PE
PE motivates and inspires our students to lead healthy active lifestyles, developing resilience alongside physical and mental well-being. We provide students with opportunities to progress physically in a wide range of team and individual activities. By participating in lessons, students demonstrate problem solving skills, strengthen teamwork and communication as they work collaboratively with their peers and outwit opponents. Through the inter-house sports programme students are able to be competitive, grow in confidence and demonstrate sporting values such as fairness and respect. The intra-school competitions enable students to develop confidence within a high-performance setting, refine the skills they have practiced in curriculum time and achieve personal targets.
Within examination PE we develop independent inquisitive learners, who are able to analyse and evaluate their own and others' performance, drawing their knowledge from across a variety of theoretical components including anatomy and physiology and sports psychology, with the goal of using these to better their own sporting performance.
Minimum Entry Criteria
Desired: 7 in PE NB you must also be a club level games player, athlete or gymnast or at performance standard for dance activities (or 7 in Biology if the subject is not studied at GCSE)
Essential: 6 in PE NB you must also be a club level games player, athlete or gymnast or at performance standard for dance activities (or 6 in Biology if the subject is not studied at GCSE)
Board
AQA
Outline of the Course
Factors affecting participation in physical education and sport
- Section A – Applied anatomy and physiology
- Section B – Skill acquisition
- Section C – Sport and society
Factors affecting optimal performance in physical activity and sport
- Section A – Exercise physiology and biomechanics
- Section B – Sport psychology
- Section C – Sport and society and technology in sport
Assessment
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Type of Assessment |
Duration |
Weighting |
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1 |
Examination – Paper 1 Factors affecting participation in physical education and sport. The paper is divided in to 3 sections and there are multiple choice, short answer and extended writing questions. 105 marks are available in total, 35 marks from each section. |
2 hours |
35% |
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2 |
Examination – Paper 2 Factors affecting optimal performance in physical activity and sport. The paper is divided in to 3 sections and there are multiple choice, short answer and extended writing questions. 105 marks are available in total, 35 marks from each section. |
2 hours |
35% |
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3 |
Practical moderation – Assessment in the role of performer in the full sided version of one activity. Alongside a written analysis of performance. This component is worth 90 marks. |
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30% |
