Statement of Intent:

• Students will learn and accurately replicate specific techniques for a variety of fitness-based activities and Sports. They will carry out investigations into the bodies’ ability to exercise and the reasoning behind such principles. Students will gain an understanding of warmups, cool downs and the importance of health through physical tasks. To reflect on the benefits that physical fitness gives to an individual and the implications for future life.
• Students will also have access to after-school sessions, which include; Football Academy, and our Cricket Academy and volunteer work as Sports Leaders with local Primary Schools.
• For Outdoor pursuits, Students also have access to our Enrichment programme and Combined Cadet Force and Duke of Edinburgh’s Award which run weekly sessions and include Residentials.
• To provide students with the knowledge and skills to prepare them to progress and to undertake the Sports Leaders qualifications.
• To develop and extend oral, written and practical skills, which allow students to express themselves with clarity and to record analysis of their own fitness results.
• To monitor and report on students’ progress systematically, especially with regards to the Schools Standard Fitness Test.

 Implementation:

• The curriculum is the PE Scheme of Work, which includes the knowledge and understanding to be gained at each stage.
• for translating that framework over time into a structure and narrative, to gain Sports Leaders qualifications and progress on to future Sport studies. (Leadership, knowledge, delivery, progression, breadth and depth, assessment).
• A structured assessment schedule utilising the PE Scheme of Work and the Schools Standard Fitness Test results.

Impact:

• Evaluating what knowledge and skills pupils have gained against expectations, see Fitness levels (impact/achievement), to undertake future Sport programme of study.
• Time built in to allow for relearning. Assessment having impact on learning
• Assessment of teaching. What worked/didn’t work? What do we need to amend to have a greater impact on student’s progress and physical and mental well-being.
• Spiral assessment which counters the forgetting curve. Regularly re-visiting previous material
• Students improved health and Well Being through Sports activities and the Schools Standard Fitness Test, participating in School teams, gaining Young Leadership Awards and learning about the body and nutrition.
• Students compete nationally in Football and Cricket and are the current Muslim Schools National Champions in Football, an annual competition they have won seven times.