PHYSICAL EDUCATION / SPORT
learning journey & curriculum
core pe learning journey 7 11.pdf
btec sport learning journey 12 13 from gcse pe .pdf
The Physical Education Department at Cleeve School intend to provide a broad and balanced curriculum including a wide range of sporting opportunities across the 4 main aspects of PE: Invasion games, Net/wall, Striking and fielding, and Health and Fitness. Our curriculum creates opportunities for students to strive and achieve their maximum potential not only in traditional sports, but contemporary sports too!
Cleeve school is at the heart of Bishops Cleeve as an emerging village with beautiful surroundings. We take full opportunity within our curriculum to explore the local area and expose students to a wide range of experiences to promote lifelong participation. This ranges from enrichment activities taking place on Cleeve Hill, to our sports club partnerships with Cheltenham Tigers, Old Chelts, Gotherington Football Club to name just a few!
Our extensive, ambitious curriculum allows students to ‘get better’ inside and out of lessons, building their confidence and resilience to inspire futures and transform lives. Our intent is to create young adults who aspire to build on their love of sport in Higher Education and beyond. We create opportunities that can ignite career choices throughout Year 7-13 by means of coaching, officiating and performance analysis within Core PE. This is built on in KS4 and 5 examination PE around career pathways such as sports psychology, movement analysis, as well as teaching and coaching. This demonstrates from the very start of Year 7, students are encouraged to think, write and talk like a sports scholar!
Our ambitious curriculum looks to build upon physical development and fundamental skills taught in KS2 to facilitate students becoming more competent, confident and expert in their techniques across a wide range of sports. Key fundamentals are moved through from KS2 to develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance through athletics, dance and gymnastics.
Our extracurricular programme is embedded within the sporting culture at Cleeve School, with the ambitious programme matched by the enthusiasm and engagement of students. Opportunities range from competing in local, district and national competitions, as well early morning and lunch time clubs to promote healthy active lifestyles.
Through our examination subjects, students are encouraged to become sports scholars through exploring biomechanics and how the body moves, as well as psychology and sociology. This is supplemented by relationships built with the University of Gloucestershire and Hartpury College that add value to course content and supports students attending Higher Education.
Our PE curriculum supports and generates opportunities to grow under the four broad areas of SEN. We champion adaptation and appropriate level of challenge through providing scaffolds in order to close any gaps of learning. We strive to create a positive learning environment that hosts appropriate groupings, which allows adapted practices through task, equipment and level of support. Students are given opportunities to be assessed in the physical me, social me and mental me at KS3. Students are not only assessed through performance, but also means of coaching, analysing and officiating, acknowledging skills that go beyond the norm.
In examination PE, we have targeted intervention sessions that aim to reduce gaps in knowledge and application, specifically focused on students who are at a disadvantage to their peers. At KS5, students are supported by the department going above and beyond the specification, by selecting optional units that are suited to the demographic of each cohort. This ensures the best possible opportunity for qualification success.
We utilise a range of assessments across key stages in PE at Cleeve, and progress is evidenced by students being assessed consistently throughout the year. Our Olympic grading grid shows a clear flightpath of progression that students are likely to take as they work through KS3, exploring more complex skills and tactics across all sports. Theory delivered in KS3 core PE is assessed through interim quizzes every half term. This content is directly linked to our exam qualifications, where students build on their knowledge taught at lower key stages through applying this in self-marking homework, end of topic tests, mock exams, and Independent Learning Task Booklets.
Students can learn about the basic bones and muscles in KS3, moving through to how joints and levers create movement at KS4, with the biomechanics of movement explored at KS5. Students have active ‘Fix it’ opportunities, supported by learning conversations with mastery practitioners.
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