Sporting Aims and Provision

The Physical Education curriculum area has an excellent reputation both within the school and local area and is extremely proud of its students and their achievements. The curriculum area believes strongly in developing healthy, active lifestyles in the school community, whilst also striving for excellence.

Currently there are 10 members of staff teaching Physical Education, additionally supported by a number of trainee teachers who are undertaking teacher training as part of the school’s SCITT programme. A key feature of the area is the passion that all of the staff have for their subject and sport, and the way in which the staff interact, and their willingness and flexibility to adapt in order to best meet the needs of the students. The curriculum area has great facilities, which consist of two high quality allweather pitches, a state-of-the-art fitness suite, a sports hall, gym, main hall, and high quality floodlit hard court areas marked out for either four netball or six tennis courts. Additionally the main playground is marked with six superb basketball or football courts marked for students to use both within and outside of lesson time.

Students in KS3 cover a number of invasion games, aesthetic activities, athletics, fitness, net wall games and striking and fielding games. In Years 8, 9 and 10, classes are put into pathways according to their ability. In Year 11 students have the opportunity to follow an options programme and make use of local facilities, including; Surrey Sports Park, Blacknest Golf Club and the Alpine Ski Centre at Aldershot.

Students who opt to study GCSE PE follow the EDEXCEL syllabus, with approximately 100 students studying for this award each year. We are a dedicated curriculum area for fixtures and extra-curricular activities, and as well as running inclusive clubs before school, at lunchtime and after school, we also run teams that compete at local, District, County and National level in a number of sports. Netball, football and rugby feature strongly as winter sports, with a focus on cricket, athletics and tennis in the summer. We have a number of students taking part in individual activities like trampolining, dance and gymnastics, and opportunities exist for students to take part in a range of further activities from wakeboarding, sailing and kayaking to karate. Additionally a number of specialist coaches come in to school on a fee paying basis to offer additional high quality

coaching in a number of sports. Inter-form and inter-college competitions in a range of sports also run throughout the year. Many of our students are very talented and go on to achieve success locally, nationally and even at international levels.

The department is keen to offer students opportunities to develop and grow further, both in their sport and as individuals, and organises a number of sports tours. In the last few years this has included major tours to South Africa and Australia, and more locally a rugby tour to the West Country and a netball tour to the Brighton area. A football tour to Holland is being planned as well as a watersports trip to the South of France. The curriculum area is fully committed to encouraging students to adopt healthy, active lifestyles and to foster and nurture their talent and love of physical activity.

Excellence for some, opportunity for all.