GCSE Physical Education:
Subject Information Overview
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Organisers
Curriculum Area Staff
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Ben Sheehan (Director of Sport ) Derek Block (Director of Student Participation) Lucy Farrell (Director of Performing Arts) Kate Harris |
Samantha Johnson (Director for Student Progress) Steve Morton (Progress Leader for Year 7) Gail Smith (Assistant Principal) Josh Thorpe |
Should you require more information about this subject area please contact:
Name: Mr B Sheehan
Position: Director of Sport
Email: bms@selbyhigh.co.uk
Curriculum Information
Physical Education at Selby High is built on the foundations of unlocking potential by providing enjoyable and engaging learning opportunities both in curricular and enhanced curriculum time. Embracing Diversity through developing participation and success for all within appropriately challenging work. It is believed that pupils should be exposed to a wide range of physical activity so there is both breadth and depth to the curriculum to Inspire learning. All students should be competent in the skills and techniques of the activities offered and be able to compete in both adapted and full versions of the activities safely. Through sports and competitions at a range of levels, in and out of school, students develop their decision-making and resilience to success and failure. This enhances the student’s ability to complete these two skills in a range of life situations.
Through our curriculum we aspire for all pupils to understand that opportunity, combined with effort, can lead to success and achievement.
3 Key areas of PE Curriculum Intent:
- Performance: Development of skills, techniques, tactics and their application through effective decision making and understanding of the activity. Be able to transfer skills fluently across NC areas. Show understanding and application of rules and regulations.
- Physical and Social Development: Physical and Mental capacity to overcome challenges, physical confidence to work independently and compete. Demonstrate empathy, respect and teamwork. Embrace a safe healthy lifestyle supporting continued participation in activity.
- Analysing & evaluating performance: Being aware of their performance, realise how to improve and plan/lead to rectify performance.
Key Stage 4:
The fundamental intent of our Key Stage 4 curriculum is to provide Year 10 & 11 pupils with the opportunity to make informed choices about their sport and exercise preferences. This is done through the facilitation of sporting pathways in which Year 10 & 11 pupils can select specific sporting pathways that further develop their skills, knowledge and enthusiasm for sport and exercise. We have also implemented a Year 11 Off-site program in which Year 11 pupils are given the opportunity to exercise in local sporting facilities such as Selby Leisure Centre. The premise behind this program is that pupils can develop their experience, confidence and relationships with local sporting facilities which will increase the likelihood of life long participation in exercise and sport.
Key Concepts - Safe/Ready/Respectful
- How to prepare for and maintain physical performance in a safe way. - Handling equipment.
- Development of performance skills and transference of them across activities - (Skill mastery)
- Confidence to Perform, improving decision making and maintain performance to overcome opponents in both SSG and full games
- Teamwork & Cooperation with others - pairs work/small groups/ full competition
- Understanding of game play, tactics and rules for all activities
- Recognise performance level and how to improve.
CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
Below is a summary overview of the topics and their content that will be studied in each term by each year group. For more information about each topic, get your child to visit learning journeys and resources on the school online learning platform - Ready Steady Learn.
| Year Group | Term 1 | Term 2 | Term 3 |
| 10 |
Paper 1 – Skeletal System
Paper 2 – Role of Organising Bodies in sport (NGB’s);Engagement Patterns of Different Social Groups – Barriers & solutions.
Practical Sports- Badminton, Handball & Table Tennis |
Paper 1 - Muscular system
Paper 1 - Planes & axes
Paper 2 - Commercialisation of Sport (Media influences, golden triangle & sponsorship)
Paper 2 - Ethical issues in Sport (Sportsmanship, Gamesmanship, Sports Enhancing Drugs)
Practical Sport - Hockey, Climbing, Football & Rugby |
Paper 1 - Fitness components
Paper 1 - Principles of training & Training methods
Paper 2 - Balanced diet
Paper 2 - Health and Fitness
Practical Sport - Athletics & Netball
Competition logs - practical evidence documented |
| Assessment details |
End of unit tests are performed at the start and end of each block of theory work. Pupil’s ongoing work is assessed through whole class feedback and peer/self-reflection. Pupils will be required to complete GCSE Revision Projects as part of revision for end of unit tests and provide extended writing practice in preparation for AEP coursework in Year 11. Focus on at least 20 percent iterative assessment at the end of unit tests which will promote retrieval of knowledge from previous units.
Pupils will begin writing competition logs which will need to be maintained throughout the year by pupils and these are collected and checked by staff at key points of the course. Through the teaching of practical lessons pupils, with the assistance of teaching staff, will start identifying which individual and teams sports will be used for practical moderation in Year 11. |
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| 11 |
Paper 1 - Cardiovascular & respiratory system
Paper 1 - Short & Long term effects of exercise and prevention of injury
Paper 2 - Sports Psychology
Practical - moderation of practical scores and selection of 3 sports (individual, team and additional individual or team sport) Practical Sports- Moderation session November |
Paper 1 – AEP – Analysis and Evaluation of Performance. Utilise knowledge of muscular system, skeletal system and planes and axis Paper 2 - AEP – Analysis and Evaluation of Performance. Utilise knowledge of difficulty and environmental continua Retrieval/recall tasks- identify gaps in knowledge of Paper 1 & Paper 2
Practical Sports - Moderation Session February. Submission of confirmed sports and grades to OCR |
Paper 1 – Revision and Exam May 16th
Paper 2 – Revision and Exam May 16th |
| Assessment details |
End of unit tests are performed at the start and end of each block of theory work. Pupil’s ongoing work is assessed through whole class feedback and peer/self-reflection. Pupils and staff start to identify common misconceptions/gaps in pupils knowledge, practice of exam style questions, exam techniques are discussed.
Pupils decide upon 3 sports used for practical moderation. Pupils experience several practical practical moderations in readiness for externally assessed OCR practical moderation. Competition logs completed in significant detail ready for submission to OCR. |
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Sports Studies Curriculum Overview
| Year Group | Term 1 | Term 2 | Term 3 |
| 10 |
Performance and leadership in sports activities (R185)
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Performance and leadership in sports activities (R185) |
Performance and leadership in sports activities (R185) & Sport and the Media (R186) |
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R185 contributes to 40 percent of the overall qualification points awarded for the Sports Studies qualification.
Term 1- pupils will be assessed in individual and team sports as part of Topic Area 1 & 2. For this section of the unit pupils will be assessed on their practical capabilities.
Term 1- pupils will begin to identify strengths and weaknesses as the review of their performance as part of Topic Area 3 |
Term 2- pupils will finish identifying strengths and weaknesses as the review of their performance as part of Topic Area 3
Term 2- pupils will start review of performance assessment
Term 2- pupils will organise and plan a leadership session as part of Topic Area 4.
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R185 Term 3- pupils will formally lead their planned leadership session as part of Topic Area 5. For this specific assessment pupils will be assessed on their ability to lead a sports session.
R185 Term 3- pupils will be required to review their own performance in planning and leading of a sports activity session as part of Topic Area 5
R186 R186 contributes to 20 percent of the overall qualification points awarded for the Sports Studies qualification. For R186 pupils will be required to complete coursework for 3 different performance objectives, each of which will have a specific assignment brief.
Performance objective 1 focuses on different sources of media that cover sport, performance objective 2 focuses on positive effects of the media in sport & performance objective 3 focuses on negative effects of the media in sport.
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Sport and the media (R186) & Contemporary Issues in Sport (R184) |
R184 Contemporary Issues in Sport |
R184 Contemporary Issues in Sport |
| Assessment details |
R186 contributes to 20 percent of the overall qualification points awarded for the Sports Studies qualification. For R186 pupils will be required to complete coursework for 3 different performance objectives, each of which will have a specific assignment brief.
R186 Performance objective 1 focuses on different sources of media that cover sport, performance objective 2 focuses on positive effects of the media in sport & performance objective 3 focuses on negative effects of the media in sport
R186 The coursework produced will be internally marked and moderated before externally moderated by OCR exam board. There is no assessment of pupils' practical capabilities as part of this unit.
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Pupils are taught key content on Topic Area 1 which focuses on Issues which affect participation in sport & Topic Area 2 which focuses onThe role of sport in promoting values.
Pupils are taught key content on Topic Area 3 which focuses on The implications of hosting a major sporting event for a city or country & Topic Area 4 which focuses on The role National Governing Bodies (NGBs) play in the development of their sport.
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Pupils are taught key content on Topic Area 3 which focuses on The implications of hosting a major sporting event for a city or country & Topic Area 4 which focuses on The role National Governing Bodies (NGBs) play in the development of their sport.
The exam will take place in May but pupils will be required to complete end of unit practice tests to test understanding of the Topic Area
In May pupils will formally sit the exam, the result of which will contribute towards the overall points total for the qualification. This is a terminal assessment that cannot be retaken. |
KNOWLEDGE ORGANISERS
A Knowledge Rich Curriculum at Selby High School
Research around memory suggests that if knowledge is studied once and not revisited or revised, it is not stored in the long-term memory. This means that after one lesson, or revising for one test, the knowledge will not be retained unless it is studied again. It won’t be recalled unless it is revisited frequently, which will embed it in the long term memory. In the long term this makes recall far easier. As part of home learning, students should be revising what they have been taught recently but also content they were taught previously. Therefore as part of our strategy to embed learning over time we have started to develop knowledge organisers across all year groups and curriculum areas. These will provide key content and knowledge allowing students to pre-learn and re-learn, a vital part of processing all the information required to be successful in the new style GCSE’s.
Instructions for using your knowledge organisers
KS3 = Years 7, 8 & 9
KS4 = Years 10 & 11
Below are the knowledge organisers for each topic in this subject. These knowledge organisers will become embedded in the Learning Journeys for each topic as they are created on Ready Steady Learn.
Exam information for GSCE qualifications in this subject area
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Pupils can study GCSE PE in Key Stage 4 using the Oxford Cambridge & RSA (OCR) exam board specification.
Pupils will sit exams in Physical factors affecting performance (Paper 1) and Socio-cultural issues and sports psychology (Paper 2) which comprises of 60% of the course. For the remaining 40% of the course, pupils be practically assessed in an individual sport, team sport and second individual or team sport (30%) and complete a written coursework assessment on Analysing and Evaluating performance (10%).
Pupils can study Sports Studies in Key Stage 4 using the Oxford Cambridge & RSA (OCR) exam board specification.
Sports Studies is a vocational course in which pupils will be assessed through submitted coursework, a written exam and sporting performance. Pupils will sit an exam at the end of Year 11 in Contemporary issues in sport which equates to 40 percent of the course. For the remaining 60 percent of the course, pupils will be assessed via coursework in the mandatory unit of Performance and leadership in sports activities (40%) and one of the optional units Sport and the media or Increasing awareness of Outdoor and Adventurous Activities (20%).
