Why do we learn physical education?
Head of Department
Our approach
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Year 10 - GCSE

Why do we learn physical education?

Physical Education should ensure that students are able to lead a healthy active lifestyle and have the knowledge and understanding of training and anatomy, making them equipped to lead healthy, active lifestyles beyond education. The PE curriculum will increase the individual’s physical capacity and enrich students with experiences in a vast array of sports and activities, both team and individual, to help them find their passion. Students will study activities from handball to yoga, badminton to fitness along their journey with us, developing physical skills and understanding the theoretical knowledge to maintain good health and fitness.

Head of Department

Head of Physical Education

Mr Alex Savage

a.savage@arkacton.org

Our approach

At Ark Acton Academy we believe that education should broaden pupils’ horizons and encourage them to challenge and question. We believe it is important to take them beyond the everyday by providing them a wealth of different opportunities because this will enhance the pupils’ curiosity and aspirations. Regardless of their background, education should provide the knowledge and skills young people need to be successful in their everyday lives.

Physical education has the power to do this by offering opportunities to build character and embed values such as fairness, resilience and respect, which will support them as they push their limits. It enables all pupils to explore their physical characteristics as well as learn about themselves and others, as they face and overcome challenges. Pupils’ development of this subject does not end in the classroom, with students having the opportunity to experience interform competitions, external fixtures and sport for recreation through our extra-curricular programmes.

Year 7

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
  • Throwing activities
  • Catching activities
  • passing and receiving activities Kicking activities
  • How to perform the above skills in isolation and varied conditioned games with success
  • Teamwork
  • Communication skills- how should we communicate with others to increase their confidence?
  • Problem solving tasks
  • Non- verbal/verbal communication The importance of planning time What makes a good leader?
  • What does effective teamwork look like?
  • Onsite orienteering challenges- Star orienteering/team orienteering Point to point
  • How to use a basic map
  • How to plan an efficient basic route
Spring 1 Spring 2
  • Following a procedure: completing 8 fitness tests, following the procedure accurately; Multistage endurance test / Illinois agility test / Sit and reach test/ Wall toss test / sprint test / broad jump test / Ruler drop test / Standing stork test
  • Identifying and defining the components of fitness: Cardiovascular endurance / Agility / Flexibility / Co-ordination / Speed / Power/ Reaction time / Balance
  • Comparing results to normative data: reading data, making comparissons
  • Learning the rules of the fitness suite, how to use each piece of equipment, how to adjust the equipment, how to perform key exercises such as: squats, pressups, burpees, tricep dips, star jumps, plank, tricep dips
  • Using the fitness suite safely and effectively Introduce heart rate + breathing rate
  • Basic circuit
  • Fitness suite indduction
  • Boxercise
  • Circuits – football specific
  • Each week students learn a new dance style from around the world including: The Haka, Indian, Irish dancing, Street
  • Students identfy key characteristics about each dance style
  • Students create a short routine in groups of 4/5 including 2 of the dance styles they have learnt. Key content embedded:
  • An understanding and appreciation of a range of different dance styles from across the world. Analysis of dance components
  • Canon
  • Unison
  • Formations
Summer 1 Summer 2

Handball:

  • Ball familiarisation
  • Passing on the move and catching Phases of play
  • Defence
  • Full sided games Festival/Competition

Athletics:

  • Introduce running style (100m/sprint start)
  • Introduce pace running – 800m Throwing – shot putt
  • Throwing - javelin
  • Hurdles

All Year 7 subjects Next Year 7 Subject - PSHE

Year 8

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
  • Point to Point
  • Bearings
  • Route choices (short / medium / long / extra long)
  • Races
  • Students will look at what a motif is and how it can be developed using a range of motif developments and choreographic devices.
  • Students will develop their knowledge of a range of different motif developments and choreographic devices.
  • Students will develop their understanding of what choreography is and how to choreograph a dance using a stimulus, creating and developing motifs to show this.
Spring 1 Spring 2
  • Fitness tests re-visited- student set up and working through tests in small groups
  • Analysis of results against normative sata and year 7 results
  • Definitions of compoents and sporting examples
  • Fitness suite-muscular endurance circuit - reps, sets,
  • Basic circuit
  • Boxercise – combination moves Circuits – football specific
  • Methods of training – Interval training

Handball:

  • Ball familiarisation and small-sided games
  • Fundamental skills in full-sided games
  • Defensive phase- cooperation in defence
  • Attacking phase – arrival at D and ball circulation.
  • Attacking phase – shooting and breaking through the defence
  • Full sided games
  • Festival/comp
Summer 1 Summer 2

Athletics:

  • Sprint running technique (100/200/400m)
  • Middle distance running – 800m Jumping - high jump
  • Throwing – shot putt
  • Throwing - javelin
  • Relay

Cricket / Rounders:

  • Ball familiarisation/catching
  • Fielding
  • Bowling
  • Batting
  • Game situations/basic strategies Outwitting Opponents in a competitive game situation

Tennis:

  • Racket & Ball familiarisation Forehand
  • Outwitting opponents Backhand
  • Basic serves
  • Outwitting Opponents in competitive games

All Year 8 subjects Next Year 8 Subject - PSHE

Year 9

Autumn 1 Autumn 2

Handball:

  • Ball familiarisation
  • Fundamental skills
  • Goalkeeping basics
  • Combination plays / named plays Peer learning
  • Delivery of peer-to-peer sessions
  • Festival

Volleyball

  • Peer assessment
  • Volley/Set development
  • Dig development
  • Serves (underarm or overhead)
  • Tip/Spike
  • Tactics/Outwitting opposition
  • Outwitting Opponents in a competitive game situation

Trampolining:

  • Safe practice-set up and pack away Shapes
  • twists
  • seat/front/back landing
  • 10 bounce routine
  • peer and self assessment and feedback

Netball:

  • Recap netball fundamentals Footwork
  • Use of space/court linkage
  • Attacking principles
  • Defending principles
  • Tactics- Centre pass/within the circle
  • Game play

Benchball/dodgeball

  • Introduction to rules and roles- coach, umpire, equipment manager, organiser
  • Throwing – side sling shot and underarm
  • Catching – chest, low and high
  • Dodging – ducking and jumping
  • Design a Dodgeball game
  • Officiating

Dance:

  • Creating a set phrase reponding to a stimulus
  • Teaching and integrating the set phrase to another pair
  • Refining the set phrase
  • Combining the set phrases
  • Peer assessment and performance
Spring 1 Spring 2

Benchball/dodgeball:

  • Introduction to rules and roles - coach, umpire, equipment manager, organiser
  • Throwing – side sling shot and underarm
  • Catching – chest, low and high
  • Dodging – ducking and jumping
  • Design a Dodgeball game
  • Officiating

Netball:

  • Recap netball fundamentals
  • Footwork
  • Use of space/court linkage
  • Attacking principles
  • Defending principles
  • Officiating
  • TGFU
  • Tactics- Centre pass/within the circle Game play

Basketball:

  • Coaching - fundamental skills
  • Develop Passing / Pivoting & Dribbling / Triple Threat
  • Attacking and outwitting an opponent Defending Skills
  • Shooting – Set shot, lay up
  • Develop Shooting – Jump shot
  • Outwitting Opponents in a competitive game situation

Table Tennis:

  • Grip & game familiarisation
  • Serve
  • Forehand topspin/slice
  • Backhand topspin/slice
  • Doubles tactics
  • Outwitting Opponents in competitive games
  • Peer coaching

Yoga:

  • What is Yoga?
  • What is flexibility training?
  • What are the components of a yoga session?
  • How to plan
  • delivery of session in small groups
Summer 1 Summer 2

Athletics:

  • Sprint running technique (100/200/400m/relays) Middle distance running – 800m
  • Jumping - triple jump
  • Throwing – shot putt
  • Throwing - javelin
  • Jumping - High jump

Tennis: 

  • Movement and forehand rallying Overhead Clear
  • Smash/Jump Smash
  • Drop shot (underarm and overarm) Doubles and singles tactics
  • Outwitting Opposition

Gymnastics:

  • Basic jumps/rolls/shapes
  • Advanced skills- cartwheel/handstand forward roll
  • Choreographic devices
  • Pair Routine creation
  • Counter tension and counter balance

Athletics:

  • Sprint running technique (100/200/400m/relays) Middle distance running – 800m
  • Jumping - triple jump
  • Throwing – shot putt
  • Throwing - javelin
  • Jumping - High jump

Rounders:

  • Throwing / catching / fielding
  • Bowling development
  • Batting development
  • Fielding roles/outwit opponents Evaluation of tactics/peer assessment Game play

Tennis:

  • Basic ground strokes
  • Serve development
  • Backhand slice
  • Volley
  • Outwitting opponents
  • Outwitting Opponents in competitive games
  • Role of Coach/umpiring

Cricket

  • Fielding practice
  • Batting-drive shot
  • Batting- pull shot
  • Bowling-run up development
  • Batting calls/basic field placement.
  • Outwitting Opponents in a competitive game situation

All Year 9 subjects Next Year 9 Subject - PSHE

Year 10

Autumn 1 Autumn 2

Handball:

  • Rules of the game
  • Overload in attack
  • Defence (blocking / stealing / intercepting / tackling)
  • Decision making in games (attack and defence)
  • Festival

Volleyball:

  • Develop volley/Setting effectively
  • Develop dig/One handed dig/lift
  • Overarm serves
  • Spike
  • Team defense/Block Formations-attacking + defending

HITT:

  • Fitness tests- procedure, completion, evaluation of results
  • strengths and weaknesses
  • What is HITT?
  • What are the components of a HITT session?

 

Netball:

  • Attacking principles
  • Outwitting opposition
  • Defending principles
  • Tactics/team strategies
  • Role of umpire/coaching

Benchball/dodgeball:

  • Blocking and tactics
  • Counter attacking from the start
  • Throwing – overarm & snatch
  • Catching – rebound catch and dive catching
  • Variations – Last Man Standing, Team Free for All, The Wall and Nationball Tournaments

Circuit training:

  • Recap- What are the components of a circuit training session?
  • Circuits – netball specific
  • Circuits – basketball specific
  • Group designed circuits student designed skills circuit Student designd fitness circuit
Spring 1 Spring 2

Benchball/dodgeball:

  • Blocking and tactics
  • Counter attacking from the start
  • Throwing – overarm & snatch
  • Catching – rebound catch and dive catching
  • Variations – Last Man Standing, Team Free for All, The Wall and Nationball Tournaments

Netball:

  • Attacking principles
  • Outwitting opposition
  • Defending principles
  • Tactics/team strategies Role of umpire/coaching

Interval training:

  • What is interval training?
  • What are the components of an interval session?
  • How to plan
  • Delivery of session in small groups

Basketball:

  • Coaching fundamental skills
  • Role of the referee Attacking/Outwitting an opponent.
  • Develop shooting – set shot, jump shot lay up
  • Defence – Zone
  • Strategies for attack/ 3 man weave Game tactics
  • Outwitting Opponents in a competitive game situation

Table tennis:

  • Recap push shot & game play Slice
  • Backhand/forehand topspin
  • Serve
  • Competitive games & Personal best

Weight training:

  • What is weight training?
  • What are the components of a weight training session?
  • the difference between muscular strength and muscular endurance training
  • Designing an individual session

Continuous training:

  • What is continuuous training?
  • What are the components of a continuuous training session?
  • Designing an individual session
Summer 1 Summer 2

Athletics:

  • Sprint running (100/200/400m/Hurdles) Middle distance running – 800m
  • Long jump/Triple jump
  • Shot putt
  • Javelin
  • High jump

Badminton:

  • Recap Badminton Basics
  • Develop Overhead Clear
  • Serves – Short & Long
  • Backhand Clear
  • Doubles and singles game play

Athletics:

  • Sprint running (100/200/400m/Hurdles) Middle distance running – 800m
  • Long jump/Triple jump
  • Shot putt
  • Javelin
  • High jump

Rounders/Tennis:

  • Throwing / catching / fielding
  • Bowling development
  • Batting development
  • Fielding roles/outwit opponents
  • Evaluation of tactics/peer assessment
  • Game play

Tennis:

  • Ground strokes / Outwitting opponents Topspin
  • Service development
  • Lob/smash
  • Drop shot
  • Outwitting Opponents in competitive games
  • Role of coach/umpire

Cricket:

  • Fielding fundamentals
  • Batting-defensive shots
  • Batting- cut
  • Bowling-spin/pace
  • Wicket keeping
  • Competitive game situations
  • Role of umpire/coaching

All Year 10 subjects Next Year 10 Subject - PSHE

Year 10 - GCSE

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
  • Health and Fitness- definitions and the relationship between health and fitness
  • The components of fitness- Speed/agility/balance/cardiovascular endurance/co-ordination/flexibility/muscular endurance/ power/reaction time/strength
  • Fitness Testing- the reasons for carrying out fitness testing, fitness test procedure and recording of results: Illinois Agility test/ the 'Stork' balance test/ Multistage fitness test/ Wall toss test/ Sit and reach test/ Abdominal curl test/ Sergeant jump test/ Ruler drop test/ One rep max test/ hand grip dynamometer test/ 30m sprint test.
  • Limitations of fitness testing
  • Qualitative and quantitive data- a measure of opinions vs a quantified number. identification of each type of data in tests and sporting performances/activities
  • The principles of training- Specificity / Progressive overload/ Reversibility/ Tedium
  • Definitions and their use in planning a training programme
  • The principles of overload- Frequency/ Intensity/ Time/ Type- definitions and application to training programmes
  • Types of training- Circuit/ Continuous/ Fartlek/ Interval/ Plyometric/ Static stretching/ Weight/
  • How to complete each training method, their suitability to each component and sport, strengths and weanesses of each training method.
  • Safety principles when training 
  • Specific training technique, the three training seasons, effective use of warming up and cooling down
Spring 1 Spring 2
  • The structure of the skeleton- the 14 key bones in the body
  • The 6 functions of the skeleton: Support/ Protection/ Movement/ Structural shape and points for attchment / Mineral storage/ Blood cell production
  • Synovial Joints: structure: Cartilage/capsule/synovial membrane/ligaments/tendons/bursae and their functions.
  • Bones that form joints: the elbow joint/shoulder joint/ chest joint/ hip joint/ knee joint/ ankle joint. The bones that form each of the named joints and the movements that occur at each joint.
  • Definitions, identification and understanding off hinge joints and ball and socket joints.
  • Types of movement: Definition and sporting examples of the types of movement in the body.
  • Identifying which movements take place at which joints.
  • Extension/ Flexion/ Adduction/ Abduction/ Rotation/ Plantar Flexion/ Dorsi Flexion
  • Levers: 1st 2nd and 3rd class levers.
  • Identification and explanation of each type of lever with sporting examples.
  • The ability to draw and accurately label a lever.
  • Restance/Fulcrum/Effort definitions.
  • Mechanical Advantage: Definition and knowledge of the mechanical advantage/diadvantage of each lever.
  • Mechanical advantage equation.
  • Resistance and Effort arm calculations and additions to lever diagrams.
  • Muscle Action Definitions: Antagonist/ Agonist/ Isotonic/ Concentric/ Eccentric/ Isometric. Sporting examples for each type of muscle
Summer 1 Summer 2
  • The respiratory system: Structure and fuction of the respiratory system.
  • Describing the process of gaseous exchange.
  • Explaining the process of breathing- inspiration and expiration and the parts of the body involved in this process.
  • Identifying, defining and drawing a graph of the different lung volumes: Tidal volume/ Inspiratory reserve volume/ Expiratory reserve volue/ Residual volume.
  • The cardiovascular system. Identification and explanation of the three blood vessels and their characteristics- Vein, Artery and capillary.
  • Understanding the mechanics behind vasodilation and vasoconstriction in the body.
  • The structure and function of the heart, the cardiac cycle- the travel of blood flow, diastole and systole.
  • Cardiac output/ stroke volume/ heart rate- the relationship and equation between all three.
  • Anaerobic and aerobic exercise: Exercise definitions and sporting examples.
  • EPOC- what is it and how does the body use this? Immediate effects of exercise (during exercise), short term effects of exercise (24 to 36 hours after exercise), the recovery process from vigorous exercise, long term effects of exercise (months and years of exercising)
  • What is skill and what is ability?-
  • Definitions and relationship between skill and abilities.
  • Classification of skills: The 4 different skill continuums: Basic to complex/ Open to closed/ Self paced to externally paced/ Gross to fine. using sporting examples.
  • Goal setting: the use of performance and outcome goals.
  • SMART target setting: Specific/Measurable/ Accepted/ Realistic/ Time- bound.

All Year 10 subjects Next Year 10 Subject - PSHE