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PROGRAMME OF STUDY

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Knowledge, skills and understanding

Acquiring and developing skills
Selecting and applying skills, tactics and compositional ideas
Evaluating and improving performance
Knowledge and understanding of fitness and health

Breadth of Study

Knowledge, skills and understanding

Teaching should ensure that when evaluating and improving performance , connections are made between developing, selecting and applying skills, tactics and compositional ideas , and fitness and health .

During key stage 2 pupils enjoy being active and using their creativity and imagination in physical activity. They learn new skills, find out how to use them in different ways, and link them to make actions, phrases and sequences of movement. They enjoy communicating, collaborating and competing with each other. They develop an understanding of how to succeed in different activities and learn how to evaluate and recognise their own success.

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>The general teaching requirement for health and safety applies in this subject.

Acquiring and developing skills

1) Pupils should be taught to:

a) consolidate their existing skills and gain new ones

b) perform actions and skills with more consistent control and quality.

Selecting and applying skills, tactics and compositional ideas

2) Pupils should be taught to:

a)  plan, use and adapt strategies, tactics and compositional ideas for individual, pair, smallgroup and smallteam activities

b)  develop and use their knowledge of the principles behind the strategies, tactics and ideas to improve their effectiveness

c)  apply rules and conventions for different activities.

Evaluating and improving performance

3) Pupils should be taught to:

a) identify what makes a performance effective

b) suggest improvements based on this information.

links to other subjects > En1 Speaking and listening 3) b

Knowledge and understanding of fitness and health

4) Pupils should be taught:

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Sc2 Life processes and living things 2) c
Sc2 Life processes and living things 2) d
Sc2 Life processes and living things 2) e
Sc2 Life processes and living things 2) h

a)  how exercise affects the body in the short term

b)  to warm up and prepare appropriately for different activities

c)  why physical activity is good for their health and wellbeing

d)  why wearing appropriate clothing and being hygienic is good for their health and safety.

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5) During the key stage, pupils should be taught the Knowledge, skills and understanding through five areas of activity:

a)  dance activities

b)  games activities

c)  gymnastic activities
and two activity areas from:

d)  swimming activities and water safety

e)  athletic activities

f)  outdoor and adventurous activities.
Swimming activities and water safety must be chosen as one of these areas of activity unless pupils have completed the full key stage 2 teaching requirements in relation to swimming activities and water safety during key stage 1.

Dance activities

6) Pupils should be taught to:

links to other subjects	>	Music 3) b Music 5) b
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a) create and perform dances using a range of movement patterns, including those from different times, places and cultures

b) respond to a range of stimuli and accompaniment.

Games activities

7) Pupils should be taught to:

a)  play and make up smallsided and modified competitive net, striking/fielding and invasion games

b)  use skills and tactics and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending

c)  work with others to organise and keep the games going.

Gymnastic activities

8) Pupils should be taught to:

ICT Opportunity
ICT Opportunity

a) create and perform fluent sequences on the floor and using apparatus

b) include variations in level, speed and direction in their sequences.

Swimming activities and water safety

9) Pupils should be taught to:

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a)  pace themselves in floating and swimming challenges related to speed, distance and personal survival

b)  swim unaided for a sustained period of time over a distance of at least 25m

c)  use recognised arm and leg actions, lying on their front and back

d)   use a range of recognised strokes and personal survival skills [for example, front crawl, back crawl, breaststroke, sculling, floating and surface diving] .

Athletic activities

10) Pupils should be taught to:

ICT Opportunity

a)  take part in and design challenges and competitions that call for precision, speed, power or stamina

b)  use running, jumping and throwing skills both singly and in combination

c)  pace themselves in these challenges and competitions.

Outdoor and adventurous activities

11) Pupils should be taught to:

a)  take part in outdoor activity challenges, including following trails, in familiar, unfamiliar and changing environments

links to other subjects > Geography 2) c

b)  use a range of orienteering and problemsolving skills

c)  work with others to meet the challenges.

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