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Year 5 PE

Year 5 PE runs to 66 lessons across a 36 week year, for children aged 9 to 10 in Key Stage 2. Every lesson is listed below in teaching order.

The vocabulary a child meets this year includes map, key, leadership, navigation, cooperation, orienteering, partner, perseverance, collaboration, course, features, orient.

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 5 PE lesson

In the order they are taught. 66 lessons.

Outdoor adventurous activities: orienteering

  1. Introduce Maps: Working Together
  2. Using a Map to Follow a Route
  3. Orientating a Map to Locate Points
  4. Following a Set Route Using a Map
  5. Collaborate Effectively to Complete a Timed Course
  6. Orienteering Competition

Invasion games: shooting, scoring and denying space in ball games

  1. Dribbling and Keeping Control
  2. Dribbling to Attack and Create Space
  3. Dribbling and Passing to Maintain Possession and Create Scoring Opportunities
  4. Denying Space: Marking Players and Guarding Areas
  5. Transition from Defence to Attack with a Defensive Focus
  6. Attack vs Defence: Tactics That Win Games

Invasion games: shooting, scoring and denying space through hockey

  1. Dribbling and Control in Hockey
  2. Accurately Passing and Receiving in Hockey
  3. Dribbling and Passing to Create Scoring Opportunities
  4. Denying Space and Defending in Hockey
  5. Shooting in Hockey
  6. Attack vs Defence: Switching Fast in Hockey

Net and wall games: tactics to overcome an opponent through tennis

  1. Forehand Shots: Control and Accuracy with a Racket
  2. Develop Forehand (Underarm Shots) Using Rackets
  3. Introduce Backhand Shots with a Racket
  4. Volley
  5. Controlling the game from the serve
  6. Game Application Through Competition

Striking and fielding games: striking and fielding skills through cricket

  1. The Concept of Cricket
  2. Bowling: Overarm Technique in Cricket
  3. Stopping and Returning the Ball
  4. Striking the Ball at Different Angles and Speeds
  5. Cricket Tactics: Fielding, Umpiring and Scoring
  6. Game Play: Game Scenarios in Cricket

Gymnastics: counter balance and counter tension

  1. Counter Balance: Partner Gymnastics
  2. Counter Balance on Apparatus
  3. Sequences to Include Counter Balance on Apparatus
  4. Counter Tension Balances on Apparatus
  5. Sequences to Include Counter Balance and Counter Tension on Apparatus
  6. Performance and Giving Feedback to Others

Gymnastics: flight

  1. Flight: Jumping with Power and Control
  2. Jumping and Turning
  3. Utilising Apparatus to Create Moments of Flight
  4. Jumping on Apparatus: Canon and Unison
  5. Group Jumping Sequences: Canon, Unison, Levels and Direction
  6. Performance and Self-Reflection

Dance: your tag, everyday art

  1. My Tag, Your Tag
  2. Influences: Hip Hop
  3. Making Your Mark: Applying a Style
  4. Everyday Heroes: Creating a Dance Motif from Visual Art
  5. Multimedia: Dynamics and Object Dance
  6. Breaking the Code
  7. Stencilling: Moving Like Spray Paint
  8. Social Comment: Combining Dynamics and Space
  9. Visual Metaphors: Communicating Ideas Through Dance
  10. Developing Motifs Using Question and Answer
  11. Applying a Range of Motifs and Structuring a Dance
  12. Refining, Rehearsing and Performing a Dance Using a Combination of Relationships

Health and wellbeing: stamina, strength and flexibility

  1. Fitness: What It Means and How to Build It
  2. The Cardiovascular System
  3. Cardiovascular Fitness: Stamina, Intensity and Your Pulse
  4. Strength: How Your Muscles Overcome Force
  5. Flexibility: Stretching Your Body Further
  6. My Personal Best

Athletics: enhanced athletic challenges

  1. Finishing a Race Strong
  2. Evaluating Sprinting: Personal Bests
  3. Evaluating Triple Jump: Personal Bests
  4. Relay Changeovers
  5. Shot Put: Technique and Power
  6. The Hurdles

Each of the 10 units has a free printable Year 5 PE worksheet, with the answers on a separate page.

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Common questions

What does Year 5 PE cover?
Year 5 PE runs to 66 lessons across a 36 week year, covering map, key, leadership, navigation, cooperation, orienteering and more.
How many PE lessons are in Year 5?
66 lessons, sequenced in teaching order across the school year.
How old is a child in Year 5?
Children in Year 5 are 9 to 10 years old during the school year in England and Wales.