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Bury CE High School

BURY CE HIGH SCHOOL
A Church of England Academy with the vision to empower all students to let their light shine.

Physical Education

Department Vision

At Bury CE High School we aim to ensure the very best experience for all students within Physical Education through an ambitious, yet fun, engaging curriculum. Our ethos in PE is very much ‘Sport for All’.

Our curriculum aims to help all students follow a healthy and active lifestyle whilst at school and beyond promoting healthy participation in sport. The curriculum ensures students understand the benefits exercise and healthy lifestyles including mental, physical and emotional health. We also aim to develop students’ confidence, competence, communication skills and ability to collaborate. These, together with the development of positive values and attitudes in PE, provide a good foundation for students beyond school.

We have a number of talented athletes that compete on a local, regional and national level who we support through our curriculum and regularly celebrate as a school community through our assemblies and newsletters.  

Curriculum Design

The PE curriculum is based on three pillars of progression: motor competence; rules, strategies and tactics; and healthy participation.  Declarative and procedural knowledge of motor competence and rules, strategies and tactics develop within each individual sport with students deepening their knowledge of knowing what and showing how these aspects develop from isolated skills, to participation in routines or team games, to analysis of performance. 

The sports covered throughout the five years are as follows:

  • Team sports of football, handball and striking/fielding games.
  • Individual sports/activities of badminton, table tennis, fitness, aesthetic activities of dance/trampolining and athletics.
  • OAA activity of orienteering supporting the development of team building and problem solving. 

Knowledge of healthy participation develops over the five years in the areas including safety, warm up/cool downs, leadership and sport in the community. 

At the end of year 9, students can choose to follow the AQA PE GCSE course or OCR Sports Studies alongside their dedicated 2 lessons of core PE per week.

PE Curriculum Intent 

Winter Sports Curriculum

KS3 Football 

KS3 and KS4 Badminton 

KS3 and KS4 Handball 

KS4 Dodgeball 

Outdoor Adventurous Activities

We are incredibly proud to have developed our own, on site orienteering course. Please click on the button below to review the course.

Orienteering Course Map 

Whilst orienteering, students develop excellent problem solving and communication skills as they work together to complete the set course. Our whole school focus on disciplinary vocabulary ensures students also develop good knowledge of key orienteering terminology. 

 

KS4 courses

KS4 students can chose to study PE at GCSE level or Sports Studies OCR. The documents below display the curriculum intent for both courses. The core knowledge that all students should know and remember is embedded within this document. We recommend that students prioritise this knowledge before moving into deeper learning.

PE GCSE Curriculum Intent 

Sports Studies OCR Curriculum Intent 

Staff/Context

  • Mr P Connolly - Head of Department
  • Mrs C Hilton - Assistant Headteacher
  • Mr A Jackson - Associate Assistant Headteacher for KS4
  • Miss C Tonge - Head of Year 9
  • Ms Rebecca Lloyd - PE Teacher

Extracurricular activities

A detailed PE extra-curricular provision is organised and delivered throughout the academic year by the PE Department to support learning, progress and healthy, active lifestyle through PE lunch clubs, after school PE clubs and after school fixtures against other local schools.  The PE extra-curricular provision is open to all students in school, and all students are encouraged to access this provision.  The department takes an active role in the Bury Secondary School Sports Partnership.  We have strong links with local sports clubs and organisations that help to provide a pathway for our students to play sport and follow a healthy and active lifestyle outside of school. 

The PE Department are incredibly proud to have achieved the School Games Mark Gold for the last four academic years. This is an external award from the ‘School Games’ that provides an external validation on the quantity of extra-curricular school sport and competitive sport an individual school offers. 

As part of this award schools need to complete an ‘Inclusive Health Check’ that focuses on how inclusive a PE Department and school are through PE and sport.  The PE Department are incredibly proud that our ‘Inclusive Health Checks’ have been positive over the last four academic years and provided evidence towards the four School Games Mark Gold awards we have achieved.  Our aim as a PE Department is to provide ‘Sport for All’ throughout the academic year.  The PE Department also achieved the ‘Association for PE Quality Mark with Distinction’ from 2022 to 2025 and this again is an external validation from the Association for PE that links to the quality of PE in a school.

 

 


 

pe extra curricular timetable 2025 to 2026 term 2.pdf

 

Knowledge Organisers

OCR Sports Studies

AQA GCSE 

KS3 Core