KS4 - PE
Core PE
Curriculum Knowledge
Year 10
Core PE - More emphasis on applying skills into competitive situations, using different conditions to practice key skills. Apply rules and regulations into full competitive games across a variety of sports. Students will complete a leadership topic to enhance students' understanding of planning sessions and practice communication skills. Fitness is related to overall well-being in all aspects: Social, physical and emotional. Promote enjoyment and start to look at creating a lifelong participation in sport / activities. Develop techniques in athletics and analyse performance in this discipline to try and improve performance. Students will be encouraged to assess performances and situations and create solutions to improve solutions. Promote extra-curricular sports and club links within the society
Year 11
Core PE - Students now have the chance to choose which sports and activities they want to participate in. High emphasis on student enjoyment and participation. Build up students’ self-esteem and confidence and give students a more independent role within lessons through organising team and apply different strategies and tactics. Give students the chance to follow their interests and participate in activities that improve physical, emotional and social health.
Skill Development
Subject Specific Skills:
- Understanding of health and well-being (Nutrition, fitness – physical and mental)
- Apply concepts to practical situations.
- Understand how different athletes have different requirements during training.
- Leadership skills
- Sportsmanship / Fair Play
- Motivating others
- Adhering to rules and regulations
- Team work – fairness and equality, inclusion of all
- Respect (Umpire/official)
- Communication skills
Wider Academic Skills / Attributes:
- Develop resilience (Winning and Losing)
- Independence – taking responsibility for own equipment and personal interests (Extra-curricular options)
- Improving mental well-being to relieve academic stress
- Communication skills
- Emotional regulation
Personal Development - SMSC & Cultural Capital (Opportunities / Experiences)
- Adhering to rules and regulations
- Understanding of health and well-being (Nutrition, fitness – physical and mental)
- Sportsmanship / Fair Play / Respect
- Develop Confidence
- Extra-curricular activities and Teams
- Live Sporting Event Trips
- Primary High 5 tournaments – coaching and leading opportunities.
- Access to professional coaching sessions
- Opportunities to meet top level athletes
GCSE PE
Curriculum Knowledge
Year 10
At GCSE we understand the different components of health and fitness, principles of training and training are used by different athletes. Explain how the cardiovascular, respiratory and muscle-skeletal system enhance performance and how different lifestyles affect these.
Year 11
At GCSE understand what barriers different groups of people may face in participating in sport. Understand the impact of commercialisation on sport and how behaviour in sport affects others. Look at different coaching techniques and the impact of different types of feedback and guidance. Analyse the use of nutrition on athletes and understand why different athletes would require different diets.
Skill Development
Subject Specific Skills:
- To develop knowledge, understanding, skills and values to develop and maintain their performance in physical activities and understand the benefits to health, fitness and well-being.
- Develop theoretical knowledge and understanding of the factors that underpin physical activity and sport and use this knowledge to improve performance
- Understand how the physiological and psychological state affects performance in physical activity and sport
- Perform effectively in different physical activities by developing skills and techniques and selecting and using tactics, strategies and/or compositional ideas
- Develop their ability to analyse and evaluate to improve performance in physical activity and sport
- Understand the contribution which physical activity and sport make to health, fitness and well-being.
- Understand key socio-cultural influences which can affect people’s involvement in physical activity and sport.
Wider Academic Skills / Attributes:
- Have confidence communicating with others and leading a group of people / team.
- Have the ability to respect others and their opinions.
- Display sportsmanship in competitive situations.
- Display IT skills when producing written coursework.
- Perform in their chosen sports outside of a school environment.
- Understand the value of sport in the society and how different individual react to different environments.
Personal Development - SMSC & Cultural Capital (Opportunities / Experiences)
- To produce a fitness programme to help them improve a specific component of fitness.
- To understand how different members of society have barriers to sport and how these can be broken down.
- Have a understanding of how athletes live and train.
- Know about the sporting events in the community and nationally.
- Be able to apply knowledge learnt in lessons to their and others performances to improve achievements in sport.