We aim to ensure students enjoy Physical Education and participate in Physical Education outside of school for their mental and social wellbeing.
Students will acquire cognitive, psychomotor and social skills in practical PE through a wide range of sports and physical activity from across the world, different sports, and cultures. Students will develop their understanding of sport specific terminology, rules, gamesmanship and sporting etiquette, while exploring the positive impact sport and physical activity have on one’s health and wellbeing.
Students will be exposed to a broad range of activities to encourage lifelong participation in physical activity while competing with their peer.
Enrichment
The PE Department offer extra-curricular after school clubs available to all students to support the development of their skill set, understanding of the game/activity, and to socialise with their peers from across the school.
Students are also given the opportunity to represent the school in football, cricket, netball and athletics.
Assessment
Formative assessment is integral to PE curriculum, and is planned to check students progress, identify misconceptions, and inform future planning.
KS4 Specification
Careers
Using the careers spotlight we explore through discussion and practical experience, these lessons are at the very beginning of the year and are revisited at different points in the year.
Curriculum Overview
| Year | Cycle 1 | Cycle 2 | Cycle 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 7 | Football, netball, fitness, badminton and basketball. | Table tennis, gymnastics, badminton, dance | Gymnastics, handball, OAA, Athletics, cricket, rounders |
| Year 8 | Football, basketball, fitness, badminton | Table tennis, gymnastics, tag rugby, badminton | Tag rugby, handball, OAA, athletics, cricket, rounders |
| Year 9 | Table tennis, netball, basketball. hockey, badminton, dance, football, handball | Fitness, badminton, football, basketball | Hockey, fitness, badminton, OAA, athletics, cricket, rounders |
| Year 10 | Key components of performance (team): Netball – footwork, dodging, marking, shooting, gameplay and tactics Review and write up strengths and weaknesses of netball: Action plan for weaknesses and practical completion of action plan | Key components of performance (individual): Badminton – backhand flick serve, underarm serve, drop shot, overhead clear, underarm clear, gameplay and tactics | Introduction to task 3 and the structure of a lesson: Components of an effective leader, components of an effective lesson, design lesson plan, introduction to risk assessments, write up risk assessment, feedback, write up evaluation |
| Year 11 | Topic 1: Introduction to media sources and how they cover sports, types of broadcasting, social media and print media, and how they cover sport, comparison between all media sources Topic 2: Positive relationship between media and sport and impact on participation, creating and adopting role models, raising the profile of sport through positive messages, initiatives and promotion of an active lifestyle, exposure for emerging sports/performers, and revenue linked to sports and media Topic 3: External factors impacting decline in spectatorship, ethical appropriateness and wealth divide, global issues on sport and media, coverage of inappropriate behaviour, scrutiny of participants | Topic 1: User groups, barriers that affect participation, possible solutions, factors that affect the popularity of sport, emerging sports in the UK Topic 2: The Olympics and Paralympics, sporting initiatives, etiquette and sporting behaviours, performance enhancing drugs, the types of scheduling for major sporting events, nature of the participants and spectators in these events Topic 3: Positive and negative pre-event aspects or hosting, negatives and positives of hosting Topic 4: National governing bodies, the role of technology in sport to enhance performance, safety, fair play and spectatorship, positives and negatives of technology | REVISION AND EXAM PREPARATION |