Our Aims:

• To offer all pupils opportunities to experience differing sporting environments
  and challenges underlying the values of both team and individual games
• To endeavour to fulfill the needs of all participants regardless of ability
• To encourage all pupils to develop a positive attitude towards sport and exercise
• To endeavour to instill in all pupils an understanding of the need to remain fit
  and active throughout their lives and not just when they are at school
  To assist the socialisation of the pupils by providing co-operative and competitive situations in which they work together, help each other and share experiences, through fair play and good sportsmanship
• To provide a broad based and well balanced programme of physical education
• To provide pupils with opportunities to develop a good basic level of skill in a wide range of activities, and opportunities to participate at a more advanced level
• To appreciate skilled performance in themselves and others
• To assist in the developing personalities of the pupils by encouraging initiative, self-discipline, control, poise, confidence, self esteem, and an understanding of personal capabilities, strengths and limitations
• To experience the pleasure, satisfaction, and enjoyment of physical activity
  and encourage future participation in sport for leisure

Extra Curricular Activities 
Summer Term 2010
 DUE TO TIME CHANGES IN THE SCHOOL DAY, PICK UP TIMES HAVE CHANGED.

Clifton College Activities:                                                                                                                                  Clifton College Pickup - 5:30pm.  Please note that if students have not been collected by 5:40pm then they will be required to return to School on the coach as other parents will be waiting.
Colston's Girls' Pickup - 6pm. For information on how to find us click here                 

School Activities will finish at 5pm                                                                                                                                                              

After School Clubs for all Years -

Monday - Rounders @ Clifton College     

Tuesday - Athletics and Tennis (payment for coach required) @ Clifton College

Wednesday - Tennis @ Clifton College

Friday - Basketball @ School                                  

For dates of fixtures please see the Diary at the bottom of this page

Years 7 - 12 Core

In Years 7 - 9 the Girls follow the PE National Curriculum through Key Stage Three.  Each Pupil has one on site lesson and a triple offsite lesson a week and take part in a wide variety of activities. 

In Years 10 - 12 the Girls opt from a large range of activities including Climbing, Martial Arts, Golf, Yoga, Mountain Biking aswell as the Traditional Sports.

Years 10 - 11 Exam

GCSE Physical Education integrates the study of both the theoretical and practical elements involved in fundamental sports science.

Unit 1 - THEORY (40%)

Exam – 1hour 30mins (80marks)

Healthy Active Lifestyles

Healthy active lifestyles-how they benefit you

Influences on your healthy, active lifestyle

Exercise and fitness

Physical activity 

Your personal health and wellbeing

Your Healthy, Active Body

Cardiovascular system

Respiratory system

Muscular system

Skeletal system

Healthy mind and body

Unit 2 - PRACTICAL (60%)

Practical Performance (48%)

Four practical performances in the role of player,
leader or official from 2 different activity groups

Analysis of Performance (12%)
Rules, regulations and terminology
Observe and analyse performance
Evaluate performance
Plan strategies, tactics and practices
Plan a Personal Exercise Programme (PEP) 
          

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A guide to A Level Physical Education

Physical Education is an extremely diverse subject which will challenge you on many levels. The specification integrates varied theoretical fields, whilst also seeking to improve your knowledge and understanding of your own, and others performances in a variety of sports.  The units studied at AS level combine physiological and psychological factors along with historical and political.

This course will suit pupils who prefer to learn using a variety of learning styles. Many individuals will prefer to learn via one particular type but it is important that they are able to access information in lessons via all three styles. In order to accommodate this, the teaching style used by members of staff incorporates both visual, verbal and kinaesthetic learners via a variety of activities and learning experiences.

• AS (Year 1)

UNIT 1 - THEORY 60%

Opportunities for and the effects of leading a healthy, active lifestyle

Section A: Six questions
Section B: Application of theory

• Applied Exercise Physiology
• Skill Acquisition
• Opportunities for Participation

UNIT 2 - PRACTICAL 40% 

Analysis and evaluation of physical activity in 2 different roles

Practical Performance of 2 roles (player, leader, official)

• A2 (Year 2)

UNIT 3 - THEORY 60%

Optimising performance and evaluating contemporary issues within sport

2 hour exam

• Applied physiology to optimise performance
• Psychological aspects that optimise performance
• Evaluating contemporary influences 

UNIT 4 - PRACTICAL 

Optimising practical performances in a competitive situation

Practical Performance and Observation and Analysis of 1 role (player, leader, official)

Homework

You will be required to complete homework for all units of the course. For each lesson there will be an appropriate piece of homework. Your work must be handed in on time as all of it is related to your coursework and exam success. If you hand work in on time your relationship with your subject teacher will be much more amiable!!

Practical Activities

As a Physical Education student we would expect that you will do some level of personal training for general fitness outside of what we do in school. This will be of tremendous benefit when we come to do the fitness testing aspect of the course. Ideally you should be training for one of your practical activities outside of school and the other should be undertaken at a school club. You must however, be regularly engaged in practice or training of some description for your chosen practical activities.