PE Resource File KS2 (yrs 5 & 6)

In this unit children focus on swimming more fluently, improving their swimming strokes, and learning
personal survival techniques. In all swimming activities, children have to keep afloat and propel
themselves through water. It contains10 lessons, including:

• Back crawl leg kick
• Back crawl arms
• Back crawl bodies
• Perfecting back crawl
• Breaststroke legs
• Breaststroke arms
• Breaststroke breathing
• Perfecting breaststroke
• Distance swimming
• Water skills
• Personal survival
• Rescue skills

There are four dances in this file, which include music tracks and are based on the following topics:

• Victorians
• Ancient Greeks
• Rivers
• Divali  

In these units the children develop and improve their defending, attacking and team play skills. They
explore ways in which to attack and defend and play mini versions of invasion games. It includes lesson plans on:

Football:

• Football skills
• Passing and receiving
• Passing and shooting
• Attacking skills
• Games

Netball:

• Passing skills
• Understanding footwork
• Creating space
• Marking / defending
• Game play and positions

This unit is divided into two games: rounders and cricket. In this unit the children develop the range and quality of throwing, catching and striking abilities. Lessons include:

Rounders:

• Catching skills
• Bowling
• Batting
• Fielding

Cricket:

• Catching skills
• Bowling
• Batting
• Fielding

In this unit children develop the range and quality of their racket skills when playing net and wall
games. They also learn tactics and skills for games based on short tennis. Lessons include:

• Finding space in net games
• Wall games
• Developing rallies
• Volleying
• Playing games

In this unit the children focus on creating longer sequences to perform for an audience. They use a
wider range of body shapes and actions and explore more difficult ways to perform. Lessons include:

• Shapes and balances
• Symmetry and asymmetry
• Developing sequences
• Counterbalances
• Canon and unison

In this unit the children will use their knowledge of composing sequences to develop performances
that meet requirements and demonstrate increased quality and complexity. Lessons include:

• Developing shapes and balances
• Flight
• Developing flight further
• Apparatus work
• Sequence development

In this unit the children focus on developing their technical understanding of running, jumping and
throwing techniques. Lessons include:

• Running styles
• Throwing accurately
• Discus
• Long jump
• High jump and triple jump
• Relays

In this unit children develop their orienteering and problem-solving skills in familiar and unfamiliar
situations and environments. Lessons include:

• Site orienteering
• Off-site orienteering
• Local orienteering course
• Cross the river
• Danger, electric fence!
• The safest route

This resource contains all the information you need to prepare for a successful sports day. It includes alternative plans for competitive and non-competitive days, allowing you to plan:

• Advance preparation
• Gathering resources
• Setting-up events: Sprint, Beanbag pick-up, Tunnel ball, Skip and bounce, Jumping race, Hockey dribble, Dressing-up
• Scoring sheet