--- title: "PE & Outdoor Learning" url: "https://pine-green.schudio.com/key-information/secondary-curriculum/pe-outdoor-learning" school: "Pine Green Academy" --- # PE & Outdoor Learning ## PE and Outdoor Learning at Pine Green Academy PE and Outdoor Learning at Pine Green Academy provides opportunities for students to become physically confident in a way which supports their health and fitness. This enables individuals to make informed choices about participation in physical activities throughout their lives whilst developing self-confidence, resilience and self-esteem. The aims of PE and Outdoor Learning are: - Take part in outdoor and adventurous activities, encouraging teamwork, building on trust and developing skills to problem solve and apply resilience when challenged - Map read, ride a bike, climb a climbing wall, paddleboard - Be safe around water, fire and the outside environment - Develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities - Are physically active for sustained periods of time - Engage in completive sports and activities - Lead heathy, active lives - To enable students to develop and explore physical skills with increasing control and co-ordination. - To encourage students to work as a team in a range of group situations improving their co-operation skills and sensitivity towards others with differing abilities. To develop the way students, perform skills and apply rules and conventions to different activities. - To increase students’ ability to use what they have learnt to improve the quality and control of their performance. - To teach students to recognise and describe how their bodies feel during exercise. - To develop student enjoyment and motivation towards physical activity and to derive satisfaction and achievement. - To engage in competitive sports and activities that build character, self- confidence and embed values such as fairness and respect. - To develop an understanding of how to succeed in a range of physical activities and how to evaluate and further develop their own success. - To provide opportunities for physical and sensory EHCP desired outcomes to be worked towards allowing students to improve muscle tone, co-ordination, fine and gross motor skills. "**Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong**". *John F. Kennedy* The main aims of KS3 PE are to learn and develop skills, techniques and performance; to develop an understanding of a healthy lifestyle; to develop the ability to select and apply skills, tactics and compositional ideas; to develop and improve performance; and to develop an improved understanding of health and safety in a range of activities. Throughout each of the activities covered individualised EHCP desired outcomes will be targeted. Communication and interaction will be demonstrated through team work and co-operation; mental capacity will be developed through learning rules, thinking skills and ability to evaluate; SEMH will be targeted through boosting self-confidence and self-esteem and physical and sensory development will be through working on improving physical fitness, agility, co-ordination and control. The main aims of KS4 PE are to analyse, evaluate and improve performance applying a good understanding of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. Students will have the opportunity to participate within a range of sports and activities and ways in which to develop these skills further within the community. Sports leadership is promoted with sports champions leading on a sport or activity of interest. Through the gym lessons and Btec sport opportunities students gain the knowledge of lifelong learning and career pathways of: sports coach, gym instructor, personal trainer, PE teacher, physiotherapist and many more. - Autumn term - Net and Wall sports: badminton, squash, table tennis, tennis, teamwork, survival skills - Spring term - team sports: dodgeball, hockey, rugby, football, tool work outdoors and climbing - Summer term - striking and fielding: rounder’s cricket, softball and athletics, mountain biking and water sports **Year 7** – fire safety, cooking; drinks-marshmallows, class project to make or create something within the space, nature walks and bike rides offsite-basic introduction to map reading-maintaining a set area-climbing-watersport. **Year 8** – fire safety leadership skills lighting a fire, cooking; drinks-marshmallows-noodles-soup, class project to make or create something within the space, nature walks and bike rides offsite-more advanced map reading-plant to plate project-maintaining a set area-climbing-watersports. **Year 9** – fire safety leadership skills lighting and maintaining a fire, cooking; drinks-marshmallows-noodles-soup-bacon, sausage sandwiches, class project to make or create something within the space, nature walks and bike rides offsite-advanced map reading-plant to plate project-maintaining a set area-climbing-watersports. Year 10/11 – DofE: Skill-Physical-Volunteering-Expedition training. --- ### Key Stage 4 Specifics The main aims of KS4 PE are to analyse, evaluate and improve performance applying a good understanding of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. Students will have the opportunity to participate within a range of sports and activities and ways in which to develop these skills further within the community. Sports leadership is promoted with sports champions leading on a sport or activity of interest. Through the gym lessons and Btec sport opportunities students gain the knowledge of lifelong learning and career pathways of: sports coach, gym instructor, personal trainer, PE teacher, physiotherapist and many more. - Autumn term - Net and Wall sports: badminton, squash, table tennis, tennis. - Spring term - team sports: dodgeball, hockey, rugby, football. - Summer term - striking and fielding: rounder’s cricket, softball and athletics. 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