Year 10 Physical
Education
Scheme of Work

Not a topic list with timings against it. Ten sections per unit, in the same order every time, and the lesson sequence is one row per lesson rather than one per week. A department buying a scheme of work for a qualification is buying the teaching, not a summary of it.

No theory is taught away from the activity it explains. The subject content requires specifications to enable students to make the connections between theory and practice, and the reliable way to lose that is to timetable theory into a classroom and practical into a hall and let them drift apart. Every unit here names a practical vehicle, and in most units the data the theory works on is data the students generated in the previous lesson.

The scheme builds both coursework tasks. The ten per cent non-exam task is an analysis of a performance on some specifications and a personal exercise programme on another. They are genuinely different pieces of work. Unit 2b produces the programme and unit 3b produces the analysis, so a department finishes Year 10 with whichever its board requires already drafted, and the other one completed as preparation. A department that changes board does not lose a year.

Each unit carries the misconceptions that actually appear and what to do about each, hinge questions with what a wrong answer means, banded answers at real tariffs with the discriminator spelled out, and named-group adaptations that change access rather than demand — including a full route through every unit for a student who cannot take part practically, assessed on the same rubric rows.

No board is named on any teaching page and no specification wording is reproduced. A table at the back sets out what genuinely varies between the awarding organisations and what you must check locally before September.

Written to

The GCSE subject content for physical education published by the Department for Education (DFE-00697-2014) and Ofqual’s subject level conditions — the four assessment objectives, the 60/40 split, and the three-activity practical requirement

Intended for

PE teachers and heads of department. A departmental planning document, not a student revision guide

Extent

86 pages · 24 sections

1. 1a

   Applied Anatomy and Physiology: The Body Under Load

   One half-term unit · approx. 7 weeks · theory and practical taught together

   You are three minutes into a game and breathing hard. What is actually happening, and why?

2. 1b

   Movement Analysis and the Learning of Skill

   One half-term unit · approx. 7 weeks · filmed practical throughout

   Why is the body built so badly for lifting, and so well for throwing?

3. 2a

   Fitness, Testing and the Use of Data

   One half-term unit · approx. 7 weeks · a testing battery run twice

   Your test score went up. Did you actually get fitter?

4. 2b

   Training Programmes: Design, Delivery and Evaluation

   One half-term unit · approx. 7 weeks, of which six are the programme

   worked?

5. 3a

   Sport Psychology and Socio-cultural Influences

   One half-term unit · approx. 7 weeks · competitive practical throughout

   before they arrived?

6. 3b

   Analysing Performance, and Preparing for Year 11

   One half-term unit · approx. 7 weeks · the bridge into Year 11

   You have watched yourself play. Now what is actually wrong, how do you know, and what will you do about it?