Autumn Term
(mixed classes)

Spring Term
(mixed classes)

Summer Term
(single sex lessons)

Weeks 1-2 - Induction and team-building activities.

Personal Health and Fitness

• Healthy Lifestyle
• Components of fitness
• fitness tests
• focus on development of cardiovascular endurance.

Gym and Dance

• strength and flexibility development
• balance
• locomotion
• rolls and rotations
• flight
• dance and creative composition

Athletics

• sprint technique
• middle distance
• relays
• hurdles
• jumps
• throws

Football/Futsal

• passing and control
• dribbling
• shooting
• teamwork and strategy

Street Hockey

• passing and control
• dribbling
• shooting
• teamwork and strategy

Cricket

• catching
• throwing
• bowling
• fielding
• batting
• teamwork and strategy

Badminton

• grip and racquet handling skills
• backhand and forehand
• serving
• matchplay and strategy
• tournaments

Sofcrosse (outdoor)

• grip and racquet handling skills
• passing and control
• shooting
• teamwork and strategy

Rounders (outdoor)

• catching
• throwing
• pitching
• fielding
• batting
• teamwork and strategy

Netball

• passing and catching
• footwork
• positioning
• shooting
• teamwork and strategy

Basketball

• passing and catching
• dribbling
• shooting
• defending
• teamwork and strategy

Swimming

• water confidence and safety
• swimming stroke competence
• swimming consistency and fitness development
• aquatic skills eg. diving
• aquatic games

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

Football/Futsal

• Extension from Year 7

• passing and control

• dribbling

• shooting

• teamwork and strategy

• more 11-a-side football.

Gym and Dance

• extension from Year 7, with more focus on flight and creative composition. Exact activities subject to facility bookings and staff skills/training.

Aquatic Skills

• Extension from Year 7

• water confidence and safety

• swimming stroke competence

• swimming consistency and fitness development

• aquatic skills

• aquatic games

Boys Basketball/Girls Netball

• Consolidation and extension of content from Year 7

Personal Health and Fitness

• Lifestyle diseases and injury prevention

• Components of fitness testing and development

• understanding of how to strengthen and stretch key large muscles groups eg. quadriceps, pectorals.

Cricket

• Consolidation and extension of content from Year 7

• introduction of hardball practice.

Rugby (outdoor)

• tackling and safe contact

• ruck, maul

• lineout

• passing

• kicking

• modified matchplay

Rock-climbing/Martial Arts

• TBC upon booking

Rounders

• Consolidation and extension of content from Year 7

Volleyball (indoor)

• Consolidation and extension of content from Year 7 and 8

• move to proper sized balls and full sized court.

Tennis

• grip and racquet handling skills

• backhand and forehand

• serving

• volleying

• matchplay and strategy

• tournaments

Athletics

• Consolidation and extension of content from Year 7

• More focus on throwing events if resources/venues are available.

Squash/tennis

• grip and racquet handling skills
• backhand and forehand
• serving
• matchplay and strategy
• tournaments

Gym and Dance

• Consolidation and extension from Year 7 and 8.

Aquatic skills

• Consolidation and extension from Year 7 and 8.

Basketball (indoor)

• Consolidation and extension of content from Year 7 and 8

Personal Health and Fitness

• Consolidation and extension from Year 7 and 8.
• Greater range of aerobic training methods explored.

Cricket

• Consolidation and extension of content from Year 7 and 8.
• greater use of hardball depending upon facilities available.

Rugby

• Consolidation and extension from Year 7 and 8 for boys
• Girls to focus more on Tag-Rugby skills and rules

Ultimate Frisbee (outdoor)

• frisbee aerodynamics
• passing and catching
• teamwork and strategy

Rounders

• Consolidation and extension of content from Year 7 and 8

(dependent upon booking)

• Tasters in Australian Rules Football, American Football, Gaelic Football
• key skills
• key rules

• Consolidation and extension from Year 7 and 8.