Zimbabwe Grade 3 Physical Education Curriculum

This curriculum encompasses Physical Education, Sport, and Mass Displays. Safety is paramount in all activities.

Physical Education

Human Body

• Humans have external and internal body parts.
• Distinguishing between external and internal body parts.
• Caring for different body parts.

Safety and Health

• Healthy living habits at home.
• Health-related fitness: endurance, strength, flexibility, and body composition.
• Safety rules for various environments.
• Importance of warm-up and cool-down activities.

Aquatic Skills

• Survival skills in and near water.
• Safe entry into different water bodies.
• Floating with or without aid.
• Submerging.
• Water treading.
• Gliding.
• Elementary front and back crawl actions.

Kids Athletics

Running

• Progressive endurance race (5 minutes).
• Slalom shuttle relays (running around obstacles).
• Smooth exchange of baton.

Jumping

• Horizontal and vertical jumps with or without equipment.
• Jumping from a stationary position.

Throwing

• Front and backward throws with both hands.
• Kids Javelin throw in any direction.
• Releasing the implement and throwing within a marked area.
• Throwing implements over an erected barrier.

Sport

Invasion Games

• Moving into open space.
• Moving into occupied space.
• Positioning within boundaries.
• Reacting into open or occupied space.

Target and Combat Games

• Aiming at stationary targets up to 15m.
• Balancing on the base of support.
• Weight transfer and distribution.

Net Games

• Types of strokes.

Striking Games

• Correct handling of equipment.
• Forward drives from a stationary position.
• Forward drives from a mobile position.

Adventure Games

• Course marking.
• Walking.
• Orienteering.

Educational Gymnastics

• Basic general balances and weight-bearing movements.
• Moving and creating shapes and formations.
• Balancing and weight transference in relation to apparatus.
• General directions in movement (e.g., straight, zigzag, circular, forward, backward, upward, and downward).
• Levels of the body to the floor or apparatus (low, medium, and high).

Mass Displays

Music

• Common play and dance songs.
• Rhythm and stimuli.
• Playing percussion instruments (drums).

Background Art

• Letters and pictures related to portrayed themes displayed on banners.

Arena Acts

• Rhythmic movement to cover space and direction without tempo.
• Calculated movement into the arena.
• Rhythmic choreography according to the theme being displayed.
• Calculated movement for exiting the arena.
• Calculated movement from one formation to another.