We want to inspire and motivate students to participate and enjoy physical activity.  We also want them to recognise the importance that sport plays into adulthood. The department is inclusive of all students needs and will give various opportunities for students to improve their competence, confidence and character.

In PE we want to inspire and motivate students to participate and enjoy physical activity.  We also want them to recognise the importance that sport plays into adulthood. The department is inclusive of all students needs and will give various opportunities for students to improve their competence, confidence and character. 

Our 7 SPORT PRINCIPLES include the 5 school values: perseverance, courageousness, integrity, humility & kindness.

1. GO FOR IT
Rise to the challenge – always strive for excellence. Show PERSEVERANCE and COURAGEOUSNESS to discover how good you are.

2. PLAY FAIR
Show honestly and INTEGRITY all the time. Winning is only meaningful when competition is fair and played with the correct spirit

3. RESPECT OTHERS
Show respect to all involved in sporting experiences.  Win with HUMILITY and lose with grace.

4. KEEP IT FUN
Find the joy of sport.  Always keep a positive attitude both on and off the field of play

5. STAY HEALTHY
Place physical, emotional and social benefits above all other considerations.  Respect your body and keep in shape.

6. INCLUDE EVERYONE
Share sport with others by showing KINDNESS.  Ensure everyone has a place in sport

7. GIVE BACK
Find ways to show your appreciation for those who support you in sport and help make it possible.

Due to various issues surrounding COVID-19, a wider gap (for those beginning their learning and for current students in year 7) has been created between student’s physical literacy.  As such in year 7-8 the learning intent is to give students the opportunity to develop their physical literacy.  The department is now in its second year of this project.

Physical Literacy can be defined as:

• Physical literate student’s consistency develops the motivation and ability to understand, communicate, apply and analyse different forms of movement.
• They can demonstrate a variety of movement confidently, completely, creatively and strategically across a wide range of health-related and physical activities
• These skills enable students to make healthy, active choices that are beneficial to themselves and others and their environment.

All students in year 7 to 9 have 2 x 1-hour PE lessons per week.  Students come to PE in half year groups.  The overall PE curriculum/ timetable will need to adapt through the next 5 years to cope with the increased cohort sizes.

In year 7 students are benchmarked for the physical literacy.  Students are then placed onto one of two different  pathways.

• Pathway one: Sports Education. Student develop their sporting ability through competitive sporting opportunities.
• Pathways two: core skills – Through Sports literacy students will be given opportunities to improve their confidence in their movement ability

Students will be taught in single gender groups, however there is opportunity for students to be taught in different gender groups if needed.

Students receive 7 sports unit of Physical Education units throughout the year.  Each unit will be between 8-10 lessons. All groups rotate between spaces / activities. However, flexibility and innovative thinking in schemes of learning is needed to cope with external forces placed on the department, which include: the weather, use of internal space for whole school needs and timetabling constraints.

Students have the opportunity to learn the core pedagogy set by the National curriculum by in invasion, aesthetic, rackets, adventurous/ problem-based activities and fitness/ athletic activities. It is essential that maximum activity is at the heart of each lesson.

In each of these areas’ students will look at key concepts and processes including; outwitting an opponent, development and replicating of a skill; problem solving and decision making & evaluating and performing. The department has worked hard to make sure it has a general neutral curriculum. 

To further extend student’s knowledge and understanding and to link their learning to potential theoretical GCSE content, students throughout KS3 learn the major muscles, bones, and joints of the body. They also learn health and fitness concepts through specialised fitness unit.  All year 9 students will have a block of 9 theoretical lessons to give them further underpinning of how their body works when exercising.  This will further prepare students considering opting for GCSE PE in KS4.

All students will be assessed for their cardio-respiratory fitness twice a year through the 12-minute cooper run and learn about healthy active lifestyles through a specific unit of work in the fitness suite.  There are long term and short-term schemes of learning in place, with differentiated tasks to guide individual teachers.  There is also key terminology / vocabulary that needs to be taught. 

Competition

Fair play competition is an important part in the PE curriculum.  It gives allows students to foster college identities.  Students will take part in 6 inter-college sports weeks.  At the end of the year students in years 7 to 10 and year 12 will participate in a whole school sports day.

Go for it! - Students can extend / improve their knowledge and understanding through a vast enrichment programme.  There are also many trip’s students can go on.  Annually there is always a focus to give pupil premium students the opportunity to participate in as many trips and enrichment activities.

Leadership Students in Year 7, 8 &  9 will have the opportunity to lead.    Each PE group will have two leaders who will specifically do the warm-ups for their group.  Some of these leaders will also have the opportunity to go out of school and work with primary students.

Throughout the year Literacy and numeracy skills are looked at in a variety of ways. Examples include:

• ‘National book week’ by having a book fair where all students bring in and swap books. 
• Cross-curricular work with the Geography/ language department to work on the Commonwealth games & World Cup display.
• Working out measurements, bearings, timings and values in athletics and orienteering.

Year 10 students also receive 2 x 1 hour lessons a week. Students will all follow the ‘Creative Curriculum’ (Finham’s own course).  This is a structured, but flexible one-year course that the PE department has put together to give students all round knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of sport.  The curriculum intent is as follows:

1. Continue your learning journey from Y7-9.
2. Enjoy the physical, emotional and social reasons of taking part in sport.
3. Understand how PE develops key employability skills needed to be successful in your future careers.
4. Opportunity to develop your leadership and help others develop theirs.
5. Take part in competitive sport – Inter-college 5 times in the year
6. Challenge yourself physically and learn knew fitness concepts and principles.
7. Understand and be able to administer basic first aid 
8. . Have the opportunity to learn new sports.

After the February half term, year 10 students have a ‘broken block’ of activities where we work in conjunction with community sports coaches to give them a taster of new sports including yoga, boxing, American football, lacrosse, ultimate frisbee, self-defence and kabaddi. They will also be given important information on health-related matters including guest speakers in first aid and cancer related charities.

Year 11 students will take part in ‘recreational PE’, with the intent focusing on student’s physical, emotional & social well-being. Students are split between 4 / 5 groups.  They have one lesson per week. Groups can be mixed gender.   Student pick their options before each half term with nearly all students receiving their first or second option.

Students can opt to have one lesson per fortnight (year 12 and 13 on separate Wednesday’s P6), with the intent focusing on student’s physical, emotional & social well-being. Students have access to PE and activities such as mindfulness and the Junior Sports Leadership award

A-Level PE OCR

This subject will allow students to develop knowledge and understanding of physical activity and performance, in relation to their own physical activity and healthy lifestyle, and sport in a wider context. Students will have the opportunity to apply theory to practical performance and develop their potential in a number of activities.

The course looks at the following components:

• Component One: Physiological factors affecting performance.
• Component Two: Psychological factors affecting performance.
• Component Three: Socio-cultural issues in physical education and sport.
• Component Four: Performance in physical education

Edexcel BTEC National Level 3 Extended Certificate – Sports Coaching and Development

• This is a two-year course that comprises of three separate units and is broadly equivalent to one A-Level.
• Units studied are:
  • Unit A: Careers in the Sports and Active Leisure Industry – Yr1
  • Unit B: Health, Wellbeing and Sport – Yr1
  • Unit C1: Developing Coaching Skills* – Yr2
• (Units all internally marked but externally moderated) Grades available are Ungraded, Pass, Merit, Distinction and D* You must achieve at least a Pass in ALL units to achieve a qualification.
• *Unit C1 covers the basic principles of coaching and a willingness to take sessions is necessary.

Finham Park School believes passionately about the benefits of leadership for every young person, as well as recognising the crucial and beneficial role young people play in delivering school and community sport opportunities for others.

• To provide a starting point for students in years 7-10 to develop their sport leadership skills and hopefully inspire to be the next generation of sports leaders in the local community.
• To inspire greater capacity of feedback & guidance given to enrichment sports at Finham.
• To provide structured support for young people to lead and give them an insight into the enjoyment gained through sports leadership.
• To develop generic skills which can be applied to a variety of sporting activities (KS3).
• To provide specific coaching skills which can be applied to specific sporting activities(s) (KS4).

KS3 Leadership Model

1. In the first couple of weeks of the academic year 7 students create and have opportunities to lead their own warm-ups through the ‘IDEAS’ principles.  Year 8 students will do warm-ups based on FITT principles.
2. At the start of October students in every PE group can apply to be a sports leader through application to their teacher.  Each Y7 & 8 group have TWO leaders.
3. Y7 student’s sports leaders will work specifically with their PE teacher to develop their leadership skills, whilst year 8 will have the opportunities as well to lead primary school students.

Specific roles

• Lead the group in warm-ups (specific and general to the activity).
• Set up and organise equipment when needed.
• Coach and umpire where needed.
• Help in the delivery of inter-college i.e. captains etc.

KS4 Leadership Model

• At the start of the year the department will advertise and pick year 10 sports coaches to help aid coaching and leadership at enrichment year 7/8 enrichment sport.

vidence of pupil achievement in the PE is gathered by using:

• Benchmark testing in year 7
• KS3 Assessment Booklet & grading matrix
• SIMMS assessment sheets
• Reports at the end of year;

The aim of the PE department’s assessment policy is: 

• Give parents detailed and up to date information on their child’s progress.
• Pupils have knowledge and understanding as to what they are doing, why they are doing well, what they can do to improve further and how they have achieved individual activities and throughout academic year.
• Pupils can set realistic targets.
• Identify specific cohort groups where improvement/provision is needed.
• Help teachers to evaluate the effectiveness of their planning and delivery of schemes of work, and set lessons in line with the ability of the group.
• Give students the opportunity to learn how to ‘Observe and Analyse’ other pupils sporting ability.

Benchmarking

At the start of year 7 all pupils are assessed in a benchmarking PE unit.  This will be made up of mixture of assessment lessons including fitness tests. Students are given an overall end of key Stage 2 National Curriculum grade which will be used to see have much progress has been made yearly and by the end of KS3.  This assessment level may change until the end of term one to make sure the student has been assessed correctly.

SIMS Mark books

Throughout the year, all PE staff will monitor the ability of individual pupils in all sporting activities.  Each sporting activity is broken down into 1-9. The assessment criteria’s for each sport is a mixture of GCSE and New KS3 levels 1-9.  Due to PE being non-linear grades may fluctuate throughout the year.  Target grades should be reset where possible.

At the end of the academic year, students will be marked for their best 3 sports in two different performing areas. Two times a year, students will be asked to investigate if students have taken part in ENRICHMENT activities.

KS3  PE Assessment Portfolios

Student need to know their grades and how they can make progress.  Students will need to enter their grades for each sport. The PE portfolio is broken up into individual pages, where students will set themselves a target and end of block review.  There is also a literacy section for students to complete.  Students will also complete a leadership section for warm-ups complete. Progress checks are entered on to PARRS and will follow the schools.

Evidence based gathering in practical assessments.

There are assessment criteria for each Key stage/ sport.  In KS3 students Staff assess groups together at least 2/3 times a year to gain accuracy in marking.  GCSE & A level works the same, however in January there is a formal moderation window where all students are moderated by at least 2 members of staff.  The department has been a lead centre for moderation with other schools

Examination based subjects

GCSE, A-Level & BTEC National – All assessment grades/ data should be entered onto the department’s google drive spreadsheets.  Assessment data should be taken after every topic test/ practical activity and then RAG rated.  There is an Excel spreadsheet so students / teacher can see predicted grade needed

KS4 core

All students will complete the ‘Creative Curriculum.  Each student has an evidence booklet to collate their work.  This includes a grading sheet.  It is important that staff regularly record all data on SIMMS (gold, silver & bronze).  It is also important that student booklets are checked termly

All sports kit purchased should display the lion logo

• Navy and sky blue polo top
  Navy blue shorts OR Navy blue skort OR Navy tracksuit bottoms OR Falcon Navy leggings. 
  Trainers (no all black trainers)
• Finham Park hoodie

Optional

• Navy and sky blue striped sports socks (Strongly Recommend)
• Football boots (strongly recommended)
  Gum shield (recommended for contact sports)
  Shin pads
• Navy rugby top (recommended for winter sports & enrichment activities).

Year 8-11. As above, but they can wear unbranded legging, but MUST wear a skort over the top

PE Department Kit Policy

The department understands that students will forget their PE kit at times.  A supply of lost property / PE kit is kept in the changing rooms.  If students forget their PE kit or part of their PE kit, they need to come to the PE office with their phone.  After their name is recorded they swap kit for their phone.  At the end of the lesson the swap is made.  Parents are contacted for those students who persistently forget part of their kit.

If a student forgets part/all of their PE kit they will receive a consequence as below.  This should be logged personally by teachers.  However, the priority is getting student in the correct kit and taking part in the lesson. Teacher discretion must be used when setting consequences, but there must be a consistency approach, when students Leave the changing rooms for the start of their lesson.

C1 – will be given if a student forgets part of their kit for the FIRST time in a term.

C2 – will be given if a student forgets part of their kit for the SECOND time in a term.

C3 – will be given if a student forgets part of their kit for the THIRD time in a term. At this point a student will receive a PE Department detention. Restorative action should take place with the student and contact should be made with parents.

C3 – will be given every time thereafter for the duration of that term every time a student forgets part/all of their PE kit. At this point a student will receive a PE Department detention.

Note:

A C3 will be given to a student if they forget all their PE kit to the start of the lesson.  At this point a student will receive a PE Department detention.

A C3 will also automatically be given to a student if they are unprepared for the start of the lesson or:

• jewellery not removed or ear-rings not taped
• hair not tied up
• incorrect kit worn
• mobile ‘phone on display/being used
• chewing gum etc.
• Late out to lesson without a valid reason

At this point a student will receive a PE Department detention.

Students are expected to bring their kit to every lesson.

If students are suffering from illness or are injured they are still expected to bring their PE kit, as they can take part in some aspect in the lesson whether it be skills, refereeing, coaching or organising equipment. If students do bring notes we advise them to wear extra-warm sporting clothes over the top of their PE kit. There is a stock of lost property kit that can be borrowed by students. Students are encouraged to ensure all kit is clearly named/labelled. If students cannot practically take part in PE they will still need their PE kit as well as a signed note from home explaining why they cannot participate in the PE lesson.

Inter-college

All students in Years 7-11 will take part in six inter-college sporting events, including ‘Sports day’, which allows students to put into practice what they have learnt in a competitive environment. All students are welcomed to further enhance their sporting competence through an extensive and broad enrichment programme.

The department has in place medium term plans for all sports activities covered. These enable consistent and high quality teaching.