Physical Education
 Introduction to Department |
The department currently has five full time P.E. staff with other members of staff who teach P.E. as a second subject. Responsibility within the department in split between the Head of P.E., the teacher in charge of key stage 3, and a School Sports Co-ordinator.
The P.E. facilities are very good. We have the following available:
A Sports Hall with markings for:
4 Badminton courts
Netball court
Basketball court
Volleyball court
A Mini Sports Hall for:
Basketball
Netball
Badminton
Outdoor tarmac area with netball markings
A separate Dance Studio
Use of the Main Hall
A Multi Gym with:
10 station multi-gym
Two concept 2 rowing machines
A cross trainer
A stepper
Extensive fields which include:
3 football and 1 rugby pitch in the winter
4 rounders pitches and a 400m track in the summer with a long jump pit and throwing areas for athletics
| Members of Staff List |
Mr S. Mannion - Head of Department
Mrs C. Warriner
Miss G. Whitley
Miss C. Thomas
Mr S. Brown
Mr C. Bell
Mr C. Dobbs
Mrs L. Parkinson
| Parts of Curriculum Covered |
Key stage 3 pupils have 2 x 1 hour lessons per week. At Key Stage 4 all pupils have 1 hour per week of core P.E.
GCSE pupils will have one additional practical lesson as well as a one hour theory lesson.
GCSE
GCSE P.E. is a very popular subject with 76 pupils in year 11 and 88 in year 10 opting to take P.E. at GCSE level. There are 4 classes in each year group so class sizes are also manageable. The department delivers the AQA specification A syllabus.
Last years cohort achieved 54% A*-C in P.E. This result was consistent with baseline data.
Extra Curricular
The department offers an extensive extra curricular programme which takes place both prior to and after school. The school has representative teams in the following;
Girls and Boys football
Rugby League
Netball
Boys and Girls Hockey
Basketball
Rounders
Cricket
Athletics
We also have clubs in Trampolining, Weight Training and Badminton.
The department also runs an ‘inter-form sport activity’ competition for each year group. These take place on Thursday afternoons and have proved to be very popular with the pupils. With the exception of trampolining, all the sports covered in P.E. lessons are competed for in the inter-form competition. The highlight of this competition is the School’s Sports Day in July.
| Additional Information about Department |
The department is proud to have been recognised for good practice and achieved the Sportsmark accreditation in July 2004.
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