Physical Education
The PE department aims to provide opportunities for students to develop their skills and fitness in a range of physical activities. We deliver a broad curriculum ensuring pupils receive a well-rounded experience of PE, promoting the understanding of lifelong activity leading to lifelong health.
Our Aims:
- To enable our students to become skilful performers.
- To encourage an understanding of health and fitness leading to educated choices about an active lifestyle.
- To allow our students to become reflective performers.
- To offer leadership opportunities to our young people.
- To offer a wide range of curricular and extra-curricular activities.
It is the department’s policy that all students get changed for lesson regardless of injury or illness. This enables students to still be involved and provide opportunities for peer observation and analysis.
PE Kit
Equipment and PE kit requirements:
SMA navy polo top and either SMA navy shorts, SMA navy trousers or SMA navy leggings. Students require navy 'football' socks for sports such as football and rugby, and white trainer socks for all other sports. Students require appropriate footwear including football boots and trainers. Shin pads are compulsory for football and mouthguards are highly recommended for rugby in line with guidelines set by the FA and the RFU.
Optional items: SMA navy tracksuit top and SMA navy sports jumper
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Key Stage 3
The PE curriculum offers 2 hours per week at Key Stage 3.
Students are taught the fundamental skills within outwitting opponents, net/wall games, health related fitness, athletics and striking and fielding activities. Key Stage 3 PE lessons are enjoyable, challenging and provide students with a number of key core skills. Activities covered include; Football, Rugby, Netball, Basketball, Gymnastics, Fitness Training, Table Tennis, Cricket, Volleyball, Badminton, Athletics, Rounders, Handball, Trampolining and Softball.
Key Stage 4 (Core PE)
The PE curriculum offers 1 hour per week at Key Stage 4.
These lessons will look to build on the skills students have learned within physical activities covered at Key Stage 3; further enhancing their ability and maintaining a healthy, active lifestyle. In Key Stage 4 PE lessons, students can work with pupils from the primary phase, providing students with key skills such as leadership, team work, communication, problem-solving and having the ability to provide feedback.
Academic Options at Key Stage 4
OCR GCSE PE
GCSE PE will equip learners with the knowledge, understanding, skills and values to develop their performance in physical activities and understand the benefits to health, fitness and well-being. The combination of the physical performance and academic challenge provides an exciting opportunity for students. This course would suit learners who have a strong academic background in Science and English but also participate in regular extra-curricular activities both within and outside of school.
Assessment Details:
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Component 01 - Physical Factors affecting Performance |
Component 02 – Socio-Cultural Issues and Sports Psychology |
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1.1: Applied anatomy and physiology 1.2: Physical training |
2.1: Socio-cultural influences 2.2: Sports psychology 2.3: Health, fitness and well-being |
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Written paper exam: 1 hour |
Written paper exam: 1 hour |
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Component 03 - Performance in Physical Education Non-exam assessment (NEA) |
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3.1: Practical activity assessment: Performance of three activities taken from two activity lists.
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3.2: Analysing and Evaluating Performance (AEP):
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Practical activity assessment in the role of a player/performer (x3 activities) 60 marks |
Learners are required to demonstrate their ability to analyse and evaluate their own performance. 20 marks 10% of GCSE |
Examination information:
OCR GCSE PE: http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/gcse-physical-education-j587-from-2016/
Enrichment and Extra-Curricular Activities:
Staff are consistently willing to commit their own time to extend the opportunities for students beyond the curriculum. Examples of extra-curricular opportunities ran by the PE department throughout the year include; Football, Netball, Basketball, Table Tennis, Cricket, Athletics, Rounders, Handball and Trampolining. We have a variety of sporting teams who compete in both local and regional competitions. In conjunction with London Youth Rowing (LYG), our Rowing club is one of our largest and most successful activities. Students compete both nationally and regionally, and have regular on-water rowing sessions.
We are very keen on promoting local clubs for our students to join, and our external club links are heavily involved within the department’s extra-curricular programme. Our aim is to provide an exit route for our students to participate in sport and physical activity outside of school.
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