Sport in the Curriculum

Key Stage 3

The KS3 curriculum is held up as innovative practice towards the delivery of the new PE curriculum. Pupils in Year 7 are taught the skills to become successful in sport through six athlete themes.

All pupils study the Paula Radcliffe, Kelly Holmes, Christiano Ronaldo, Tom Daley, Andrew Flintoff and Jonny Wilkinson schemes.

SAQ classes have been developed in the curriculum to improve the movement skills of all pupils, so that they can access different sports offered in the different keystages.

Sport Education plays a pivotal role in the Year 8 curriculum.

Boys complete projects in basketball and athletics, while girls cover the fundamentals of different roles in sport through gymnastics and athletics. These project are extended in Yr9 when mixed classes complete a 16 lesson competition of athletics.

In Year 9 pupils have the option of choosing a specific pathway for both the practical and theoreticalelements of PE. The practical routes include, individual, team, mixed and alternative. Sports include Wave boarding, Rock-It-Ball, judo, swimming and golf. For theory lessons pupils are split into Sports management, medical, professional and teaching pathways depending on how they see sport being part of their life.

All pupils in KS3 and 4 have the targeted 2 hours or more PE on their timetable.

Key Stage 4

These pathways started in Key stage 3 are continued into Year 10. Here pupils have the options of choosing BTEC Diploma or BTEC Certificate, GCSE PE, Fitness Instructor Qualifications and National Governing Body coaching awards.

Accrington Academy is Highly Commended at Youth Sport Trust Sports College Conference 2009. Accrington Academy was highly commended by YST for their extra curricular approach to gifted and talented pupils. Their ‘G&T Rolling Programme’ beat off challenges from over 400 Sports Colleges.

Andrew Bateman and Ben Layzell picked up the award from Olympic Silver medialist Joe Glanfield, who has won silver in the 470 sailing class in the Beijing and Athens Olympics.

The department’s extra curricular approach to gifted and talented involves pupils participating in sports not usually taught in the national curriculum. Sports such as fencing, SAQ and ballet are all delivered to enhance pupil’s movement skills. G&T pupils from local primaries are also invited onto the programme to experience the atmosphere of working with pupils of high sporting abilities.The programme is completed in Year 10 where pupils are expected to participate in the Duke of Edinburgh scheme to improve their problem solving and decision making skills.

BTEC First Diploma in Sport is the course of choice at Accrington Academy, with uptake the highest in school and annually over 40 pupils increasing their PE time to 5 hours per week.

The current units taught are:

Body in Sport
Health, Safety and Injury
Planning and Leading
Practical Sport
Preparation for Sport
Sports Industry

The pass rate for BTEC Sport is 100%.

The BTEC course has been developed over four years and has contributions in its curriculum from the following sector providers:

Science in Sport - pupils use there PSP and REGO products to improve their understanding of preparing athletes in the preparation for sport unit.
Sport Psychologists, Physiotherapists and Sport Scientists also enhance this unit.
St John's Ambulance deliver the first aid element and pupils earn a relevant first aid qualification through this unit.
At key stage 4 we will ensure all students gain an accredited qualification as part of there core PE entitlement. These will include GCSE short course and Junior Sports leaders award.

Our innovative girls football academy will be offered as part of the Hyndburn consortium.

Post 16

SPORT will be core strand of our 6th form provision. This will take the form of a range of qualifications that will exist within our Innovative sporting ‘academies'
See 6^th Form for further details.