: Run
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Approach: Open space Level: Year 4 and year 8 
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Focus: Running
Resources:Cone at 20 metre mark, floor plan
Questions/instructions:

Run as fast as you can from the start line to the cone marker and back again.

• Have two goes - the first is a practise run.

 


run


% responses
2006 ('02)
y4
y8
knees bent (90+ degrees) during recovery
61 (49)
59 (55)
arms bent, moved in opposition to legs
80 (85)
85 (78)
slight forward lean, landed on balls of feet
54 (56)
53 (57)
Time taken to complete run:
less than 8.0 secs
2 (3)
6 (4)
8.0 -12.0 secs
88 (85)
87 (91)
12.1 - 16.0 secs
10 (12)
6 (5)
longer, or not completed
0 (0)
1 (0)
Total score:
5–6
38 (35)
40 (37)
4
26 (25)
31 (25)
3
22 (28)
18 (26)
0–2
14 (12)
11 (12)
Subgroup Analysis:
Year 4

Year 8

Commentary:
Most students ran competently and quite quickly. There was little difference between year 4 and year 8 students. Boys scored higher than girls but there were only very small ethnic differences. There was little change from 2002 to 2006.
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