Physical Education

The Physical Education (PE) programme aims to support the ethos of the school in educating students for life, creating well-rounded individuals ready to overcome any challenges they may face after leaving Amery Hill School.  Students follow a programme of study intended to help develop physical, social and moral well-being.  Students are offered a wide and varied curriculum covering many different activities. These include football, handball, hockey, netball, badminton, basketball, volleyball, orienteering, gymnastics, dance, cricket, tennis, athletics and rounders. Within PE, we also provide the opportunity for students to take on different roles; coaching and teaching, umpiring and scoring and evaluating their own and others performance.  The PE staff have a broad range of knowledge and expertise across the sporting activities covered in the curriculum.  This allows the department to plan lessons that are inclusive to all students of all abilities, enabling them to achieve their full potential in sport.

KS3 Curriculum

Students receive two lessons of core PE a week from Year 7 to Year 11. Year 7 PE lessons are taught in pre-determined groups, while Year 8 and 9 students are taught in ability-based groups. Activities change every four weeks throughout the academic year. Lessons focus on increasing knowledge of rules and regulations, improving a range of skills in isolation and in adapted and full versions of the game and understanding and employing tactics. Students are encouraged to work both independently and in small groups to demonstrate and develop good teamwork, leadership and co-operation skills.

KS4 Curriculum

In Years 10 and 11, whilst having high expectations of students' behaviour and setting challenging lesson objectives, we aim to make lessons as enjoyable as possible by offering a range of pathways that students can opt to follow depending on their interests and abilities.  Our aim is to encourage all students to continue to be active when they leave Amery Hill School.

Examined Courses (GCSE Physical Education)

Students are given the opportunity to take an ‘Examined PE course’ as part of their Year 8 Foundation Option choices as a ‘taster’ for the full GCSE PE course which they can continue onto in years 10 and 11 if they wish. These options are in addition to core PE (detailed above) which is compulsory for all students.

GCSE PE consists of both practical skills and theoretical knowledge being tested. Students will be assessed within three practical activities, they will complete one piece of written coursework and sit two final theory exams.

Extra-Curricular

All students are also regularly encouraged to further their interests in PE by attending extra-curricular clubs. We offer a varied extra-curricular programme, aiming to offer something for everyone. Clubs range from competitive to recreational and team sports to individual activities. Sports clubs run after school on every day (except Wednesdays), and we also have breakfast clubs that run on two mornings a week. If there is enough demand for any new/additional clubs, we will do our best to provide these.

As a school we encourage students to continue participating in clubs outside of school and to attend trials for higher level sport where appropriate. We are incredibly proud of many of our students who have represented the school, district, county and even at a national level in a range of sports.