Strategic Intent for Physical Education
To develop a curriculum which:
Curriculum Principles
Course Content
Key Stage 3 Pathways:
Year 7 Curriculum Focus: Skill development
Year 8 Curriculum Focus: Tactics & strategies
Year 9Curriculum Focus: Analysis & feedback
Key Stage 4 Pathway:
Cambridge Nationals: Sport Science (Certificate)
R180: Reducing the risk of sports injuries and dealing with common medical conditions (Exam component) 48 GLH, 80 Marks available
This unit is assessed via written exam at the end of Year 11 and pupils will study the content from October-May in Year 11. Pupils will learn how to prepare participants to take part in sport and physical activity in a way which minimises the risk of injuries occurring; prepare them to be able to respond to common injuries that can occur during sport and physical activity and to recognise the symptoms of some common medical conditions.
R181: Applying the principles of training: fitness and how it affects skill performance (Practical & written coursework) 48 GLH, 80 Marks available
This unit will take place throughout September-April in Year 10. In this unit pupils will learn how to conduct a range of fitness tests, what they test and their advantages and disadvantages. Pupils will also learn how to design, plan and evaluate a fitness training programme. This will give pupils the background knowledge they need to be able to plan and deliver appropriate fitness tests, some of which will be adapted to suit the skills of the sporting activity. Pupils will then interpret the data collected from fitness tests and learn how best to feed this back so that participants can go on to make informed decisions about their fitness training.
R182: The body’s response to physical activity and how technology informs this (Practical & written coursework) 24 GLH, 40 Marks available
This unit will be completed between April-October across Year’s 10 and 11. In this unit pupils will learn to understand how both the cardio-respiratory and musculo-skeletal systems provide them with the energy and movements needed to keep them exercising and in turn how exercise helps develop both of these systems.
Enrichment
Extra-curricular clubs: The PE department offer a wide range of enrichment activities four nights a week which aim to broaden our pupil’s experiences of physical activity and sport as well as to develop their physical, emotional and social wellbeing. Our PE teachers are passionate about instilling a lifelong love of physical activity in all of our pupils as well as educating them about the importance of leading, and managing, a healthy, active lifestyle. We recognise our pupils as individuals and, as such, understand that they each have their own interests and passions. To cater for these needs we offer a broad extra-curricular programme including netball, football, badminton, dodgeball, trampoline, athletics, basketball, table tennis and dance.
Fixtures: Across all year groups pupils will have the opportunity to engage in competitive sports across a wide range of leagues, cup competitions and friendly fixtures – Football, netball, basketball, Fusion Dance, cross country, dodgeball and athletics.
Your School Games: We are active members of Your School Games and engage in termly meetings with our School Games Organiser providing our pupils with as many diverse experiences as possible. We compete every half term against our local schools in South Sefton and host a number of these events in our own sports hall as well. These games include a dodgeball league, indoor athletics, girls football tournaments, table tennis tournaments, kinball matches and touch rugby.
Sports Leaders Programme: Another element of the PE departments extra-curricular package includes the Sports Leaders programme. Here, a number of pupils in Year 10 have the opportunity to develop their leadership skills through sport and physical activity whilst helping themselves and others stay physically active. They plan and host a number of sports events for pupils in Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 and also help with our Year 6 transition. We are very proud of our sports leaders and have a long history of success within the school watching the development of our young people into experienced and confident leaders.
We are extremely proud and fortunate to provide our pupils with such experiences as well as the education to find activities that suit their needs in order to engage in lifelong participation.
Personal Development, Behaviour and Welfare
Personal Growth: Sport and physical activity, by its nature, can be competitive, either against others or individually. Our lessons aim to break down barriers and issues caused by mental health, as well as physical challenges. With pupils having opportunities to improve their levels of physical literacy, creativity, problem solving and competitive desire, they will grow as people and be better prepared for the challenges of the world of work or higher education.
Sports Leaders Programme: Our pupils are provided with an opportunity to engage in our Sports Leaders programme in Year 10. Here, pupils play an active role in our broad enrichment programme in which they implement and oversee extra-curricular clubs, alongside their teachers, and work with us in developing provision in our local Primary schools.
Sports Tours: At Hillside High School, we offer two exciting sports tours for pupils (male and female) who consistently display model behaviour and attitudes towards their learning across the whole school community. These tours are designed for pupils to broaden their cultural capital and their life experiences by engaging in opportunities that they may never have access to in their adult lives.
-Our European football tour is a week-long foreign excursion to a top European club (currently Borussia Dortmund) in which our pupils have the opportunity to train with the club’s academy coaches, have a stadium tour, gain cultural capital through city sight-seeing afternoons and are provided with tickets to watch the club play a league game live at their home stadium (Signal Iduna Park).
-Our European netball tour is offered to all pupils (male and female) who also display model behaviour and attitudes towards learning across the whole school community. The netball tour is a week-long foreign excursion to Disney Land Paris in which all pupils have the opportunity to compete in a European netball tournament against schools/clubs from France, Spain, Germany, Holland etc. over a two-day period. On the tour, pupils will stay in a Disney resort, be provided with a one-day pass to all Disney theme parks and will have a group coaching session with England Netball coaches.
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Year 8
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Year 9
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striking_and_fielding_core_knowledge_y9.pptx
Year 8
Hillside High
Breeze Hill
Bootle
Merseyside
L20 9NU
Tel: 0151 525 2630
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