PE

Key Stage 3

The intent of our PE curriculum is to provide all students with high quality PE and School Sport. It is our vision for every student to take the opportunity to succeed and achieve their potential, as well as to lead physically active lifestyles. We seek to inspire our students through PE lessons which are enjoyable, challenging and accessible to all. We want our students to appreciate the benefits of a healthy and physically active lifestyle. Through our teaching of PE, we will provide opportunities for students to develop values and transferable life skills such as leadership, working as part of a team, fairness and respect as well as providing them with opportunities to take part in a comprehensive enrichment programme with after school clubs and competitive sporting fixtures. 

At Key Stage 3, students all have one double lesson of PE each week and our core curriculum focuses on the three key strands of health (Fit for life), performance (Fit to perform) and leadership (Fit to lead). This curriculum aims to give students exposure to a wide breadth of activities in line with the National Curriculum. This is to allow students to learn the key fundamentals through different mediums before embarking on further study at Key Stage 4.

Our Key Stage 4 courses are designed for our students to embark on careers within the sports industry whether that may be sports journalism, professional athlete, nutritionist or personal trainer. We offer courses on both a theoretical academic pathway and vocational. We want our students to have the opportunity to access a range of theory and experience the completely diverse opportunities within sport and career choices.  

As a result, PE students will: 

• Enjoy and contribute in a positive manner towards lessons.
• Regularly take part in physical activity and sport making the most of opportunities provided to them 
• Develop resilience by understanding the importance of hard work to bring about positive improvements
• Acknowledge their own success identified by WWWs and sct on EBIs/Next Steps provided by teachers.
• Meet and exceed the expectations of the Behaviour For Learning policy. 
• Meet all deadlines (H/W & NEA)
• Support the learning of those around them.
• Leave PE with strong qualifications that benefit not only careers and aspirations in the subject but outside of it also. 
• Leave the PE Department physically active and prepared for life long participation in a healthy active lifestyle.
• Conduct themselves with pride and integrity in all that they do. 

PE Curriculum Video

Key Stage 4

All students have two compulsory lessons of core sport each week which enables them to participate in physical activity and supports their wellbeing.

At Key Stage 4 students also have the opportunity, as part of their Pathway options, to select GCSE PE.

GCSE Physical Education is for students who have a love of sport and are keen to achieve a deeper understanding. The course introduces key sporting ideas and shows how they interact with practical performance. The current GCSE in Physical Education has been designed to offer greater challenge and, for the first time, the majority of the assessment will be through written exam papers. A GCSE in Physical Education is for students who are interested in the theory behind sports performance and health, fitness and wellbeing. Students selecting GCSE Physical Education will be expected to be involved in after-school sports clubs and, ideally, sport outside school because the majority of GCSE PE lessons will be classroom-based. Please follow the links below for more information.

GCSE PE OCR Specification

BBC Bitesize, GCSE PE