S1 PE:
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Health and Wellbeing

Pupils are experiencing a mix of practical and classroom-based activities that focus on developing their knowledge of wellbeing. To facilitate this, wellbeing has been broken down into “four pillars”: Mental, Emotional, Social and Physical. This has been effective in emphasising the importance of all aspects of wellbeing in Health and Leisure, whilst not focusing solely on the physical.  At the end of the year pupils will achieve the SQA Wellbeing award.

Touch Rugby (Term 1)

Throughout the Touch Rugby block pupils have focused on 5 key areas:

1)     Key skills, for example, passing and catching

2)     Positions, for example, in attack and defence

3)     Movement skills, for example, change of direction and change of speed

4)     Kinaesthetic awareness, for example, not getting ahead of the ball

5)     Rules, for example, knock ons and forward pass

Netball (Term 1)

Throughout the Netball block pupils have focused on 5 key areas:

1)     Key skills, for example, passing and shooting

2)     Positions, for example, centre and goal attack

3)     Movement skills, for example, finding space and marking

4)     Communication, for example, calling for ball and encouraging teammates

5)     Rules, for example, contact and travel

Sports Acro (current)

Throughout the Sports Acro block pupils have focused on 5 key areas:

1)     Key skills, for example, balances and linking moves

2)     Positions, for example, partner and group balances

3)     Movement skills, for example, flight and rotation

4)     Creativity, for example, demonstrates flair and precision when producing routines

5)     Rules, for example, 5 balances being held for 5 seconds

Football (current)

Throughout the Football pupils have focused on 5 key areas:

1)     Key skills, for example, passing and dribbling

2)     Positions, for example, playing different positions

3)     Movement skills, for example, moving when in possession and out of possession

4)     Confidence and Self Esteem, for example, works well and contributes to team

5)     Rules, for example, tackling and what happens when balls goes out of play

Reports for PE will include a CfE Working Level and within that a Working Grade. The majority of work covered in S1 PE is based around CfE Level 3 Outcomes and Benchmarks. The majority of pupils at this stage of S1 are working at Third C or above. This does not mean that pupils performing below this level are not making progress - all pupils are making progress but some require more support with CfE Level 3 content than others.

Along with staff tracking pupils progress, pupils are tasked with completing a self evaluation form for all of the activities that they complete.  This information is then used to form learning conversations between teacher and pupils where the focus is on next steps.

To support the working grades below and relate the criteria to sport, staff and pupils assess themselves as Gold, Silver or Bronze for each individual activity across the 5 key areas highlighted in the Course Coverage section above.

 🥇Gold (5 or 6): I've got this 💪

🥈Silver (3 or 4): I'm getting there 🙂

🥉Bronze (1 or 2): I need to practice 🙋

This scale gives the pupil a score out of 30 for each activity and as the year progresses a rolling average is calculated which equates to the working grade in this report.

Working Level and Working Grade descriptions for S1 PE: 

Third A: Making excellent progress at CfE Level 3, performing well against all the outcomes covered. Is able to demonstrate the key skills specific to each sport along with applying the benchmarks within each sport.  When topics allow for extension into CfE Level 4 outcomes, copes really well with the increased challenge.  (Rolling average: 26-30)

Third B: Making good progress at CfE Level 3, performing well against most of the outcomes covered.  Sometimes demonstrates the key skills specific to each sport along with applying the benchmarks within each sport. When topics allow for extension into CfE Level 4 outcomes, copes well with the increased challenge. (Rolling average: 21-25)

Third C: Making reasonable progress at this level, performing well against many of the outcomes covered while finding others more challenging. Sometimes demonstrates the key skills specific to each sport and occasionally applies the benchmarks within each sport. (Rolling average: 16-20)

Third D: Making some progress at this level, performing well against a few of the outcomes covered while finding the majority challenging.  Often needs the key skills specific to each sport broken down and struggles to apply the benchmarks within each sport.  Benefits from further consolidation of the level below. (Rolling average: 11-15)

Second A: While continuing to be exposed to CfE Level 3 content in class, finds the majority of the work very challenging and requires most tasks to be broken down into smaller, simplified versions in order to make progress and build confidence. (Rolling average: 0-10)