Benenden Curriculum - B2 Physical Dev

Benenden Curriculum

BLOCK 2 - PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

Gross Motor Skills

Progression of skills

In terms 3 and 4 we will be building on the skills the children have already developed and supporting

them to:

Use their core muscle strength to achieve a good posture when sitting at a table or sitting on the floor.
Combine different movements with ease and fluency.
Further develop and refine a range of ball skills including: throwing, catching, kicking, passing, batting and aiming.

Through PE lessons as well as break times, lunch times, child initiated time and adult directed time, children will be using their core muscle strength to achieve a good posture when sitting at a table or sitting on the floor, combine different movements with ease and fluency and further develop and refine a range of ball skills including throwing, catching, kicking, passing, batting and aiming. Resources will be available to support these progression of skills such as balls at lunch time and movement breaks with Danny Go and Koo Koo Kangaroo as well as posture being supported by teachers during adult directed learning.

Children will continue to have PE lessons every Monday and every other Wednesday morning. The progression of skills in PE for term 3 are for children to develop core strength, stability, balance, special awareness, coordination and agility. Children will develop the skill to persevere when something is challenging. Through activities children will learn to adjust speed, changes in direction to avoid obstacles, put sequences of movements together and begin to learn jumping and skipping. In term 4 children will continue developing core strength, stability, balance, special awareness, coordination and agility. They will be learning to negotiate space and obstacles and traveling with confidence and skill around, under, over and through balancing/climbing equipment. Children will also be developing running, jumping, skipping and climbing technique.

Fine Motor Skills

Progression of skills

In terms 3 and 4 we will be building on the skills the children have already developed and supporting

them to:

Develop the foundations of a hand writing style which is fast, accurate and efficient.

We will continue to develop fine motor skills through adult directed learning as we develop the foundations of handwriting style through our phonic lessons and writing groups. We will continue to support fine motor skills through child initiated learning with activities available within our continuous provision such as tap a shape, pipettes in the water, activities with tweezers, peg boards, chunky chalks, paint brushes and building with Lego. Children will be building castles through a variety of resources, Lego, big blocks, junk modelling, enhancing their gross motor and fine motor skills further.

Specific PE Objectives

Agility

To explore and discover spatial awareness
To explore different types of travelling within a specific area and being aware of others.
To explore using arms to develop movement into space.
To explore using legs to help develop movement into space
To use arms and legs to develop locomotive movement in various directions.
To develop movement whilst holding equipment.

Jumping

To explore how to jump and land safely
To develop how to jump vertically/high with control
To learn how to jump forward with the correct technique.
To learn how to create different shapes whilst jumping
To learn how to jump off an object with the correct landing technique
To develop the correct technique when landing

Large Apparatus

Much of the movement on and around the large apparatus is covered in the Gymnastics units, where you will look at
- - Jumps
  - Balances
  - Weight bearing – own and others
  - Rolls
  - Ways of travelling on ground, benches, ladders, blanks, poles
This work continues to be the focus when transferred onto the large apparatus.
It is usual to start the unit with benches and planks and work up to using the entire array of equipment including the Southampton Frame and platforms.
Rules are very important for health and safety aspect of using the large apparatus.
Children should wear shorts and t shirts, no footwear unless medically necessary. Long hair must be tied back, no jewellery unless earrings are tapes over.
Children must be taught how to safely carry the equipment. This alters as the children grow, i.e. 4 children in year one to carry a platform may just need 2 in year five. They must be shown how to tightly put the equipment together and ask for help if more help needed, for example you or a Classroom assistant may need to tighten the attachment ends.
They will also need to follow rules ref how many children on the equipment at the same time, this will depend on the station set. I usually allow 2 at a time on each station except for the Southampton Frame which can have 6.
I usually start by directing children to how I would like the stations set out but, by the end of the unit, I encourage the children to work in groups to devise their own stations.
Children need to set own targets and evaluate performance.

CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE LEARNING

Play & Explore

Active

Create & Think

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