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Connect: cultural and ethical awareness

Connect: teamwork and leadership

Feel: engagement and enjoyment

Feel: personal and emotional

Move: application of tactics, strategies and compositional ideas

Move: movement competence

Move: performance and competition

Move: physical fitness

Think: decision making, problem solving and creative thinking

Think: evaluation, analysis and reflection

Think: knowledge of healthy, active living

Think: knowledge of rules, tactics, strategies and compositional ideas

Swimming and water safety (all years)

Swimming and water safety units should be selected based on the ability and experience of your pupils.

Swimming: pre-swimming familiarisation, activation and water safety
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Swimming: an introduction to core aquatic skills and survival swimming
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Swimming: strokes, distance and safe self rescue
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Swimming: water polo, artistic swimming and rookie lifeguard
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Year 1

Locomotion: running and jumping
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Health and wellbeing: the effects of exercise
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Dance: my moves, my brilliant body
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Ball skills: sending, receiving and dribbling
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Gymnastics: individual movements and balances
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Outdoor adventurous activities: working as a team
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Dance: my moves, my journeys
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Ball skills: pushing and striking
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Year 2

Locomotion: running, jumping and dodging
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Health and wellbeing: agility, balance and coordination
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Dance: my world, weather
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Ball skills: passing, dribbling and scoring
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Gymnastics: linking movements and balances
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Outdoor adventurous activities: team building
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Ball skills: hitting and striking
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Dance: my world, how we dance
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Year 3

Outdoor adventurous activities: team challenges
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Invasion games: principles of attack and defence through ball games
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Dance: my word links to language
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Invasion games: principles of attack and defence in netball
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Net and wall games: tactics and strategies to overcome an opponent
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Gymnastics: movements, balances and sequence composition
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Health and wellbeing: mindfulness and meditative balances
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Athletics: athletic challenges
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Striking and fielding games: fielding vs batting
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Year 4

Outdoor adventurous activities: solving problems
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Invasion games: maintaining possession and stopping an attack in ball games
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Dance: traditional dance of the British Isles
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Invasion games: maintaining possession and stopping an attack through basketball
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Net and wall games: tactics to overcome an opponent through pickleball
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Gymnastics: symmetry and asymmetry
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Health and wellbeing: mindfulness, meditative balances and relaxation techniques
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Athletics: athletic challenges developed
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Striking and fielding games: tactics and strategies through racing rounders
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Year 5

Outdoor adventurous activities: orienteering
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Invasion games: shooting, scoring and denying space in ball games
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Invasion games: shooting, scoring and denying space through hockey
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Net and wall games: tactics to overcome an opponent through tennis
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Striking and fielding games: striking and fielding skills through cricket
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Gymnastics: counter balance and counter tension
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Gymnastics: flight
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Dance: your tag, everyday art
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Health and wellbeing: stamina, strength and flexibility
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Athletics: enhanced athletic challenges
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Year 6

Outdoor adventurous activities: leadership
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Invasion games: scenarios, tactics and power play in ball games
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Invasion games: scenarios, tactics and power play through tag rugby
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Net and wall games: tactics to overcome an opponent through badminton
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Striking and fielding games: striking and fielding tactics through rounders
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Gymnastics: matching and mirroring
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Dance: the power of unity
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Health and wellbeing: stamina, strength and flexibility refined
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Athletics: athletic challenges refined
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Gymnastics: developing confidence and creative movement through Parkour
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Physical education

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Year 3

Gymnastics: movements, balances and sequence composition

12 lessons

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Move: performance and competition
Think: evaluation, analysis and reflection

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The unit of work introduces pupils to the idea of changes in levels and direction when creating and performing sequences in pairs and in groups. Pupils will reflect on the best way to create their sequences, combining both changes in level and direction, with balances and using a range of apparatus.

This unit builds on the strong foundation pupils will already have creating gymnastic movements and balances. Pupils already know how to link movements with flow and can do so using a range of different movements and balances. This foundation is essential as pupils will be challenged to improve their creative skills as they design sequences on a variety of apparatus. Pupils will learn to include more advanced skills such as changes in level and direction, working in pairs and groups to evaluate and improve their performances.

Balances individually and in pairs
Application of learning onto apparatus
Sequence ideas
Sequence formation combining individual and pair balances
Changes in level
Changes in level on the apparatus
Changes in direction
Changes in direction on apparatus
Combine balances and movements to finalise sequences in pairs
Changes in level and direction to create sequences in groups using apparatus
Sequence completion and peer to peer review
Sequence completion and performance to peers

This KS1 and KS2 physical education curriculum plan helps you map a coherent sequence of knowledge a...

This KS1 and KS2 physical education curriculum plan helps you map a coherent sequence of knowledge and skills across different activities and sports. Developed with subject experts and aligned to the national curriculum for primary PE, our units support pupils’ physical, social and emotional development — from movement fundamentals to healthy lifestyle choices.

You can filter by year group or thread to focus on exactly what you need — whether that’s performance, fitness, teamwork or leadership. Threads such as ‘Move: movement competence’ and ‘Think: knowledge of healthy, active living’ show how ideas develop over time — from mastering basic skills like balance and coordination, to applying tactics, making decisions and leading teams. These threads help you plan for progression and purpose, lesson by lesson and year on year.

Swimming and water safety curriculum
Year 1 physical education curriculum
Year 2 physical education curriculum
Year 3 physical education curriculum
Year 4 physical education curriculum
Year 5 physical education curriculum
Year 6 physical education curriculum

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