113·Physical Education · Key Stage 3
Year 7 Physical
Education
Six half-termly blocks, one for each of six strands — invasion games, gymnastics, net and wall, fitness, striking and fielding, athletics. Year 7 builds the competence the other two years spend their time applying.
- 1aInvasion Games: Keeping Possession
- 1bGymnastics: Body Management and Control
- 2aNet and Wall: Creating Space
- 2bFitness and How the Body Responds
- 3aStriking and Fielding: Roles in the Field
- 3bAthletics: Run, Jump, Throw
Ten sections per block, in the same order every time. Weeks rather than lessons, because PE is timetabled at about two hours a week as a double or two singles.
**Written for a carousel.** Almost no PE department teaches one unit to a whole year group at a time — there is one hall, one gym and one field, and groups rotate. So the six blocks stand alone within a year and the document says plainly what may be reordered and what may not. The strand across years is the dependency; the term a block falls in is not.
Four pages a head of PE looks for and rarely finds: the six strands mapped across all three years, how to run the whole thing as a carousel, **every activity area with the risks that actually produce injuries and what the department does about them**, and a page on teaching this outside the UK — heat, Ramadan, kit and facilities — for departments that are not working to an English school year.
Every duration and activity is a strong default rather than a fixed rule. The activity named in each block is the department's choice; what is fixed is the strand and what it teaches.
- Written to The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 physical education (DfE, 2013)
- Intended for For heads of PE, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
- Extent 42 pages · 9 sections
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