Year 3 PE Curriculum
In Year 3 pupils will participate in a wider range of team games, gymnastic and athletic activities alongside experiencing outdoor and adventurous activities for the first time. They will also attend swimming sessions to develop both their techniques and knowledge of water safety.
- Use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation.
- Play competitive games, modified where appropriate, and identify basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.
- Create sequences of different actions using floor or apparatus in order to develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance.
- Use a range of jumping and throwing techniques in Athletics.
- Create controlled movement patterns in Dance.
- Experience outdoor and adventurous activity individually.
- Identify the effect on the body when taking part in a range of activities; i.e. heart rate, breathing.
- Swim competently, confidently and efficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres.
- Use a range of strokes effectively, including front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke.
- Perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.