Curriculum Overview

 

Key Stage 3 Key Stage 4 Sixth Form

: Term 1: Sports Psychology

Students will develop knowledge and understanding of the psychological factors that can affect performers in physical activity and sport.

Theory: students will complete a 50 minute (55 mark) question paper on the 3.2.1 Sports Psychology unit of work. This will follow a similar structure to a GCSE paper, involving multiple choice, short answer and longer answer questions.

Engagement Patterns
How levels of participation vary across different social groups

Ethnic Group
A community made up of people who share a common cultural background

Golden Triangle
The financial relationship between sport, sponsorship and media

Sponsorship
Where a company pays money to a team or individual in return for advertising their goods

Sportsmanship
Appropriate, polite and fair behaviour while participating at a sporting event

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

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Create a supportive community:

: Term 2: 3.2.3 Health, Fitness and Well-Being

Students should develop knowledge and understanding of the benefits of participating in physical activity and sport to health, fitness and well-being.

Theory: students will complete a 75 minute (78 mark) question paper on the 3.2.1 Sports Psychology unit of work, 3.2.2. Socio-Cultural Influences and 3.2.3 Health, Fitness and Well-Being. This will be a mock GCSE paper, involving multiple choice, short answer and longer answer questions.

Wellbeing
A mix of physical, social and mental factors that give people a sense of being comfortable, health and/or happy

Sedentary Lifestyle
A person's choice to have no or little physical activity

Somatotype
A method of classifying body types

Minerals
inorganic substances which assist the body with many of its functions

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

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: Term 3: Socio-Cultural Factors

Students will develop knowledge and understanding of the socio-cultural factors that impact on physical activity and sport, and the impact of sport on society.

Students will complete mock paper assessments

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

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: Term 4: PE Revision

Students will re-visit topics that have been previously been studied during the course. The topics that are re-visited are based on analysis from the mock results in that cohort of students.

Students will complete mock paper GCSE questions

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

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Create a supportive community:

: Term 5: General PE Revision

Students will complete revision from all aspects of the course before their GCSE PE exam.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

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Create a supportive community:

: New unit

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

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Create a supportive community: