Physical Education
Subject Leader: Mr S Kennett
Subject Leader Email Address: samuel.kennett@swale.at
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don;t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
MICHAEL JORDAN
Subject overview
In the Physical Education department, we aim to equip students with the skills, knowledge and attitudes needed to lead a healthy and active lifestyle, both within and outside the classroom. PE and sports will increase student self-esteem, infuse students with a sense of pride, encourage them to strive for improvement, motivate them to achieve more and therefore raise their standard of achievement in all curriculum areas.
Engagement, enjoyment, and opportunity for all are at the very heart of our curriculum. Students are exposed to a wide range of activities, including team games such as football, netball, rugby, handball, hockey, and basketball; fitness; net games such as badminton and table tennis; and striking and fielding games, including cricket, softball and rounders; athletics, gymnastics, dance, and many others.
Students are encouraged to represent the school in several fixtures throughout the year, including football, netball, athletics, rounders and basketball. There are also termly inter-community competitions throughout the academic year, culminating with Sports Day in Term 6. The school boasts fantastic facilities, including a 3G football pitch, an astro turf hockey pitch, ample playing fields, three sports halls and a fitness suite.
Year 7
Term 1: During this term, your child will learn the fundamental skills and techniques required in football, netball, or badminton, including passing, dribbling, and shooting.
Enquiry Questions: By the end of the term, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry questions below.
What are the basic skills and techniques required in football/ netball/ badminton?
Term 2: During this term, your child will learn the basic skills and techniques required in basketball, handball or table tennis, including passing and receiving, dribbling and serving.
Enquiry Questions: By the end of the term, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry questions below.
What are the basic skills and techniques required in basketball/ handball/ table tennis?
Term 3: During this term, your child will learn the basic principles of dance and choreography through a spy-based theme.
Enquiry Questions: By the end of the term, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry questions below.
How can you use dance to communicate a theme?
Term 4: During this term, your child will learn the basic skills and techniques required in rugby or gymnastics. They will learn how to pass and tackle in rugby and the basic rules and regulations. In gymnastics, they will learn how to travel and balance, creating a short sequence of movements.
Enquiry Questions: By the end of the term, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry questions below.
What are the basic skills and techniques required in rugby/ gymnastics? What are the components of fitness, and how are they used in different sports and activities?
Term 5: During this term, your child will learn the basic skills and techniques used in a number of athletics events, including the 100-metre sprint, relay, javelin, and high jump.
Enquiry Questions: By the end of the term, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry questions below.
What are the basic skills and techniques required in athletics?
Term 6: During this term, your child will learn the basic skills and techniques required in cricket or rounders, including batting, bowling and fielding.
Enquiry Questions: By the end of the term, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry questions below.
What are the basic skills and techniques required in cricket/ rounders?
Year 8
Term 1: During this term, your child will learn the advanced skills and techniques required in football, netball or badminton, including long-distance passing, heading and drop shots.
Enquiry Questions: By the end of the term, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry questions below.
How are advanced skills and tactics applied in football/ netball/ badminton?
Term 2: During this term, your child will learn the advanced skills and techniques required in basketball, handball, or table tennis, including different types of shooting, defending, and spinning when serving.
Enquiry Questions: By the end of the term, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry questions below.
How are advanced skills and tactics applied in basketball/ handball/ table tennis?
Term 3: During this term, your child will create and perform their own street dance.
Enquiry Questions: By the end of the term, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry questions below.
What makes a good street dance performance?
Term 4: During this term, your child will learn the advanced skills and techniques required in rugby or gymnastics, including passing, rucking and paired balances.
Enquiry Questions: By the end of the term, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry questions below.
How are advanced skills and tactics applied in rugby/ gymnastics?
Term 5: During this term, your child will learn advanced skills and techniques used in various athletics events, including the sprint start, pacing for middle-distance races, discus, and long jump.
Enquiry Questions: By the end of the term, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry questions below.
How are advanced skills and tactics applied in athletics?
Term 6: During this term, your child will learn the advanced skills and techniques required in cricket or rounders, including a variety of cricket shots, overarm bowling and the long barrier.
Enquiry Questions: By the end of the term, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry questions below.
How are advanced skills and tactics applied in cricket/ rounders?
Year 9
Term 1: During this term, your child will apply the advanced skills and techniques needed in competitive situations.
Enquiry Questions: By the end of the term, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry questions below.
Can you apply tactics and perform advanced skills to be a successful football/ netball/ badminton player?
Term 2: During this term, your child will apply the advanced skills and techniques needed in competitive situations.
Enquiry Questions: By the end of the term, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry questions below.
Can you apply tactics and perform advanced skills to be a successful basketball/ handball/ table tennis player?
Term 3: During this term, your child will apply the advanced skills and techniques needed in competitive situations.
Enquiry Questions: By the end of the term, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry questions below.
Can you apply tactics and perform advanced skills to be a successful hockey/ volleyball player?
Term 4: During this term, your child will apply the advanced skills and techniques needed in competitive situations.
Enquiry Questions: By the end of the term, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry questions below.
Can you apply tactics and perform advanced skills to be a successful gymnast or rugby player?
Can you apply principles of training to improve your fitness?
Term 5: During this term, your child will apply advanced skills, techniques and tactics in athletics whilst evaluating their own performance.
Enquiry Questions: By the end of the term, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry questions below.
Can you apply tactics and perform advanced skills to be a successful athlete?
Term 6: During this term, your child will apply the advanced skills and techniques needed in competitive situations.
Enquiry Questions: By the end of the term, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry questions below.
Can you apply tactics and perform advanced skills to be a successful cricket/ rounders player?
Year 10
Terms 1-3: Component 2- Taking part and improving other participants’ sporting performance
Learners will investigate the components of fitness and their effect on performance, participate in practical sports, explore the role of officials in sports, and learn to apply methods and sporting drills to improve other participants’ sporting performance.
Enquiry Questions: By the end of term 3, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry question(s) below.
What are the different components of fitness, and how are they used in different physical activities?
What are the rules, regulations, skills and tactics required in sports?
Can you plan and lead a session to improve others' sporting performance?
Terms 4-6: Component 1- Preparing participants to take part in sport and physical activity
Learners will explore the different types and provisions of sport and physical activity available for different types of participants, barriers to participation and ways to overcome these barriers to increase participation in sport and physical activity. They will also research equipment and technological advances in a chosen sport or physical activity, as well as how to prepare their bodies for participation in sports and physical activities.
Enquiry Questions: By the end of term 6, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry question(s) below.
What are the different types of provision of sport and physical activity?
What role does technology play in sports and physical activity?
What are the key elements of a successful warm-up?
Year 11
Terms 1-5: Component 3- Developing fitness to improve other participants’ performance in sport and physical activity
Enquiry Questions: By the end of term 5, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry question(s) below.
What are the different components of fitness, and how are they used in different physical activities?
How can exercise intensity be determined?
How and why do we test fitness levels?
What is the difference between validity and reliability?
How do you train to improve your fitness levels?
What are the long-term effects of exercise on the body?
Sixth Form Level 3
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma in Sport -
Year 12, Terms 1- 3
Enquiry Questions: By the end of term 3 in Year 12, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry question(s) below.
Explain the functions, structure and effects of the body systems.
How can we live a healthy, active lifestyle?
What are the rules, regulations, skills, and tactics required in both individual and team sports? How can we reflect on performance?
Year 12, Terms 4-6
Enquiry Questions: By the end of term 6 in year 12, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry question(s) below.
Why and how does fitness testing improve performance?
How are different leadership styles applied in sports?
How can we search for, apply to, and interview for jobs in the sports industry?
Year 13, Terms 1-5
Enquiry Questions: By the end of term 4 in Year 13, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry question(s) below.
What makes a successful sports business?
How do we diagnose and treat a wide range of acute and overuse sports injuries?
How do sports performers learn and develop new skills?
OCR Level 2 Cambridge Technical Diploma in Sport and Physical Activity -
Terms 1-3
Enquiry Questions: By the end of term 3, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry question(s) below.
How does physical activity positively impact the body systems, health and well-being of participants?
What is the importance of selecting appropriate sports or physical activities to meet the needs of participants and allow them to experience the benefits of both short-term and long-term exercise effects?
What are the roles, responsibilities, skills, and behaviours of activity leaders that will allow you to plan and lead an appropriate sports session?
Why is knowing the different types of fitness equipment important when explaining their benefits and how to use, maintain and store them to clients?
Terms 4-6
Enquiry Questions: By the end of term 6, your child should be able to answer the following enquiry question(s) below.
What do inclusivity, equality, and diversity mean, and how can they be planned and promoted in relation to sport and physical activity?
What does customer service involve, what is its importance to sport and physical activity providers, and how can you effectively communicate with customers?
What is fitness, and how are the methods and principles applied effectively?
What is the importance of carrying out a client consultation to assess a client's level of fitness when communicating the effects of lifestyle factors on health and fitness?
Why is a fitness instructor's preparation and planning of appropriate fitness sessions essential to successfully assisting the session, with the ability to review the session for future development?