30’ session Year 2 (6 children)

National Curriculum Physical Education

Key Stage 1: Pupils should be taught to: Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and
catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of
activities.

Resources (Cards and cones)

Activities
Circles (objective: developing balance, agility and co-ordination. Help them to know how to work with a
partner)
The class sits in a circle, everyone cross-legged with their arms round each other's shoulders. At a signal,
they all try to stand up without breaking hold. This also works well in smaller groups, perhaps building up
to the whole class.

Body Parts (objective: improving spatial perception and agility. Objectives link to other areas:
strengthening the knowledge about the body parts and working with numbers and fractions)

Start the children moving safely around in the space. Call out a number and a body part. The children then
have to get into groups of that number with that body part touching. For example if you call out “4 knees”
they get into groups of 4 and touch knees.

Speed Bounce (objetive: improving agility, jumping and co-ordination)

Children chose a line or a mark on the floor. At a signal, they jump from one side to the other, counting
how many bounces they can make before they are told to stop.

Ladders (objetive: improving agility, jumping and co-ordination)

Put the children in pairs, and sit them down in two lines facing each other with legs outstretched, forming
a “ladder”. Give each pair a number. When you call their number, the pair has to step over the other
children’s legs to get to the end of the ladder, run around the ladder and then step over the legs to get
back to their places. Make sure there is sufficient space between the pairs for children to move safely and
emphasise the need to move sensibly and also to sit sensibly!

Standing long jump practice (objetive: improving jumping)

Put the children in pairs and ask them to stand on a line. Partner one jumps as far as they can from the
line. Partner 2 stands where Partner 1 landed. Partner 1 returns to the line, takes one step to the side (this
is quite important) and jumps again, trying to beat their previous distance.
Relay Race (with times tables 2 and 5) (objective: improving the jumping and team work. Objectives link to
other area: strengthening the times tables 2 and 5)
Children should be divided into groups of 3, they should stand behind a starting line, designated by the
teacher. There will be a remote cone about 4-5 meters, with some cards. The children should form a line
behind the starting line, at the teacher's signal, the first child will start jumping in motion to reach the
cone, take the card and run back to the starting line and when the child crosses the starting line, the
second child will be able to leave. They should continue until they get all the cards. The first group to finish
will get a point.
After finishing the relay race, both groups will exchange cards and try to complete the multiplication table.
The group that gets it will get a point.

Stretching time, thinking about what you have learned and handing out stickers.