: keep your hands moving towards the target.

Now you

1.
Put these receiving steps in order. Write 1 to 4 in the boxes.
1. Cushion the ball into your hands
2. Move to the side of the defender
3. Watch the ball all the way in
4. Signal that you are ready

C Your turn6 min

Clear space, a soft ball, away from windows. A grown-up watches. Read each row and answer.

A soft ball resting between three orange cones on a lawn

1.
Ola is about to pass. Where should her hips point? Pick one card.
Towards her teammate's handsTowards the wall behind herUp at the ceiling
2.
Leo is waiting for a pass. A defender stands in front of him. Where should he stand? Pick one card.
Directly behind the defenderTo the side of the defenderFar away from the game
3.
Challenge: your partner passes to you 10 times. Count your clean catches. Write the count for three tries: Try 1 Try 2 Try 3
4.
Join each part of the pass to its coaching point.
HipsFollow throughSide of defenderWatch the ball
Keep your hands moving after you let goPoint at the target before you passEyes stay on the ball into your handsStand at an angle, not behind

Say it out loud: Which coaching point helped you make the most clean catches, and why? Say it out loud to your grown-up.

D Spot the mistake3 min

Two orange cones on a hall floor with a gap between them and a soft ball

Ben says: “When I wait for a pass, I stand right behind the defender so I can see the ball better.”

1.
Explain what Ben should do instead.

E Think deeper3 min

A soft ball and three cones on a lawn with a shadow

1.
Your team has the ball and two defenders are close. Do you pass to the side or straight back? Explain why in one or two sentences.

How did it feel?1 min

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Passing and receiving together · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. Catch with two hands If your child picks closing the eyes, ask what they can see when the ball arrives. Eyes open and hands together make the catch safer.

2. Warm up If your child picks cool down, ask which part comes at the end when the body is slowing down. The warm up gets the body ready first.

3. Look for: Five values, each 0 or 1, one for each of the five throws. If your child writes a count instead of 0 or 1 for each throw, show them one throw at a time and ask: hit or miss?

B

1. 1 Move to the side of the defender · 2 Signal that you are ready · 3 Watch the ball all the way in · 4 Cushion the ball into your hands If your child puts catching first, ask: where must you be before the ball can reach you? Getting into space and signalling come before the catch.

C

1. Towards her teammate's hands If your child picks the wall, ask: where is the target? Hips point at the person you are passing to.

2. To the side of the defender If your child picks behind the defender, ask whether the defender can block a ball coming straight in. A side angle makes a gap.

3. Look for: Three numbers from 0 to 10, one for each try, written by the child.

4. Hips → Point at the target before you pass; Follow through → Keep your hands moving after you let go; Side of defender → Stand at an angle, not behind; Watch the ball → Eyes stay on the ball into your hands If your child joins two cards the wrong way, ask them to act out the pass slowly. Which card matches what their body is doing?

D

1. Look for: Moves to the side of the defender, not behind, and looks at or signals to the passer. If your child says run faster, ask where the defender is standing. The fix is an angle, not speed.

E

1. Look for: A reason about making an angle, moving into space, or keeping possession, not just that it is fun. If your child says only 'because it is fun', ask which choice makes it harder for a defender to block the pass.

Words to use

Say“Where is the defender standing, and where could your partner stand to make a gap?”

Instead of“Just run faster and pass harder.”

After the sheet

With a soft ball and two cones in a clear room away from windows, one partner stands to the side while the other passes. Swap every five passes. Stay close and watch, and keep the space clear.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Keep Moving After You Pass(with a plan)
Shoot or pass?(with a plan)
Pass, move, then shoot(with a plan)
Defending to stop attacks(with a plan)
Switching roles in games(with a plan)

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