KS3 Physical Education
During Key Stage 3 pupils become more expert in their skills and techniques, and how to apply them in different activities. They start to understand what makes a performance effective and how to apply these principles to their own and others' work. They learn to take the initiative and make decisions for themselves about what to do to improve performance. They start to identify the types of activity they prefer to be involved with, and to take a variety of roles such as leader and official.
Acquiring and Developing Skills
Pupils should be taught to:
- Refine and adapt existing skills
- Develop them into specific techniques that suit different activities and perform these with consistent control
Selecting and Applying Skills, Tactics and Compositional Ideas
Pupils should be taught to:
- Use principles to plan and implement strategies, compositional and organisational ideas in individual, pair, group and team activities
- Modify and develop their plans
- Apply rules and conventions for different activities
Evaluating and Improving Performance
Pupils should be taught to:
- Be clear about what they want to achieve in their own work, and what they have actually achieved
- Take the initiative to analyse their own and others' work, using this information to improve its quality.
Knowledge and Understanding of Fitness and Health
Pupils should be taught:
- How to prepare for and recover from specific activities
- How different types of activity affect specific aspects of their fitness
- The benefits of regular exercise and good hygiene
- How to get involved in activities that are good for their personal and social health and well-being.
Breadth of Study
During KS3, pupils should be taught the Knowledge, skills and understanding through four areas of activity. These should include games activities and three of the following, at least one of which must be dance or gymnastic activities:
- Dance Activities
- Gymnastic Activities
- Swimming Activities and Water Safety
- Athletic Activities
- Outdoor and Adventurous Activities
Here at Stringer the pupils do six different sporting activities throughout the year.....
Dance Activities: Pupils should be taught to:
- Create and perform dances using a range of complex movement patterns and techniques
- Use a range of dance styles and forms
- Use compositional principles when composing their dances [for example, motif development, awareness of group relationships, spatial awareness
- Apply performance skills in their dances
Games Activities: Pupils should be taught to:
- Lay competitive invasion, net and striking/fielding games, using techniques that suit the games
- Use the principles of attack and defence when planning and implementing complex team strategies
- Respond to changing situations in the games.
Gymnastic Activities: Pupils should be taught to:
- Create and perform complex sequences on the floor and using apparatus
- Use techniques and movement combinations in different gymnastic styles
- Use compositional principles when designing their sequences [for example, changes in level, speed, direction, and relationships with apparatus and partners
Swimming Activities and Water Safety: Pupils should be taught to:
- Set and meet personal and group targets in swimming events, waterbased activities, personal survival challenges and competitions
- Use a range of recognised strokes, techniques and personal survival skills with technical proficiency
Athletic Activities: Pupils should be taught to:
- Set and meet personal and group targets in a range of athletic events, challenges and competitions
- Use a range of running, jumping and throwing techniques, singly and in combination, with precision, speed, power or stamina
Outdoor and Adventurous Activities: Pupils should be taught to:
- Meet challenges in outdoor activities and journeys
- Use a range of orienteering and problemsolving skills and techniques in these challenges
- Identify the roles and responsibilities of individuals within a group when planning strategies
- Respond to changing conditions and situations
