Physical Education

Through the study of PE, our pupils will understand the importance of healthy living, fitness and know how their bodies work. They will also learn the value of teamwork and develop collaboration skills alongside positive decision making .They will develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities, be physically active for sustained periods of time, engagement in competitive sports and activities  and lead healthy, active lives.

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Children will learn subject specific vocabulary relating to their year group, this can be accessed by clicking on this document:

Physical Education Progression of Vocabulary

Squiggle

Squiggle

This week in Nursery we have took part in 'Squiggle while you wiggle'. Our movement this week is 'Up and Down'. We stood on our coloured spot and used colourful ribbons to dance and wiggle to the song 'ABC' by The Jackson 5. We moved our ribbons up and down, high and...

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Forest School Friday

Forest School Friday

We were very excited to visit Forest School again this morning! First, we enjoyed sitting on the benches having our milk and snack. We then created 'colour monster' pictures using twigs, leaves, grass, berries and sticks after reading 'The Colour Monster' story in...

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Welcome Back Year 6

Welcome Back Year 6

It has been lovely having all the children back in school, and wonderful to see how they have grown and matured from when I was there teacher in Year 3. Already, we have created blood in Science; researched about The Shang Dynasty in History; wrote fabulous character...

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Our First Week in Nursery

Our First Week in Nursery

What a busy, fun-filled week we have had in Nursery! We have enjoyed lots of playtime inside and outside of our classroom. We have made birthday cakes out of playdoh, painted self portraits, made tall towers out of duplo, enjoyed playing in the water area and riding...

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Reception Class

Reception Class

Reception class have had an amazing first week in school. We have enjoyed catching up with our friends from nursery as well as meeting some new children who are new to our school! Welcome everyone :-). Everyone has been making the most of the lovely weather and...

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Sports days

Sports days

Last week, we had a fantastic sports day and intrahouse sports day events. We all felt the buzz of excitement competing in the sports day afternoon from years Rec-6. Once again the 400m race seemed like a real positive event with many parents getting behind our...

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Year 6 Rounders

Year 6 Rounders

Year 6 had a great rounders tournament today at Kingsmeadow school. They competed in mixed teams against two other schools. The games were very tight and the children seemed to really enjoy the experience. They even walked all the way to Kingsmeadow this morning. This...

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Describing Movement

Describing Movement

Our topic in Maths is ‘Position and Direction’. We first warmed up by playing ‘Miss Ho says’ and children carefully listened and followed instructions to move in different directions. Miss Ho made it challenging as children had to be quick in following the instruction...

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Nursery visit Outer Space

Nursery visit Outer Space

Nursery have been reading the story ‘Whatever Next’ as part of their ‘Journeys’ topic this half term. In the story the bear flies to the moon in a cardboard box rocket. As part of our physical and gross motor development Nursery took part in some different activities...

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Squiggling in the Sun

Squiggling in the Sun

Since the weather has been nicer, we have been taking our ‘squiggle while you wiggle’ sessions outdoors. We bring the big speaker outside and dance our moves out before we mark-make. This allows us to develop our gross motor skills, making the shape of the squiggle...

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