Year 6
Children will learn and develop the following skills in PE:
Dance
Identify and repeat the movement patterns and actions of a chosen dance style.
Compose individual, partner and group dances that reflect the chosen dance style.
Use dramatic expression in dance movements and motifs.
Perform with confidence, using a range of movement patterns.
Demonstrate strong and controlled movements throughout a dance sequence.
Combine flexibility, techniques and movements to create a fluent sequence.
Move appropriately and with the required style in relation to the stimulus, e.g. using various levels,
ways of travelling and motifs.
Show a change of pace and timing in their movements.
Move rhythmically and accurately in dance sequences.
Improvise with confidence, still demonstrating fluency across their sequence.
Dance with fluency and control, linking all movements and ensuring that transitions flow.
Demonstrate consistent precision when performing dance sequences.
Modify some elements of a sequence as a result of self and peer evaluation.
Use complex dance vocabulary to compare and improve work.
Compete and perform
Link actions to create a complex sequence using a full range of movement.
Perform the sequence in time to music.
Perform and apply a variety of skills and techniques confidently, consistently and with precision.
Evaluate
Thoroughly evaluate their own and others’ work, suggesting thoughtful and appropriate improvements.
Gymnastics
Create their own complex sequences involving the full range of actions and movements: travelling, balancing, holding shapes, jumping, leaping, swinging, vaulting and stretching.
Demonstrate precise and controlled placement of body parts in their actions, shapes and balances.
Confidently use equipment to vault and incorporate this into sequences.
Apply skills and techniques consistently, showing precision and control.
Develop strength, technique and flexibility throughout performances.
Rolls
Forward roll from standing
Straddle forward roll
Pike forward roll
Dive forward roll
Tucked backward roll
Backward roll to straddle
Backward roll to standing pike
Pike backward roll
Jumps
Straight jump
Tuck jump
Jumping jack
Star jump
Straddle jump
Pike jump
Stag jump
Straight jump half-turn
Straight jump full-turn
Cat leap
Cat leap half-turn
Cat leap full-turn
Split leap
Stag leap
Vault
Hurdle step onto springboard
Squat on vault
Straddle on vault
Star jump off
Tuck jump off
Straddle jump off
Pike jump off
Squat through vault
Straddle over vault
Handstands, cartwheels and round-offs
Lunge into cartwheel
Lunge into round-off
Hurdle step
Hurdle step into cartwheel
Hurdle step into round-off
Travelling and Linking actions
Tiptoe, step, jump and hop
Hopscotch
Skipping
Chassis steps
Straight jump half turn
Straight jump full turn
Cat leap
Cat leap half turn
Cat leap full turn
Pivot
Shapes and Balances
1, 2, 3 and 4- point balances
Balances on apparatus
Develop technique, control and complexity of part-weight partner balances
Group formations
Pike, tuck, star, straight, straddle shapes
Front and back support
Compete and perform
Link actions to create a complex sequence using a full range of movement that showcases different agilities, performed in time to music.
Perform and apply a variety of skills and techniques confidently, consistently and with precision.
Begin to record their peers’ performances, and evaluate these.
Games
Striking and Hitting a ball
Hit a bowled ball over longer distances.
Use good hand-eye coordination to be able to direct a ball when striking or hitting.
Understand how to serve in order to start a game.
Throwing and Catching a ball
Throw and catch accurately and successfully under pressure in a game.
Travelling with a ball
Show confidence in using ball skills in various ways in a game situation, and link these together effectively.
Passing a ball
Choose and make the best pass in a game situation and link a range of skills together with fluency, e.g. passing and receiving the ball on the move.
Possession
Keep and win back possession of the ball effectively and in a variety of ways in a team game.
Using space
Demonstrate a good awareness of space.
Attacking and Defending
Think ahead and create a plan of attack or defence.
Apply knowledge of skills for attacking and defending.
Work as a team to develop fielding strategies to prevent the opposition from scoring.
Tactics and rules
Follow and create complicated rules to play a game successfully.
Communicate plans to others during a game.
Lead others during a game.
Compete and perform
Perform and apply a variety of skills and techniques confidently, consistently and with precision.
Take part in competitive games with a strong understanding of tactics and composition.
Evaluate
Thoroughly evaluate their own and others’ work, suggesting thoughtful and appropriate improvements.
Athletics
Running
Recap, practise and refine an effective sprinting technique, including reaction time.
Build up speed quickly for a sprint finish.
Run over hurdles with fluency, focusing on the lead leg technique and a consistent stride pattern.
Accelerate to pass other competitors.
Work as a team to competitively perform a relay.
Confidently and independently select the most appropriate pace for different distances and different parts of the run.
Demonstrate endurance and stamina over longer distances in order to maintain a sustained run.
Jumping
Develop the technique for the standing vertical jump.
Maintain control at each of the different stages of the triple jump.
Land safely and with control.
Develop and improve their techniques for jumping for height and distance and support others in improving their performance.
Perform and apply different types of jumps in other contexts.
Set up and lead jumping activities including measuring the jumps with confidence and accuracy.
Throwing
Perform a heave throw.
Measure and record the distance of their throws.
Continue to develop techniques to throw for increased distance and support others in improving their personal best.
Develop and refine techniques to throw for accuracy.
Compete and perform
Perform and apply a variety of skills and techniques confidently, consistently and with precision.
Take part in competitive games with a strong understanding of tactics and composition.
Evaluate
Thoroughly evaluate their own and others’ work, suggesting thoughtful and appropriate improvements.
OAA
Trails
Orientate themselves with confidence and accuracy around an orienteering course when under pressure.
Design an orienteering course that is clear to follow and offers challenge to others.
Use navigation equipment (maps, compasses) to improve the trail.
Problem-solving
Use clear communication to effectively complete a particular role in a team.
Compete in orienteering activities both as part of a team and independently.
Use a range of map styles and make an informed decision on the most effective.
Preparation and organisation
Choose the best equipment for an outdoor activity.
Prepare an orienteering course for others to follow.
Identify the quickest route to accurately navigate an orienteering course.
Manage an orienteering event for others to compete in.
Communication
Communicate clearly and effectively with others when under pressure.
Work effectively as part of a team, demonstrating leadership skills where necessary.
Successfully use a map to complete an orienteering course.
Use a compass for navigation.
Organise an event for others.
Compete and perform
Complete an orienteering course on multiple occasions, in a quicker time due to improved technique.
Offer a detailed and effective evaluation of both personal performances and activities with an aim of increasing challenge and improving performance.
Listen to feedback and improve an orienteering course from it.
Evaluate
Thoroughly evaluate their own and others work, suggesting thoughtful and appropriate improvements.