Physical Education
Departmental Staff
- Ms K Pearce
- Head of Department
- Mr A Goksel
- 2nd in department-Head of Boys PE and Community Sport
- Ms C Oklejewcz
- Key Stage 3 Co-ordinator
- Mr J Sullivan
- PE Teacher
- Mr H Farrelly
- PE Teacher
- Mrs J Brigden
- PE Teacher
- Mr M Lowe
- School Sports Co-ordinator
Ethos of the Department
To provide opportunities for our students to develop their skills and fitness in a range of physical activities. Promoting the understanding of lifelong activity leading to lifelong health.
Our Aims:
- To enable our students to become skillful performers in a full range of physical education contexts.
- To encourage an understanding of health and fitness leading to educated choices about an active lifestyle.
- To allow our students to become reflective performers so that they might refine their own and others’ performance.
- To offer leadership opportunities to our young people so that they may become the sports leaders of the future.
- To offer a wide range of curricular and extra-curricular activities which allows our students to realise and achieve their full potential.
The Physical Education department at Canon Palmer Catholic School is committed to learning and teaching through the PE national curriculum. Students experience a range of activities and
opportunities. At Key Stage 3 pupils follow an 8 lesson block on each activity. At Key Stage 4 pupils are taught in the same group throughout the year but have some choice in the activities they carry out. The Physical Education curriculum offers 2 hours per week at Key Stage 3 and one hour per week in the Key Stage 4 core curriculum.
The Department offers: Edexcel Physical Education at GCSE level and OCR A’ level.
| At Key Stage 3 | At Key Stage 4 |
|---|---|
| Football | Kick Boxing |
| Athletics | Cricket |
| Rounders | Aerobics |
| Short Tennis | Use of Lions Den Gym |
| Hockey | Use of Frenford |
| Gymnastics | Community Club |
| Dance For Girls | Football |
| Health Related Fitness | Badminton |
| Traversing Wall | Basketball |
| Badminton | Rounders |
| Basketball | Athletics |
| Cricket | Table Tennis |
| Pop Lacrosse | |
| Traversing Wall |
The facilities at the school are as follows:
- One classroom for theory lessons equipped with a networked PC Data Projector
- Three bay sports hall equipped for badminton, basketball, football, netball, volleyball, 8 basketball rings, and two cricket nets.
- Two hard court areas marked with netball courts, rounders pitches and short tennis courts. Each hard court area has 2 basketball hoops.
- Dance/studio gym with mirrors.
- There are 3 outdoor table tennis tables situated around the school.
The department:
Six members of staff operate in the Physical Education Department. We are also an active member of the Borough School Sports Partnership at Mayfield School and we have a part-time Schools Sports Co-coordinator.
The department also recruits coaches from outside of school to assist in some activities at Key Stage 4 and in some ex-curricular clubs.
We aim to create an atmosphere in which all students enjoy Physical Education and seek personal improvement. Students are encouraged to become independent learners and we enable students to develop a lifelong interest in active leisure time activities.
We offer an extensive extra-curricular programme. We have teams in netball for girls, football for boys and girls, athletics, indoor athletics, badminton, basketball, cross-country, and cricket for boys. We have teams entered into local, regional and national competitions and have a history of good success in netball, athletics, basketball and athletics.
We take part in a number of events organised through the year by our successful School Sports Partnership. Such activities include fencing, dance, indoor athletics, table tennis and badminton.
We have been successfully awarded the Sportsmark Certificate, FA Charter Status in recognition of the provision and participation.
Year 9 Boys football team won the FUTSAL national competition 2009.
Parent Booklets
