Sport Science Vision
GCSE PE POS
Overview
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.
Understand the physiological and psychological effects of exercise, encouraging students to analyse, evaluate and apply their knowledge to practical performances. Alongside gaining a deep understanding of the key socio-cultural factors that influence people’s involvement in physical activity and sport.
Improve as effective & independent learners and as critical and reflective thinkers with curious & enquiring minds.
The Programme of Study for GCSE PE is based on the delivery of 4 hours of contact time in the classroom to deliver both aspects of theoretical content: Two lessons/hours on Applied Science and two lessons/hours on socio-cultural. There is a different member of staff delivering each aspect of the course, meaning each class/set works with two members of staff across the two year course. NEA assessment happens throughout the two year course with one practical lesson every two weeks. Term
Musculoskeletal
Skeletal System
Synovial Joints
Muscular System
Muscle
Contractions
Types of movements at different joints
Sport Psychology 1
Skill Classification
Information
Processing Types of Guidance
SMART Goal
Setting
Badminton
Part 1 Focus: Skills Tactics Rules
Movement Analysis
Levers
Planes & Axis of movement
Different types of movement and how movement is created.
Sport Psychology 2
Personality Aggression Arousal Motivation
Cardiorespiratory
Respiratory System
Gaseous Exchange
Cardiac System
Cardiac Cycle / Output / HR / Stroke Volume
Spirometer Trace
Socio-Cultural Influences
Social Groups Factors & Barriers to Participation Engagement Patterns
Aerobic & Anaerobic
Energy equations
Sporting examples EPOC
Effects of Exercise
Short term & long term effects of exercise
Recovery Process
Physical Training
Components of Fitness
Principles of Training Warm Up Cool Down
- Students will gain knowledge and understanding of the musculoskeletal system and how this underpins movement and supports other bodily functions.
- Students will be able to apply their knowledge to sporting examples to annotate, describe and analyse specific movements.
- Students will gain a thorough understanding of how the cardiac and respiratory system work together to allow aerobic and anaerobic respiration and the impact on the body's systems during exercise.
Badminton
Part 2 Focus: Game play
Informal Assessment
Commercialisatio n of Sport
Media in Sport Sponsorship Golden Triangle
Technology in Sport
Types of technology in sport
Impact on performer, spectator & officials
Handball
Part 1 Focus: Skills Tactics Rules
Handball
Part 2 Focus: Game play
Informal Assessment
Athletics
Part 1 Focus: Skills Tactics Technique
NEA Practical & Coursework
Coursework expectations Strengths & Weaknesses
- Students are able to apply the principles and methods of training to justify and explain the effects of exercise and impact on performance.
-Students are able to understand and apply their knowledge of Sport Psychology to a performer or sport. As well as synoptic links of various psychology topics such as aggression and arousal.
-Students are able to critically write and understand the barriers to participation among different social groups. -Students are able to understand and evaluate the impact the media, sponsorship and technology has on sports and its relation to the performer, official and spectators.
NEA/Practical
Athletics Part 2 Focus: Effective performance Informal Assessment
- Students are able to identify which three activities/sports they will take through into Year 11 for formal assessment.
- Students will be informally assessed in badminton, handball and athletics and will be able to identify strengths and weaknesses within their performance.
- Students gain a full understanding of the coursework expectations and are able to complete part 1 strengths and weaknesses.
Year 11
GCSE PE
Applied Science
Socio
Cultural
Physical Training
Training Methods
Fitness Testing
Training Zones
Periodisation
Behaviour in Sport
Sportsmanship
Gamesmanship
Player & Spectator
Behaviour
Hooliganism
Health & Fitness
Definitions & differences
Sedentary lifestyles
Obesity
Somatotypes
Energy Use
Nutrition
Carbohydrate
Loading
Behaviour in Sport
Drugs in Sport
Use of Data Graphs Data interpretation
NEA Practical & Coursework
Completion of Coursework Action Plan
Revision
Revisiting all topics covered for applied science and socio-cultural. Developing exam technique and students' understanding to support students in preparation for the summer exam.
Revision / Study Leave
Revision / Study Leave
- Students develop knowledge and understanding of different training methods and the importance of fitness testing and periodisation.
- Students are able to fully understand the importance of a BAHL and are able to apply the impact of obesity and sedentary lifestyles on performance.
-Students will be able to understand different behaviours seen in sport and will be able to evaluate the impact of hooliganism and the strategies to combat it.
-Students will be able to analyse and apply the impact of Performancing Enhancing Drugs on the performer and the sport.
NEA/Practical
Students are able to complete the written coursework task including application of theoretical content in development of their action plan.
Students are formally assessed in their three chosen activities/sports and are able to identify strengths and weaknesses within their performance.
A Level PE POS Overview
The Programme of Study for A Level PE is based on the delivery of 9 hours of contact time in the classroom to deliver each aspect of theoretical content. Each of the three aspects of the course have three hours each of contact time which is delivered by three different teachers: Anatomy & Physiology/Exercise Physiology, Skill/Psychology/Biomechanics and Sociocultural. Students are responsible for collecting NEA evidence to support their practical assessment with students being supported by staff mentors to complete all aspects of the NEA for A Level PE.
Year 12
A Level PE
A&P / Exercise
Physiology
Musculoskeletal Systems
Structure and function of
Synovial joints
Muscle fibre types and types of contraction.
Motor units
Skill
Psychology
Biomechanics
Movement Analysis
Planes and axes of movement
Movement patterns
Application to sporting examples
Cardiovascular System
Structure/ function of the heart
Cardiac cycle
Conduction system
CV values and responses to exercise
Cardiovascular control
Venous return & vascular shunting
Vasomotor control
Respiratory System
Structure & function of respiratory system
Values, gas transport and exercise responses
Biomechanics
Levers
Analysing movement through the use of technology
Psychology
Individual differences
Personality
The Modern Olympics
History & Background of The Olympics
Aims & Values
Political
Exploitation of The Olympics
Ergogenic Aids
Pharmacological aids
Physiological aids
Nutritional aids
Psychology
Attitudes
Motivation
Arousal
Anxiety
Hosting
International
Sporting Events
Reasons for Hosting Opportunities & Drawbacks
Benefits to sport, society, politics
Preparation &
Training Methods
Principles of training, periodisation and programme design
Aerobic capacity & strength: Types & factors
Methods of training
Evaluation of fitness
Adaptations to training
Psychology
Social Facilitation
Aggression
Goal setting in sports
Preparation & Training Methods
Flexibility:
Types & factors
Methods of training
Evaluation of fitness
Adaptations to training
Energy Systems
Introduction to energy for exercise
ATP, ATP/PC, Glycolytic systems
EAPI
Introduction to EAPI Assessment
Strengths and
Anatomy & Physiology / Exercise Physiology
- Students will have gained an in-depth knowledge and understanding of how the structure and function of the main body systems (musculoskeletal, cardiovascular & respiratory) underpin all physical activity and contribute to effective sports performance.
- Students will have gained an understanding of how a variety of methods (training, dietary & ergogenic aid use) can be implemented to improve sporting performance in a range of contexts, and the effects these methods have on the previously learned body systems.
Skill
- Students will have to 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.
- 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 skills.
Sport &
Society Skill
Classification of skills
Types and methods of practice
Transfer of skills
Stages of learning
Guidance
Pre & Post
Industrial Britain
Socio-cultural factors
Mob football vs Real Tennis
Industrial Revolution
Urbanisation
19th Century
Public Schools
Breathing mechanics
Breathing regulation intro Skill
Principles and theories of learning movement skills
Feedback
Biomechanics
Biomechanical principles
Newton's Laws Force
Stability
20th & 21st Century Sport
Socio-cultural factors
Amateurism & professionalism
Globalisation of Sport, Freedom of Movement, Media
Year 13
A Level PE
A&P
Acute and chronic injuries
Hard tissue and soft tissue injuries
Biomechanics
Quantities Moment of Inertia Conservation of Angular Momentum
performance
Psychology
Team Dynamics
Group
Effectiveness
Ringelmann effect
Social loafing
Weakness
Observation Skills
Prevention and Rehabilitation of Injury
Intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors
Acute management (SALTAPS/PRICE)
Rehabilitation methods
Psychology
- Students will be able to explain how individual differences affect performers in physical activity and sport.
- Students will be able to explain the importance of goal setting in sports performance.
- Students will be able to explain the role of attribution in motivating performers and justify impacts on performance.
- Students will be able to explain and apply confidence and self-efficacy in sport and justify impacts on performance.
Biomechanics
- Students will have developed 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.
- Students will have developed 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.
Sport & Society
- Students will have the knowledge and understanding of the ‘Emergence and evolution of modern sport’ from Pre-industrial Britain to 21st Century Sport.
- Students will have the knowledge and understanding of the origins/history of The Olympics alongside political and social reasons and issues related to hosting global sporting events.
EAPI Assessment
- Students will gain a thorough understanding of the NEA and EAPI assessment process.
- Students will develop their observation skills when watching a live performance.
- Students will be able to structure, analyse and complete their strengths and weaknesses (part 1) of their EAPI.
Revision
Revisiting all topics covered across the whole course.
Developing exam technique and students' understanding to support students in preparation for the summer
Revision / Study Leave Anatomy & Physiology / Exercise Physiology
- Students will have gained an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the human body’s capabilities to perform physical exercise of differing intensities and in differing environments.
- Students will be able to apply their previously learned knowledge of anatomy & physiology to the development, preventative methods and treatment/rehabilitation of a wide range of sports injuries.
Psychology
Biomechanics
Cultural usage
Socio
Psychology
AttributionWeiner’s Model Confidence and self efficacy
Leadership in Sport Stress Management to Optimise Performance
Routes to Sporting Excellence
Identification of Talent
Support strategies
Role of UK Sport, National Institutes
Drop out strategies
Psychology
AttributionWeiner’s Model Confidence & self efficacy Leadership in Sport Stress Management to Optimise Performance
Fluid Mechanics
Air Resistance
Projectile Motion
Free body diagrams
Resolving of Forces
EAPI Assessment
Completion of the EAPI assessment as part of NEA.
Modern Technology in Sport Impact of technology in sport on:
Elite performance General participation Fair Outcomes
Entertainment Preparation for informal assessment
Revision of previously learned material in preparation for the informal assessments
Ethics & Deviance in Sport
Drugs in Sport
Legal
Supplements vs Illegal Drugs
Violence in Sport
Gambling in Sport
Biomechanics
Flight Paths
Bernoulli’s
Principle
Lift Forces
Downward Forces
Spin - Magnus Force
Commercialism & Media
Factors leading to commercialism
Positive & negative impacts on sport
Changes in media since 1980 Golden Triangle
Psychology
- Students will embed knowledge and understanding of psychological factors of sport, focusing on leadership, confidence, stress management and are able to apply this to sporting examples to optimise performance.
Biomechanics
- Students will develop knowledge and understanding of the factors that combine to conserve angular momentum.
- 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.
- Students will have developed their knowledge and understanding of projectile motion, including the application of Bernoulli’s principle and the Magnus effect on spinning balls
Socio-Cultural
- Students will develop their knowledge and understanding of the ethics and deviance that affects sport and apply using practical examples.
- Students will develop their knowledge and understanding of the positive and negative impacts of commercialisation and the media on physical activity and sport.
- Students will be able to critically analyse, justify and apply the impact of the Golden Triangle and how sport, media and sponsorship are interlinked.
- Students will analyse and be able to fully explain the support strategies on offer from UK Sport, National Institutes and NGBs to help identify and develop sporting talent.
NEA Assessment
- Students will complete the EAPI assessment and have the knowledge and understanding to identify strengths and weaknesses, alongside developing an action plan while applying all relevant theoretical knowledge.
- Students will be able to evidence and showcase their practical performance in their chosen sport which will include a completed logbook and video evidence.