Physical Education
Curriculum Intent
We deliver a high quality, knowledge rich curriculum that intends to inspire pupils to succeed and excel in competitive sport through a happy, safe and enjoyable environment. This allows students to develop into enthusiastic learners who can ultimately develop a lifelong love of sport and physical activity.
The facilities available at Grace Academy are high class, which allows our students to experience a variety of types of sport and physical activities while gaining a knowledge and understanding of what a healthy active lifestyle consists of within physical education. This is reinforced through our enrichment timetable and fixtures where we promote students to develop their academic, cultural, mental and moral compass whilst still encouraging a competitive edge.
Within KS3 core physical education, students will experience a variety of different sports which come under the categories of Outdoor Adventurous Activities, Invasion, Net and Wall, Striking and Fielding, Creative Movement, Track Athletics and Field Athletics. Students will progress through the transferable skills between sports within these categories. KS4 and KS5 core physical education continues the development of leading a healthy lifestyle through applying student voice on the types of sports they want to continue developing in while having the option to change every 5 weeks unit blocks.
Students learn how to analyse and evaluate performance and develop their leadership skills, as well as understanding the concepts of fitness training and programming. Our curriculum enables students to discover and develop knowledge and equips them with the progressive routes and successive careers in the sports industry.
This term, we are studying…
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Year |
Topic(s) |
Why this? Why now? |
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Year 7 |
CORE PE All: Baseline testing and Outdoor Adventures Activities |
Baseline testing for year 7 to give the department the data/information needed to be able to set the groups based on ability. This ensures that we as a department deliver lessons whereby students are happy, engaged, challenged and promotes/supports the best outcomes.
We offer OAA at the start of the year to accompany baseline testing to group effectively for the academic year. In OAA year 7’s complete tasks for team building and communication activities. |
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Year 8 |
CORE PE All: Dance |
Students will be learning movements to add into phases of a routine. This will set a foundation of core skills to build onto a further complex set of movements in year 9. |
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Year 9 |
CORE PE All: OAA and Dance
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Students will be learning complex movements to add into phases of a routine. The phases of dance will then be pieced together to make a full routine. |
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Year 10 & Year 11 |
CORE PE Physical activity options |
This term we are offering different sports and physical activities to maintain high levels of physical participation accompanied with our student voice of choice of activities. The activities on offer are Gym Suite, Football and Bench ball. We offer the gym suite all year round due to the limitations of 24 students at one time due to health and safety. We offer Football as this is the time of year that seasons start and an opportunity to join outside club links. We offer rounders because it's the last opportunity for the year for warm weather activities. |
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Year 10 |
BTEC Sport Component 1 |
Students are currently working on learning aim C which links to Task 3 of their coursework to be able to plan and deliver a warm up to their peers which will be recorded and marked. We are completing this early in the year to allow practical lessons to be rehearsals in the build up to the final recording. |
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Year 11 |
GCSE PE AEP Coursework |
Students are conducing fitness tests to measure all components of fitness that are related to their sport. With this information they will compare to normative data to give them a guide of their level. With these strengths and weakness students will recognise them and focus on one weakness to improve upon with an action plan. |
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Year 12 |
BTEC Level 3 Sport Unit 1: Anatomy and physiology Unit 2: Fitness training for health, fitness and well-being. |
We begin the course teaching unit 1 and unit 2 as this gives students more time and opportunities for exam entry due to exam windows across the qualification (January and June). The content covered underpins knowledge that is crucial for the further two units. |
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Year 13 |
BTEC Level 3 Sport Unit 3: Professional development in the sports industry Unit 5: Application of fitness testing |
Unit 3 is a compulsory unit set by pearson. Learning aims A & B will be delivered in term 1. Unit 5 lends itself to be a more practical based unit following the heavy examination units. This unit provides the students with knowledge of fitness and wellbeing. |
Qualification information:
https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/subjects/physical-education-and-sport/btec-sport.html