KS3 PE · Year 9 · ages 13–14
Six half-term blocks: team systems and roles in invasion games, outdoor and adventurous activity, match play and officiating at net and wall, health, fitness and lifelong participation, captaincy in striking and fielding, and athletics with a route to keep competing. Below is the activity each block uses, what pupils achieve by the end of it and the skills it teaches, taken from our Year 9 PE scheme of work.
Six half-termly blocks. Gymnastics and dance step aside this year for outdoor and adventurous activity, which the programme of study requires and which Years 7 and 8 deliberately deferred until the problem-solving could be genuine. The order down the page is one workable rotation; the strand across years is the part that is fixed.
Year 9 means ages 13–14, or S2–S3 in Scotland.
Unit 1a · One half-term block · approx. 7 weeks · rotate to suit facilities
Your team is losing with ten minutes left. What actually changes?
Unit 1b · One half-term block · approx. 7 weeks · or one off-timetable day plus follow-up
Your group has failed the task three times. What do you change — the plan, or how you are talking to each other?
Unit 2a · One half-term block · approx. 7 weeks · rotate to suit facilities
You lost. Was it your technique, your tactics, or your decisions?
Unit 2b · One half-term block · approx. 7 weeks · rotate to suit facilities
Most people stop exercising within a year of leaving school. What would have to be different for you?
Unit 3a · One half-term block · approx. 7 weeks · rotate to suit facilities
You are twenty runs ahead with four overs left. What is your job now?
Unit 3b · One half-term block · approx. 7 weeks · schedule for usable weather
This is the last athletics you have to do. What would make you do it again?
The scheme maps each requirement of the statutory programme of study for key stage 3 (Department for Education, 2013) to the unit that teaches it. Pupils should be taught to…
Dance is not taught in Year 9, and this is the one line of the programme of study this three-year scheme meets least fully. Years 7 and 8 build body control and composition, which is most of what a dance assessment rewards, but 'advanced dance technique in a range of styles and forms' is not met by two blocks of gymnastics-led work. A department with a dance specialist should run Year 7 and Year 8 Unit 1b as dance and consider replacing this year's Unit 1b with a third dance block, delivering outdoor and adventurous activity as an off-timetable day or residential — which is how most schools deliver it anyway. Whichever you choose, say which, rather than implying both happened.
Two PDFs sit behind this page, and they are meant to be used together: the scheme of work to plan the year, the knowledge organisers to put in front of pupils.
Physical Education · Key Stage 3£4.99
Full description on the Year 9 PE scheme of work page.
The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 physical education (DfE, 2013)·43 pages, 14 sections·For heads of PE, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
KS3 Physical Education · Year 9 · six A4 sheets£3.99
Full description on the Year 9 PE knowledge organisers page.
Written to Empower Educators Year 9 Physical Education scheme of work·6 pages, 6 sections·For PE teachers and heads of department. Printed one per pupil
Six half-term units, in the order they are taught: Invasion Games: Team Systems and Roles, Outdoor and Adventurous Activity: Problem Solving and Trust, Net and Wall: Match Play, Officiating and Analysis, Health, Fitness and Lifelong Participation, Striking and Fielding: Captaincy and Game Management and Athletics and Competition: Personal Best and Pathways.
A game in which the student plays a defined role within a chosen system and can explain what they would change, and why, when the game state changes; A group problem solved under a constraint, with a written account of how the group organised itself and what it would do differently; A full match played and officiated, with a written analysis identifying one technical and one tactical priority for the student's own game; A realistic personal plan for staying active after school, built around an activity the student has actually tried and can access, with the barriers named and answered; An innings captained from start to finish, with the decisions recorded and justified against the state of the game; A personal best in a chosen event, an officiated competition run largely by students, and a named route by which this student could continue.
It maps each requirement of the statutory programme of study for key stage 3 (Department for Education, 2013) to the unit that teaches it, and on this year the scheme is plain: “Dance is not taught in Year 9, and this is the one line of the programme of study this three-year scheme meets least fully.”
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