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PE at RPA

"The only one who can tell you, ‘you can’t win’ is you and you don’t have to listen"

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Who's who in the team

Ms Smith - Achievement Director

Mr Costello

Miss Binnington

Mr Lamb

Mr Trace

KS3 PE Curriculum Overview

KS4 - GCSE PE Curriculum Overview

KS4 - Games Overview

KS5 - A Level

KS5 - BTEC

A Level Reading List

Within PE at Richmond Park Academy we aim to provide a first class teaching and learning environment that will instil a lifelong engagement with physical activity. The broad and engaging PE curriculum on offer will develop students' physical, social and emotional well-being and promote the value of adopting a healthy lifestyle.

Lessons are designed so that all students feel they belong as part of a team. Through the development of knowledge and skills, and through the nurturing team based environment, students will be able to demonstrate and obtain leadership skills. Leadership skills are emphasised throughout the key stages, with students able to take on additional roles than just a performer.

Students will develop physical, technical and tactical sporting skills across a variety of team and individual sports. Techniques will be modified and practice time will allow students to embed these. As students develop their knowledge level they will begin to evaluate their own performance and apply methods to improve their physical fitness and technical ability in relation to specific sports.

Students will be instilled with a good sense of sportsmanship and to value and respect other performances within lessons. Rules of the game will be taught and sporting etiquette will be encouraged.

PE develops students’ competence and confidence to take part in a range of physical activities that become a central part of their lives, both in and out of school.

PE enables all students to enjoy and succeed in many kinds of physical activity. They develop a wide range of skills and the ability to use tactics, strategies and compositional ideas to perform successfully. When they are performing they think about what they are doing, analyse the situation and make decisions. They also reflect on their own and others’ performances and find ways to improve them. As a result, they develop the confidence to take part in different physical activities and learn about the value of healthy, active lifestyles. Discovering what they like to do, what their aptitudes are at school, and how and where to get involved in physical activity, helps them make informed choices about lifelong physical activity.

PE helps students develop personally and socially. They work as individuals, in groups and in teams, developing concepts of fairness and of personal and social responsibility. They take on different roles and responsibilities, including leadership, coaching and officiating. Through the range of experiences that PE offers, they learn how to be effective in competitive, creative and challenging situations.

3 E’s in PE

Explore

Range of different skills in a different sports

Experience

Experience a breadth of different sports
A range of different extracurricular activities to support the development of students skills
Competing against their houses
Competing against other schools
Different level of competitions (borough/ cup)
Being involved in different roles and using these at primary school events

Ethical Principles

At the heart of our ethical principles we drive the core values of sport
Students understand fair play and sportsmanship
E.g. Keeping the score of the game, shaking hands at the end of each match, helping someone up if they have fallen over
Current affairs of the sporting world
Barriers to participation - gender, disability, socio-economic background
Performance enhancing drugs and their role in sport

What we do when

Year 7

Promoting physical fitness and developing fundamental core skills. Learning basic tactics and strategies.

Year 8

Promoting physical fitness and applying fundamental core skills. Implementing basic tactics and strategies.

Year 9

Promoting physical fitness and mastering fundamentals core skills. Applying advanced tactics and strategies.

The above will be developed through:

outwitting opponents
accurate replication of actions, phrases and sequences
exploring and communicating ideas, concepts and emotions
performing at maximum levels in relation to speed, height, distance, strength or accuracy
exercising safely and effectively to improve health and wellbeing

Key Stage 4

Continue lifelong engagement with physical activity. Mastery of skills, tactics and strategies in assessed sports. Analysing and evaluating one's own performance in a chosen sport. Deepening their knowledge across physiological, psychological and socio-cultural factors in physical activity.

Students will also participate in a games lesson that promotes engagement and lifelong activity in physical education once a week.

GCSE Physical Education (AQA - 8582)

Theoretical Component

Year 10 Paper 1: The human body and movement in physical activity and sport
Year 11 Paper 2: Socio-cultural influences and well-being in physical activity and sport
Written Paper - 1 hour 15 minutes (both exams)
78 marks each (both papers combine to make 60% of the GCSE)

Practical Component (Non-exam assessment)

Practical performance in physical activity and sport
Controlled Assessment - analysis of own performance in a chosen sport
100 marks - 40% of GCSE
Practical performance in three different physical activities in the role of player/performer (at least one team and one individual sport).
Please click here to see an overview of the course