National Curriculum Expectations for the end of Key Stage 2:
Children should be able to:
- use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination
- play competitive games, modified where appropriate [for example, badminton, basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounders and tennis], and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending
- develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance [for example, through athletics and gymnastics]
- perform dances using a range of movement patterns
- take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team
- compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best
- swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
- use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]
- perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations
At Gayton, by the end of Year 3, the expectation is that children will be able to:
Dance
- improvise independently to create a simple dance
- improvise with a partner to create a simple dance
- translate ideas from stimuli into a movement with support
- compare and adapt movements and motifs to create a larger sequence
- use simple dance vocabulary to compare and improve work
Gymnastics
- apply compositional ideas independently & with others to create a sequence.
- copy, explore and remember a variety of movements and uses to create their own sequence
- describe their own work using simple gym vocabulary
- notice similarities & differences between sequences.
- use turns whilst travelling in a variety of ways.
- show flexibility in movements
- develop good technique when travelling, balancing, using equipment, etc.
Games
- understand tactics & composition by starting to vary how they respond
- vary skills, actions and ideas and link these in ways that suit the activity of the game
- use skills with coordination and control
- develop own rules of new game
- make imaginative pathways using the equipment
- works well in a group to develop various games
- understand how to compete with each other in a controlled manner
- select resources independently to carry out different skills
Athletics
- run speeds appropriate for the distance (sprinting and cross country)
- perform a running jump with some accuracy.
- perform a variety of throws using a selection of equipment
- use equipment safely and with good control
Outdoor & Adventurous Activities
- Listens to instructions from a partner/adult
- Beginning to think activities through and problem solve
- Discuss and work with others in a group
- Demonstrates an understanding of how to stay safe
Swimming
- swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
- use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]
- perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations
