Curriculum Map - Physical EducationYear 7
Students will cover a range of activities in Year 7 developing their fundamental skills including the following activities:
Outdoor and Adventure Activities (OAA): Developing skills required for teamwork such as communication and trust, through Problem solving, Leadership skills, Orienteering, and Discovery learning.
Pupils will develop their ability to respond effectively to problems and physical challenges, both individually and in co-operation with others. They will need to analyse, plan and carry out tasks safely, as they move from familiar activities and environments into unfamiliar and changing circumstances. They will often be required to lead and manage themselves.
Pupils will understand the benefits of OAA and look at how the skills developed in these areas can support their development in other activities. Pupils will develop a range of leadership and communication skills to further increase their relational learning. The scenarios in which student will be developing their planning and preparation will enhance their ability to adapt and problem solve. During OAA students will be taught how to analyse and reflect on the decision-making process of a group.
Invasion Games: Netball, Rugby, Basketball, Handball (developing their basic components of fitness, teamwork skills, and tactical awareness).
Pupils will understand the key principles that underpin invasion games, how these principles can be transferred between activities and how to apply these principles in modified games.
Pupils will also learn the Replication and application of basic skills such as passing, shooting, dribbling, hitting, serving. Pupils will also consider decision making skills in relation to, attacking/defensive principles. They will also explore ways in which they can outwit opponents.
Netwall: Table Tennis and Tennis - developing their hand-eye coordination and tactical awareness.
Understand the key principles that underpin net wall games. They will discover how these principles can be transferred between activities and how to apply these principles in modified games.
Pupils will be prompted to discover strategies that will allow them to make shots in the target area in order to make it difficult for the opponent to return it.
Aesthetics: Trampolining, Dance and Gymnastics - developing flexibility, strength and coordination components of fitness as well as creativity through the development of routines.
Striking and Fielding: Cricket - developing communication, throwing, catching, and batting skills.
What are the main principles of striking and fielding activity?
Understand the key principles that underpin striking and fielding games and how these principles can be transferred between activities and modified games
Athletics: Students looking at their ability to develop their track and field events.
How do we analyse performance compared to previous ones and demonstrate improvement?
Pupils to develop techniques from running, throwing and jumping activities as well as consider how key principles can be adapted.
Pupils to develop an understanding of how key principles can be applied to the varying events.
Theory: Students will be learning about the skeletal system.
Why?
These topics are essential to help develop crucial life skills that students need, such as Teamwork, Trust, Communication and Leadership through OAA. We have chosen to cover OAA at the start of Year 7 to help develop the confidence of students, facilitate the growth and resilience that students need to become successful learners.
Pupils will gain knowledge of the nature of adventurous activities and make effective evaluations of strength and weaknesses in their own and others’ performances. Pupils will be able to facilitate learning further down the line during their school journey through students learning and developing these core skills.
The Invasion Games, Netwall, Athletics and Striking and fielding look at the development of students’ basic motor skills in a range of different sports and activities.
In Invasion games, pupils will learn how to apply a range of key principles that transfer across sports. For example, spatial awareness and movement off the ball. Pupils to consider where to hit the implement to be successful.
The theoretical content covered is important foundation knowledge which the students will require for next year, when they look at the muscular system and types of movements. The theory element has cross curricular links with Science which looks at Anatomy and Physiology aspects.
Year 8
Students will cover a range of activities in Year 8 to further develop their skills and decision making, including the activities of:
Invasion Games: Netball, Rugby, Basketball, Handball - developing their basic components of fitness, team work skills and tactical awareness.
To dvelop a greater understanding of sport specific rules within the invasion game category. Pupils to refine specific sport related skills showing a capability to select and apply these into a range of different scenarios
Pupils to consider what attack and defence is. Pupils to review and reflect on decision making and consider alternatives. Explore and encourage pupils to vary their skill application to outwit opponents. Pupils should be competent in officiating and should apply the rules safely and correctly
Netwall: Table Tennis and Tennis - developing their hand-eye coordination and tactical awareness.
Pupils will learn how to use disguise to outwit an opponent. Pupils to develop a greater understanding of the rules that govern the sport. Pupils to develop an understanding of what disguise is and how it can be used in a game to outwit an opponent. Pupils consider the different types of spin and how these can be used to exploit an opponent.
Aesthetics: Trampolining, Dance and Gymnastics - developing flexibility, strength and coordination components of fitness as well as creativity through the development of routines.
Developing and devising advanced skills and sequences of movement. Demonstrating and appreciation of performance whilst identifying areas of strength and areas of improvement.
Pupils to understand key terms such as fluency, body tension and linking movements. Pupils should demonstrate understanding of performance etiquette and refer to these key terms when providing feedback. Pupils re-cap on previous learnt skills and now begin to develop these further with more advanced skills in order to create a 10-bounce routine. They should learn landings and combination of these landing selecting the most appropriate for their performance.
Striking and Fielding: Cricket - developing communication, throwing, catching and batting skills.
To develop a greater understanding of sport specific rules. How to apply these rules correctly. Pupils to develop more advanced technical skills.
Pupils to gain an understanding of rules regulations and scoring systems. Pupils further refine technique to develop skill set in order to outwit opponents.
Pupils to understand how to record and measure. Pupils to understand field positioning and how variation will help to outwit and opponent.
Athletics: Students looking at their ability to develop their track and field events.
Theory: Students will be building on their theoretical knowledge from Year 7 on the skeletal system and learn about the muscular system and movements.
Why?
The focus for students will now be more on skill application, where students move on from learning the basic skills and applying this to game situations.
In Invasion games, pupils will explore different rules, skills and tactics in Netball / Basketball / Rugby and handball. They will identify the similarities and differences between the sports which will inform their decision playing sports.
Year 9
Students will cover a range of activities in Year 9 further developing their decision making skills and tactical awareness, including the activities of:
Invasion Games: Netball, Rugby, Basketball, Handball - developing their basic components of fitness, teamwork skills, and tactical awareness.
Key questions that will be looked at: How can coaching and analysis be used to help improve performance and outwit an opponent? What is analysis? What different types of analysis are there and how can they be used? What are the strengths and weeknesses of each form of analysis? How can data obtained from analysis be used to predict patterns of play and how can it be used to overcome problems in the game? Pupils to use this data to devise set plays in order to outwit opponents.
Netwall: Table Tennis and Tennis - developing their hand-eye coordination and tactical awareness.
Pupils will discover how coaching and analysis can be used to help improve performance and outwit an opponent.
Pupils will look at what analysis is, what different types of analysis there are and how it can be used. Pupils will also discover what the strengths and weaknesses of each form of analysis are. Pupils will look at how data can be obtained from analysis and used to predict patterns of play and how can it be used to exploit an opponent’s weaknesses.
Aesthetics: Trampolining, Dance and Gymnastics - developing flexibility, strength and coordination components of fitness as well as creativity through the development of routines.
Striking and Fielding: Cricket - developing communication, throwing, catching and batting skills.
How can coaching and analysis be used to help improve performance and outwit an opponent?
Technical understanding of each skill. Identification of technical flaws in performance and how these can be addressed
Athletics: - Students looking at their ability to develop their track and field events.
How can coaching and analysis be used to help improve performance?
Technical understanding of each skill. Identification of technical flaws in performance and how these can be addressed
Use of data to record improvements over time
Theory: Students will be learning about the benefits of a balanced and healthy active lifestyle. Students will learn what a balanced and healthy lifestyle consist of and the importance of this.
Why?
Students will be developing their skills of being to obtain and analyse data as well as coaching and performance analysis more deeply. This will provide them the opportunity to specialise in a specific sport/activity area to encourage participation throughout Key Stage 3 (KS3), extracurricular and post KS3.
Students will be learning about the benefits of a balanced and healthy active lifestyle which will give them a good knowledge and understanding of the importance of this in their life journey.