PE
Vision
To create an environment where students want to actively engage in physical activity, developing fundamental practical skills and transferable skills like teamwork, leadership & communication.
Overview
Key Stage 3 Physical Education Curriculum Overview (Years 7–9)
The Key Stage 3 PE curriculum is designed to be progressive, inclusive, and developmental, ensuring that all students build strong physical literacy while developing confidence, competence, and a positive attitude towards physical activity. The curriculum follows a clear learning journey of Introduce → Develop → Refine, preparing students for Key Stage 4 pathways and lifelong participation in physical activity.
Year 7 – Building Foundations
In Year 7, students are introduced to a broad and balanced range of physical activities, allowing them to explore different sports and movement opportunities. The focus at this stage is on developing fundamental movement skills, including coordination, balance, control, teamwork, and basic fitness.
Year 8 – Development and Application
In Year 8, students build upon the skills and knowledge developed in Year 7, with a greater emphasis on skill development, application, and understanding. Techniques are refined, rules are explored in more detail, and students begin to apply simple tactics and strategies within games and activities.
Students are encouraged to make connections between skills, fitness, and performance, helping them understand not just what they are doing, but why it is effective.
Year 9 – Refinement and Mastery
By Year 9, the curriculum focuses on refining and mastering skills in more competitive, tactical, and pressured situations. Students apply advanced techniques, develop tactical awareness, and begin to analyse performance—both their own and others’. Greater emphasis is placed on independence and responsibility, with students using fitness knowledge to improve performance and self-assess their strengths and areas for development.
KS4
The BTEC Tech Award in Sport at Key Stage 4 is a vocational qualification studied in Years 10 and 11 that combines practical performance with sport-related theory. Students develop knowledge of fitness, training methods, performance, and leadership, while applying their learning through realistic sporting scenarios. Lessons link classroom learning with practical application, promoting independence, reflection, and leadership, and the qualification provides a strong foundation
