Fundamental Movement Skills & Ball Skills
In this unit, children will further refine their fundamental movement skills. The focus remains on agility, balance, coordination, and locomotor movements, with added emphasis on spatial awareness and body control. Children will master essential movements like skipping, galloping, throwing, and catching, refining both fine and gross motor abilities.
In all activities, children think about how to use skills and will work in pairs and small groups.
Key words - rolling, balancing, sliding, jogging, running, leaping, jumping, hopping, galloping, skipping and catching and throwing
Pupils will follow the BSC Swim stage. These 8 stages are based on best practice from the England Swimming Association. Swimming and water safety instruction is a statutory requirement under the English National Curriculum for Physical Education with the aim of all pupils being able to swim 25m continuously, using a range of different strokes as well as being able to perform a self-rescue by the end of Year 6.