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A Level Sport and PE

Curriculum Details - 2022/2023 (Current)

Year	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
12	Training - Principles, methods and specialised forms of training - What is the importance of the training programme in achieving Peak Performance?. Skill acquisition - how skill is acquired and the impact of psychological factors on performance.	The training year and injury prevention - What are the physiological reasons for methods used in injury rehabilitation? Learning and performance - How do theories of learning impact on skill development?	Diet, nutrition and supplements - What are the effects on physical activity and performance? Information processing and practice - How does information processing affect performance?	Applied anatomy and physiology - What is the relationship between the cardiovascular and respiratory systems? What is the relationship between the nervous and muscular systems?	Sport and society - What is the impact of social factors on the development of football, tennis and athletics? Barriers to participation - What strategies have been put in place to increase participation?	Written coursework - analysis of performance - students produce analysis of one chosen performer in one sport.
13	Applied anatomy and physiology - energy systems - How is energy provided and affected during exercise? Sports psychology - personality, attitudes and arousal - How can knowledge of interactionist perspective can improve performance?	Biomechanics - Newton's laws, Linear, Angular and Projectile motion - How can athletes use knowledge of motion to improve performance? Aggression, anxiety, motivation and group dynamics - How can athletes control stressful situations?	Development of elite athletes - The Role of Governing Bodies - Why are governing bodies important in nurturing talent? Ethics in Sport - How has the original ethos of the Olympics been tainted in modern times?	Violence and drugs in sport - Does the Law have a role in sport? Technology - Is the role of technology over-riding the ability of the athlete? Commercialism and Media - What impact has commercialism had on modern sport?	Completion of coursework and revision - Evaluation of own performance and suggested ways to improve weaknesses linked directly to the theory of this course.	Revision

Physical Education (non exam)

Curriculum Details - 2022/2023 (Current)

Year	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
7	Football, Netball & Table Tennis. Techniques & strategic play to outwit opponents, essential elements of attack and defence and refereeing small sided games.	Athletics, Basketball and Health & Fitness Understanding the links between healthy life/work balance and developing active lifestyles, a variety of fitness tasks & individual training programmes, techniques & strategic play to outwit opponents.	Badminton, Netball & Rugby. Techniques & strategic play to outwit opponents, essential elements of attack and defence and refereeing small sided games.	Gymnastics & Team Building. Replicate and develop movement on the themes of: flight and balance. Develop strategies to overcome problems. Build resilience.	Athletics. Develop techniques in running, throwing and jumping events and improve personal best. Demonstrate the essential elements of an event and accurately time/measure and officiate competitions.	Cricket and Rounders. Develop techniques and refine strategic play to outwit opponents, demonstrate the essential elements of batting, bowling & fielding, and accurately umpire small sided games.
8	Football, Netball & Rugby. Further develop techniques and refine strategic play to outwit opponents. Pupils will be able to demonstrate the essential elements of attack and defence, retain possession and create scoring opportunities.	Health fitness and resilience, Table Tennis & Team Building. Pupils will build resilience and self-esteem through individual and group activities. Pupil should be able to evaluate and comment on what constitutes healthy lifestyle and suggest ways to achieve this.	Boxercise, Basketball, Health Fitness and Resilience. Pupils will focus on understanding the links between healthy life/work balance and developing active lifestyles.	Badminton and Gymnastics. Pupils perform and refine movement to achieve controlled movement, evaluate what constitutes good movement, suggest ways to achieve this; focus on replicating techniques and implementing and refining strategic play to outwit opponents.	Athletics. Replicating and developing techniques in running, throwing and jumping events, implementing strategies to improve personal best, demonstrate essential elements of an event, aim to achieve personal best in at least two events.	Cricket and Rounders. Replicating and developing techniques, implementing and refining strategic play to outwit opponents in batting, bowling and fielding.
9	Health and Fitness & Team Games. Perform a variety of fitness tasks and develop individual training programmes, apply the use of heart rates to monitor progress, and demonstrate the essential elements of attack and defence.	Athletics and Team Games. In all events, it is the aim to achieve personal bests. Pupil should be able to accurately time/measure and officiate competitions. The aim is to retain possession and create scoring opportunities. Pupil should be able to officiate accurately.	Health and fitness, Football and Badminton. Pupils will build resilience and self-esteem through individual programmes, be able to evaluate and comment on what constitutes healthy lifestyle. Pupil should be able to accurately score and officiate badminton games.	Health and Fitness, Dance & Team Games. Perform a variety of fitness tasks and develop individual training programmes, replicating and developing movement incorporating themes, demonstrate the essential elements of attack and defence.	Athletics. Refine strategies to build resilience and achieve personal best performance. Pupils will be able to demonstrate the essential elements of running, throwing and jumping in both competition and conditioned practice.	Team Building. Pupils will focus on developing and refining strategies to build resilience and empathy. To work successfully within groups and to understand the needs of individuals to overcome problems.
10	Health and Fitness, Yoga, Team Games. Demonstrate elements of personal health and fitness, be able to plan personal programmes of exercise, to suggest improvements and implement principles of healthy lifestyle, improving techniques as well as refining strategic play to outwit opponents.	Team Games, Athletics and Walking. Be able to officiate games accurately , lead coaching sessions and develop analysis skills, suggest improvements and implement practices based upon those suggestions.	Badminton, Health and Fitness and Football. Pupils should be able to score and officiate badminton games accurately. Pupils should lead coaching sessions and develop their analysis skills. Pupils should be able to suggest improvements and implement practices based upon those suggestions.	Badminton, Dance and Health and Fitness. Be able to demonstrate the essential elements of group work, be able to compose sequences of movement accurately with control and develop their analysis skills.	Athletics. Developing and improving techniques, refining strategies to build resilience and achieve personal best performance, be able to demonstrate the essential elements of running, throwing and jumping, be able to time/measure accurately and officiate athletic competition.	Team Building. Develop co-operation, collaboration, resilience and flexible thinking through a range of challenging tasks and group problems.
11	Team Games, Health and Fitness and Yoga. Demonstrate elements of attack and defence, be able to referee small sided games accurately and be able to plan personal programmes of exercise and develop their analysis skills.	Team Games, Boxercise and Table Tennis. Aim to get the ball to land in the target area so that the opponent cannot return it, be able to score accurately and officiate tennis games, develop self-confidence and resilience.	Team Games. Develop techniques and refine strategic play to outwit opponents, be able to demonstrate the essential elements of attack and defence, accurately officiate games, lead coaching sessions, suggest improvements and implement practices based upon those suggestions.	Badminton, Dance, Health and Fitness, Football. Develop resilience, confidence and team work through a range of challenging tasks. Plan own programmes of work and improve these based on analysis made.	Summer option activities before exams. Rounders, cricket, badminton. The focus is on stress-relief, and the use of physical activity as a means to overcome mental anxiety.
12	The emphasis is on using physical activity to improve mental and physical wellbeing. Options: Badminton, Basketball, Dodgeball, Fitness, Football, Netball, Table Tennis & Walking.	The emphasis is on using physical activity to improve mental and physical wellbeing. Options: Badminton, Basketball, Dodgeball, Fitness, Football, Netball, Table Tennis & Walking. House football and netball also take place in this term	The emphasis is on using physical activity to improve mental and physical wellbeing. Options: Badminton, Basketball, Dodgeball, Fitness, Football, Netball, Table Tennis & Walking.	The emphasis is on using physical activity to improve mental and physical wellbeing. Options: Badminton, Basketball, Dodgeball, Fitness, Football, Netball, Table Tennis & Walking.	The emphasis is on using physical activity to improve mental and physical wellbeing. Options: Athletics, Cricket, Football, Golf, & Rounders	The emphasis is on using physical activity to improve mental and physical wellbeing. Options: Athletics, Cricket, Football, Golf, & Rounders
13	The emphasis is on using physical activity to improve mental and physical wellbeing. Options: Badminton, Basketball, Dodgeball, Fitness, Football, Netball, Table Tennis & Walking.	The emphasis is on using physical activity to improve mental and physical wellbeing. Options: Badminton, Basketball, Dodgeball, Fitness, Football, Netball, Table Tennis & Walking. House football and netball also take place in this term	The emphasis is on using physical activity to improve mental and physical wellbeing. Options: Badminton, Basketball, Dodgeball, Fitness, Football, Netball, Table Tennis & Walking.	The emphasis is on using physical activity to improve mental and physical wellbeing. Options: Badminton, Basketball, Dodgeball, Fitness, Football, Netball, Table Tennis & Walking.	The emphasis is on using physical activity to improve mental and physical wellbeing. Options: Athletics, Cricket, Football, Golf, & Rounders

Physical Education

Curriculum Details - 2022/2023 (Current)

Year	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
9	Health and fitness, components of fitness and testing. Learn definitions and apply the components to a range of activities. Understand why we do fitness testing. Practical development of netball or football skills.	Principles of training and types of training. Students develop knowledge and then plan and complete two personal training sessions. Practical development of table tennis skills.	Heart rates. Students investigate the use of aerobic and anaerobic training zones when training. Students will calculate training zones of various athletes. Practical development of skills in badminton.	Injury prevention and the training year. Students research techniques to prevent and or recover from injury. Understand how athletes break up the year to achieve peak performance. Practical development of either badminton or table tennis.	Data analysis. Students look at various forms of data, both objective and subjective, and understand validity and reliability in the testing process. Practical development of athletics.	Focus on practical work. Students will reinforce skills developed over the year in two activities (football, netball, badminton, table tennis and athletics).
10	Health, fitness and well being. Understanding the impact of a sedentary lifestyle on health with specific reference to diabetes, coronary heart disease and obesity. Practical focus on football and netball.	Diet, nutrition and energy balance. The impact of a balanced diet on performance. Students discover how athletes manipulate diet to suit certain activities. Practical focus on badminton.	Skill and Ability and target setting. Are we born with it or do we learn it? Students categorise skills from various activities and develop knowledge of SMART. Practical focus on badminton and table tennis.	Sports Psychology. Students study: Information processing, guidance and feedback; Arousal and aggression. Students learn how athletes control performance. Practical focus on football and netball.	Coursework: Part 1 - Analysis of Performance. Students analyse their own strengths and weaknesses in one sport.	Practical work - students develop skills in two practical activities.
11	Socio-cultural influences on participation. Students understand the barriers put in place to prevent participation and develop ways to overcome these barriers. Practical development of football and netball.	Commercialism, sponsorship and the media and technology. Students look at the influences of companies such as Sky TV on sport. Use of technology in sport: VAR, goal line and Hawkeye.	Drugs and behaviour of performers and spectators. Why athletes take drugs, why hooliganism takes place, why sportspeople bend/break the rules. Practical development of badminton or table tennis.	Musculo-Skeletal system, respiratory and cardiovascular systems. Students look at the structure of each and how they are developed through sport.	Coursework - completion of the evaluation section.