This free PDF features three lessons of Reception PE games, based around the weather, the garden and farm animals.
The sample lessons are from the Physical Activity Adventure Pack (PAAP). This is a full-year scheme of work, aligned with the EYFS and Development Matters document (2021).
It provides developmentally-appropriate lesson plans, designed specifically for Reception children.
Physical activity is vital to children’s all-round development, enabling and encouraging them to pursue happy, healthy and active lives.
Reception PE games
The innovative Reception PE games and activities in this pack provide opportunities for physical development both indoors and outdoors. They offer adult-directed and child-centred approaches to learning.
Opportunities for agency and autonomy are interwoven throughout the scheme to allow for intrinsic motivation and mastery.
PAAP supports children to develop their core strength, stability, balance, spatial awareness, coordination and agility. It also underpins many other fundamental areas of learning and development in early childhood.
Physical development
The comprehensive pack focuses on developing gross motor skills through fun, engaging and physically active sessions. It was designed to ensure extensive coverage of the eight statements specific to Physical Development within the Development Matters document:
- Revise and refine the fundamental movement skills they have already acquired: rolling, crawling, walking, jumping, running, hopping, skipping, climbing.
- Progress towards a more fluent style of moving, with developing control and grace.
- Develop the overall body strength, coordination, balance, and agility needed to engage successfully with future PE 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 outside, alone and in a group.
- Develop overall body strength, balance, coordination, and agility.
- Further develop and refine a range of ball skills including throwing, catching, kicking, passing, batting and aiming.
- Develop confidence, competence, precision, and accuracy when engaging in activities that involve a ball.
Every session is also linked to the wider Development Matters curriculum, ensuring holistic development of the child.
Find out more about the Physical Activity Adventure Pack (PAAP).
