Curriculum

Year 1

Physical Education Time: Two periods (100’) of PE per Week and weekly Afternoon Games (80’)

Games: Basketball, Football, Hockey, Softball, Volleyball, Tennis
Athletics – Running Events: 80m, 150m, 300m, 600m, 1000m, 80m/100m Hurdles, Relay
Athletics – Jumping Events: High Jump, Long Jump, Triple Jump
Athletics – Throwing Events: Discus, Javelin, Shot put
Cross country: 1500m
Fitness Tests: Beep Test, Elbow Plank Test, Vertical Jump Test, Standing Overhead Medicine Ball Throw Test
Competitions: Include Badminton, Handball, Table Tennis, Tennis

Year 2
Physical Education Time: One period (50’) of PE per Week and weekly Afternoon Games (80’)

Games: Basketball, Football, Hockey, Softball, Volleyball
Athletics – Running Events: 80m, 600m
Athletics – Jumping Events: High Jump, Long Jump
Athletics – Throwing Events: Javelin, Shot put
Cross country: 1500m
Fitness Tests: Beep Test
Competitions: Include Badminton, Handball, Table Tennis, Tennis

Year 3
Physical Education Time: One period (50’) of PE per Week and weekly Afternoon Games (80’)

Games: Basketball, Football, Hockey, Softball, Volleyball
Athletics – Running Events: 150m, 300m, 1000m, 80m/100m Hurdles, Relay
Athletics – Jumping Events: Triple Jump
Athletics – Throwing Events: Discus
Cross country: 1500m
Fitness Tests: Beep Test
Competitions: Include Badminton, Handball, Hockey, Softball, Table Tennis, Tennis

Year 4
Physical Education Time: One period (50’) of PE per Week

Games: Basketball, Football, Hockey, Softball, Volleyball
Athletics – Running Events: 200m, 1500m
Athletics – Jumping Events: High Jump
Athletics – Throwing Events: Discus
Cross country: 2000m
Fitness Tests: Beep Test
Competitions: Include Badminton, Handball, Table Tennis, Tennis

Year 5
Physical Education Time: One period (50’) of PE per Week

Games: Basketball, Football, Hockey, Softball, Volleyball
Athletics – Running Events: 400m
Athletics – Jumping Events: Triple Jump
Athletics – Throwing Events: Shot put
Cross country: 2000m
Fitness Tests: Beep Test
Competitions: Include Badminton, Handball, Hockey, Softball, Table Tennis, Tennis

GCSE: Physical Education Course (8582) offered by AQA

Lesson Time: Six periods (300’) every two Weeks

Assessment: External Exam (Paper 1 - 30%, Paper 2 - 30%), Practical Options (3 Sports) 30%, Coursework (Analysis & Evaluation of Performance) 10%

The course aims: The course aims at encouraging students to adopt a healthy and active lifestyle and develop their own fitness levels. Students will learn how they can exercise safely using accepted principles and methods of training and will improve their skills in their chosen sports. In addition, the course will help students advance their tactical awareness in competition in order to maximise their chances of success. Another aim of the programme is to help students participate in sport in the best psychological state of mind, so that they can play hard and enjoy what they do, within the principles of good sportsmanship.
The theoretical part of the course will help students understand how the body functions and how physical activity can positively affect their health and fitness. In particular, the cardiovascular, respiratory, muscular and skeletal systems will be studied in detail, so that students can understand both the short-term and long-term effects of training on the human body.
Further topics that will be taught in the course include nutrition, sports psychology, sports sociology and biomechanics. Students will be able to use the knowledge gained in the theoretical part of the course to develop their own performance in their selected sports. By the end of the programme, each individual will be able to analyse their own strengths and weaknesses in their main sport and design a training plan for further improvement in their performance.