PE

Confidence

Great Teaching @ KS3

• We follow the curriculum to support consistency in delivery, provide a rounded experience and help prepare students for KS4 and beyond.
• We ensure that students are active, challenged and learning throughout every lesson to maximise progress.
• We first question, support and group disadvantaged and middle ability students to diminish the difference.
• We have a strong and formalised start and end of lesson routine to set high expectations and engage students in learning from the very start of the lesson.

Great Teaching @ KS4 & KS5

• We provide feedback in line with the department policy to help students make improvements to work.
• We use regular low stakes tests to support retention of knowledge.
• We use data to inform planning and teaching to ensure that all students are challenged and able to access learning.
• We first question, support and seat disadvantaged and middle ability students to diminish the difference.
• We use strategies to develop metacognition to support our students in understanding exam questions and being able to apply their knowledge.
• We use the 15 minutes of silence to develop student resilience and help them develop their literacy skills.
• We use ‘Do Now’ or ‘Settler’ tasks to set high expectations and engage students in learning from the very start of the lesson.

Ambition

Students will be given opportunities to access further career enrichment opportunities such as university visits. In addition, in Y9 all students have taster lessons in both PE and Health and Social Care which highlight career pathways. Finally, the careers pathways display board in PE highlights further opportunities.

Communication

Literacy is developed at KS3 through Oracy, students are encouraged to use technical language to discuss ideas and provide feedback to other learners. Through Oracy, teachers encourage formal language and full sentences to be used in answers in order to support literacy development. At KS4 and KS5 students develop literacy and reading skills through a multitude of reading based tasks and technical language is explicitly taught to support learning of literacy skills and retention of key terminology. Students follow the whole school presentation policy and teachers mark specifically for SPAG in order to further support students.