KS3 Curriculum

Students at KS3 get 4 hours of PE every fortnight. The curriculum involves a wide range of both team and individual sports and offers students the opportunity to develop their physical skills, understanding of tactical and strategic skills and develop their physical health, well-being and fitness. Within practical lessons KS3 students are also taught the key theoretical principles required to be involved in a lifestyle that is physically active and healthy. This is taught via the PE Knowledge Rich Curriculum (more details can be found on the Knowledge Rich Curriculum sub page).

Sports that are taught in KS3 include: Athletics, Basketball, Badminton, Cricket, Dodgeball, Football, Gymnastics, Handball, Hockey, Fitness training, Netball, Rounders, Rugby, Outdoor Adventurous Activities and Tennis.

The curriculum develops through each key stage so that pupils develop on skills previously learnt, developing their full knowledge of the activity as well as experiencing a wide range of roles within a sporting context:

Year 7 - Introduction of basic techniques and skills required to play each different sporting activity.

Year 8 - Development of skills required in each sport, linked to ways to outwit opponents in both attacking and defensive situations.

Year 9 - Use of skills to develop different tactics and strategies within an activity to be successful, development of skills required for different roles within an activity (coach, leader, captain, official etc.)

Year group curriculum plans can be seen using the document links below.

Assessment

Students are assessed using a 'Head, Heart, Hands' model. For each sport/activity studied, students are given a mark out of 9 for each category. These scores are combined with scores in PE assessments to produce a percentage grade for school reports.

Each half term, 1 quality from each category are delivered alongside the sporting activity being taught that half term. Students are given the opportunity to develop this quality during lessons through performing, leading or evaluating the performances of tehri peers.

A breakdown of the qualities assessed, required and the marking criteria used for each category can be found below: