PE
Welcome to the PE department – Meet the team
We aim to inspire students into a life-long love of sport and an interest in looking after their own physical, mental and social well-being.
We want to support and promote opportunities for elite performers to succeed and develop and reach the highest levels in sport.
PE Curriculum Intent
Subject Curriculum Intent: The PE curriculum intends to generate an enjoyment of PE amongst students to cement their interest and enthusiasm of sport while teaching to the top to drive the performances of our students to exceed expectation. The content of lessons will also improve their understanding and ability in sport, but also, and quite notably, the curriculum aims to inspire students into fulfilling a lifelong interest in sport to support their future for a healthy active lifestyle. The broadness of the sports within the 5-year plan ensures to give a wide variety to support engagement. The aim at KS3 is to develop new skills while exploring a variety of sports.
Students will learn ‘HOW TO’ perform skills in Year 7, then look at ‘DECISION-MAKING’ in year 8 followed by ‘SPORT LEADERSHIP’ in year 9. Each aspect will be supported by visiting a variety of team and individual sports while developing skills, improving tactical knowledge and understanding, improving fitness and giving students opportunities to reflect through evaluating and improving their own and other students’ performances. Sports will be revisited across the 5-year curriculum to ensure opportunities for depth and further knowledge of sports. Links to GCSE PE will be made by having sports that are possible assessment options at GCSE level on the curriculum. There will also be theoretical links to GCSE PE through homework/questioning and tasks set in a booklet that are used in lessons. During KS4, students will have opportunities to develop further skills and knowledge in our compulsory CORE PE lessons which will offer some new sports that were not taught in KS3 to develop future healthy active lifestyles. Year 10 Core PE will focus on ‘COGNITIVE SKILLS’ while the Year 11 Core PE focus is ‘FUTURE HEALTHY LIFESTYLES’. In GCSE PE, students will be looking at theoretical and practical sides of PE and sport.
The practical will go into greater detail to improve technique/skills in assessed sports while the theory will cover all areas of the course from the OCR syllabus. In theory lessons, students will develop understanding of all topics while also understanding questioning style and how to answer exam questions with the correct structure. Lagged learning and interleving of learning will be used across the 5-year curriculum through revisiting content and sports, transferring skills from one sport to another and also through low-stake weekly tests in GCSE theory to support retrieval and embedding the learning.
Key Features
CORE PE Curriculum
| YEAR 7 (HOW TO) | YEAR 8 (DECISION-MAKING) | YEAR 9 (SPORT LEADERSHIP) | YEAR 10 (COGNITIVE SKILLS) | YEAR 11 (FUTURE HEALTHY, ACTIVE LIFESTYLES) |
| Basketball | Basketball | Football | Football | Basketball |
| Rugby | Rugby | Badminton | Badminton | Gaelic Football |
| Fitness | Badminton | Netball | Ultimate Frisbee | Badminton |
| Football | Hockey | Fitness & Outdoor/Adventurous | Fitness | Ultimate Frisbee |
| Hockey | Netball | Hockey | International Games – (Kabadi, Gaelic Football, Kin-ball, Disability sports) | Dodgeball |
| Athletics | Fitness & Outdoor/Adventurous | Softball | Volleyball | Volleyball |
| Rounders | Athletics | Athletics | Softball | Softball (or Rounders) |
| Cricket |
OCR GCSE PRACTICAL SPORTS
| Year 9 GCSE PE PRACTICAL | Year 10 GCSE PE PRACTICAL | Year 11 GCSE PE PRACTICAL |
| Netball | Rugby | Badminton |
| Badminton | Badminton | Basketball |
| Handball | Basketball | Rugby |
| Volleyball | Football | Sport linked to final practical |
| Table Tennis | Hockey | Sport linked to final practical |
| Cricket | Rounders | Sport linked to final practical |
| Athletics | Athletics | Sport linked to final practical |
OCR GCSE THEORY TOPICS
| Year 9 GCSE PE THEORY | Year 10 GCSE PE THEORY | Year 11 GCSE PE THEORY |
| Components of Fitness | Muscular System | Trends in Sport Participation |
| Principles of Training | Movement Analysis | Media and Ethics in Sport |
| Methods of Training | AEP Section 1 & 2 | Drugs and Violence in Sport |
| Prevention of Injury | Cardiovascular System | AEP Section 3,4 & 5 |
| Health, Fitness & Well-being | Respiratory System | Study Skills/Exam Practice, Recap Content, 6-mark question practice |
| Diet & Nutrition | Effects of Exercise on the body | |
| The Skeletal System | Classifying Skills | |
| Study Skills/Exam Practice | SMART targets and Mental Preparation | |
| Study Skills/Exam Practice |
Extra Opportunities
EXTRA-CURRICULAR PE AT WIXAMS ACADEMY:
- We enter as many District and County competitions as possible for BOTH BOYS AND GIRLS.
- We aim to be COMPETITIVE to enhance the progression of our students in sport.
- We aim to be INCLUSIVE by offering second and third teams when we have high attendance to ensure opportunities.
- Everybody is welcome to all clubs for their year group!
- Some of the clubs/teams we offer include: Football, Basketball, Rugby, Netball, Badminton, Dodgeball, Rounders, Cricket, Athletics, Hockey, Table Tennis, Volleyball, Handball, Cross-country and Fitness.