Physical Education

Physical Education is critical to pupil understanding and development in life long habits of exercise and a healthy active lifestyle. It develops pupils’ physical competence, literacy and confidence and their ability to use these to perform in a range of activities. It enhances skillfulness, physical development and knowledge of the body in action. Physical Education provides opportunities for pupils to be creative, competitive, and cooperative and face up to different challenges as individuals and in groups and teams.

Pupils learn how to think in different ways to suit a wide variety of creative, competitive, cooperative and challenging activities. They learn how to plan, perform and evaluate actions, ideas and performances to improve their aptitudes, abilities, preferences and make choices about how to get involved in lifelong physical activity.

The school seeks to provide a full, varied and interesting Physical Education curriculum which challenges, engages and excites staff and pupils alike in line with the experiences of their mainstream peers.

Aims

The aims and objectives of PE relate directly to those of Barley Lane School as a whole: namely that we endeavour to provide an educational experience that offers equality, challenge and the positive outcomes that can be achieved or experienced in mainstream education and further enhance post 16 opportunities and “life chances” or employment. We seek to achieve this by delivering at least 1 and ½ hours of PE a week, supplemented by opportunities at break and lunch times, during outdoor education and activities whereby we access a local gym and to play 5 a side. This is then extended beyond the 2 hour offer of high quality PE.

Barley Lane School 2023-2024 PE Curriculum Map

Autumn Term

Curriculum plan with links to National Curriculum for PE in italics

Term	Key Stage 2	Key Stage 3	Key Stage 4
Assessment (2 Weeks)	Basic Fundamental Skills Testing compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best	Fitness Testing compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best	Fitness Testing compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best
Autumn 1st Half Term	Multi-Skills play competitive games, modified where appropriate and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending Basketball use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination	Basketball use a range of tactics and strategies to overcome opponents in direct competition through team and individual games Badminton develop their technique and improve their performance in other competitive sports	Basketball use and develop a variety of tactics and strategies to overcome opponents in team and individual games Badminton develop their technique and improve their performance in other competitive sports
Autumn 2nd Half Term	Problem Solving compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best Volleyball develop their technique and improve their performance in other competitive sports	Table Tennis analyse their performances compared to previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best Volleyball develop their technique and improve their performance in other competitive sports	Volleyball develop their technique and improve their performance in other competitive sports Table Tennis evaluate their performances compared to previous ones and demonstrate improvement across a range of physical activities to achieve their personal best

Spring Term

	Key Stage 2	Key Stage 3	Key Stage 4
Spring 1st Half Term	Tag Rugby play competitive games, modified where appropriate and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending Football play competitive games, modified where appropriate and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending	Theory – Classroom based Health Related Exercise analyse their performances compared to previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best Football use a range of tactics and strategies to overcome opponents in direct competition through team and individual games	Theory – Classroom based NCFE unit 1 in Sport and Exercise/Protective Services Football use a range of tactics and strategies to overcome opponents in direct competition through team and individual games
Spring 2nd Half Term	Health Related Exercise compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best. Football play competitive games, modified where appropriate and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending	Theory – Classroom based Health Related Exercise analyse their performances compared to previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best Football use a range of tactics and strategies to overcome opponents in direct competition through team and individual games	Theory – Classroom based NCFE unit 1 in Sport and Exercise/Protective Services Football use a range of tactics and strategies to overcome opponents in direct competition through team and individual games

Summer Term

	Key Stage 2	Key Stage 3	Key Stage 4
Summer 1st Half Term	Striking and Fielding use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination Athletics perform skills using a range of movement patterns	Rugby use a range of tactics and strategies to overcome opponents in direct competition through team and individual games Athletics develop their technique and improve their performance in other competitive sports	Rugby use a range of tactics and strategies to overcome opponents in direct competition through team and individual games Theory – Classroom based NCFE unit 1 in Sport and Exercise/Protective Services
Summer 2nd Half Term	Striking and Fielding use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination Athletics perform skills using a range of movement patterns	Cricket use a range of tactics and strategies to overcome opponents in direct competition through team and individual games Athletics develop their technique and improve their performance in other competitive sports	Cricket develop their technique and improve their performance in other competitive sports Athletics evaluate their performances compared to previous ones and demonstrate improvement across a range of physical activities to achieve their personal best

Outdoor and adventurous activities will be met through additional offsite trips looking specifically at Orienteering and Climbing, working towards various accreditations and the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme