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Year 3 PE

Year 3 PE runs to 66 lessons across a 36 week year, for children aged 7 to 8 in Key Stage 2. Every lesson is listed below in teaching order.

The vocabulary a child meets this year includes team, challenges, tactics, communication, leadership, resilience, listening, cooperation, collaborate, success, role, self-motivation.

These lessons are written by Oak National Academy, the government-funded curriculum body, and are free to anyone. StudyDen sequences them, marks the answers and keeps the record.

Every Year 3 PE lesson

In the order they are taught. 66 lessons.

Outdoor adventurous activities: team challenges

  1. Create and Use Simple Tactics Through Team Challenges
  2. Leadership: Guiding Your Team
  3. Communication: Speaking, Listening and Cooperating as a Team
  4. Communicating as a Team
  5. Collaborate Effectively as a Team
  6. Communicating to Create Tactics as a Team

Invasion games: principles of attack and defence through ball games

  1. Passing and Receiving Skills
  2. Passing and Creating Space
  3. Passing and Moving to Create Space
  4. Scoring: Shoot Accurately and Hit the Target
  5. Defending and the Concept of Marking
  6. Attacking and Defending in Small-Sided Games

Dance: my word links to language

  1. Actions: Upper and Lowercase Letter Shapes
  2. Commas and Full Stops: Pauses and Stillness in Dance
  3. A Combination of Actions: Writing Short Sentences in Dance
  4. Curving, Linear and Irregular Pathways: Letters
  5. Directions and Levels: Movement
  6. Location and Level: Paragraphs
  7. Force: Exclamation Marks
  8. Dynamics: Fronted Adverbials in Dance
  9. Dynamics: Exclamation Marks and Fronted Adverbials
  10. Formations and Contrast: Prepositions in Movement
  11. Question and Answer: Dialogue in Dance
  12. Formations, Contrast and Question and Answer: Performing

Invasion games: principles of attack and defence in netball

  1. Passing and Receiving in Games
  2. Passing and Moving: Creating Space
  3. Passing, Moving and Scoring in Netball
  4. Footwork: Pivoting with the Ball
  5. Defending and the Concept of Marking a Player
  6. Attacking and Defending in Small-Sided Netball Games

Net and wall games: tactics and strategies to overcome an opponent

  1. Throwing with Accuracy
  2. Throwing with Accuracy Towards Space
  3. Outwitting an Opponent
  4. Creating Space to Win a Point
  5. How to Win a Game
  6. Introduction to Rackets

Gymnastics: movements, balances and sequence composition

  1. Balances Individually and in Pairs
  2. Application of Learning onto Apparatus
  3. Sequence Ideas: Travelling Over and Under Apparatus
  4. Sequence Formation: Individual and Pair Balances with Apparatus
  5. Changes in Level
  6. Changes in Level on the Apparatus
  7. Changes in Direction
  8. Changes in Direction on Apparatus
  9. Combine Balances and Movements to Finalise Sequences in Pairs
  10. Changes in Level and Direction: Creating Group Sequences on Apparatus
  11. Sequence Completion and Peer-to-Peer Review
  12. Sequence Completion and Performance to Peers

Health and wellbeing: mindfulness and meditative balances

  1. Relaxation Techniques: Moving Through Emotions
  2. Using Relaxation Techniques Effectively
  3. Performing Meditative Balances
  4. Performing Meditative Balances in Pairs
  5. Using Props to Balance in Meditative Balances
  6. Balancing Skills in Pairs Using an Imaginary Prop

Athletics: athletic challenges

  1. Running for Speed: Sprinting
  2. Sprinting: Explore Acceleration
  3. Relay Racing: Running as a Team
  4. Running for Speed in a Team
  5. Throwing: Accuracy vs Distance
  6. Jumping for Distance: Standing Long Jump

Striking and fielding games: fielding vs batting

  1. Striking and Fielding Games
  2. Throwing Underarm with Accuracy
  3. Throwing Overarm: Power, Accuracy and Technique
  4. Throwing Overarm and Underarm in Striking and Fielding Games
  5. Striking: Focus on the Batter
  6. Game Play: Apply Batting and Fielding Skills in Competition

Each of the 9 units has a free printable Year 3 PE worksheet, with the answers on a separate page.

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Common questions

What does Year 3 PE cover?
Year 3 PE runs to 66 lessons across a 36 week year, covering team, challenges, tactics, communication, leadership, resilience and more.
How many PE lessons are in Year 3?
66 lessons, sequenced in teaching order across the school year.
How old is a child in Year 3?
Children in Year 3 are 7 to 8 years old during the school year in England and Wales.