Welcome to Physical Education!

      

Physical Education plays a vital role in the development of young people. A healthy active lifestyle provides a wide range of benefits in all aspects of life. As well as the obvious physical benefits the subject promotes a range of social skills and encourages students to work together and develop leadership qualities.

The Physical Education department is committed to teaching students why a healthy active lifestyle is important and offering them guidance and opportunities to follow such a lifestyle.

Students will be taught a wide range of physical skills and activities. They will be offered opportunities to develop these skills and apply them in a range of recreational and competitive situations.

Our aim is to give every student a positive experience of sport and allow them the opportunity to develop this into a lifelong association with physical activity

Our Curriculum

All students in Years 7-11 receive two, one hour lessons in Physical Education. They will cover a wide range of individual and team activities. These include:

Rugby, Football, Cricket, Rounders, Netball, Tchoukball, Kinball, Dodgeball, Badminton, 4-Square, Table Tennis, Outdoor Education, Gymnastics, Trampolining, Dance, Rounders, Cricket, Fitness and Aerobics.

In Year 9 students have the opportunity to study GCSE Physical Education

The GCSE course is in two sections:

Component 1 & 2 Theory: 2 Written papers (60%)
Component 1: Fitness and Body Systems (36%)	Component 2: Health and Performance (24%)
Applied anatomy and physiology Movement analysis Physical training Use of data Paper length : 1hour 45 mins Marks available: 90 marks	Health, fitness and well being Sport psychology Socio-cultural influences Use of data Paper length: 1hour 15 mins Marks available: 70 marks

 

Component 3: Practical Performance (30%)
You must select three sports (at least one team and one individual activity).
Team activities
Association football Badminton - doubles Basketball Camogie Cricket Dance - group Field hockey	Gaelic football Handball Hurling Lacrosse Netball Rowing Rugby league		Rugby union Squash - doubles Table tennis - doubles Tennis - doubles Volleyball		Specialist activities Blind cricket Goal ball Powerchair football Table cricket Wheelchair basketball Wheelchair rugby
Individual activities
Amateur boxing Athletics Badminton - singles Canoeing Cycling Track or road cycling only Dance - individual Diving Platform diving Golf		Gymnastics Floor routines and apparatus only Equestrian Kayaking Rock climbing Rowing Sculling Skiing		Snowboarding Squash - singles Swimming Table tennis - singles Tennis - singles Trampolining Specialist activity Boccia Polybat

There is NO possibility to be assessed as a leader or an official

Coursework (10%)

In your best sport you need to produce:

• Analysis of performance document
•  A six week training programme

 

At Key Stage 5 the department offer the following courses:

A level PE – an in depth study of Sport and recreation from its historical development to modern sports science techniques and issues facing contemporary performers.

Component 1 & 2 Theory: 2 Written papers (70%)
Component 1: Fitness and Body Systems (40%)	Component 2: Health and Performance (30%)
Applied anatomy and physiology Exercise physiology and applied movement analysis Paper length : 2 hours 30 mins Marks available: 90 marks	Skill acquisition Sport psychology Sport and society Paper length: 2 hours Marks available: 100 marks

 

Component 3: Practical Performance (15%)
You must select one sport
Team activities
Association football Badminton - doubles Basketball Camogie Cricket Field hockey	Gaelic football Handball Hurling Lacrosse Netball Rowing Rugby league		Rugby union Squash - doubles Table tennis - doubles Tennis - doubles Volleyball		Specialist activities Blind cricket Goal ball Powerchair football Table cricket Wheelchair basketball Wheelchair rugby
Individual activities
Amateur boxing Athletics Badminton - singles Canoeing Cycling Track or road cycling only Dance - individual Diving Platform diving Golf		Gymnastics Floor routines and apparatus only Equestrian Kayaking Rock climbing Rowing Sculling Skiing		Snowboarding Squash - singles Swimming Table tennis - singles Tennis - singles Trampolining Specialist activity Boccia Polybat

There is NO possibility to be assessed as a leader or an official

Coursework (15%)

In your best sport you need to produce:

• Performance analysis
•  Personal Development Plan (PDP)

 

BTEC Public Services – An introduction into the role of the Public Services

Enrichment and Extra Curricular

The PE Department is committed to providing a wide range of extracurricular opportunities. 

These include the chance to take part in sport at a recreational level, including activities such as badminton and table tennis.

Students are also given the opportunity to compete at varying levels of competition.

Students are able to compete in a range of inter tutor events organised each year. These will include football, netball, rounders, badminton and table tennis.

Students can also participate in a range of inter school activities. Football teams for boys and girls enter the Sutton Schools League and Cup and Surrey Cup. Girls netball and rounders teams compete in Sutton League and Cup competitions.

The school enter District competition in athletics, cross-country, cricket, gymnastics and trampolining.

The department has developed a number of links with local clubs. We hold a weekly gymnastics club at Sutton Gymnastics Academy. Sutton and Epsom Rugby Club provide Rugby coaching and there is a weekly archery session run by Archery 4 all. Surrey Keepers also provide specialist Goalkeeper coaching.

We have a team of sports captains who help and assist with departmental events and a number of Year 10 and 11 students are involved in our Leadership programme working with younger students and in local Primary schools.

School trips are a valuable part of the educational experience at Cheam. In recent years the department has run Ski trips to USA, Netball to PGL in Liddington and Football to the Isle of Wight.

            

A link to the most recent department review for Physical Education can be found here.