PERFORMING ARTS AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
P.E
Key Stage 3
Students develop their level of skill in a variety of sporting activities. All lessons begin with a fitness focus designed to assess and improve current levels of health and fitness; this is supplemented by a termly test to allow monitoring and tracking of general health and fitness within the school.
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YEAR 7 |
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TERM 1 |
Gymnastics Netball |
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TERM 2 |
Rugby Badminton |
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TERM 3 |
Rounders Cricket Athletics |
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YEAR 8 |
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TERM 1 |
Gymnastics Netball Handball |
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TERM 2 |
Rugby Basketball |
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TERM 3 |
Rounders Cricket Athletics Badminton |
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YEAR 9 |
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TERM 1 |
Trampolining Fitness Netball/Football/Rugby |
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TERM 2 |
Handball Basketball |
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TERM 3 |
Rounders Cricket Athletics Volleyball |
Key Stage 4
Students continue to have a weekly Core PE lesson to promote a healthy and balanced lifestyle and to ensure a good understanding of the impact of regular exercise on long-term health and fitness. Students will have the opportunity to lead their peers and primary school students in a variety of sporting activities. All students will complete at least one 6-week block in the fitness suite.
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YEAR 10 |
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TERM 1 |
Leadership skills taught through a variety of sporting activities |
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TERM 2 |
6-week fitness block in the fitness suite Leadership skills taught through a variety of sporting activities |
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TERM 3 |
Opportunities to plan and deliver a variety of sporting activities for small groups of younger children from local primary schools |
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YEAR 11 |
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TERM 1 |
Plan a 6-week training programme to improve fitness |
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TERM 2 |
Student-led competitions within lessons |
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TERM 3 |
Skills consolidation |
Music
Key Stage 3
Students are introduced to a variety of different dance styles, including contemporary, hip-hop, samba, capoeira, physical theatre and bhangra. All units of work include both practical performance and written components. Students develop their creative and performance skills through using a variety of different choreographic processes, delivered through exciting individual and group tasks.
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YEAR 7 |
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TERM 1 |
Introduction to basic dance skills WW2 Child Evacuee (Cross-curricular link with Drama) |
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TERM 2 |
A Linha Curva Musicals – The Lion King and Matilda |
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TERM 3 |
Street Dance - Introduction to Hip Hop and the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party Contemporary Dance. |
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YEAR 8 |
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TERM 1 |
Set Study – Shift and recap of Basic Dance Skills World Tour |
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TERM 2 |
The Hunger Games |
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TERM 3 |
Perfect by Motion House |
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YEAR 9 |
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TERM 1 |
Contemporary Dance Technique War |
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TERM 2 |
Stimuli for Choreography |
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TERM 3 |
Hip Hop – Emancipation of expressionism Final project. |
GCSE Dance
Whilst studying GCSE Dance, students develop and refine their physical, performance and choreographic skills. Physical skills include in-depth training on posture, balance, coordination, control, flexibility and stamina; these are assessed through solo, trio and group performances. There is also a significant written component, focused on understanding and analysing professional works.
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YEAR 10 |
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TERM 1 |
The Healthy Dancer Technique Development Safe Practice Set Phrase 1 Components of performance |
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TERM 2 |
A Linha Curva Artificial Things Infra Within Her Eyes |
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TERM 3 |
Emancipation of expressionism Shadows Set Phrase 2 Mock examination preparation |
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YEAR 11 |
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TERM 1 |
Trio Choreography What is in the exam paper? |
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TERM 2 |
Choreography exam paper Anthology analysis |
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TERM 3 |
Moderation and examination |
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Drama
Key Stage 3
Students explore and experience different themes and styles of Drama, including an exploration of World War II, the origins of Melodrama, Slapstick Comedy and Surrealism. Students develop their polished and spontaneous improvisational skills and as well as the ability to edit, refine, rehearse and experiment with performance.
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YEAR 7 |
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TERM 1 |
Childhood Starting secondary school World War 2 Evacuees |
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TERM 2 |
Slapstick comedy, melodrama and silent films Laurel and Hardy Charlie Chaplin Stock characters |
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TERM 3 |
Monologues and soliloquies Extracts from a wide variety of scripts from different eras |
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YEAR 8 |
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TERM 1 |
Devising Exploration of stimulus material focusing upon building a Growth Mind-set. |
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TERM 2 |
Soap Operas The origins of soap operas The principles of Stanislavsky |
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TERM 3 |
Monologues and soliloquies Extracts from a wide variety of scripts from different eras |
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YEAR 9 |
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TERM 1 |
Devising Exploration of stimulus material focusing upon war |
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TERM 2 |
Surrealism Salvador Dali Symbolism Juxtaposition |
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TERM 3 |
Monologues, duologues and soliloquies Extracts from a wide variety of scripts from different eras |
GCSE Drama
GCSE Drama students will build on their previous knowledge by developing different ways of devising and performing script work using more advanced dramatic techniques and subject terminology. Students study scripts from a variety of time-periods and contexts with a range of structures. There is a significant written component in which students must write from the point of view of a performer, director or designer.
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YEAR 10 |
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TERM 1 |
Introduction to GCSE Drama Devising drama |
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TERM 2 |
Presenting and performing texts |
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TERM 3 |
Drama performance and response |
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YEAR 11 |
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TERM 1 |
Devising drama |
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TERM 2 |
Presenting and performing texts |
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TERM 3 |
Drama performance and response |
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