EYFS. Playtime - Sports Day

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Information and guidance

Before using the content

Tell the children that today’s theme is a sports day.
• Have they been to a sports day - perhaps to see an older brother or sister?
• Talk about what happens at a sports day.
• Name some popular sports day activities: egg and spoon race, three-legged race, wheelbarrow race, sack race, etc…

Movement language

The following vocabulary will be used in the programme:run, hop, jump, balance, wibble, wobble, spin.

Movement

During today’s song, the children pretend to join in a school sports day. They begin by racing their fingers up and down their arms, making them run, hop and jump. While still seated they stretch one hand out in front to hold a spoon and with the other carefully place on an imaginary egg.

Standing up, they follow Steven’s instructions to wibble and wobble around with their imaginary ‘egg and spoon’, trying not to bump into the other ‘racers’ or go too fast.

For the sack race they jump up and down on the spot holding their imaginary sacks and finally they wiggle their hips round and round to spin their hula hoops.

Song

Sports Day Fun, Sports Day Fun, Sports Day Fun!
Egg and spoon, egg and spoon,
Wibble wobble, wibble wobble
Egg and spoon!
Sack race jumps, sack race jumps,
Hop and jump and hop and jump!
Sack race jumps!
Hula hoop, hula hoop,
Round and round and round and round,
Hula hoop!
Sports Day Fun, Sports Day Fun, Sports Day Fun,
SPORTS DAY FUN!

Story: Egg and spoon

Archie loves his big sister Ella, but she is just too good at everything! But when Archie goes to Ella’s school sports day he does something to make everyone very proud of him as well as her…

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