Physical Education: Blog items
Nursery Squiggle While they Wiggle
Date: 14th Oct 2025 @ 9:19pm
Nursery follow the "Squiggle While You Wiggle" programme to support the development of their gross motor skills. Part of this is to do a series of movements on paper using a pencil in both hands. This terms movements have been "up, down, side, side, cross over". This is always done on a large scale and will eventually help the children to hold a pencil correctly and form letters.
Date: 2nd Oct 2025 @ 2:24pm
Nursery had a wonderful learning experience with some shaving foam, paint and a couple of paint brushes! They explored the shaving foam and discussed its smell and texture. We then added some paint and talked about what happens to the colours as they mixed them all together. The chidlren then decided to mix the shaving foam with water and leaves to make a witches potion!
Nursery get Funky with their Fingers
Date: 2nd Oct 2025 @ 12:24pm
Nursery have been busy developing their fine motor skills with lots of fun funky fingers activiites. It's really important that they build up the strength in their fingers so they can develop a strong pencil grip.
Year 3 - PE - We're going on a trip to...
Date: 2nd Oct 2025 @ 9:09am
This week, Year 3 travelled the world—and beyond—through dance in PE! Each group imagined an exciting trip to a different destination: the desert, outer space, the beach, the mountains, and under the sea. Using balances, jumps, extensions and expressive movements, they brought these places to life. From floating like astronauts to crashing like waves, every performance was packed with creativity and energy. The children worked brilliantly in teams, using their bodies to tell stories and show us where they were. What a fantastic way to explore the world without leaving the hall! Well done, Year 3!
Date: 26th Sep 2025 @ 4:39pm
This week we have been reading the story Rosie's Walk. Although, unaware that a fox is after her, Rosie the hen takes a walk around the farmyard, leading him into one accident after another. An amusing story that helps children learn positional language.
We sequenced the story, collaged a fox, retold the story using small figures and puppets and then acted out the story in our outdoor area where we made an obstacle course to travel under, over, through and around just like Rosie did on her walk.
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Date: 25th Sep 2025 @ 11:09am
Our fitness unit continues as we look at increasing our heart rate through gentle exercise, increasing this so we use more energy. This week we also introduced the skill of evading in small group games involving attack and defence positions. We thought tactically about how we would move in order to slow down an attacker and how sometimes this involves larger movements of our bodies all the while the attacker had to think about how they moved, introducing 'false moves' to put off the defenders and break through the defense.
Year 3 - Dancing With Charcoal
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 9:30am
In this week’s art lesson, we explored the exciting world of performance art through the work of Heather Hansen. She creates stunning pieces using charcoal in each hand, moving gracefully across large sheets of paper on the floor. Inspired by her, we had a go at creating our own movement-based artwork. Using charcoal, we danced, stretched, and moved to make expressive marks, turning our movements into art. It was a unique and creative experience—and yes, we got a little messy, but that made it even more fun! We loved combining art with movement in such a playful way.
Date: 17th Sep 2025 @ 4:58pm
The children are becoming very famialir with the story "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" and loved creating marks to represent parts of the story using differernt brush strokes. The children repeated words from the story as the made the marks "swishy swashy", "splash splosh", "squelch squerch", "stumble trip" "hoooo wooo".
Date: 17th Sep 2025 @ 4:49pm
We are reading the story "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" by Michael Rosen and have had lots of fun bear activites in our provision. The children really engaged with our bear sensory tray amd created some great bear bottles by filling them with coco pops. This was great for their fine motor development as they scooped up coco pops are carefully poured them in to the different size bottles. As the childen filled the bottles we counted how many scoops and used mathmatical langauge including full, empty, bigger and smaller.
Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 2:18pm
This week, we used our balancing skills from last week but using apparatus. We did individual and pair balances.
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 4:49pm
This half term we are focusing on our fundamental skills. So far we have explored different ways of travelling, looking to find space when travelling and travelling with a partner.
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 4:42pm
Year 6 had a great PE session today. Our unit this half term is fitness and in today's lesson we focussed on endurance. We completed six different tasks including tests of speed, balance coordination and agility.
Date: 10th Sep 2025 @ 2:30pm
Nursery have begun their dough disco journey. The children will take part in dough disco twice a week as well as having opportunities to use playdough daily in continuous provision. Using play dough is a great way to strenghten fine motor muscles to support the development of a good penci grip.
Date: 10th Sep 2025 @ 2:14pm
There's nothing we like more in nursery than a nice bit of water play! It's a fantastic way for the chiildren to explore capacity, develop their fine motor skills through pouring and emptying and build relationships through sharing and talkikng through ideas. If only we could find a way to stop them getting soaking wet!
Date: 8th Sep 2025 @ 4:32pm
We have begun our firness unit in Year 6. Today we took part in a circuit training session, which included squats, plank, running and step-ups. Next week we will begin looking at specific activities and timing ourselves doing them. Over the half term we will continue to time ourselves and see if we can increase the amount of activity we do or if we can faster at certain activties.
Date: 15th Jul 2025 @ 11:20am
To make up for our cancelled Sports Day today, we got the chance to go in the hall and do archery. We absolutely loved it!
Date: 9th Jul 2025 @ 11:29am
What an amazing day we had at Sports Day! The sun was shining, and everyone was buzzing with excitement. We kicked things off with a thrilling running race. Everyone cheered as our classmates dashed down the track, some really showing off their speedy legs!
Next up was the silly throwing wellies contest. It was hilarious watching the wellies fly through the air! Some didn't go in the direction they wanted to - ooops! We then got our bean bags ready for throwing into the hoops. A bit tricky at times, but everyone had a go and lots of giggles were had. After that, the standing long jump tested our jumping skills – some of us made impressive leaps!
To keep our energy up, we zoomed through the speed bounce challenge. Finally, we finished with a fast-paced cup stacking race. It was a real nail-biter! A huge thank you to all the parents and carers who came to cheer us on. We had a fabulous day full of fun, laughter, and friendly competition. Can’t wait for next year!
Date: 4th Jul 2025 @ 10:47am
It was Sports Day this week and, although it was a little chilly to start off, we had a fantastic time and showed lots of great teamwork and resilience.
"I love throwing a welly!" Hazel.
"The Egg and spoon race was tricky but I kept going until the end" Harry.
"I did twenty two jumps (on the speed bounce)" Lucas.
"I jumped really far up to number 4!" Riley.
"The cup stacking was fun- they kept falling down so it was tricky!" Antoni.
"I loved running fast in the running race" Harley.
"I threw the beanbag into the hoop!" Chloe.
Date: 2nd Jul 2025 @ 4:27pm
Our year 1 children were very excited to take part in sports day today! We completed lots of different activities including welly throwing, egg and spoon races, cup stacking, long jump and speed bounce. We all enjoyed taking part and collecting points for our house teams!
Date: 2nd Jul 2025 @ 3:09pm
Today, we enjoyed our annual sports day. We competed in lots of different games and activities that tested our agility, speed and stamina. Thank you to the year 6's for running the event and helping everyone succeed. We look forward to hearing which house won the most points!
Date: 1st Jul 2025 @ 9:55pm
We found a very fishy way to develop our fine motor skills! The children has strips of stickers and had to carefully peel each one off and stick it on a a giant fish to create its scales. It was also a create way for the children to work collaboratively.
Date: 1st Jul 2025 @ 9:44pm
As part of the whole school Health Week, nursery explored different sports. We played football, tennis and bowling. We showed great ball skills as we dribbled, passed and scored amazing goals! We also developed great skills with the tennis rackets and balls and got a few strikes when played bowling!
Date: 1st Jul 2025 @ 11:07am
Acorns enjoyed welcoming their families for a sporty stay and play session. We had lots of different activities to explore, including, Boccia, climbing and jumping, peg throwing, beanbag throwing and sensory toys.
Boccia was a favourite, rolling the ball to hit the skittles and developing turn taking and peer interaction skills. We can't wait to do it again!
Date: 30th Jun 2025 @ 9:02am
Despite the cloudy weather, morning rain, and several team absences, the group performed exceptionally well in last week's netball tournament. The children demonstrated great resilience and teamwork in every game, along with admirable sportsmanship as they shook hands with the opposing teams.
Year 4 - Health and wellbeing week
Date: 28th Jun 2025 @ 8:58am
As part of Health Week, our class has taken part in many activities: glow sports, skateboarding, forest schools, and learning about the England Lionesses. We learned about two footballers’ achievements both on and off the pitch. The children then completed fact files about them showing their successes so far.
