Physical Education
From birth, it can be said that movement is learning for all children. Therefore, learning to move provides opportunities for each child to attain a basic understanding about the human body and to become aware of its capabilities and limitations. The Physical Education program at the Pre-Primary School seeks to provide opportunities for each child to attain a greater understanding of locomotor skills, ball handling skills, tumbling skills and creative movement.
Through the variety of units, children learn eye/hand coordination, and develop body strength, body control, and balance. Use of imagination is integral to the program and it is exciting to see the children build a strong reservoir of self-confidence and thrive in an environment that provides a wonderful variety of large motor opportunities. Scooters, scoops, beanbags, hula hoops and balls of all sizes are central to PE activities. A tumbling unit takes place during the winter.
With the child being central to the learning process, the goals of the program include:
- learning where one can move alone in a self space, and into a general space with others;
- learning body awareness by discovering what body parts move, and how they do so with each other and to objects in space;
- learning to move by exploring the elements of force, balance, and weight transfer;
- learning to improve movement through the use of time and flow.
