Key Stage 3

Year 7

SHOW Intent

To acquire fundamental motor competencies, developing skills learned in key stage 2 and apply them to competitive sporting activities.

GROW Intent

Team / Individual games - Sportsmanship

Physical Activities - Communication

Learning Journey

Sports Covered
  • Handball
  • Gymnastics
  • Outdoor Adventurous Activities (OAA)
  • Netball
  • Dance
Core Knowledge and Skills

Basic motor skill acquisition/development:

  • Basic Motor Skill Acquisition/Development:
    • Passing
    • Receiving
    • Defending
    • Moving with a ball
    • Moving off the ball
  • Teambuilding
  • Problem solving
  • Choreography:
    • Balance
    • Travel
    • Leap
    • Turn / rotate
    • Movement to music
Enriched Knowledge
  • Formal fair play
    • Knowledge of / adherence to rules
  • Informal fair play
    • Sportsmanship / ‘being kind’ through physical activity
  • Communication
    • Teamwork
    • Problem solving
    • Trust
    • Verbal and non-verbal communication
Key Vocabulary
  • Space
  • Control
  • Sportsmanship
  • Accuracy
  • Fluency
  • Extension
  • Aesthetic
  • Skill
  • Rules
  • Official
  • Pulse-raiser
  • Mobility
Sports Covered
  • Athletics
Core Knowledge and Skills
  • Throwing
  • Running
  • Jumping
Enriched Knowledge
  • British values: rule of law respect
Key Vocabulary
  • Stretch
  • Dynamic
  • Apply
Sports Covered
  • Rounders
  • Cricket
  • Inter-House Competitions
Core Knowledge and Skills
  • Fielding
  • Batting
  • Bowling
  • Teamwork
Enriched Knowledge
  • Feedback
    • Constructive
    • Helpful
    • Positive
  • Representation
Key Vocabulary
  • Know
  • Perform
  • Reflect

Year 8

SHOW Intent

To further develop motor competencies acquired in year 7 (including both core/advanced physical skills) and apply them to competitive sporting activities.

GROW Intent

Team / Individual games - Perceptions and preconceptions

Physical Activities - Fitness

Learning Journey

Sports Covered
  • Handball
  • Hoop sports
  • Dance
  • Gymnastics
  • Football
Core Knowledge and Skills
  • Motor skill development:
  • Range of passing
    • Moving with a ball
    • Moving off the ball
    • Possession
    • Counter attack
    • Target zone defence
  • Teambuilding
  •  Tactical awareness
  • Outwitting opponents
  • Self-motivation
  • Resilience
  • Tactical Awareness
  • Choreography:
    • Dynamic interest
    • Coordination
    • Body tension
    • Energy
    • Coordination
Enriched Knowledge and Skills

Are there girls’ and boys’ sports?

  • Imbalance in participation
  • Stereotypes
  • Emily Scarratt
  • Ashley Banjo

Racism in sports

  • Stereotypes
  • Euro final
  • Effects on participation

Disability and Poverty in Sports

  • Access and influence
  • Paralympics
  • Adapted sports
  • Unseen disabilities
  • Participation

British values

  • Respect
  • Tolerance

Fitness

  • Components
  • Different sports for different people
  • Mental health

British Values:

  • Respect
  • Tolerance (Disability/Poverty/Race)
Key Vocabulary
  • Marking
  • Footwork
  • Rules
  • Structure
  • Teamwork
  • Positioning
  • Fitness
  • Warm up
  • Adapting
  • Training
  • Demonstrate
  • Apply
  • State
  • Competition
  • Explore
  • Develop
  • Describe
  • Trajectory
  • Spatial awareness
  • Positions
  • Tactics
Sports Covered
  • Athletics
Core Knowledge and Skills
  • Throwing
  • Running
  • Jumping
  • Preparation / Execution / Follow-through phases
Enriched Knowledge and Skills

Are there girls’ and boys’ sports?

  • Imbalance in participation
  • Stereotypes
  • Emily scarratt
  • Ashley banjo

Racism in sports

  • Stereotypes
  • Euro final
  • Effects on participation

Disability and Poverty in Sports

  • Access and influence
  • Paralympics
  • Adapted sports
  • Unseen disabilities
  • Participation

British values

  • Respect
  • Tolerance

Fitness

  • Components
  • Different sports for different people
  • Mental health
Key Vocabulary
  • Marking
  • Footwork
  • Rules
  • Structure
  • Teamwork
  • Positioning
  • Fitness
  • Warm up
  • Adapting
  • Training
  • Demonstrate
  • Apply
  • State
  • Competition
  • Explore
  • Develop
  • Describe
  • Trajectory
  • Spatial awareness
  • Positions
  • Tactics
Sports Covered
  • Rounders
  • Cricket
Core Knowledge and Skills
  • Batting/Positioning
  • Bowling
  • Fielding
  • Scoring
Enriched Knowledge and Skills

Are there girls’ and boys’ sports?

  • Imbalance in participation
  • Stereotypes
  • Emily scarratt
  • Ashley banjo

Racism in sports

  • Stereotypes
  • Euro final
  • Effects on participation

Disability and Poverty in Sports

  • Access and influence
  • Paralympics
  • Adapted sports
  • Unseen disabilities
  • Participation

British values

  • Respect
  • Tolerance

Fitness

  • Components
  • Different sports for different people
  • Mental health
Key Vocabulary
  • Marking
  • Footwork
  • Rules
  • Structure
  • Teamwork
  • Positioning
  • Fitness
  • Warm up
  • Adapting
  • Training
  • Demonstrate
  • Apply
  • State
  • Competition
  • Explore
  • Develop
  • Describe
  • Trajectory
  • Spatial awareness
  • Positions
  • Tactics

Year 9

SHOW Intent

To demonstrate previously learned skills, whilst developing an understanding of tactics / decision making skills and their application to competitive situations

GROW Intent

Team / Individual Games - Psychological control

Physical Activities - Role models

Learning Journey

Sports Covered
  • Astro Games
  • Table Tennis
  • Rugby
  • Gymnastics
  • Fitness
  • Hoop Sports
Core Knowledge and Skills
  • Possession / progression
  • Counter attack
  • Target zone defence
  • Roles of positions
  • Defense / Attack
  • Spatial awareness
  • Tactics
  • Set plays
  • Application of footwork
  • Spin on the ball
  • Knowledge of rules
  • Rolls
  • Travels
  • Choreography
  • Group balance
  • Use of apparatus
  • Fitness testing
  • Planning a training session
  • Health-related fitness
Enriched Knowledge and Skills
  • Accepting officials’ decisions
  • Self-regulating umpiring
  • Focusing on own performance
  • Positivity in defeat
  • Playing to the whistle
  • Emotional regulation
  • Resilience
  • Motivating others
  • Pre-game / participation routines
  • Mental preparation
Key Vocabulary
  • Marking
  • Shadowing
  • Footwork
  • Gameplay
  • Obstruction
  • Regulation
  • Peer assessment
  • Spin
  • Positioning
  • Application of tactics
  • Preparation
  • Stimulus
  • Coordination
  • Spatial awareness
  • Body tension
  • Posture
  • Components of fitness
  • Validity and reliability
  • Evaluate
  • Assess
  • Define
  • Technique
  • Rules
  • Deviancy
  • Regulation
  • Anxiety vs Arousal
  • Motivating
Sports Covered
  • Athletics
Core Knowledge and Skills
  • Running
  • Jumping
  • Throwing
  • Knowledge of rules
Enriched Knowledge and Skills
  • Accepting officials’ decisions
  • Self-regulating umpiring
  • Focusing on own performance
  • Positivity in defeat
  • Playing to the whistle
  • Emotional regulation
  • Resilience
  • Motivating others
  • Pre-game / participation routines
  • Mental preparation
Key Vocabulary
  • Marking
  • Shadowing
  • Footwork
  • Gameplay
  • Obstruction
  • Regulation
  • Peer assessment
  • Spin
  • Positioning
  • Application of tactics
  • Preparation
  • Stimulus
  • Coordination
  • Spatial awareness
  • Body tension
  • Posture
  • Components of fitness
  • Validity and reliability
  • Evaluate
  • Assess
  • Define
  • Technique
  • Rules
  • Deviancy
  • Regulation
  • Anxiety vs Arousal
  • Motivating
Sports Covered
  • Striking and Fielding
Core Knowledge and Skills
  • Bowling
  • Batting
  • Striking and fielding
  • Rules
Enriched Knowledge and Skills
  • Accepting officials’ decisions
  • Self-regulating umpiring
  • Focusing on own performance
  • Positivity in defeat
  • Playing to the whistle
  • Emotional regulation
  • Resilience
  • Motivating others
  • Pre-game / participation routines
  • Mental preparation
Key Vocabulary
  • Marking
  • Shadowing
  • Footwork
  • Gameplay
  • Obstruction
  • Regulation
  • Peer assessment
  • Spin
  • Positioning
  • Application of tactics
  • Preparation
  • Stimulus
  • Coordination
  • Spatial awareness
  • Body tension
  • Posture
  • Components of fitness
  • Validity and reliability
  • Evaluate
  • Assess
  • Define
  • Technique
  • Rules
  • Deviancy
  • Regulation
  • Anxiety vs Arousal
  • Motivating

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