Physical Education - Central Foundation Boys' School

About the Course

Students will have the opportunity to excel in a broad range of physical activities at Central Foundation Boys’ School. This will include individual activities as well as competitive team games. Every lesson is centred around developing three main attributes, the students’ head, heart and hands.

Head – students are challenged to improve their knowledge and understanding of a sport, as well as having to constantly problem solve.

Heart – students are physically active for sustained periods of time and are encouraged to demonstrate perseverance, resilience and effort throughout every lesson.

Hands – students are challenged to improve their technique in both isolated and competitive situations and are encouraged to use tactics to outwit opponents.

Across both KS3 & KS4 each unit of work consists of 7 lessons, which includes an assessment lesson. Students are assess on their practical ability, understanding and leadership. Students will receive a mark of either E, D, C or S for each assessment objective in every unit of work. This is in line with the schools assessment procedure.

Each letter stands for the following:

Emerging – This means the student has shown initial understanding of the learning objective.
Developing – This means the students has shown understanding of the learning objective on more than one occasion.
Consolidating – This means the students has shown understanding of the learning objective on a number of occasions.
Secured – This means the student shows repeatedly good understanding of the learning objective in unseen scenarios with a range of different focuses.

Careers include: Sport Science, Coaching, Health and Fitness Instructor, Teacher, Leisure Management, Sports Therapist, Sports Journalism, Official, Sports Physiotherapist, Sports Nutritionist, Biomechanist, Sports Agent.

KS3

KS4

All students participate in Physical Education lessons once a week. The curriculum will allow further development of their technique and improve their performance to overcome opponents in team and individual sports. Students will also be introduced to swimming, rock climbing and the safe use of the school’s fitness facility, which present intellectual and physical challenges and which encourage pupils to work in a team, building on trust and developing skills to solve problems, either individually or as a group.

Our curriculum encourages students to lead healthy, active lives and is delivered through the following activities:

Football
Badminton
Athletics
Handball
Rowing
Table-Tennis
Tennis
Cricket
Swimming
Rock Climbing

GCSE PE

Students have the opportunity to study GCSE Physical Education In Year 10 and 11. The course is broken down into the following four components:

Component 1: Fitness & Body Systems
- Written examination: 1 hour and 45 minutes (36% of the qualification)
Component 2: Health & Performance
- Written examination: 1 hour and 15 minutes (24% of the qualification)
Component 3: Practical Performance
- Practical examination: 1 team activity, 1 individual activity and 1 team or individual activity (30% of the qualification)
Component 4: Personal Exercise Programme
- Practical & Written examination: Six-week training programme (10% of the qualification)

Students will develop their knowledge and understanding, both theoretically and practically, across a wide range of topics. This includes, but is not limited to:

Applied anatomy and physiology
Movement analysis
Physical training
Health, fitness and well-being
Socio-cultural influences
Use of data

GCSE PE Assessment

The course consists of four assessed components.

Two externally-examined papers:

Component 1: Fitness & Body Systems (1 hour and 45 minutes) & Component 2: Health & Performance (1 hour and 15 minutes) – The assessments consist of multiple-choice, short-answer, and extended writing questions.

Two non-examined assessment components:

Component 3: Practical Performance (1 team, 1 individual & 1 free choice) & Component 4: Personal Exercise Programme (Coursework).

Exam board

Edexcel

Director of Sport

Mr Richards

Email:
RichardsC@cfbs.islington.sch.uk