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Strand: Athletics

Strand unit: Running

The child should be enabled to:

  • Walk or jog in a non-competitive setting for periods extending from 30 seconds to 90 seconds
  • Sprint distances of 10 m to 20 m
  • Practise reaction sprints
  • Practise the standing start
  • Participate in a pair relay using a beanbag
  • Participate in team relays, in small groups using various means of travelling
  • Run over flat markers
  • Run over flat markers evenly spaced
  • Run over low markers
  • Run over low hurdles
  • Run over low hurdles, evenly spaced

Strand unit: Jumping

  • Practise skipping activities with or without ropes
  • Experiment with various ways of jumping

Strand unit: Throwing

  • Experiment with appropriate objects and methods of throwing, aiming for height and distance

Strand unit: Understanding and appreciation of athletics

  • Talk about movement and ask and answer questions about it
  • Develop an understanding of the basic rules of individual athletic events

Strand: Gymnastics

Strand unit: Movement

  • Develop the basic movement actions of running, stopping, jumping, rolling, climbing, transferring weight, balancing, swinging, twisting and turning using a variety of body parts while exploring space
  • Practise rocking and rolling activities leading to a forward roll
  • Develop body awareness through variations of direction, pathways, levels, shape, speed and effort
  • Link skills to produce a short sequence of movement
  • Begin to work with a partner
  • Begin to transfer work onto apparatus
  • Absorb energy to avoid shock when landing
  • Develop good body tension and posture through gymnastic positions and movements

Strand unit: Understanding and appreciation of gymnastics

  • Talk about movement and ask and answer questions about it
  • Develop the ability to lift, carry and place apparatus safely
  • Develop an awareness of others when using apparatus

Strand : Games

Strand unit: Sending, receiving and travelling

Ball handling

  • Begin to develop ball-handling skills

Kicking

  • Begin to develop kicking skills

Carrying and striking

  • Begin to develop carrying and striking skills

Strand unit: Creating and playing games

  • Create and develop games in pairs
  • Play simple playground games

Strand unit: Understanding and appreciation of games

  • Talk about and develop movement skills relevant to games
  • Develop problem-solving and decision-making strategies
  • Apply simple rules to games

Strand: Outdoor and adventure activities

Strand unit: Walking

  • Undertake short walks within school grounds

Strand unit: Orienteering

  • Identify areas of the hall, playing-field, school site

Strand unit: Outdoor challenges

  • Undertake adventure trails
  • Undertake simple co-operative activities

Strand unit: Understanding and appreciation of outdoor and adventure activities

  • Begin to develop an appreciation of and respect for the environment

Strand: Dance

Strand unit: Exploration, creation and performance of dance

  • Explore the movements of different parts  of the body and the ways  in which the body can move in space using simple body action such as travelling and jumping, gesture and stillness
  • Explore and create movement at different levels, using different pathways and forming different shapes in space
  • Explore an appropriate range of dynamics of movement
  • Explore and communicate through simple body movement a range of moods and feelings
  • Respond imaginatively through movement to stimuli such as words, stories, poems, pictures, music
  • Begin to develop work with a partner
  • Perform simple movements to given rhythmic and melodic phrases
  • Perform simple singing games
  • Develop poise, balance and co-ordination while moving and stopping

Understanding and appreciation of dance

  • Talk about dance phrases
  • Interpret a mood or emotion observed in movement

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