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Physical Education is compulsory for all students in Years 10 and 11. Each pupil will participate in one hour of ‘core’ PE a week, where there is an emphasis is on getting everyone active and involved in a selection of engaging sports or activities.
All students experience a one hour lesson of ‘core’ Physical Education, per week.
If some groups are oversubscribed, students may not get their first choice of activity.
Students will be allowed to opt for the same activity more than once during the year.
GCSE PE is mostly practical based and provides students with the opportunity to develop their skills and tactical awareness in four different, sporting, activities. Planning, performing and evaluating are inter-related with the emphasis on performing. Students will also study the theory of Physical Education, incorporating Healthy Active Lifestyles and Your Healthy Active Body. This covers topics such as the principles of training, the methods of training, various fitness tests, influences on taking part in physical activity, the effects of exercise on the different body systems, to name but a small cross section of theory work covered.
Candidates follow 6 week courses in each of the four activities from the full range of National Curriculum activities. There is some flexibility to allow students to show themselves at their best. Thus, if a student plays a sport outside of school to a high standard, we can use this sport as one of their 4 assessments.
In previous years, such sports have included, cricket, swimming/life saving, karate, table tennis, golf, to name but a few. They will then submit their four highest grades. The following table shows the activities followed at Friern Barnet School:
| Fitness Activities | Games | Gymnastic Activities |
| Fitness Training | Assoc. Football |
Trampolining (to include individual skills plus a routine of up to 10 bounces) |
| (Circuit, Aerobics, Continuous and/or Weight Training) |
Basketball |
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| Netball | ||
| Badminton | ||
| Rounders | ||
| Students must select either fitness or trampolining as one of their 4 sports activities to be assessed | ||
60% of the marks are practically based and each practical activity is assessed in Year 10 and Year 11. At the end of the course in Year 11, an external moderator visits the school and assesses the students in a variety of different sports activities. This will be the students’ final practice grade. Candidates will be required to offer four activities for assessment and to complete analysis and performance in one of these activities.
Students also follow a course of theory lessons. 40% of the marks for this subject are allocated to a final, written exam, of 1 hour 30 minutes. This will test the knowledge from the theory lessons, which will cover:
1. Healthy, active lifestyles
2. Your healthy, active body
A Personal Exercise Programme and an Analysis of Performance PowerPoint is written up as coursework.
In both Year 10 and Year 11 students have an even balance of theory and practical.
Year 10
Year 11
Component 1: Fitness and Body Systems
Written examination: 1 hour and 45 minutes
36% of the qualification
90 marks
Component 2: Health and Performance
Written examination: 1 hour and 15 minutes
24% of the qualification
70 marks
Component 3: Practical Performance
Non-Examined Assessment: Internally marked and externally moderated
30% of the qualification
90 marks (30 marks per activity)
Component 4: Personal Exercise Programme (PEP)
Non-Examined Assessment: Internally marked and externally moderated
10% of the qualification
20 marks
