Subject:     Year 7 PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Number of Lessons: 4 hours per fortnight   

 During Key Stage 3, students become more experience in their skills and techniques, and learn how to apply them in different activities.  They start to understand what makes a performance effective and how to apply these principles to their own and other activities.

They will learn to take the initiative and make decisions for themselves about what to do to improve performances.  They will also start to identify the types of activity they prefer to be involved with, and to take on a variety of roles such as leaders and or officials.

 Activities:

• Problem solving
• Swimming
• Invasion Games, including:  Basketball

                                                  Football      

                                                          Netball

                                                          Hockey

• Outdoor and Adventurous activities
• Dance
• Athletics
• Strike and Field games, including:        Cricket/Rounders/Softball
• Table Tennis/Badminton/Volleyball

 Assessment:

Students are assessed at the end of each unit of work in line with the National Curriculum guidelines.  At the end of Year 7 students should be achieving between level 3 & 5 with the majority achieving within the level 4 criteria.

 Equipment requirements:

Students should attend the lesson with a school PE kit which should be the black polo shirt, black shorts with a big yellow stripe and white socks. Students are permitted to wear their BPS jumpers when the weather is particularly inclement. 

Footwear should be appropriate to the activity, which in most cases will require a pair of trainers.

Students will not be allowed to take part if they fail to bring any of these items to lessons.  Students, who are unable to take part in the lesson because of a medical or any other reason, are expected to bring a letter from a parent or guardian to explain this.

 Failure to comply will be an automatic PE detention.

Contact:  

Mr Watson

Head of PE