The start of learning to improve on movement skills

About this Guide

This Early Level guide will help you to create activities around the wellbeing indicator of Achieving using the Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport section of the Health and Wellbeing Curriculum.

Suggested HWB Experiences & Outcomes

Suggested Learning Intentions

• To explore and practice different ways of moving the body.
• To begin to reflect on own and others’ performance.

Suggested Success Criteria (I Can…)

Suggested Learning Experiences

Large Space

• Explore a range of movement skills on floor and low level apparatus, including travelling, jumping, landing and rolling.
• Explore movement in response a range of stimuli eg, voice, music, instructions, stories, nursery rhymes etc.
• Explore movement on different limbs and parts of the body both on the floor and low level apparatus eg, benches – from direct instruction to personal exploring and investigating.
• Develop body control through performing simple balances on different parts of the body.
• Travel at different speeds, levels – walking, hopping, jumping.
• Engage in a range of throwing, rolling, striking, aiming and catching activities using different types, size and shape of equipment.
• Engage in a range of individual, partner and group activities to promote independent and collaborative learning.

Small Space

• Self and peer assessment – discuss what they found easy/difficult and why. Consider how they might get better at a particular skill.
• Work with partner and describe the way the other is moving, eg which animal is it like, slow/fast, high/low etc. Offer feedback on how they can make their movements/actions more controlled.

Suggested Cross-Curricular Links

Suggested Word Bank

• Balance
•  Control
•  Rhythm
•  Jump
•  Land
•  Travel
•  Fast
•  Slow
•  High
•  Low
•  Roll
•  Gallop
•  Hop
•  Skip
•  Walk
•  Jog
•  Run
•  Throw
•  Aim
•  Strike
•  Catch
•  Skill