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TheSchoolRun.com closure date

As we informed you a few months ago, TheSchoolRun has had to make the difficult decision to close due to financial pressures and the company has now ceased trading. We had hoped to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.

As a result, we now have to permanently close TheSchoolRun.com. However, to give subscribers time to download any content they’d like to keep, we will keep the website open until 31st July 2025. After this date, the site will be taken down and there will be no further access to any resources. We strongly encourage you to download and save any resources you think you may want to use in the future.

In particular, we suggest downloading:

You should already have received 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep. If you haven’t received these, please contact us at [email protected] before 31st July 2025, and we will send them to you.

We are very sorry that there is no way to continue offering access to resources and sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.

Key Stage 1 PE

Girls in dance class
What will your child learn in Key Stage 1 PE lessons? We take a look at physical education and how you can help your child get ahead at home.

The main emphasis at Key Stage 1 PE is on the physical development of basic motor skills. Children learn to control objects, apparatus and themselves physically in a variety of situations. They experience progressively more difficult tasks and attempt an increasing range of activities.

Your child will have opportunities to create, refine and perform travelling movements, rotation and balances on gymnastics apparatus. Gymnastics and dance allow possibilities for children to express themselves creatively, too. Your child will also develop key skills, such as throwing and catching which provide numerous opportunities to practise important motor skills – handy for basketball, cricket and netball later on.

Lesson examples

Here are the kinds of things your child might get up to in PE:

  • Year 1 children race against each other and their own best time to move bean bags from one hoop to another in an efficient, coordinated and controlled way.
     
  • At the end of a games activity a teacher might ask her Year 2 class questions about how their bodies respond to exercise and why it might be important to them. They make a connection between exercise and their hearts beating faster, their lungs needing more air and feeling more energised afterwards.

Help your child at home

  • Walk to and from school and whenever else you can.
     
  • Provide opportunity for active play with friends outside of school.
     
  • Encourage your child to take up a sport or structured exercise hobby.
     
  • Encourage moderately intensive activity for at least one hour every day (for example, four 15-minute periods) such as brisk walking, dance, games, swimming, cycling, or active play.
     
  • Encourage activities that enhance and maintain muscular strength, flexibility and bone health at least twice a week, such as climbing, skipping, jumping or gymnastics.
     
  • Teach your child to be aware of health risks, such as smoking, drinking and stress.
     
  • Daily, offer your child five fruit and vegetables in a variety of types and colours.