PE in the EYFS

Physical development educational programme (taken from the EYFS Framework 2020)

Physical activity is vital in children’s all-round development, enabling them to pursue happy, healthy and active lives. Gross and fine motor experiences develop incrementally throughout early childhood, starting with sensory explorations and the development of a child’s strength, co-ordination and positional awareness through tummy time, crawling and play movement with both objects and adults. By creating games and providing opportunities for play both indoors and outdoors, adults can support children to develop their core strength, stability, balance, spatial awareness, co-ordination and agility. Gross motor skills provide the foundation for developing healthy bodies and social and emotional well-being. Fine motor control and precision helps with hand-eye co-ordination which is later linked to early literacy. Repeated and varied opportunities to explore and play with small world activities, puzzles, arts and crafts and the practise of using small tools, with feedback and support from adults, allow children to develop proficiency, control and confidence.

In Chopwell Primary School Foundation Stage the children…….

• Are physically active every day both indoors and outdoors.
• Have regular access to a range of resources to develop strength, balance and co-ordination eg wheeled toys, climbing equipment in the yards, the use of soft play, bats and balls, bowling equipment, large tyres, and a parachute among many other resources. 
• Have many opportunities outdoors to be energetic. Children are offered lots of opportunities to play outdoors throughout the day and are regularly taken over to Forest School where they can explore, create and construct.