The Crypt School Physical Education A Level ProgrammePE of Study (POS) 2022-23
Introduction to social cultural factors
Learners will be able to apply and justify the impact social factors such as class, gender, money etc. has on participation in physical activity.
Learners will develop knowledge and understanding of how physical activity and sport have developed through time and the factors that shape contemporary sport.
Year 12 – Term 1 Area Specificationof Content – Topics Covered Assessment
End of Topic Assessment
Understand the ‘Emergence and evolution of modern sport’ topic area, investigating sport that can be charted through each century.
Anatomy Physiology&(HW)
Classification of skills Types and methods of practice Transfer of skills Stages of Guidancelearning
Learners will develop their knowledge and understanding of the roles of the skeletal and muscular systems in the performance of movement skills in physical activities and sport.
Skeletal and Muscular Systems
Structure and function
Develop theoretical knowledge and understanding of the factors that underpin physical activity and sport; preparing them for higher education and allowing students to flourish within the vast opportunities available in the sports industry.
Pre & Post-Industrial Britain
Alongside gaining a deep understanding of the key socio-cultural factors that influence people’s involvement in physical activity and sport.
End of Topic Assessments
Sport (AB/RC)Society& Emergence and Evolution of Modern Sport
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Understand the physiological and psychological effects of exercise, encouraging students to analyse, evaluate and apply their knowledge to practical performances.
Synovial joints Muscle fibre types and types of contraction
Skill(PS) Skill
Improve as effective & independent learners and as critical and reflective thinkers with curious & enquiring minds. End Points
End of Topic Assessments
Learners will develop an understanding of the importance of being able to classify skills in order to select the most suitable approach to the learning of motor skills.
A Level PE Vision
Biomechanics
Learners will be able to apply and justify the impact social factors such as class, gender, money etc. has on participation in physical activity.
Students will be able to identify underlying factors required for effective and efficient performance. Students will also gain a detailed understanding of the impact of the environment and conditions in which new skills are learned on the success of acquiring these motor Studentsskills. will develop a knowledge and understanding of biomechanical principles, including defining and applying Newton’s Laws. The concept of force will be understood along with being able to draw and understand free body diagrams.
Learners will gain an understanding of how 19TH Century Public Schools helped shape the develop the provision for sport across the UK.
Learners will develop knowledge and understanding of how physical activity and sport have developed through time and the factors that shape contemporary sport.
Develop knowledge and understanding of planes of movement, the roles of muscles and types of contraction will be developed. Learners will also be able to analyse movement in physical activities and sport applying the underlying knowledge of muscular contraction.
Social cultural factors that shaped sport in 20th Century Britain Public Schools Amateurism and professionalism Public School Influence Social class and status End of Topic Assessments
Skill Principles and theories of learning movement
Understand the ‘Emergence and evolution of modern sport’ topic area, investigating sport that can be charted through each century.
Skill Biomechanic&s(PS)
Sport (AB/RC)Society&
Emergence and Evolution of Modern Sport
Feedbackskills
The Crypt School Physical Education A Level ProgrammePE of Study (POS) 2022-23 Year 12 – Term 2 Area Specificationof Content – Topics Covered Assessment End Points Anatomy Physiology&(HW)
Planes and axes of movement Movement patterns
Movement analysis
Biomechanical principles
Application to sporting examples End of Topic Assessment
Newton'sStabilityForceLaws
End of Topic Assessments
Analysing movement through the use of technology Psychology IndividualPersonalitydifferences
Informal Assessment
Social cultural factors that shaped sport in 21st Century Britain Contemporary factors shaping sport Social Globalisationclass
Learners will develop knowledge and understanding of how physical activity and sport have developed through time and the factors that shape contemporary sport. -
The Crypt School Physical Education A Level ProgrammePE of Study (POS) 2022-23 Year 12 – Term 3
Learners will be able to define, apply and explain social factors such as globalisation, freedom of movement and gender equality which have developed sport in the 21st Century.
End of Topic Assessment
Cardiovascular and respiratory control
Sport (AB/RC)Society&
Informal Assessment
Cardiovascular and respiratory systems
Area Specificationof
Biomechanics Levers
Structure and function of the heart Mechanics of breathing
Students will develop their knowledge and understanding of levers and the mechanical advantage of the second-class lever, as well as the use of technology to analyse movement and improve performance.
End of Topic Assessment
Informal Assessment - Understand the ‘Emergence and evolution of modern sport’ topic area, investigating sport that can be charted through each century.
Cardiorespiratory response to exercise
End of Topic Assessment
Content – Topics Covered Assessment End Points
&sBiomechanicPsychology(PS)
Anatomy Physiology&(HW)
Learners will know key terms and develop their knowledge and understanding of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems at rest, during exercise and during recovery.
Students will be able to explain how individual differences affect performers in physical activity and sport.
Emergence and Evolution of Modern Sport
Psychology
PhysiologyExercise(HW)
Learners will develop their knowledge and understanding of diet, nutrition and ergogenic aids and their effects on physical activity and performance.
Sport (AB/RC)Society& Global Sporting Events Modern Olympics aims Olympic games politics
MotivationAttitudesArousalAnxiety
Impacts of hosting global sporting events
- Students will be able to explain and justify specific events which have politically exploited the Olympic games.
The Crypt School Physical Education A Level ProgrammePE of Study (POS) 2022-23 Year 12 – Term 4 Area Specificationof
Healthy balanced diet Macro and micro nutrients Energy intake, expenditure, and balance
End of Topic Assessment
Students will develop their knowledge and understanding of the nature of global sporting events and how they reflect and are impacted upon by social issues.
End of Topic Assessment
Content – Topics Covered Assessment End Points
Students will be able to explain how individual differences affect performers in physical activity and sport. Students will be able to explain the role of attribution in motivating performers.
Diet and nutrition
End of Topic Assessment
Psychology(PS)
Psychology(AB/RC)
Pharmacological aids Physiological aids Nutritional aids
TeamPsychologyDynamics: Teams and groups GroupRinglemanneffectivenesseffectSocialloafing
End of Topic Assessments
Learners will develop their knowledge and understanding of diet, nutrition and ergogenic aids and their effects on physical activity and performance.
End of Topic Assessments
Psychology(PS)
Students will be able to explain and apply group and team dynamics in sport.
Ergogenic aids
Psychology SocialAggressionFacilitation
The Crypt School Physical Education A Level ProgrammePE of Study (POS) 2022-23 Year 12 – Term 5 Area Specificationof Content – Topics Covered Assessment End Points PhysiologyExercise(HW)
Goal setting in sports performance
End of Topic Assessments
Students should be able to explain the importance of goal setting in sports performance. - Students should be able to explain the role of attribution in motivating Studentsperformers.should be able to explain confidence and self-efficacy in sport.
Learners will develop their knowledge and understanding of how physiological adaptations resulting from training and lifestyle affect the efficiency of these body systems.
Non-Examined Assessment (NEA) Introduction to EAPI Assessment Strengths and ObservationWeaknessSkills
Evaluation
Formal Assessment
Formal Assessment
Preparation and training methods Methods of training of
Learners will know about physical preparation and different training methods in relation to improving and maintaining physical activity and performance. Knowledge and understanding will also be developed of the impact of training on preventing lifestyle- related diseases.
EAPI Essay Formal Assessment - Students will gain a thorough understanding of the NEA and EAPI assessment process.
Revision Recap of key topics from the course EAPI – apply the various areas of learning to the EAPI assessment to help prepare students for the EAPI assessment in Year 13.
End of Topic Assessments
BiomechanicSkillsPsychology(PS)
NEA AssessmentEAPI(AB/RC)
Students will develop their observation skills when watching a live Studentsperformance.willbe able to structure, analyse and complete their strengths and weaknesses (part 1) of their EAPI.
RevisionAdaptationsPeriodisationfitnesstotraining/ReinforcePriorLearning
The Crypt School Physical Education A Level ProgrammePE of Study (POS) 2022-23 Year 12 – Term 6 Area Specificationof Content – Topics Covered Assessment End Points PhysiologyExercise(HW)
Biomechanics Linear AxesAngularQuantitiesMotionGraphsMotionofRotation
ATP, ATP/PC, Glycolytic and aerobic energy systems
End of Topic Assessments -
- The definitions and creation of linear motion and angular motion will be known and students will be able to make calculations for quantities of linear and angular motion.
Ethics & Deviance in Sport Drugs in Sport Legal Supplements vs Illegal Drugs Violence in Sport Gambling in Sport End of Topic Assessments
Students will be able to apply the different learning theories to the development of skills.
Skill Biomechanic&s(PS) Skill
Students will be able to identify different types of practice and relate these to a particular stage of learning.
Students will be able to analyse the reason for and the prevention strategies put in place with reference to violence in sport.
Students will develop knowledge and understanding of gambling in sport and how it has become a 21st century issue with regards to deviance.
The Crypt School Physical Education A Level ProgrammePE of Study (POS) 2022-23 Year 13 – Term 1 Area Specificationof Content – Topics Covered Assessment End Points Anatomy Physiology&(HW)
Students will develop their knowledge and understanding of the ethics involved in sport and deviance that affects sport and sporting behaviour will be understood and applied using practical examples.
InfluencesCulturalSocio-(AB/RC)
Students will be able to distinguish and explain the differences between legal supplements and illegal drugs in sport.
Learners will develop their knowledge and understanding of Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) as energy currency, along with the principle of the coupled reactions and resynthesis of ATP. The detail of the different energy systems will be known and learners will understand the energy continuum and factors that affect the interplay of the energy systems. Memory models
Energy continuum End of Topic Assessments
Energy systems
Students will be able to analyse and apply the impact of the Golden Triangle and how sport, media and sponsorship work together. 13 – Term 3
Implications of recovery on training Effect of altitude on performance Effect of heat on performance
Learners will know about physical preparation and different training methods in relation to improving and maintaining physical activity and performance. Knowledge and understanding will also be developed of the impact of training on preventing lifestyle- related diseases.
Commercialism & Media Factors leading to commercialism
Informal Assessment -
Recovery, Altitude and Heat EPOC
The Crypt School Physical Education A Level ProgrammePE of Study (POS) 2022-23 Year 13 – Term 2 Area Specificationof
End of Topic Assessments
PhysiologyExercise(HW)
Biomechanics
Students will develop their knowledge and understanding of fluid mechanics, including factors that impact the magnitude of air resistance (on land) or drag (in water) on a body or object.
Learners will develop their knowledge and understanding of the positive and negative impacts of commercialisation and the media on physical activity and sport.
Positive & negative impacts on sport Changes in media since 1980 Golden Triangle End of Topic Assessments
Year
Learners will develop their knowledge and understanding of how physiological adaptations resulting from training and lifestyle affect the efficiency of these body systems.
Students will be able to distinguish and apply the growth of media in sport and the significant changes which took place since 1980.
Informal Assessment
sBiomechanic(PS)
Informal Assessment
ConservationMomentQuantitiesofInertiaofAngularMomentumFluidMechanicsAirResistanceProjectileMotionFreebodydiagramsResolvingofForces
End of Topic Assessments
InfluencesCulturalSocio-(AB/RC)
Content – Topics Covered Assessment End Points
Identification of Talent Support strategies
End of Topic Assessments
PsychologysBiomechanic&(PS)
Routes to Sporting Excellence
Learners will be able to understand how to prevent injury in physical activities and sport and the rehabilitation of injury including the treatment of common sporting injuries.
End of Topic Assessments
Acute and chronic injuries
Students will develop their knowledge and understanding of projectile motion, including the application of Bernoulli’s principle. -
Flight
InfluencesCulturalSocio-(AB/RC)
Students should be able to explain confidence and self-efficacy in sport.
Hard tissue and soft tissue injuries
Year 13 – Term 4 Covered End Points
Attribution - Weiner’s Model Confidence and self efficacy End of Topic Assessments
Area Specificationof Content – Topics
Psychology
Learners will analyse and be able to fully explain the support strategies on offer from UK Sport, National Institutes and NGBs to help develop sporting Learnerstalent.willbe able to analyse and justify the reasons for ‘drop out’ in sport and the strategies put in place to prevent drop out.
Sports Injury
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Role of UK Sport, National Institutes Drop out strategies
Learners will develop their knowledge and understanding of the different identification strategies available in sport to identify talent.
Assessment
The Crypt School Physical Education A Level ProgrammePE of Study (POS) 2022-23 Area Specificationof Content – Topics Covered Assessment End Points PhysiologyExercise(HW)
Biomechanics
SpinBernoulli’sPathsPrincipleLiftForcesDownwardForces-MagnusForce
Year 13 – Term 5
Intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors
Modern Technology Impact on: Elite GeneralperformanceparticipationFairOutcomesEntertainment
Recap over all key points/topics/content from Year 12 & 13
Formal Assessment
Formal Assessment
End of Topic Assessments
Students should be able to explain leadership in sport. -
Formal Assessment
Learners will be able to understand how to prevent injury in physical activities and sport and the rehabilitation of injury including the treatment of common sporting injuries.
End of Topic Assessments
Students will develop their knowledge and understanding of the developing influences of modern technology in physical activities and sport will be understood as well as its impact on participation, fair outcomes and entertainment.
Psychology(PS)
Revision & Final Exam Preparation
Students should be able to explain how stress management techniques in physical activities and sports can optimise performance.
End of Topic Assessments
The Crypt School Physical Education A Level ProgrammePE of Study (POS) 2022-23 PhysiologyExercise(HW)
Acute management (SALTAPS/PRICE) Rehabilitation methods (e.g. massage)
Prevention and Rehabilitation of Injury
InfluencesCulturalSocio-(AB/RC)
Psychology Leadership in Sport Stress Management to Optimise Performance