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Physical Education

Head of Department

Miss J Bradley, BA(Hons), PGCE

Statement of Intent

As a department, we are passionate about meeting the needs of the individual students through a variety of different activities and approaches.  

All students at DHSG will rotate through a broad and balance curriculum that inspires them to experience success in different physical activities and competitive sports by challenging themselves to achieve their fully potential.  

We aim for our students to become competent performers in a broad range of activities and embed values, such as fairness and respect through everything we teach.  

We are committed to helping our students become physically confident to enable them to lead healthy active lives through their time at DHSG and beyond. 

Curriculum Programmes of Study

Year

Cycle Content

Year 7

Cycle 1

Games
Netball / Football

Cycle 2

Aesthetics / Fitness / OAA
Dance / Gymnastics / Fitness / Orienteering

Cycle 3

Striking & fielding / Athletics
Rounders / Cricket / Athletics

Year 8

Cycle 1

Games
Netball / Football

Cycle 2

Aesthetics / Fitness / OAA
Dance / Gymnastics / Fitness / Orienteering

Cycle 3

Striking & fielding/Athletics
Rounders / Cricket / Athletics

Year 9

Cycle 1

Games / Aesthetics
Netball / Football / Basketball / Dance / Gymnastics

Cycle 2

Fitness / Net & Wall
Fitness / Badminton / Table Tennis

Cycle 3

Striking & fielding / Athletics
Rounders / Cricket / Athletics

Year 10

Cycle 1

Multi Sports / Games
Multi Sports / Netball / Football / Basketball
GCSE
Theory:
Chapter 3, Physical Training
Practical: Athletics / Fitness Testing / Badminton

 

Cycle 2

Fitness / Net & Wall
Fitness / Badminton / Table Tennis
GCSE
Theory:
Chapter 6, Health, Fitness & Well-being
Practical: Netball
NEA Course Work: Part 1

 

Cycle 3

Striking & fielding / Athletics
Rounders / Cricket / Athletics
GCSE
Theory:
Chapter 1, Anatomy & Physiology
Practical: Athletics
NEA Course Work: Part 1

Year 11

Cycle 1

Multi Sports / Games
Multi Sports / Netball / Football / Basketball
GCSE
Theory:
Chapter 4, Sports Psychology
Practical: Badminton
NEA Course Work: Part 2

 

Cycle 2

Fitness / Net & Wall
Fitness / Badminton / Table Tennis
GCSE
Theory:
Chapter 2, Movement Analysis & Chapter 5, Socio-Cultural Influences
Practical: Netball
NEA Course Work: Part 2

 

Cycle 3

Striking & Fielding
Rounders / Cricket
GCSE
Revision:
Consolidation of all units

Lower Years Assessment Framework

To view the Lower Years Assessment Framework for Physical Education, please click here

Middle Years Exam and Specification Information

Full details of the specification and assessment criteria can be found on the AQA website GCSE Physical Education Specification

Extra-curricular activities

With the support of many teaching staff and outside sporting bodies we are incredibly proud of our ​achievements at Local, Regional and National level. We are members of the Plymouth Schools Sports Partnership and through that enter all the central venue competitions.

There are many opportunities to participate in sport outside of lessons, these include clubs in:

Basketball, indoor rowing, dance, fitness, netball, hockey, rounders, cycling, rocketball, tennis, badminton, swimming, football, cricket and futsal depending on season.

In addition the school puts together an annual Dance Show and two day Sports Day extravaganza.

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