PE & Sports Studies Curriculum Map
Statement of Intent
At St. Mary’s Catholic Academy, we recognise the importance of PE and the role it has to play in promoting long term healthy lifestyles and making a positive impact on physical, mental and social health. The intent of our PE curriculum is to provide all students with high quality PE and sport provision, not only as a participant but in leadership roles such as a coach, official or choreographer. It is our vision for every child to succeed and achieve their potential, developing their competence in a range of physical activities.
St. Mary’s Catholic Academy is situated in Blackpool, an area with high deprivation and low life expectancy. The links between inactivity and poor health outcomes are well known. Blackpool has a higher percentage of children that are overweight or obese compared to the national average (42% of Year 6 Blackpool pupils compared to 35% nationally). We believe that pupil’s positive PE experiences will encourage them to lead physically active lifestyles beyond their years at secondary school (John 10:10 “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”) Strong community links with local organisations such as Blackpool FC Community Trust & Fylde Community Rugby Trust help to provide external pathways for pupils to pursue sport and exercise outside of school. Both organisations work closely with the school to provide lunchtime and after school clubs alongside curriculum support. Pupils are encouraged to join sports clubs and teams outside of school with a full list provided on PE notice boards and with links on the school website.
Pupils are encouraged to join sports clubs and teams outside of school with a full list provided on PE notice boards and within this LINK.
We strive to inspire our students through fun and engaging PE lessons that are enjoyable, challenging and accessible to all. Through our teaching of PE, we instil core values and transferable life skills such as resilience and mutual respect as well as providing pupils with opportunities to take part in competitive sport through our extensive extra-curricular programme. Our extracurricular programme is open to all our students to attend on a competitive and social basis, which is run throughout the academic year. For those wishing to play competitively there are further opportunities to represent the school locally and regionally in various sporting activities. There is an opportunity for pupils to go skiing in France in Years 9 & 10 and also achieve the Bronze DofE award.
Our Sports Leaders help the department to run various sporting competitions throughout the year and are the ‘student voice’ for the school. These groups provide the department with feedback regarding a range of issues from kit to after school activities, helping to shape the PE and sport offer at SMCA.
Pupils in our Sixth Form have the opportunity to opt for the Sixth Form Sports Academy in Year 12. During this one year course pupils gain a number of leadership and coaching qualifications in a range of sports and activities. They have the opportunity to take part in a number of OAA, developing a range of life skills such as teamwork, resilience and communication. Pupils are helped with preparation for post 18 education through visits to universities in the north west where they have the chance to sample lectures and seminars, tours of the campus and speak to current students and staff.
Year 7 PE
Year 7 PE at SMCA involves the introduction of a number of new sports and activities (and their associated rules, regulations and skills), a drive and focus on the importance of an active healthy lifestyle and a push to encourage pupils to play competitive and non-competitive sport as part of our extracurricular programme. Pupils are taught basic transferable skills and techniques to develop their competency in different sports and activities.
Year 8 PE
In Year 8 pupils embed the knowledge and skills developed during Year 7. Some recapping of Year 7 work may be necessary for some pupils, especially as it could be a year since that activity was taught. Pupils are required to improve the consistency and accuracy of their performance and in some cases develop new and more complex skills and techniques. Pupils are always encouraged to take up the fantastic extracurricular opportunities at SMCA PE.
Year 9 PE
In Year 9 there is a continued drive to prepare pupils for KS4 OCR PE. This preparation is mainly based around skill development in a range of individual and team sports, continued encouragement to take part in extracurricular activities and an opportunity to continue to develop pupil’s leadership skills. The focus is again to improve the consistency and accuracy of increasingly more complex skills and decision making.
Year 10 & 11 Core PE
At KS4 core PE students are further encouraged to develop a love for sport and exercise in order to continue taking part once they leave SMCA. We continue to signpost pupils to external sports clubs within the community and offer them our extensive extracurricular provision at school. Pupils have the opportunity to coach, lead and referee within lessons. We offer a range of competitive and non-competitive sports that pupils are able to opt into. Pupils are assessed periodically throughout the year on their progress and attitude to learning.
KS2 information
What have they learned at KS2 that we build on at KS3?
Pupils should be taught to:
Use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination
Play competitive games, modified where appropriate [for example, badminton, basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounders and tennis], and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending
Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance [for example, through athletics and gymnastics]
Perform dances using a range of movement patterns
Take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team
Compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best. Swimming and water safety
All schools must provide swimming instruction either in key stage 1 or key stage 2.
In particular, pupils should be taught to:
swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
Use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]
Perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations
Year 7 Curriculum Map
Autumn & Lent
Gain an understanding on the importance of an active lifestyle on health.
Start to develop performance of core skills in a variety of sports.
Develop knowledge of rules in various sports.
Develop knowledge of basic tactics in various sports.
This will happen through a variety of sports:
Rugby (contact or T1)
Dance
OAA
Badminton
Fitness
Netball/Handball (Invasion Games)
Basketball/Hockey (Invasion Games)
Summer
Gain an understanding on the importance of an active lifestyle on health.
Start to develop performance of core skills in a variety of sports.
Develop knowledge of rules in various sports.
Develop knowledge of basic tactics in various sports.
This will happen through a variety of sports:
Athletics
Cricket
Rounders / Softball
Year 8 Curriculum Map
Autumn & Lent
Improve various components of fitness, setting personal goals and targets. Reviewing targets periodically.
Develop performance and demonstrate increasingly advanced skills within a range of sports.
Learn to use and adapt basic tactics within a game situation.
Develop basic officiating skills.
Develop ability to evaluate the demonstration of skills within performance.
This will happen through a variety of sports including:
Rugby (contact or T1) / Hockey
Dance
Badminton
Fitness
Netball/Handball (Invasion Games)
Summer
Develop performance and demonstrate increasingly advanced skills within a range of sports.
Learn to use and adapt basic tactics within a game situation.
Develop basic officiating skills.
This will happen through a variety of sports including:
Athletics
Cricket/rounders
Year 9 Curriculum Map
Autumn & Lent
Develop performance through application of core and advanced skills to game situations.
Develop the ability to create, perform and adapt tactics under increasing pressure.
Develop understanding of the different skill related components of fitness and how you go about testing and measuring these components.
Develop basic leadership skills through leading small aspects of the lesson.
Develop ability to analyse performance and understand how to implement improvements.
This will happen through a variety of sports including:
Rugby (T1)
Badminton
Netball / Basketball
Dance
Fitness
Handball / Hockey
Football
Summer
Develop performance through application of core and advanced skills to game situations.
Develop the ability to create, perform and adapt tactics under increasing pressure.
Develop ability to analyse performance and understand how to implement improvements.
This will happen through a variety of sports including:
Athletics
Cricket
Rounders/softball
OAA (Williamson Park)
Year 10 & 11 Curriculum Map
Autumn & Lent
The curriculum is set to promote physical and mental health of students, and develop a ‘lifelong love’ of sport and physical activity.
Throughout the year, working on a rotational basis, pupils will continue to develop the following:
Physical performance
Fitness for sustained physical activity
Leadership and officiating skills
Tactical awareness and application
This will happen through a variety of sports including:
Football
Handball
Badminton / pickleball
Basketball
Fitness
Summer
The curriculum is set to promote physical and mental health of students, and develop a ‘lifelong love’ of sport and physical activity.
Throughout the year, working on a rotational basis, pupils will continue to develop the following:
Physical performance
Fitness for sustained physical activity
Leadership and officiating skills
Tactical awareness and application
This will happen through a variety of sports including:
Athletics
Cricket
Rounders / Softball
CNAT Sports Studies
Year 10 Curriculum Map
Autumn
Throughout term one, pupils will begin to develop their knowledge of how to improve skill within team and individual sports as well as improve weaknesses in performance through the teaching of Unit R185.
Topic Area 1: Key components of performance
• Performance of skills and techniques
• Decision making during performance
• Management and maintenance of performance
Topic Area 2: Applying practice methods to support improvement in a sporting activity
• Identification of strengths and weaknesses of performance
• Methods to improve performance
• Measuring improvement in performance
Topic Area 3: Organising and planning a sports activity session.
• Organisation of a sports activity session.
• Safety considerations when planning a sports activity session.
• Objectives to meet the needs of the group.
Lent
In term two, pupils will develop the necessary skills and qualities to be able to successfully lead a session.
Topic Area 4: Leading a sports activity session
• Organisation of a sports activity session
• Leading a sports activity session
Topic Area 5: Reviewing your own performance in planning and leading a sports activity session.
• Review your leadership of a sports activity session.
Summer
Pupils will finish off topic Areas 4 & 5 and then begin:
R186 – Sport and the media:
Topic Area 1: The different sources of media that cover sport
Topic Area 2: Positive effects of the media on sport
Topic Area 3: Negative effects of the media on sport
Year 11 Curriculum Map
Autumn
Pupils will finish Topic Area 3 from R186 and then begin to develop their understanding for the exam unit R184: Contemporary Issues in Sport.
Topic Area 1: Issues which affect participation in sport
User groups, barriers, solutions, factors and emerging Sports.
Topic Area 2: Role of Sport in promoting values. Sporting Values, Olympic and Paralympics, sporting values and initiatives, importance of etiquette and sporting behaviour and use of PED’s.
Topic Area 3: Implication of hosting a major sporting event.
Features of a major sporting event, positive and negative pre-event aspects and potential positives and negatives of hosting during and after an event.
Lent
Topic Area 4: Role of National Governing Bodies in development of sport
Topic Area 5: The use of technology in sport Role of technology and positive and negatives of using technology in sport
Summer
This term will be dedicated to reviewing knowledge of the R184 Unit to ensure pupils are ready for their terminal assessment. Focus of revision will be on applying content to exam questions.