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.

YEAR 7
TERM 1	Gymnastics Netball
TERM 2	Rugby Badminton
TERM 3	Rounders Cricket Athletics

YEAR 8
TERM 1	Gymnastics Netball Handball
TERM 2	Rugby Basketball
TERM 3	Rounders Cricket Athletics Badminton

YEAR 9
TERM 1	Trampolining Fitness Netball/Football/Rugby
TERM 2	Handball Basketball
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.

YEAR 10
TERM 1	Leadership skills taught through a variety of sporting activities
TERM 2	6-week fitness block in the fitness suite Leadership skills taught through a variety of sporting activities
TERM 3	Opportunities to plan and deliver a variety of sporting activities for small groups of younger children from local primary schools

YEAR 11
TERM 1	Plan a 6-week training programme to improve fitness
TERM 2	Student-led competitions within lessons
TERM 3	Skills consolidation

Dance

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.

YEAR 7
TERM 1	Introduction to basic dance skills WW2 Child Evacuee (Cross-curricular link with Drama)
TERM 2	A Linha Curva Musicals – The Lion King and Matilda
TERM 3	Street Dance - Introduction to Hip Hop and the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party Contemporary Dance.

YEAR 8
TERM 1	Set Study – Shift and recap of Basic Dance Skills World Tour
TERM 2	The Hunger Games
TERM 3	Perfect by Motion House

YEAR 9
TERM 1	Contemporary Dance Technique War
TERM 2	Stimuli for Choreography
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.

YEAR 10
TERM 1	The Healthy Dancer Technique Development Safe Practice Set Phrase 1 Components of performance
TERM 2	A Linha Curva Artificial Things Infra Within Her Eyes
TERM 3	Emancipation of expressionism Shadows Set Phrase 2 Mock examination preparation

YEAR 11
TERM 1	Trio Choreography What is in the exam paper?
TERM 2	Choreography exam paper Anthology analysis
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.

YEAR 7
TERM 1	Childhood Starting secondary school World War 2 Evacuees
TERM 2	Slapstick comedy, melodrama and silent films Laurel and Hardy Charlie Chaplin Stock characters
TERM 3	Monologues and soliloquies Extracts from a wide variety of scripts from different eras

YEAR 8
TERM 1	Devising Exploration of stimulus material focusing upon building a Growth Mind-set.
TERM 2	Soap Operas The origins of soap operas The principles of Stanislavsky
TERM 3	Monologues and soliloquies Extracts from a wide variety of scripts from different eras

YEAR 9
TERM 1	Devising Exploration of stimulus material focusing upon war
TERM 2	Surrealism Salvador Dali Symbolism Juxtaposition
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.

YEAR 10
TERM 1	Introduction to GCSE Drama Devising drama
TERM 2	Presenting and performing texts
TERM 3	Drama performance and response

YEAR 11
TERM 1	Devising drama
TERM 2	Presenting and performing texts
TERM 3	Drama performance and response

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