PE

Introduction to the Team:

Miss. M. Harrison – Curriculum Leader of PE

Mrs. J. McKinney – Assistant Curriculum Leader of PE

Mrs. K. Williams – Teacher of PE and Head of Year

Mr. M. Horton – Teacher of PE and Assistant Principle, responsible for Behaviour and Learning

Mr. M. Lovatt – Teacher of PE and Assistant Principal, responsible for Transition and Enrichment

Mr. C. Evans – Teacher of PE and Head of Year

Mr. A. Edwards – Teacher of PE and Head of Year

OSCA PE- ‘Challenging the mind and body for a fit, healthy, happy future’.

Subject Aims/Intent:

The PE department plays a huge role in academy life and students enjoy the subject immensely. We strive to provide our learners with the opportunity to learn and develop new practical skills and techniques across a broad range of activities. We also enable our learners to develop higher order thinking skills when analysing and evaluating performances or creating strategies and tactics to use in a competitive environment.
In PE lessons students get the chance to develop a wide range of personal life skills that are essential, not only in other subjects across the academy, but also for everyday life as young people to prepare themselves for their exams and to ready themselves for employment. Through PE students learn a variety of specific life skills and are signposted towards; self-motivation, self-management, integrity, resilience, collaboration, responsibility and communication. The students will gain knowledge of these life skills and are assessed in their application of them.
The PE curriculum is designed so that students are engaged in PE through a variety of different activities. NHS guidelines recommend that young people undertake physical exercise for an hour every day. It is part of our job as a PE department to provide a curriculum that motivates and supports students to live a sustainable, happy and healthy life by encouraging them to make healthy choices and equipping them with the knowledge and understanding to improve their health.
Throughout their OSCA PE experience students will become more competent, confident and expert in their skill techniques, and can apply them across different sports and physical activities. They will gain understanding of what makes a performance effective and how to apply these principles to their own and others’ work. We will assist them in developing the confidence and interest to get involved in exercise, sports and activities out of school and in later life, and in understanding and applying the long-term health benefits of physical activity.

Key Stage 3 core PE
Through two timetabled hours of PE a week, students focus on integrity, resilience, communication, collaboration, self- motivation and responsibility as they are the foundation of our teaching and learning and are life skills that have evolved to be specifically taught and assessed at KS3. It is these values that underpin the ‘all day, everyday’ teaching and learning when learning skills, tactics and strategies to be able to participate in a range of activities; Football, Rugby, Basketball, Volleyball, Orienteering, Climbing, Netball, Hockey, Trampolining, Fitness, Athletics, Cricket, Rounders, Softball and Tennis.

This range of activities allows them to learn and understand key aspects of the subject aiming to ensure that all students have the opportunity to:

Develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities
Be physically active for sustained periods of time
Lead healthy active lifestyles
Take part in outdoor and adventurous activities which present intellectual and physical challenges and be encouraged to work in a team, building on trust and developing skills to solve problems, either individually or as a group
Analyse their performances compared to previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best
Take part in competitive sports and activities outside school through community links or sports clubs.

Assessment and exams: including exemplar assessments
While there are no formal exam style assessments in PE the students are graded on 3 areas- physical me, cognitive me and social me- across a range of activity areas.

Extra Curricular, Curriculum experiences:

The PE department offers a wide range of extra curricular opportunities for students who wish to extend the learning opportunities that are offered to them in curriculum time, the provision is frequently adapted based on student voice and links with clubs in the wider community.

Health and Fitness (Key Stage 4 PE)

Subject Aims/Intent:
This is even more important when you examine the context in which the school sits with statistics from Public Health England highlighting numerous factors in relation to physical and mental health that cannot be ignored when planning a curriculum pathway for our students. Good grades are an enabler to further education, but by themselves are not going to encourage children to adopt a healthier and safer lifestyle to the one that they are likely growing up in.

Throughout KS4 PE students undertake 3 hours of PE across the 2 week timetable with the aim to tackle complex and demanding physical activities and get involved in a range of activities that develops personal fitness and promotes an active, healthy lifestyle, as directed by the National Curriculum. When choosing the activities that students undertake at KS4, we create a bespoke student lead curriculum pathway to motivate and engage the students to be physically active in the lessons and have an extra curricular programme that supports the opportunity to participate in a variety of activities after academy hours. The activities that we offer have well-established governing bodies that are at the forefront of sport in the media and the wider community and are recognisable in world competitions such as the Olympics & Commonwealth games, to inspire pupils to emulate roles models.

Sport Science

At KS4 students select options. The qualification that we deliver is the OCR Cambridge Nationals Sport Science level ½ course. This qualification will help students to develop:

• The knowledge and skills required to progress into a career in the sports industry as well as providing them with a valuable science-based background if they choose to progress at into a more biological or medical field at Level 3

• Transferable skills, such as presentation skills, report writing team working, leadership and research skills.

ASSESSMENT METHOD

The level 1/2 OCR Cambridge Nationals Sport Science qualification is 60% coursework and 40% exam. The students will complete two coursework units and 1 examined unit:

R180- Reducing the risk of sports injuries and dealing with common medical conditions (Examined unit- 40%)

R181- Applying the principles of training: fitness and how it affects skill performance (40%)

R183- Nutrition and sports performance (20%)

Course Outline:

The level 1/2 Cambridge National in Sport Science will encourage students to:

• Understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of Sport Science

• Develop learning and practical skills that can be applied to real-life contexts and work situations

• Think creatively, innovatively, analytically, logically and critically

• Develop independence and confidence in using skills that are relevant to the Exercise, Physical Activity, Sport and Health sector and more widely

• Prepare participants for physical activity in ways which keeps them safe as well as learning how to react should injuries happen and how to recognise common medical conditions

• Learn how to conduct fitness tests, including interpreting and feeding back on the data you get from these as well as how to design, implement and evaluate fitness training programmes

• Delve into the world of sports nutrition to understand how what we eat can impact our performance in sport

Do this course if:

·You have an interest in Sport and/or Health and Fitness

·You want to gain life experiences through external trips and visitors

·You like to participate in practical lessons

·You prefer courses that are not assessed by 100% exam

You can work independently