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 |
| 7 |
Activities Physical Education- Core Skills, Orienteering, Badminton, Gymnastics & Fitness Games- Core Skills, Hockey, Rugby, Netball & Handball
Understanding of Health, how to prepare for exercise, demonstrating empathy to others, self-organisation and skill development are threads delivered through all activities. |
Physical Education- Athletics (Track) & Rounders Games- Athletics (Field) & Softball |
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| Assessment details |
For each Year 7 activity pupils are assessed in the 3 strands of the PE assessment policy which are Performance, Physical and Social Development and Analysing and Evaluating Performance. An average score for each strand is produced which is used to produce a holistic assessment score for the pupils. |
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| 8 |
Activities Physical Education- Year 8 Theory, Volleyball, Gymnastics, Handball & Table Tennis Games- pupils are setted for Year 8 games and can be taught a number of the following sports; Rugby, Hockey, Badminton, Football, Netball, Rock-it-ball & Tchoukball
Working with others effectively teamwork / sportsmanship, components of fitness, decision making, and transference of skills are threads delivered through all activities. |
Physical Education- Athletics (Track) & Rounders Games- Athletics (Field) & Softball |
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For each Year 8 activity pupils are assessed in the 3 strands of the PE assessment policy which are Performance, Physical and Social Development and Analysing and Evaluating Performance. An average score for each strand is produced which is used to produce a holistic assessment score for the pupils. |
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| 9 |
Activities Physical Education- Trampolining, Paralympics, Orienteering, Volleyball & Climbing Games- pupils are setted for Year 9 games and can be taught a number of the following sports; Rugby, Lacrosse, Badminton, Hockey, Netball & Ultimate Frisbee
Leading, performance, confidence and application, maintaining a healthy lifestyle are threads delivered through all activities. |
Physical Education- Athletics (Track) & Rounders Games- Athletics (Field) & Softball |
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| Assessment details |
For each Year 9 activity pupils are assessed in the 3 strands of the PE assessment policy which are Performance, Physical and Social Development and Analysing and Evaluating Performance. An average score for each strand is produced which is used to produce a holistic assessment score for the pupils. |
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| 10 |
In line with the physical education national curriculum pupils are given choice for their games activities. As a result Year 10 pupils choose from the following half termly sporting pathways;
Leading- working with others, performance confidence and application, decision making, maintaining a healthy lifestyle are threads delivered through all activities. |
Athletics (Track & Field) and Rounders and/or Softball |
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| Assessment details |
There is no requirement to provide a formal attainment grade in year 10 core. All students will be issued with an effort grade through the schools Selby Key system. However pupils are continually assessed on their work in PE to allow pupils to be challenged and further develop their performance and understanding of physical activity and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Those students who are doing GCSE PE or Sports Studies, will also be assessed in their practical core lessons in line with their exam specification. |
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| 11 |
Year 11 pupils are taught 2 lessons on site and 2 lessons off-site. For the on-site lessons pupils choose from the following termly sports pathways Year 10 pupils;
For the off-site lessons pupils can choose from the following options; Football Masterclass (Selby College), Fitness classes (Selby College & Selby Leisure Centre), Spinning (Selby Leisure Centre), Bowling, Boxing (non-contact) and Zumba. |
All students will study Athletics and Striking and Fielding. |
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| Assessment details |
There is no requirement to provide a formal attainment grade in year 11 core. All students will be issued with an effort grade through the schools Selby Key system. However pupils are continually assessed on their work in PE to allow pupils to be challenged and further develop their performance and understanding of physical activity and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Those students who are doing GCSE PE or Sports Studies, will also be assessed in their practical core lessons in line with their exam specification. |
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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%).
