Physical Education

Department Intent

VISION

At Bury CE High School we aim to create the very best experience for all students within Physical Education through a fun, engaging and safe PE curriculum which provides opportunities for all in PE lessons and outside of PE lessons. Our ethos in PE is very much ‘Sport for All’. We aim to develop talent and a range of skills along with the understanding of movement across a range of sports and physical activities through individual, group, and team activities. We aim to help all students follow a healthy and active lifestyle through PE and understand the benefits of this alongside aiming to support the physical, mental, and emotional health and fitness of all students in PE. We also aim to develop students’ confidence, competence, communication skills, ability to collaborate, creativity, critical thinking, and aesthetic appreciation. These, together with the development of positive values and attitudes in PE, provide a good foundation for students’ lifelong learning.

INTENT

In Years 7-8 all students will experience 2 hours of high-quality PE per week, allowing them to develop a range of skills and techniques in isolation, develop their knowledge of safety and rules, achieve personal bests, develop problem solving, take part in and understand the benefits of healthy/active lifestyles and evaluate performances. Students in Year 7 will complete this through different invasion games, through different striking and fielding games, through different net and wall games, through athletic activities, through aesthetic fitness activities, through outdoor & adventurous pursuits and through non-traditional games. Students in Year 8 will continue to build on their learning and progress in Year 7 to become more competent performers. Students in Year 8 will enhance their skills and techniques in conditioned situations, develop tactics and strategies to overcome opponents, achieve personal bests, develop problem solving, take part in and understand the benefits of healthy/active lifestyles and analyse performances. Students in Year 8 will complete this through different invasion games, through different striking and fielding games, through different net and wall games, through athletic activities, through aesthetic fitness activities, through outdoor & adventurous pursuits and through non-traditional games. Students are encouraged to accept the challenge of the school ethos of ‘Believe, Achieve and Inspire’.

Students in Years 9-11 have 1 hour of high-quality Core PE per week. Students in Years 9-11 choose what activities they want to take part in for Core PE as part of a healthy and active lifestyle alongside understanding the benefits of a healthy and active lifestyle. This is to support the physical, mental, and emotional health of students. The focus of Core PE in Years 9-11 is fun, positive participation, developing personal fitness and organising self and others. Students in Years 9-11 will complete this through different invasion games, through different striking and fielding games, through different net and wall games, through athletic activities, through aesthetic fitness activities, through outdoor & adventurous pursuits and through non-traditional games. Students are encouraged to accept the challenge of the school ethos of ‘Believe, Achieve and Inspire’.

Individual and team sporting success are celebrated regularly in PE. The ‘PE Star of the Week’ takes place regularly and is shared via the school Twitter account and half termly school Grapevine newsletter. Sporting success is also shared through the school website, school twitter account and half termly school Grapevine newsletter. PE staff are encouraged to use positive praise and rewards as much as possible to encourage and help all students to ‘Let Your Light Shine’.

Students in Year 9 have the opportunity to choose PE as an options choice for Year 10 and Year 11. Students who choose PE are put on the OCR Sports Studies pathway or AQA GCSE PE pathway by PE staff in order to best meet the learning needs of every student. These two option pathways run alongside Core PE.

Students in AQA GCSE PE (Exam Code: 8582) study a range of theory topics including ‘Anatomy and Physiology’, ‘Movement Analysis’, ‘Physical Training’ and ‘Use of Data’ on Paper 1. Student’s also study ‘Sports Psychology’, ‘Socio-Cultural Influences’ and ‘Health, Fitness & Well-Being’ on Paper 2. Students complete an analysis and evaluation task as part of their coursework. Students develop their performance in a range of sports and then need to specialise in an individual sport, team sport and an individual or team sport. Students in Year 10 AQA GCSE have 2 hours per week which is made up of 1 hour practical and 1 hour theory. Students in Year 11 AQA GCSE PE have 3 hours per week which is made up of 1 hour practical and 2 hours theory.

Students in OCR Sports Studies in Year 11 (Exam Code: J813) studying the old course will study four units in total and these are ‘RO51: Contemporary Issues in Sport’ which is externally assessed, ‘RO52: Developing Sports Skills’, ‘RO53: Sports Leadership’ and ‘RO54: Sport and the Media’. Please note due to Covid-19 the ‘RO54: Sport and the Media’ Unit has been allowed to be dropped following guidance from the OCR exam board.

Students in OCR Sports Studies (Exam Code: J829) in current Year 10 studying the new course will study three units in total over this course. These are ‘R184: Contemporary Issues in Sport’ which is externally assessed, ‘R185: Performance and Leadership in Sports Activities’ and ‘R186: Sport and the Media’. Students in Year 10 OCR Sports Studies have 2 hours per week which is made up of 1 hour practical and 1 hour theory. Once students start Year 11 in OCR Sports Studies, they will have 3 hours per week which is made up of 1 hour practical and 2 hours theory.

Curriculum

Curriculum Plan

Curriculum on a Page - PE

Learning Journeys

Staff/Context

Mr P Connolly, Head of Department
Mrs C Hilton
Mr J MacMahon
Miss C Tonge

Enrichment and Extra-Curricular

The PE Department runs clubs and teams in a variety of extra-curricular sports and physical activities including Netball, Football, Basketball, Rugby Union, Table Tennis, Badminton, Dance, Hockey, Boxercise, Trampolining, Cross-Country, Fitness, Dodgeball, Non-Traditional Games, Volleyball, Cricket, Softball, Rounders and Outdoor & Adventurous Pursuits. The department also organises inter-form sports activities and competition along with running some ‘A’ team and ‘B’ fixtures, competitions and events that are inclusive to all. The department offers breakfast PE clubs, lunch time PE clubs and after school PE clubs that are open to all pupils. Regular fixtures take place against other schools. The department takes an active role in the Bury Secondary School Sports Partnership. We have strong links with local sports clubs and organisations that help to provide a pathway for our pupils to play sport and follow a healthy and active lifestyle outside of school.

The department offers sports leadership opportunities throughout the academic year for different year groups. Gifted and talented sessions along with PE inclusion sessions and clubs also take place throughout the academic year for different sports and physical activities. Our aim as a PE Department is to provide ‘Sport for All’ throughout the academic year.

Please view our current extra-curricular timetable below: