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Welcome to Physical EducationKS3 Curriculum for Year 7 to Year 12
In Y7, Y8 and Y9 students are offered a broad and balanced curriculum with the aim of experiencing a range of activities and developing basic techniques and skills. The department looks to work intensively on broadening and refining the change of skills learned at KS2. Expectations are high and students are usually more independent in their learning by the end of Key Stage 3 being able to lead practices and warm ups, create their own sequences of movement and tactics, comment on their own and others' performance and have a more detailed and applied knowledge of fitness. Over the Key stage students take part in 6 week blocks of Football, Rugby, Dance, Basketball, Hockey, Swimming, Health Related fitness, Gymnastics, Softball, Athletics, Rounders, Cricket, Netball, Badminton, Table Tennis, Volleyball and Tennis. KS3 National Curriculum Descriptors KS4 Curriculum for Years 10, 11Students in KS4 receive 2 hours of compulsory PE each week. Students may however opt to take up a GCSE course in which 3 additional lessons are taught each week. In the compulsory PE lesson students follow the National Curriculum and participate in similar activities as in KS3 with additional lessons on aerobics/circuit training, personal survival and lifesaving. The department also offers The Junior Sports Leader Award (beginning in September 2010) for Y10 as an option. Blocks of work in core PE are 6 weeks in duration and the aim is to provide students with the opportunity to become independent in their learning, thus enabling them to have opportunities to teach, coach, lead, umpire and plan tournaments/competitions where they officiate. GCSE students follow the Edexcel PE specification. |
