Key Stage 4
Year 10 - Core
SHOW Intent
To expand sporting experiences through access to inspirational facilities and alternative activities
GROW Intent
Benefits of participation in physical activity
Learning Journey
Sports Covered
Single
- Ultimate Frisbee
- 5-a-Side
Double
- Basketball
- Badminton
Core Knowledge and Skills
Ultimate Frisbee and 5-a-Side
- Basic skills
- Modified games
- Recreational game play
- Competition
Basketball
- Shooting
- Rebounding
- Lay-ups
- Screening
- Zone and man-to-man defence
Badminton
- Serve
- Forehand
- Backhand
- Smash
- Drop
Enriched Knowledge and Skills
- Benefits of warming up
- Opportunity to participate
- Teamwork and collaborative working
- Cooperation
- Strategic thinking
- Problem solving
- Resilience
- Individual challenge
- Mental health
- Stress-management techniques
- Emotional health
- Physical health
- Illness and injury prevention
- Social bonding and friendships
Key Vocabulary
Basketball
- Positioning
- Holding
- Blocking
Badminton
- Forehand
- Backhand
- Smash
Sports Covered
Single
- Dodgeball
Double
- Climbing
Core Knowledge and Skills
Dodgeball
- Basic skills
- Modified games
- Recreational game play
- Competition
Climbing
- Rope tying
- Descending the wall
- Route planning
- Belaying
Enriched Knowledge and Skills
- Benefits of warming up
- Opportunity to participate
- Teamwork and collaborative working
- Cooperation
- Strategic thinking
- Problem solving
- Resilience
- Individual challenge
- Mental health
- Stress-management techniques
- Emotional health
- Physical health
- Illness and injury prevention
- Social bonding and friendships
Key Vocabulary
Climbing
- Ascend
- Descend
- Safety
Sports Covered
Single
- Fast 5 Netball
Double
- Table Tennis
Core Knowledge and Skills
Fast 5 Netball
- Basic skills
- Modified games
- Recreational game play
- Competition
Table Tennis
- Forehand
- Backhand
- Serve
- Drive
Enriched Knowledge and Skills
- Benefits of warming up
- Opportunity to participate
- Teamwork and collaborative working
- Cooperation
- Strategic thinking
- Problem solving
- Resilience
- Individual challenge
- Mental health
- Stress-management techniques
- Emotional health
- Physical health
- Illness and injury prevention
- Social bonding and friendships
Key Vocabulary
Table Tennis
- Spin
- Technique
- Block
- Drive
Sports Covered
Single
- Fitness
Double
- Astro Games
Core Knowledge and Skills
Fitness
- Circuit Training
Astro Games
- Defense
- Attack
- Strategy
- Competition
Enriched Knowledge and Skills
- Benefits of warming up
- Opportunity to participate
- Teamwork and collaborative working
- Cooperation
- Strategic thinking
- Problem solving
- Resilience
- Individual challenge
- Mental health
- Stress-management techniques
- Emotional health
- Physical health
- Illness and injury prevention
- Social bonding and friendships
Key Vocabulary
Astro Games
- Tactics
- Attack
- Defend
- Strategy
Sports Covered
Single
- Rounders
- Cricket
- Softball
Double
- Outdoor Adventure Activities
- Athletics
Core Knowledge and Skills
Outdoor Adventure Activities
- Map reading
- Landmarking
- Orienteering
- Competition
Athletics
- Preparation / execution / follow-through
- Cadence
- Pace
- Static / dynamic throws
Rounders / Cricket / Softball
- Placement of players
- Fielding: barriers / cushioning / long distance throwing
- Batting: coordination / stance / footwork / communication
Enriched Knowledge and Skills
- Benefits of warming up
- Opportunity to participate
- Teamwork and collaborative working
- Cooperation
- Strategic thinking
- Problem solving
- Resilience
- Individual challenge
- Mental health
- Stress-management techniques
- Emotional health
- Physical health
- Illness and injury prevention
- Social bonding and friendships
Key Vocabulary
- Speed
- Power
- Height trajectory
- Technique
- Rotation
- Spatial awareness
- Explore
- Encourage
- Teamwork
- Strategy
Year 11 - Core
Intent
The encouragement / promotion of lifelong participation in physical activity, through opportunity and choice
Learning Journey
Students may choose one sport from each the following option blocks as a focus for double periods across the year.
Option Block 1
- Badminton
- Volleyball
- Rugby
- Hockey
Option Block 2
- Basketball
- Trampolining
- Circuits / Weights
- Table Tennis
Option Block 3
- Volleyball
- Basketball
- Football
- Aerobics
Option Block 4
- Climbing
- Badminton
- Handball
- Netball
Option Block 5
- Softball
- Cricket
- Short tennis
- ESAA Athletics
In addition to areas of study chosen from the above for double periods, in a new pilot programme of study for 2023-24, students will be able to partake in the following sports during single periods:
- Ultimate Frisbee
- American Football
- Capture the Flag
- Dodgeball
- Rounders
- Sport-specific skills
- Informal competition
- Sport for fun
- Physical literacy
- Understanding of the importance of activity / benefits of regular participation
- Links to GCSE PE / high-performance sport
- Physical literacy
- Understanding of the importance of physical activity
- Links to local community clubs
- Excellence in sport
- Opportunity / choice to encourage lifelong participation
- Social sport
- Enjoying through informal competition
- Explain
- Analyse
- Experience / choice
- Evaluate
- Compete
- Health
- Participate
- Lifelong participation
- Competition
- Community clubs
- Fitness (multi-faceted)
- Recreation
Year 10 - GCSE
Intent
To complete the OCR theory content, whilst enriching students' knowledge of sport, themselves and the world around them.
Learning Journey
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Intro to GCSE PE & Location of Major Bones
- Synovial Joints
- Movements at Joints
- Muscles in Action
- Lever Systems
- Axes and Planes
- Movement Analysis
- Cardiovascular System
- Respiratory System
- Gaseous Exchange + Aerobic and Anaerobic Respiration
Enriched Knowledge and Skills
- Sports Injuries
- Understanding your own body
- Taking own HR (Bradycardia)
Key Vocabulary
- Skeletal
- Muscular
- Flexion
- Extension
- Rotation
- Antagonist Pairs
- Frontal
- Transverse
- Sagittal
- Longitudinal
- Cardiovascular
- Bradycardia
- Tachycardia
- Heart Rate
- Stroke Volume
- Cardiac Output
- Respiratory
- Minute Volume
- Tidal Volume
- Breathing rate
Key Knowledge and Skills
- Short Term Effects of Exercise
- Long Term Effects of Exercise
- Health Related Fitness
- Skill Related Fitness
- Fitness Testing
- Evaluation & Analysis of Fitness Testing (AEP)
- Principles of Training
- Training Methods
Enriched Knowledge and Skills
- Own health
- Own areas of strength/weakness
- Understanding multifaceted ‘fitness’
- Sports for people vs people for sports
- Aspiration within Sport Science (careers)
- Lifelong participation in physical activity – how to train / benefits
Key Vocabulary
- Muscular Hypertrophy
- Cardiac Hypertrophy
- Vascular Shunt
- Anticipatory Rise
- Capilliarisation
- Validity
- Reliability
- Specificity
- Progression
- Overload
- Reversibility
- Plyometric
- Fartlek
Key Knowledge and Skills
- Prevention of Injury – Warm-Up & Cool Down
- Prevention of Injury – Risks and Hazards
- Participation within Sport
- Media, Commercialisation and Sponsorship
- Ethics in sport
- Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sport
- Characteristics and Classification of Skills
- Further Movement Analysis
Enriched Knowledge and Skills
- Cultural understanding and challenging stereotyping
- Morality – financial imbalance in sport / between genders
- Influence of media on your life
- Morality – cheating / honesty
- Values – drug taking / violence / gambling
Key Vocabulary
- Risk
- Hazard
- Pulse raiser
- Mobility
- Stretching
- Dynamic movement
- Skill rehearsal
- Golden triangle
- Media
- Sponsorship
- Commercialization
- Anabolic steroids
- Beta blockers
- Stimulants
- Sportsmanship
- Gamesmanship
- Deviance
- Aesthetic
- Efficient
- Coordinated
- Pre-determined
- Fluent
- Environmental continua
- Difficulty continua
Year 11 - GCSE
Intent
To complete the OCR coursework content, whilst enriching students' knowledge of sport, themselves and the world around them. To revise and prepare for the GCSE theory examinations.
Learning Journey
Key Knowledge and Skills
- Goal Setting
- Mental Preparation
- Feedback
- Guidance
- Diet and Hydration
- Social, Physical and Emotional Benefits of Exercise
- Analysing and Evaluating Performance (NEA)
Enriched Knowledge and Skills
- Healthy eating and a balanced diet
- Benefits of exercise for the whole person
- Mental resilience and strategies to cope with stress
- Self-reflection and the ability to create and design a training programme following sporting principles
Key Vocabulary
- SMART
- Imagery
- Intrinsic
- Extrinsic
- Macro/micro nutrients
- Self-esteem
- Loneliness
- Mechanical
- Manual
- Evaluation
- Analysis
- Assessment
- Overview
- Movement analysis
- Action plan
Key Knowledge and Skills
- Analysing and Evaluating Performance (NEA)
- Revision
- Cardiovascular System
- Respiratory System
- Planes, Axes and Lever System
- Effects of Exercise
- Revision
- Commercialisation within Sport
- Participation in Sport & Physical Activity
- Ethics within Sport
Enriched Knowledge and Skills
- Sports Injuries
- Understanding your own body
- Taking own HR (Bradycardia)
- Morality – financial imbalance in sport / between genders
- Influence of media on your life
- Morality – cheating / honesty
- Values – drug taking / violence / gambling
Key Vocabulary
- Skeletal
- Muscular
- Flexion
- Extension
- Rotation
- Antagonist Pairs
- Frontal
- Transverse
- Sagittal
- Longitudinal
- Golden triangle
- Media
- Sponsorship
- Commercialization
- Anabolic steroids
- Beta blockers
- Stimulants
- Sportsmanship
- Gamesmanship
- Deviance
Key Knowledge and Skills
Interventions and revision based on identified areas of weakness
Exam question support using past paper examiner commentary
Revision and Official Examination
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