Curriculum in PE 

The Physical Education curriculum is designed for our learners to leave school as confident and multi-talented sports people. The learners will have a detailed understanding of their own health and fitness and how to develop it when leaving the classroom and the sports field. Our aim is for learners to develop a lifelong love and involvement in Sport.  

Learners will have the opportunity to develop and perform their own skills and techniques in a broad range of activities. They will demonstrate the ability to remain physically active for a sustained period. Learners will engage and achieve in a vast range of competitive sports and other physically demanding activities. Which will result in them leading healthy and active lives through a range of fitness and sports activities.  

By the end of Key Stage 3 pupils will have covered topics under the themes of invasion games (including Netball, Basketball, Football and Rugby), fielding and striking and athletic activities.   They will have practiced skills needed to master main movements competence, rules, tactics and strategies within each sport and in a healthy competitive environment.  

By the end of Key Stage 4 pupils will continue recreational Physical Education developing further skills and competition in a range of activities. If students opt for an examination subject, they will have completed their study of the Edexcel specification for GCSE PE and will be able to recall key information about a wide variety of topics through both theory and practical assessment.  

Overall, at the end of the course, the pupils will have gained the skills and physical attributes to continue their journey and support their development of health and fitness and love of sport.   

Knowledge in PE 

In the Physical Education department at The Walton High, we aim to teach pupils a wide range of movement competence in a variety of sports and activities which develops pupils' main skills and techniques in these areas achieving a level of success through game play and performance. Pupils will develop their knowledge of rules, tactics and strategies in a range of invasion and fielding and striking games.  Through exploration of health and fitness pupils will develop knowledge of their own fitness and how to improve it using a range of components and methods of training.  

Teaching and Learning in PE 

PE is taught in units that develop over a four-week block and are sequenced to repeat each year throughout the PE journey. Lessons will be taught in a practical way to develop students practise and mastery of relevant skills and techniques within an activity.  Each unit covered in the Physical Education will provide opportunities for independent work, pair work and group work. All of these are used to build different skills such as analysing and evaluating their own and others technique and performance. Lessons are based on the structure of the play book to enable students to retrieve prior knowledge, be introduced to new skills and technique through modelled examples before practising a skill in isolation prior to developing this skill in a conditioned drill and through to a game-based scenario. Pupils will therefore develop their practical performance and language skills through practise and verbal analysis and evaluation.