Citizenship at key stage 3 (Year 7-9)
Unit 08: Leisure and sport in the local community
Section 5: Why does leisure and sport need regulation?
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Objectives |
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- that sporting and leisure activities need to be carefully regulated by law, and that health and safety issues need to be addressed
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Outcomes |
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- Ask the pupils to think of a sport where physical contact is either part of the game or might happen accidentally, eg basketball, hockey, football, rugby. The class should consider what should happen to:
- a team that consistently intimidates its opponents
- a player who makes a reckless tackle and seriously injures his/her opponent
- a rugby referee who fails to keep control of a game, which then ends with someone being seriously injured when a scrum collapses
- two players who get into a fight on the pitch, one of whom receives an eye injury that prevents him/her from playing professionally again
- a footballer who is being racially abused who then leaps into the crowd and assaults the person abusing him/her.
- Ask the class to decide whether the law has been broken in any of these cases. If so, should the matter go to court? Discuss the relevance of laws in assault cases.
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- draw on their experience of developing criteria and rules
- demonstrate an understanding of the issues involved
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Points to note |
- Real-life sporting incidents may be used as a focus for these activities. See:
- A player who recklessly injures another could be open to criminal charges of assault and civil charges of negligence, leading to possible payment of damages.
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