Sports Science

Physical Education

Skill Acquisition and Tactical Introduction

  • Football
  • Rugby
  • Handball
  • Cricket
  • Athletics
  • Dance/Gymnastics
  • Health and Fitness
  • Swimming
  • Table Tennis
  • Volleyball
  • Badminton
  • Tennis
  • Baseball
  • Dodgeball
  • Basketball
  • Cooperative / Challenge Games
  • OAA
  • Sports Culture (including American Football, Gaelic Football and Kabaddi)

Teaching games for understanding and Sports Education Model

  • Football
  • Rugby
  • Handball
  • Cricket
  • Athletics
  • Dance/Gymnastics
  • Health and Fitness
  • Swimming
  • Table Tennis
  • Volleyball
  • Badminton
  • Tennis
  • Baseball
  • Dodgeball
  • Basketball
  • Cooperative / Challenge Games
  • OAA
  • Sports Culture (including American Football, Gaelic Football and Kabaddi)

Teaching games for understanding and Sports Education Model

  • Football
  • Rugby
  • Handball
  • Cricket
  • Athletics
  • Dance/Gymnastics
  • Health and Fitness
  • Swimming
  • Table Tennis
  • Volleyball
  • Badminton
  • Tennis
  • Baseball
  • Dodgeball
  • Basketball
  • Cooperative / Challenge Games
  • OAA
  • Sports Culture (including American Football, Gaelic Football and Kabaddi)

Competitive Conditioned Games linked to AQA GCSE Physical Education Specification

  • Football
  • Rugby
  • Handball
  • Cricket
  • Athletics
  • Dance/Gymnastics
  • Health and Fitness
  • Swimming
  • Table Tennis
  • Volleyball
  • Badminton
  • Tennis
  • Baseball
  • Dodgeball
  • Basketball
  • Cooperative / Challenge Games
  • OAA
  • Sports Culture (including American Football, Gaelic Football and Kabaddi)
  • Netball (Girls only)

GCSE Physical Education

Students will develop skills in one individual sport, one team sport and one other sport as part of the practical element of their GCSE studies.

5 Hours Per Fortnight, 3 Hours Classroom based Theory, 2 hours Practical PE.  Analysis Task (Coursework) Completed in December of Year 11.

Theory:

  • Skeletal system
  • Muscles and joints
  • Pathways of air
  • The Heart
  • Aerobic and anaerobic exercise
  • Short and long term effects of exercise
  • Levers, planes and axes
  • Health and fitness
  • Types of training and principles
  • Injury prevention – warm up and cool down

Students will develop skills in one individual sport, one team sport and one other sport as part of the practical element of their GCSE studies.

5 Hours Per Fortnight, 3 Hours Classroom based Theory, 2 hours Practical PE.  Analysis Task (Coursework) Completed in December of Year 11.

Theory:

  • Skill and Ability
  • Goal Setting
  • Information Processing Model
  • Guidance
  • Arousal
  • Engagement Patterns
  • Commercialisation
  • Technology in Sport
  • Performance Enhancing Drugs
  • Hooliganism
  • Nutrition

Please contact Mr Mark Stewart for more information on the Sports Science curriculum: mstewart@hightunstall.hartlepool.sch.uk