The PE core curriculum is flexible to meet the needs of all our students. Activities in each year group are selected to address the learning objectives of our cohort and focus on the student’s physical, social, cognitive and moral development.

Year 7: Leading warm ups, Attacking tactics, Components of Fitness, Effects of exercise, evaluation of performance

Year 8: Leadership, defensive tactics, decision making, short term effects of exercise, officiating, planning warm ups.

Year 9: Working together, finding space, social skills, decision making, tactical approaches in attack and defence, Long term effects of exercise, Analysis

Activities taught: Netball, Hockey, Football, Rugby, Badminton, Table –Tennis, Fitness, Boxing, Athletics, Cross Country, Tennis, Rounder’s, Softball, Cricket, Golf, Volleyball, Trampoline, tchoukball, Gymnastics, Handball and Lacrosse.

Core PE

Year 10: Leadership, effects of exercise, Tactical approaches, games for understanding, Team tactics, Sports Education, creating and finding space.

Year 11: Sports education, Analysis, Evaluation, Team tactics. Individual training programs, Games for Understanding.

Activities taught:  Netball, Hockey, Football, Rugby, Badminton, Table –Tennis, Fitness, Boxing, Athletics, Cross Country, Tennis, Rounder’s, Softball, Cricket, Golf, Volleyball, Trampoline, tchoukball, Gymnastics, Handball and Lacrosse.

GCSE Physical Education

The OCR specification in Physical Education equips learners with the knowledge, understanding, skills and values to develop and maintain their performance in physical activities and understand the benefits to health, fitness and well-being.

 Year 10

• Develop theoretical knowledge and understanding of the factors that underpin physical activity and sport and use this knowledge to improve performance.
• Understand how the physiological and psychological state affects performance in physical activity and sport.
• Perform effectively in different physical activities by developing skills and techniques and selecting and using tactics, strategies and/ or compositional ideas.

Year 11

• Develop the ability to analyse and evaluate to improve performance in physical activity and sport.
• Understand the contribution which physical activity and sport make to health, fitness and well-being.
• Understand key socio-cultural influences which can affect people’s involvement in physical activity, sport and Physical Education.

GCSE Sport Science

Elite sport has embraced sport science disciplines wholeheartedly in the past few decades, moving from a perspective which assumed the primacy of natural talent in producing outstanding performance, to one which considers every minute detail of an athlete’s training programme, rest time, environment and psychology in the pursuit of excellence. The Cambridge Nationals in Sport Science offer learners the opportunity to study key areas of sport science including anatomy and physiology linked to fitness, health, injury and performance; the science of training and application of training principles, and psychology in sport and sports performance. Students at Bishop Perowne will complete one unit per year.