Subject Department and  Lead(s)

Subject: Physical Education

Head of Department: Mr A Davies

Curriculum Area Vision and Intent

Needs to link to the Academy’s overall Curriculum Intent Statement

Here you state what is distinct about your Department in terms of its  planned content and provision

Can also include its successes and strengths

The PE department strive to deliver a curriculum that engages, empowers and educates students, enabling them to lead a healthy, active lifestyle and remove barriers for those who dream of working within sport.

We are proud to have seen the number of students that have excelled within our subject area over a number of years. On average, students from all backgrounds, have achieved about ½ a grade more in comparison to similar schools nationally.

Our vision is fundamental to our success and endeavour. We believe that every child matters and that every child is capable of achieving above and beyond. This vision has been designed around 5 key underpinning values:-

1. Trust

We will ENGAGE students in the learning and the loving physical activity, through working with others and delivery of a wide range of activities.

2. Resilience

We will ENCOURAGE students to learn from their mistakes, to own their learning and help improve others.

3. Respect

We will EDUCATE students to respect their selves and others in order to lead healthy, active lifestyles.

4. Aspiration

We will promote ELITE attitudes, performance and knowledge, both practically and theoretically, in all students.

5. Care

We will provide a range of EXPERIENCES that will inspire a love of sport and PE beyond school.

Practically we provide a curriculum that allows students to develop a range of core and advanced skills across a number of traditional and non- traditional sporting activities. Lessons are also tailored to improve leadership, independent and collaborative skills.

We provide a knowledge connection through the learning of key rules and theory based topics such as muscles, bones and components of fitness. This provides students with the underpinning knowledge to excel through theory PE and lead a healthy, active lifestyle.

We run a number of extra-curricular activities and fixtures. We provide inclusive clubs so that students of all abilities can experience sport in a less pressured environment, whilst also providing the opportunity for students to represent THA and compete in an organised fixture programme. We also provide links to local clubs and county teams to provide further sporting opportunities.

KS3 provision summary

 e.g. topics covered, links to SOW/overviews and homework

YEAR 7 + 8

The focus of delivery in year 7 will be around developing core PE skills and techniques that are required to perform in competitive situations through experiencing a range of individual and team activities. We will also provide opportunities to develop independent, leadership and collaborative skills through these and students work in mixed gender and ability groups.

Year 7 also get an extra session of PE that will be used to develop a knowledge connection of key health and fitness processes. Topics for this include, strength and conditioning, the effects of exercise and methods of fitness training.

Students in year 8 will study a similar programme of activities to year 7. The focus in these lessons will be cementing the use of core skills and introducing students to the various advanced skills that can be learnt and applied to competitive situations. Students will be introduced to key language and assessment linked to GCSE practical criteria and applying it to their performance. A standalone fitness module will be delivered to give students ideas of how they can maintain fitness and wellbeing at home. Students will work in single gender, mixed ability groups.

Year 9

Students in year 9 will have 2 practical PE lessons and 1 OCR/GCSE taster theory session. Practical lessons will be based upon developing core and advanced skills further and assessment using GCSE criteria. Students will be set in order to tailor the correct level of challenge to their practical performance ability. Students will start applying key components of warm ups, muscles, bones and components of fitness to their PE lessons. During the theory taster sessions, students will study topics based on nutrition, principles of training, reducing injuries and psychology in sport. Each unit will have a piece of controlled assessment that will need to be completed. We will provide resources via google classrooms to help support this process.

Students will be offered the opportunity to attend a trip to an Outdoor Activity centre at the end of year 9.

All students will experience the following activities across a Key Stage