PE at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 1)

Following are core tasks the children could be asked to carry out.

Choose two ways of travelling, eg walking backwards safely and a roll, and link these to make a short movement phrase which you can remember and perform on the floor. Make sure you know where you start and finish, and what shapes you will make to start and finish.

Ask the children to:

• explore the variety of ways they can perform actions, eg making different shapes, travelling in different ways
• change the way they perform a movement or action, eg change levels, speeds, pathways or directions, or use different body parts
• try to perform the same movements using apparatus
• add still shapes at the beginning, middle and end of the travelling actions
• work with a partner, eg to copy or follow a travel sequence

Choose three 'like' actions, eg three different jumps, three rolls, or three ways of taking your weight on your hands, and link these actions to make a short movement phrase on the floor and apparatus. You need to be able to remember and repeat your movement phrase.

Ask the children to:

• vary the places in which they perform movements or actions, eg through, across, along, between, around large or small apparatus or mats
• work with a partner, eg to copy or follow a travel sequence
• use lower, separate apparatus and link fewer actions in the sequence (this will make the task easier)
• use higher, linked apparatus and link more actions in the sequence (this will make the task harder)