Fundamental movement skills

focuses on the development of fundamental movement skills that provide the foundation for competent and confident participation in a range of physical activities such as games, sports, dance, gymnastics and physical recreation.

It is expected that all students at appropriate intervals across the continuum of learning from Foundation to Year 6 will have opportunities to practise and develop the following skills:

Locomotor and non-locomotor skills:

• rolling
• balancing
• sliding
• jogging
• running
• leaping
• jumping
• hopping
• dodging
• galloping
• skipping
• floating and moving the body through water to safety.

Object control skills:

• bouncing
• throwing
• catching
• kicking
• striking.