Our PE days are Tuesdays and Thursdays.

PE kit's should be left in school!

Physical Development

Physical develop in the early years can be separated into fine motor skills and gross motor skills. While both these skills involve movement, they do have differences:

• Fine motor skills involve movement of the smaller muscle groups in your child’s hands, fingers, and wrists.
• Gross motor skills involve movement of the larger muscle groups, like the arms and legs. It’s these larger muscle groups that allow babies to sit up, turn over, crawl, and walk.

Both types of motor skills enable children to become more independent. Fine motor skills are especially crucial, not only for the first steps in writing but because strengthening the smaller muscles in the hands allows children to perform self-care tasks without assistance. This includes:

• brushing their teeth
• eating
• writing
• getting dressed

Beyond the Physical – PE

This year, our PE lessons follow the Beyond the Physical programme. Through fun, active and engaging lessons, children will develop their fundamental movement skills by exploring movement, practising new skills and taking part in exciting physical challenges.

Children will be encouraged to move, solve and connect by working together, building confidence, showing resilience and developing positive communication skills. Our aim is to help every child enjoy being active, develop healthy habits and build the physical, social and emotional skills needed for lifelong wellbeing.