The Priory Pembroke Academy Physical Education Department’ curriculum is rooted in the principles of theTrust’s intent for PE. The Pembroke response to this intent is below:

WHY?

Physical Education is important at Pembroke

High quality physical education inspires students to succeed and excel in competitive sport and activities. It provides opportunities for students to become physically confident in a way that supports their health and fitness. Opportunities to engage in sport build character and embeds our values of Courage, Generosity, Wisdom, Curiosity and Passion. Physical education at Pembroke aims to promote inclusive experiences that holds centrally the health and wellbeing of students. It enables them to develop a knowledge and understanding of their skills, capabilities and attributes that are necessary for mental, social and physical wellbeing both now and in their futures. Physical education enables students to make informed decisions, experience challenge, experience positive aspects of healthy living, establish a pattern of health and wellbeing that is sustained in adult life and they may perform at high levels in sport or prepare for a career in the health and leisure industry.

HOW?

Curriculum aims

Engaging in Physical Education contributes to achievement of the curriculum aims for all young people to become:

Students who show courage to follow their dreams and life goals; by participating in new sports and activities, recognising their strengths in sport and committing to practice in order to improve; by challenging themselves to perform to the best of their ability.

Students who are passionate about their future and their place in the world; by experiencing being part of a team in lessons or as extra-curricular; by working together to succeed, promoting a team ethos and recognising their own sporting attributes and those of others around them; by experiencing and accepting the high and lows of sport.

Students who are generous of spirit in their dealings with others in their local, national and international communities; by supporting others as part of their class, school team or professional team; by showing sportsmanship to their opponents.

Students imbued with curiosity for understanding the wider world; by experiencing new sports and understanding the rules of each sport; by understanding what enables a person to become better at that sport.

Students who show wisdom in their life choices; by understanding how health and fitness enables us to take part in sport and how the human body adapts and develops with the demands placed upon it; by applying health, fitness and sport specific knowledge to a coaching role; by demonstrating knowledge of rules in sport in an officiating role; by developing understanding of the health and fitness industry and creating training programs to develop components of personal fitness.

 

Activities are sequenced using schemes of learning and mainly coincide with seasonal scheduling of sports and facility space at specific times of the academic year. We also intend to deliver activities on our curriculum alongside points in the academic year where extra-curricular opportunities and sporting fixtures are positioned, providing additional opportunities for students to engage and advance in these activities.