Reception Physical Education

Body Management

• Revise and refine the fundamental movement skills they have already acquired:

- rolling, crawling, walking, jumping, running, hopping, skipping, climbing.

• Progress towards a more fluent style of moving, with developing control and grace.

• Develop the overall body strength, co-ordination, balance and agility needed to engage successfully with future physical education sessions and other physical disciplines including dance, gymnastics, sport and swimming.

Gymnastics

• To understand the basic shapes and travel movements in gymnastics.

• Develop overall body-strength, balance, co-ordination and agility.

• Confidently and safely use a range of large and small apparatus indoors and outside, alone and in a group.

Yoga

• Stretch their body up.

• Follow a sequence of movements.

• Move between poses.

• Follow instructions to keep safe.

• Balance, using teacher support.

• Breathe smoothly while standing and sitting still.

Dance

• Describe how the body feels before, during and after exercise.

• Copy and repeat actions.

• Put a sequence together to create a motif.

• Improvise independently to create a simple dance.

Run, Jump & Throw

• Describe how the body feels when still and exercising. 

• Run in different ways for a variety of purposes.

• Jump in a range of ways, landing safely.

• Throw an object at a target.

• Control their body when performing a range of movements.