Our First PE Lesson

This week the children in the EYFS took part in their first ever PE lesson! This term we will be teaching the children a programme called BEAM, this stands for Balance, Education and Movement. The BEAM programme is designed to work children's gross motor skills, they will also have the task of following instructions and mirroring positions made by their teacher or peers. 

In this lesson we started with a fun warm up, the traffic light game! The children have to listen to the verbal instruction and follow this as quickly as they can. Red = stop, orange = walk and green = run. 

The children then learnt how to safely carry the mats around the hall before moving onto the main activity.

We focussed on 6 different positions and movements, the children were able to follow directions well and thoroughly enjoyed their 'exercising'!

EYFS PE