Physical Education

KS3 & KS4 physical education

Physically educated young people are those that ensure that habitual physical activities make a distinctive contribution to their wider flourishing life. Judgemeadow Community College provides a broad and balanced P.E and sport curricular that promotes joyous and holistic opportunities for young people to develop knowledge, skills and character that promotes a lifelong passion of physical activities, health and wellbeing. With this philosophy comes an increased participation and engagement in sport.

Judgemeadow Community College has a high-quality physical education is knowledge Rich and skills progressive based on an inclusive curriculum that inspires and gives opportunities for all students to succeed and excel in activities and sports. The curriculum provides a range of activities that allows students to learn a broad range of life skills such as communication, collaboration and competition.

We provide opportunities for all learners to become physically confident in a way, which supports our students' wellbeing and fitness by engaging in various activities that encourage independent learning. Skills developed through the 4 Rs in lessons, these can also help to build character, metacognition and embed values such as fairness, teamwork, resilience and respect.

The P.E curriculum at Judgemeadow enables students to develop an understanding of how to improve in many different physical activities and encourages students to evaluate, reflect, analyse and recognise their own, and others successes. We ensure that expert practitioners ensure that all sport is fun, inclusive and where all students are valued and are successful.

CURRICULUM RATIONALE: 

We have a profound belief that the most important aspect of Physical Education is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. We aim to instil in our learners the desire not to have conquered but to have fought well.

We want all of our students to leave Judgemeadow Community College with a lifelong love of physical activity achieved through a broad and balanced curriculum.

In KS3 all students will participate in 1 x 100 minutes Physical Education lesson per week.

All learning is grounded in a quality curriculum that is reviewed annually to meet ever changing student needs dependent upon whole college requirements placed upon facilities/resources.

Mastery in themes and skills

4 week units of work to assist in mastery in themes and skills that are in line with the national curriculum steps. Units of work provide a logical progression, giving learners the opportunity to revisit core skills, tactics and strategical awareness that can be committed to long term memory. Critical thinking, problem solving, leadership and the 4R’s (Reciprocity, Reflectiveness, Resilience, Resourcefulness) are embedded in every lesson.

Accessible, predetermined and transparent for parents and students

The P.E. team have an ethos of transparency and sharing of resources and materials enabling students to access the sports and physical activities throughout their five-year journey.

Vocabulary and knowledge rich

Key words and oracy statements embedded in all materials/SOW and displayed in all teaching areas. Technical language for KS4 examination PE is filtered into SOW and lessons in KS3, as well as weekly homework tasks.

Affording opportunities for in class reading, developing literacy, numeracy, oracy and cultural capital across the curriculum

Reading and literacy/oracy skills are clear and evident in SOW, within our Big Questions and plenaries (KS3/KS4). Wider reading encouraged at KS4 to enable students to access the extended writing questions and provide them with practical examples.

CURRICULUM DESIGN

The PE curriculum is broad and balanced and offers a variety of physical activities for all students to promote a life-long learning of physical activity. We cover a variety of curriculum strands, development and progression throughout KS3. This lays the foundations for examination PE and instils a passion, knowledge and understanding of why physical activity and sport is important for now and into adulthood.

Our curriculum ensures that all students joining Judgemeadow Community College at the start of Key Stage 3 will complete a Baseline Assessment to test their basic physical ability.

In terms of examination of PE we offer OCR Cambridge National in Sports Studies.

Our KS4 curriculum offer is diverse and engaging for both core and examination PE. The courses are differentiated for all students to access. We have re-developed core KS3 & KS4 to show progression and cohesion for each physical activity and sport, between them focussing on transferrable skills and the 4 R’s.

The curriculum is progressive, enabling interleaving and spaced learning methods to be present to consolidate and develop students’ skills, knowledge and understanding throughout their five-year journey. Retrieval practice is explicitly used in all lessons with transferable skills being highlighted.

All lessons are inclusive due to the nature of the activities, the differentiated equipment used and differentiated skills and outcomes.

CURRICULUM ASSESSMENT

At Key Stage 3 there are six assessment strands: acquiring and developing skills, selecting and applying tactics, evaluating and improving performance, knowledge and understanding of health and fitness, leadership and attendance to extra-curricular clubs. We also ensure that students have weekly homework that incorporates a practical activity to keep fit and Healthy.

Feedback is implicit to all of our lessons and throughout our lessons - this can take the form of teacher, peer or self-feedback and is fundamental to the development of skills knowledge and understanding. Feedback will be verbal, non-verbal, manual or written depending on the situation.

CAREERS IN PE AND SPORT

Careers in P.E and Sport are interleaved within our weekly Homework forms, in the form of Quiz. Displays and ensuring local Coaches such as the Leicester Riders are promoted as Role Models. As well as discussions with students on the many pathways and Roles in Sport education, health, sports management, and science. Popular options for some of our students that seek a career in sport have gone on to be a P.E. Teacher, Physiotherapist, Sports Cricket, football Coach, Personal Trainer, and Sports Development Officer locally.