PE in EYFS
Within the Foundation Stage (Nursery and Reception), the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework is followed.
| Link to the EYFS Areas of Learning | Children will be learning to: | Early Learning Goal: |
| Personal, Social and Emotional Development | Manage their own needs. Know and talk about the different factors that support overall health and wellbeing: | Be confident to try new activities and show independence, resilience and perseverance in the face of a challenge. Explain the reasons for rules, know right from wrong and try to behave accordingly. Manage their own basic hygiene and personal needs, including dressing. Work and play cooperatively and take turns with others. |
| Physical Development | Revise and refine the fundamental movement skills they have already acquired: Progress towards a more fluent style of moving, with developing control and grace. Develop overall body-strength, balance, coordination and agility needed to engage successfully with future physical education sessions and other physical disciplines including dance, gymnastics, sport and swimming. Combine different movements with ease and fluency. Confidently and safely use a range of large and small apparatus indoors and outdoors, alone and in a group. Develop overall body strength, balance, coordination and agility. | Negotiate space and obstacles safely, with consideration for themselves and others. Demonstrate strength, balance and coordination when playing. Move energetically, such as running, jumping, dancing, hopping, skipping and climbing. |
| Expressive Arts & Design | Explore, use and refine a variety of artistic effects to express their ideas and feelings. Return to and build on their previous learning, refining ideas and developing their ability to represent them. Create collaboratively, sharing ideas, resources and skills. Listen attentively, move to and talk about music, expressing their feelings and responses. Watch and talk about dance and performance art, expressing their feelings and responses. Sing in a group or on their own, increasingly matching the pitch and following the melody. Explore and engage in music making and dance, performing solo or in groups. | Perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and (when appropriate) try to move in time with music. |
KS1 And 2
Our curriculum for Physical Education, delivers the aims and contents of the National Curriculum Programme of Study for Physical Education in Key Stage 1 and 2.

