KEY STAGE 3 TEACHING

HOW THE TEACHING IS ARRANGED AT KEY STAGE 3

Pupils at key Stage 3 are offered a broad and balanced curriculum with a wide variety of sports which include the following:

 

The above activities will be used as the medium to deliver the following skills:

Acquiring and developing skills

1)  Pupils should be taught to:

a)  refine and adapt existing skills
b)  develop them into specific techniques that suit different activities and perform these with consistent control.

Selecting and applying skills, tactics and compositional ideas

2)  Pupils should be taught to:

a)  use principles to plan and implement strategies, compositional and organisational ideas in individual, pair, group and team activities
b)  modify and develop their plans
c)  apply rules and conventions for different activities.

Evaluating and improving performance

3)  Pupils should be taught to:

a)  be clear about what they want to achieve in their own work, and what they have actually achieved
b)  take the initiative to analyse their own and others' work, using this information to improve its quality.

Knowledge and understanding of fitness and health

4)  Pupils should be taught:

a)  how to prepare for and recover from specific activities
b)  how different types of activity affect specific aspects of their fitness
c)  the benefits of regular exercise and good hygiene
d)  how to go about getting involved in activities that are good for their personal and social health and wellbeing.

 

 

Syllabus Content

In addition to the requirements of the national curriculum (see above) students also follow a unit of work on health and fitness to compliment work covered in other areas. The syllabus in Years 7-9 provides progression and continuity and offers the opportunity to stud activities in depth throughout the key stage and also experience a range of different activity types.

Lesson Duration

Lessons are 60 minutes long:

Throughout the week Year 7 students x 2 lessons

                               Year 8 students x 3 lessons

                               Year 9 students x 3 lessons

 

Organisation

 

PE lessons are taught in single gender groups throughout years 7-9. Ability groupings are applied in girls PE lessons.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Our aim at Key Stage 3 is to equip our pupils with a wide range of skills and knowledge in what is a varied and broad curriculum.

We also instill into our students an appreciation of leading a healthy lifestyle.

At Key Stage 3 students participate in both individual and team based sports within a wide range of indoor and outdoor activities.

These sports include rugby, football, hockey, dance, gym, netball, badminton, basketball, trampolining, athletics, tennis, cricket, rounders, fencing, and table tennis.

Lessons are supported with a vast extra-curricular programme and clubs or school teams are run in all of the above sports.

Castleford High School PE kit must be worn in all lessons even if students are injured and therefore restricted in what they do. On such occasions students will be asked to officiate, analyse and evaluate performances of others whilst in Castleford High School PE kit.