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Departmental Overview
Physical Education is a new two-year AS course that is ideally suited to those pupils who have a keen interest in sport, and represents the perfect academic complement to the School’s outstanding sporting facilities.
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Academic Overview
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Pupils take the course over two years, in the VIth Form.
The focus of the course is on participation and performance in physical activity as part of a balanced, active and healthy lifestyle.
The course is designed to help pupils
• increase their physical competence
• develop their involvement and effectiveness in physical activity
• enable them to become informed and discerning decision-makers in relation to their and others’ involvement in physical activity.
AS Units
Anatomy and Physiology
• The skeletal and muscular systems
• Motion and movement
• The cardiovascular and respiratory systems in relation to the performance of physical activity
Acquiring Movement Skills
• Classification of motor skills and abilities
• The development of motor skills
• Information processing
• Motor control of skills in physical activity
• Learning skills in physical activity
Socio-Cultural Studies relating to participation in physical activity
• Physical activity
• Sport and culture
• Contemporary issues in sport
Acquiring, developing and evaluating practical skills in Physical Education
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Academic Overview
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Pupils take the course over two years, in the VIth Form.
The focus of the course is on participation and performance in physical activity as part of a balanced, active and healthy lifestyle.
The course is designed to help pupils
• increase their physical competence
• develop their involvement and effectiveness in physical activity
• enable them to become informed and discerning decision-makers in relation to their and others’ involvement in physical activity.
AS Units
Anatomy and Physiology
• The skeletal and muscular systems
• Motion and movement
• The cardiovascular and respiratory systems in relation to the performance of physical activity
Acquiring Movement Skills
• Classification of motor skills and abilities
• The development of motor skills
• Information processing
• Motor control of skills in physical activity
• Learning skills in physical activity
Socio-Cultural Studies relating to participation in physical activity
• Physical activity
• Sport and culture
• Contemporary issues in sport
Acquiring, developing and evaluating practical skills in Physical Education
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