P.E
Key Stage 3
At JFS, Key Stage 3 Physical Education provides students with a dynamic and inclusive experience designed to build confidence, competence, and a lifelong enjoyment of physical activity. Students take part in a wide range of sports and physical activities, including team games, individual sports, fitness training, dance, and athletics.
The curriculum is carefully structured to develop key physical skills, tactical understanding, and personal and social responsibility. PE lessons foster resilience, teamwork, and communication through purposeful challenges and competitive situations. Our programme highlights the importance of physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Students are introduced to health-related fitness and encouraged to make informed lifestyle choices. They are also empowered to take ownership of their learning by tracking their own progress using PE Passports.
Assessment focuses on practical performance, leadership, analytical thinking, and the ability to evaluate and improve. All students have the opportunity to take part in extra-curricular clubs and represent the school in sporting competitions. The KS3 curriculum provides strong foundations for further study in PE and Dance at GCSE level and beyond.
Key Stage 4
GCSE PE
Students who apply to take a GCSE in Physical Education will undertake a range of practical activities, offering three for assessment, comprising one team activity, one individual activity, and one free choice. They will be required to show advanced skills within the context of the activity and demonstrate their abilities in increasingly challenging situations. They will also undertake a Personal
Exercise Programme (PEP).
Students will be expected to apply the theoretical aspects of exercise and training to their class activities. All GCSE students are expected to be involved in extra-curricular activities in order to improve their practical grades.
GCSE Dance
Dance is a powerful and expressive subject that encourages students to develop their creative, physical, emotional, and intellectual capacity, whatever their previous experience in the subject. This specification recognises the role of dance in young people’s lives and students will study a range of dance styles. GCSE Dance helps students develop technical and expressive skills as well as knowledge and understanding of dance through performance, choreography, and critical appreciation of dance.
OCR Level 1 | 2 Cambridge Nationals Sports Studies
The course provides an engaging and relevant introduction to the sporting world. It incorporates important aspects of the industry and enables students to develop and apply knowledge whilst furthering their practical, communication, and technical skills.
Each unit of study offers students different opportunities to develop their knowledge and understanding of the practice and theory behind the modern-day sporting world.
Key Stage 5
A Level Physical Education equips our students with both a depth and breadth of knowledge, understanding, and skills relating to scientific, socio-cultural, and practical aspects of physical education.
The course will:
develop theoretical knowledge and understanding of the factors that underpin physical
activity and sport and use this knowledge to improve performance
understand how physiological and psychological states affect performance
understand the key socio-cultural factors that influence people's involvement in physical activity and sport
understand the role of technology in physical activity and sport
refine their ability to perform effectively in physical activity and sport by developing skills and techniques and
selecting and using tactics, strategies and/or compositional ideas
develop their ability to analyse and evaluate to improve performanceunderstand the contribution which physical activity makes to health and fitness
improve as effective and independent learners and as critical and reflective thinkers with curious and enquiring minds.
The A Level Dance specification requires students to develop, demonstrate and articulate practical and theoretical knowledge, understanding, and experience of:
technical and performance skills
the process and art of choreography
the interrelationship between the creation, presentation and viewing/appreciation of
dance works
the development of dance placed within an artistic and cultural context
professional dance works and the significance of these works
subject specific terminology and its use
Areas of study provide students with the opportunity to investigate the key changes in the development of dance linked to a genre(s) and allow students to demonstrate contextual understanding through written communication and performance
BTEC National Extended Certificate in Sport (Equivalent to one A Level)
This course provides an excellent preparation for careers within the sport and fitness industries and can support entry into higher education. It is a vocationally delivered course and therefore develops the skills and knowledge students will need to thrive in a professional sports and fitness environment. Students are assessed through written exams, project practical assessments, and assignments based on real-life sporting scenarios. JFS has a thriving sports department with outstanding facilities.