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Programme of Study

Knowledge, skills and Understanding

Physical Development

Movement & Handling

Children show good control and co-ordination in large and small movements. They move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space. They handle equipment and tools effectively, including pencils for writing.

Health & Self-Care

Children know the importance for good health of physical exercise, and a healthy diet, and talk about ways to keep healthy and safe. They manage their own basic hygiene and personal needs successfully, including dressing and going to the toilet independently.

Expressive arts and design

Media and Materials

Children dance and experiment with different ways of changing them.

Children represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through dance.

Movement & Handling

Moves freely and with pleasure and confidence in a range of ways.
Runs skilfully and negotiates space successfully, adjusting speed or direction to avoid obstacles
Can catch a ball
Experiments with different ways of moving.
Negotiates space successfully when playing racing and chasing games, adjusting speed or changing direction to avoid obstacles.
Travels with confidence and skill, under, over and through balancing equipment.
Shows increasing control over an object in pushing, patting, throwing, catching or kicking it.

Health & Self-Care

Observes the effect of activity on their bodies.
Dresses with help
Shows some understanding that good practices with regards to exercise can contribute to good health.

Media and Materials

Begins to build up a repertoire of dances.

Being Imaginative

Initiates new combinations of movement and gesture in order to express and respond to feelings, ideas and experiences.
Captures experiences and responses with a range of media such as dance.

Autumn
Fundamental movement These skills will then be built upon in KS1 – Athletics and fundamental movement and skills.	Children will develop spatial awareness and learn how to stay safe. They will develop balance and coordination They will develop fundamental movement skills of balancing, running, jumping, hopping, stopping, changing directions.
Spring
Dance These skills will then be built upon in KS1 dance	Children explore space and how to use it safely. They explore travelling movements, shapes and balances. Children choose their own actions in response to a stimulus. They have the opportunity to copy, repeat and remember actions. They are introduced to counting to help them keep in time with the music.
Gymnastics These skills will then be built upon in KS1 gymnastics	Children explore basic movements, creating shapes, balances, rolls and jumps. They begin to develop an awareness of space and how to use it safely. They perform basic skills both on the floor and apparatus. They copy, create, remember and repeat short sequences. They begin to understand using levels and directions when traveling and balancing.
Summer
Fundamental skills 1 These skills will then be built upon in KS1 – Athletics, net and wall games and striking and fielding games.	They will develop basic movement skills including control, coordination and balance They will use their imagination and listen to instructions They will develop the skill of aiming at a target; follow instructions to play a game with rules. They will develop their running speeds, They will develop their ability to take turns and develop their ability to listen to instructions.
Fundamental skills 2 These skills will then be built upon in KS1 – Athletics, net and wall games and striking and fielding games	Children will continue to develop the ability to move with agility, developing the ability to change direction with more fluid movements and start to develop their coordination skills. They will move safely. They will develop the ability to dribble a ball, roll a ball, throw a ball and catch a ball They will develop an increased confidence with working with a bat and ball, improving their hand-eye coordination. They will develop their ability to take turns in a team and develop their ability to listen to instructions to play a simple game with rules.

Games skills (team games)