PE - KS4 - GCSE

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What students will learn

How it builds on learning

Autumn Term: Physical Training (Paper 1)

Students will learn about the relationship between health and fitness and the role that exercise plays in both; the components of fitness benefits for sport and how fitness is measured and improved, principles of training and their application to personal exercise; how to optimise training and prevent injury; and effective use of warm up and cool down.

This topic will build on previous core PE knowledge and understanding. For example preparation for sport and PE and warming up will be further built on and extended.

Spring Term 1: Health, Fitness and Wellbeing (Paper 2)

Students will learn about physical, emotional and social health; fitness and wellbeing; the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle and energy use; diet, nutrition and hydration.

This topic will build on prior learning in PSHE on health and well-being, and nutrition from both PSHE, Science and DT. It will also further develop concepts of a sedentary lifestyle and its effects from KS3 Core PE lessons.

Spring Term 2: Sport Psychology (Paper 2)

Students will learning the different classification of skills, as well as the use of goal setting and SMART targets. They will study how guidance, feedback and mental preparation can affect performance.

Much of the sport psychology unit will be new information for students; however, they may have touched on target setting in both PSHE and previous PE lessons.

Students will also have experienced a variety of guidance and feedback and the unit will explicitly teach them the specific information and their effects on performance.

Component 4: Personal Exercise Programme

This coursework will be taught in the summer term and will be an application of the learning in the Physical Training unit.

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What students will learn

How it builds on learning

Paper 1: Anatomy & Physiology

Students will learn the structure and functions of the Musculo-skeletal, cardio-respiratory system, aerobic and anaerobic exercise as well as short- and long-term effects of exercise.

Students will have covered topics of anatomy and physiology in Biology in KS3; the GCSE PE course will build on breathing and respiration taught in Year 8 Science in greater detail. There is also cross-over with the GCSE Science course and will build on specific human biology topics of anatomy and physiology in further detail. 

Paper 2: Socio-cultural Influences

Students will learn about the different engagement patterns of different social groups in physical activity and sport, commercialisation and the ethical and socio-cultural issues in physical activity and sport.

Students may have covered areas of socio-cultural influences both in form time and in PSHE.

Paper 1: Movement Analysis

Students will learn about the different lever systems, specific examples of their use in activity and the mechanical advantages they provide in movement. Student will also learn about planes and axes of movement.

This topic will build on prior learning in both the physical training unit and anatomy and physiology unit of GCSE PE.