Key Stage 3
Curriculum Overview
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GCSE Skills
- Develop theoretical knowledge and understanding of factors that underpin physical activity and sport and use this knowledge to improve performance
- Understand how the physiological and psychological state affects performance in physical activity and sport
- Perform effectively in different physical activities by developing skills and techniques and selecting and using tactics and strategies
- Develop ability to analyse and evaluate performance
- Understand contribution that physical activity and sport make to health, fitness and wellbeing
By the end of year 9, students should be able to:
- Lead a group of their peers in a warm up
- Know the major muscles and where they are located on the body
- Understand maximum heart rate and effects of exercise on the body
- Describe different fitness tests and explain what component of fitness they test
- Describe what makes up a healthy diet
- Take part in a variety of different physical activities with some success in a game situation
By the end of year 8, students should be able to:
- Lead a small group of their peers in a warm up
- Know the major muscles and where some of them are located on the body
- Know about maximum heart rate and that exercise will raise the heart rate to provide extra oxygen to the working muscles
- Know some fitness tests
- Give feedback to help someone improve their performance
- Be aware that guidance and feedback can help someone improve their performance
- Have an understanding of what makes up a healthy diet
- Take part in a variety of different physical activities with some success
By the end of year 7, students should be able to:
- Know how to warm up before physical activity
- Know some of the major muscles and where some of them are located on the body
- Know that exercise raises the heart rate
- Talk about some fitness tests
- Give some feedback to a peer concerning their performance
- Have some understanding of what makes up a healthy diet
- Take part in a variety of different physical activities with some success in practices in some lessons