Physical Skills · Grade 4

Skills

• Strikes a ball with a bat, racket or stick with control.
• Combines movements fluently: run-and-jump, run-and-throw, jump-and-turn.
• Swims 50 m; swims competently in two different strokes.
• Retrieves an object from the bottom in water above their head.
• Floats and self-rescues fully clothed.
• Rides on a quiet road with an adult, obeying the traffic rules.
• Mends a puncture or fixes a dropped chain.
• Plays at least one individual sport or discipline.
• Referees or scores a game for younger children.
• Runs continuously for 20 minutes, or covers 2 km.
• Knows how to warm up and cool down, and does it unprompted.
• Lifts and carries something heavy with their legs, not their back.
• Threads a needle and sews a running stitch.
• Uses a compass, a protractor and a set square accurately.