PE Curriculum

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Autumn 1

Reception – Stretch n Grow 1

This an exciting activity for the children whereby they learn strength, endurance, flexibility, balance and how healthy foods fuel their bodies. The children develop their fundamental movement skills in a fun and engaging environment.

Reception – Fine Motor Skills

Children become confident in many fine motor skill areas. They will learn how to negotiate space safely, attack and defend in chasing games, use the strength in their hands to manipulate objects and pick up, carry and thread with control.

Year 1- Fundamental Movement Skills 1

The children start to build confidence in moving their bodies in a variety of ways. Children will know how to run, balance on one leg, increase control over an object and thread objects. Children will develop their emotional intelligence and understand the importance of working as a team and being fair.

Year 1- Yoga

Children will learn to bend, stretch and reach and understand the importance of breathing properly whilst stretching and warming up. Children will understand apply 3 part breathing and show self-confidence and self-motivation.

Year 2- Fundamental Movement Skills 2

Children build on previous learning from Year 1 and are taught how to hop while retaining their balance, jump in a variety of ways landing safely and being able to combine a run and a jump. Children will know how to travel safely in a range of ways including backwards and how to doge and evade others. They are introduced to simple attacking and defending strategies.

Year 3- OAA (Outdoor Adventurous Activities)

The children learn to work as part of a team using the process of elimination to work out symbols. Children will communicate well and negotiate to solve problems. Children will bring Year 2 Geography learning into their PE work by using compass points. They will then use this knowledge to orientate a map and find clues.

Year 4- Cricket

Skills learned in previous years will be built on and applied to a game. Children will learn how to correctly position their body to receive a ball, bowl a ball overarm with a straight arm and look at what a wicket keeper stance would look like. Children will be able to throw accurately and powerfully and be able to hit a ball with a bat. Children will also look at tactical awareness.

Year 4- Swimming

The children will learn how to swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres. They will be taught to use a range of strokes effectively, for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke. The children will be able to perform a safe self-rescue in different water based situations.

Year 5- Hockey

Children will build on skills already learned and add to this. Children will be confident with their dribbling skills built on from previous years and will be able to dribble the ball with their heads up. The children will start to develop their skills in different positions on a hockey pitch and will work with their partners to get past a defender.

Year 6- Netball

Children will be confident many of the skills needed to play netball from previous years. Children will learn to send a netball in a range of ways, they will pass the ball accurately and be able to anticipate play and release the ball quickly and efficiently. They will look in more detail at game tactics like being able to position themselves to take rebounds from missed shots and know how to create space for themselves.

Spring 1

Reception – Jungle (Dance)

This is an exciting topic for the children and links to their learning in the Summer term. The children will use their bodies to create simple theme related shapes, movements and actions. Children will be introduced to the idea of showing different levels when they travel and understand how and why it is important to travel safely in space. The children will then perform a basic sequence of music led by an adult.

Year 1- Invasion Game Skills 1

Children learn a range of skills that are fundamental for a range of invasion games. These skills are gradually built on. Children will learn how to throw underarm with accuracy. They will then build on this using more power to throw underarm at and through targets. Children learn how to trap a ball using their foot and dribble with control. 

Year 2- Striking and Field Games 2

The children build on their previous learning from Year 1. They explore how to catch a ball after one bounce, bowl overarm with a straight arm and show awareness of the rules. Children will also be able to know the importance of picking up the ball with both hands. The children will then apply all of this learning to a game situation, ensuring that they apply their knowledge of the school games values.

Year 3- Hockey

The children learn how to hold a hockey stick and how to use a hockey stick to dribble a ball confidently and stop a ball. They will build on gaining confidence dribbling and changing direction. Children will also understand the importance of using the hockey equipment safely. They will put the skills they have learned into practice in a game setting.

Year 3- Yoga

The children will be taught how to prepare their bodies properly with breathing and stretching before then working on a range of poses. They will then work on how to hold positions with good alignment and shape. The children will understand the importance of meditation and then go on to devise their own meditation.

Year 4- Dodgeball

Children extend on skills taught lower down the school and apply these to a game setting. The children will know when to attack and when to defend, keeping their eyes on the opposition at all times. They will learn to keep on the move to make themselves more difficult to hit. Children will use their judgement on which balls to try and catch and which to dodge.

Year 5- Dance through the ages (Dance)

This is a fun topic for the children (and adults!) where they can travel through time with dance. The children build on the skills learned in previous year’s dance units. The children will include use of level changes and different directions, as well as including changes in formation, dynamics, Canon, Unison, Direction and Level.

Year 6- Handball

Children will apply previous knowledge from other PE lessons showing that they can send a ball accurately, pass and move into space, dribble a ball in front of them whilst travelling and disguise passes and dummy passes. These skills will them be applied to a game.

Summer 1

Reception- Gymnastics – Flight, Bouncing, Jumping and Landing

The children continue to develop their fundamental movement skills. They will jump in a variety of ways, understanding that they need to bend their legs when landing to cushion the impact.

Year 1- Striking and Fielding Game Skills 1

The children will be able to use both hands when fielding, be able to stop a ball with two hands creating a barrier behind it with their feet or body. Children will bowl a ball at a target, pick up a ball with one hand and throw it underarm, chase and retrieve a ball and apply a range of skills that have been taught.

Year 2- Athletics 2

Children will build on athletics work from Reception and show that they can develop different styles of jumping. Children will be able to throw with a run up and show a variety of athletic techniques competently. Throughout the topic the children will demonstrate that they can show the school games values.

Year 3- Egyptians (Dance)

Ancient Egypt is a talked about topic in Year 3; the children are always super excited to learn about this area and they can articulate the knowledge that they have learned in their History lessons. The children will learn to show good timing, posture and extension, show changes in level and pathway when travelling and work well in groups showing good cooperation skills.

Year 4- Gymnastics – Partner work – Pushing and Pulling

The children will consolidate points and patches work and be able to compose a sequence with a partner. They will work as part of a group at contrasting levels and perform in unison and canon.

Year 4- Yoga

Children will develop previously taught skills and show that they can hold positions with good alignment and shape. They will learn to work with control and be able to isolate body parts. They will also work as part of a group to perform different poses.

Year 5- OAA

The children will need to use non-verbal and verbal communication and team work to solve a variety of team challenges.

Year 5- Gymnastics – Synchronisation and Canon

Children will learn to slide, scramble, push and spin. They will perform in canon to a consistent tempo so that their sequence flows. They will perform balances on patches and in unison and rolls in canon. They will perform in a group demonstrating different dynamics-changes of level, speed and direction.

Year 6- Rounders

Children will show that they can catch with soft hand and throw accurately into space. They will be able to bowl accurately at a consistent height and catch and throw quickly. They will be able to strike accurately and communicate with fellow batsmen/women when between bases.

Autumn 2

Reception – Stretch n Grow 2

Children build on learning from Autumn 1 and continue to develop their gross motor skills in a fun and engaging way. Current classroom topics are incorporated in to the learning to make this relevant for the children and to allow cross curricular links to be made.

Reception – Stability 2 (static and dynamic balance)

The children will learn the basics for how to perform a balance. They will learn how to twist, bend and reach whilst maintaining their balance. Children will learn their left and right and then use this knowledge to help them in learning how to dodge. Children will be able to travel around with control and awareness, and eventually do this with confidence.

Year 1 – Gymnastics – Balancing and Spinning on Points and Patches

Children build on previous fundamental movement skills and build up to demonstrating that they can support their body weight in symmetrical balances, perform controlled spins, work collaboratively to perform routines and introduce levels and perform spins and balances as part of a wider routine.

 Year 2 – Gymnastics – Spinning, Turning and Twisting

Children build on previous points and patches work done in Year 1. They progress to perform a twist and then a roll. They build on previous learning by being able to work at all three levels and create a sequence with a clear start with controlled twists, spins and turns.

Year 2- Yoga

The children learn the importance of warming up safely. They will then be shown a range of poses that include jungle animals. They will know how to work imaginatively and how to bend, stretch and reach.

Year 3- Handball

The children learn how to bounce, dribble, pass and shoot. They learn how to play a game by the rules.

Year 4- Netball

Building on previous learning children will look at sending a netball accurately in a number of ways, defend individually and as part of a team and shoot using good technique. Children will then use what they have learned in a game scenario, applying rules of attacking and defending.

Year 4- Swimming

The children will learn how to swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres. They will be taught to use a range of strokes effectively, for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke. The children will be able to perform a safe self-rescue in different water based situations.

Year 5- Tag Rugby

The children learn to overlap, how to play advantage and to restart after infringements. The children will send and receive a ball on the run and under pressure, making use of their left and right. The children will be able to apply skills to game situations.

Year 6- Cricket

The children will build on prior learning and focus on explicit ways of delivering the ball and shots that might be played depending upon the delivery. They will look at developing their tactical awareness, taking into account a variety of factors. The children will be able to catch consistently under pressure, bowl with a short run up and perform a range of fielding techniques confidently and consistently.

Spring 2

Reception- Target Games 1

This unit starts looking at the techniques involved in sending an object with accuracy and also power. It encourages children from the outset to use both hands and feet.

Year 1- Animals (Dance)

Animals is a fun topic that really engages the children in their PE learning. The children will learn to move in different ways, showing different types of travel and showing good timing. They will also learn to use their bodies to express feelings and communicate well with one another to perform in a group.

Year 2- Fire of London (Dance)

The Great Fire of London is a Year 2 History topic that the children love, and so to immerse them in their learning we link this with their PE learning. The children will learn to move safely and creatively in space, focus on timing and performance and show use of different levels in their travelling movements.

Year 3 – Basketball

Children learn to handle the ball and to travel with it under control. They learn some terminology associated with basketball and how to send in different ways (including shooting) and how to receive and protect the ball.

Year 4- Tennis

Children will apply learned knowledge from their previous Striking and Field Games unit. They will build on this knowledge to further develop their skills. The children will learn to hit consistent forehand returns, get into a good position to play backhand shots and volley a ball.

Year 5- Tennis

The children extend their knowledge from Year 4 and expand their repertoire of strokes and learn how to play singles and doubles, using tactics to outwit their opponent.

Year 6- The Haka (Dance)

This is a fun unit for the children (especially to any Rugby fans). It is a great unit that really helps engage both boys and girls in dance. The children will learn to creatively change static actions into travelling movements, communicate effectively with a partner and evaluate the work of other’s using simple technical language.

Year 6- Yoga

Children will be taught how to adopt the rest position and relaxation pose and know how to hold their poses for 3 slow breaths. They will know how to put themselves in the right state of mind to get the most out of their yoga session. They will perform a relaxed sequence of meditation and be able to perform a wide range of poses.

Summer 2

Reception- Athletics 1

Children learn to share space and run with their heads up. They will also be able to jump from one foot to two feet and two feet to two feet. They will then progress on to coordinating a run with a jump. They will be able to share equipment and work cooperatively with a partner or within a group.

Reception- Locomotion 1

One of the 3 key Fundamental movement skill areas, locomotion 1 introduces children to moving in different ways whilst learning about their own space and negotiating space with others.

Year 1- Locomotion 2

Locomotion 2 builds on those ways of travelling from locomotion 1 and looks at linking movements and involves apparatus like a skipping rope.

Year 1- Athletics 2

Building on knowledge from Reception, children will know the importance of a good start, know to cushion their knees when landing and know the technique for different types of jumps. Children will understand how to improve their technique to increase the height and distance of their jumps. Children will learn how to throw safely and to share equipment and take turns.  

Year 2- Invasion Game Skills 2

Knowledge from Year 1 is built on in this topic. The children will throw a ball overarm for their partner to catch after one bounce. Children will apply attacking and defending techniques and be able to intercept a pass and close the space down quickly when defending. They will then progress on to competing in team games with some spatial awareness.

Year 3- Athletics 3

The children will develop the correct techniques to start a sprint race, developing their coordination to improve their speed. They will learn how to efficiently and consistently sprint between hurdles and how to accurately throw overarm with power and for distance.

Year 3- Gymnastics – Linking Movements Together

The children will develop their declarative and procedural knowledge on points and patches. They will learn to hold balances with good control, explore a variety of rolls, travel on patches close to the ground and perform with work at contrasting levels.

Year 4- Tri – Golf

Children will learn how to grip a club and how to address the ball. They learn when to use the different clubs and some of the etiquette when playing on a course.

Year 4- Dance Around the World (Dance)

Dance Around the World is an engaging topic for the children. They are able to build on knowledge from their Geography lessons from Year 2. The children will learn how to develop a motif demonstrating agility, balance, coordination and precision. They will then progress onto changing static actions into travelling movements. They will build on knowledge from previous dance lessons where they incorporate different levels and pathways into their movement.

Year 5- Athletics

The children will show that they can change pace and run at different tempos and show that they can sustain their pace over longer distances. They will be able to throw with accuracy and power using the pull technique (taught in previous years). They will look at the correct techniques to perform a triple jump, high jump and standing vertical jump.

Year 5- Yoga

Building on prior learning children will understand what the benefits are to them physically and mentally from the different poses. They will be able to make positive affirmations and understand how to ‘Mirror’ in yoga. They will be able to perform a wide range of poses and be able to articulate what they have enjoyed about yoga.

Year 6- Gymnastics – Counter-balance and Counter Tension

Children build on all previous learning. They will be able to use push and pull forces to create work as part of wider sequences. They will be able to perform asymmetrical counter balances in a sequence using canon or unison.

Year 6- Dodgeball

Building on prior learning, children will be able to catch balls to get teammates back in the game. They will know that balls that are thrown low and hard are trickier to dodge or catch. Children will learn to adapt if their team is down a few players and work as a group to come up with tactics.