Physical Education

Physical Education is an essential part of life at Reepham High School and College and we do our very best to promote lifelong participation in healthy and active lifestyles.

We have a strong and enthusiastic team of talented teachers who have expertise in a number of different sporting areas.

Mr J Easton (Head of Physical Education)
Mrs J Masdin (Second in Department)
Mr A Edgar (Teacher of Physical Education)
Mrs P Greig-Thompson (Teacher of Physical Education)
Mr C Manning (Teacher of Physical Education)
Miss E White (Teacher of Physical Education)

Key Stage Three

Physical Education at Key Stage three focusses on engagement, skill development, tactical understanding and performance development. Engagement is a key principle in all PE lessons. The curriculum has been planned with sports that pupils enjoy and are delivered using fun games/drills that are highly engaging and focus on the fundamental skills of each sport to enhance performance.

Pupils have one lesson a week in gender groups and one lesson a week within their tutor groups. This allows us to cover a wide variety of sports while promoting key aspects of sport, such as team work, leadership and communication.

Key Stage Four

All pupils have two core PE lessons a week which offers them a chance to participate in a curriculum promoting healthy and active lifestyles.

There are generally three GCSE groups in each year. All GCSE pupils have five lessons over a fortnight broken down to three theory lessons and two practical lessons.

Exam Specification: Edexcel - Physical Education GCSE (1PE0)

Key Stage Five

Reepham College offers A Level Physical Education. Please see the college website & prospectus for more details.

www.reephamcollege.com/for-students-and-parents/subjects

Accommodation and Resources

The PE department is made up of a variety of different teaching rooms. We have a gymnasium where most of our dance, trampolining and gymnastics lessons take place; a 2-court sports hall, where badminton, dodgeball and basketball lessons take place, and the main school hall where table tennis lessons take place. We have a large playing field which holds 3 football pitches, 1 rugby pitch, a cricket wicket and various other markings for lesson use. We also have an outdoor hard area which has 4 netball courts, 1 basketball court, 1 handball court, 4 tennis courts and 8 mini tennis courts.

Each theory room has its own interactive whiteboard (Promethean) and its own computer for teacher use.
Laptop trolleys can be booked for use.
The department is well resourced with equipment available for a range of different sporting activities. We try and keep our equipment in good condition and up to date.
The department is well resourced with sets of Edexcel textbooks as well as online resources for GCSE and A Level pupils.

Extra-curricular Activity and Trips

Physical Education is not only about competitive sports. We believe it is important to allow every pupil to achieve in a variety of different sporting situations and so we offer a wide range of extra-curricular activities. Some of our regular activities are listed below.

We offer clubs at lunch time and after school in the following activities: Netball, football, dodgeball, rugby, dance, basketball, badminton, handball, cross country, tennis, softball, rounders, trampolining, table tennis, athletics and fitness.
We enter into many different leagues and cups for a variety of competitive sports.
We run an extensive inter-tutor competition where every pupil is given the opportunity to take part in a variety of sports and represent their tutor groups.
We hold an annual sports day.
We hold an annual Sports Awards evening.
We run a PE impact day for KS3 pupils.
We run the annual Ski trip.
We run annual events such as the Colour Run, Fun Run and Tough Mudder.
We run a PGL Netball tour each year.
We organise trips to see international matches in a variety of different sports.

Physical Education