Sports/PE Studies

At Knole Academy, we recognise the importance of PE and the role it has to play in promoting long term, healthy lifestyles and making a positive impact on physical, mental and social health. Physical Education helps students to develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies to live healthy and physically active lives at school and beyond. The Physical Education department at Knole Academy are fully committed to the all-round development of each student and the extensive broad, yet balanced, curriculum we offer.

The vision of the department is to create a learning environment where all students are able to achieve their full potential, through a range of purposeful yet enjoyable activities, where there are ample opportunities for our students to assume responsibility for their own learning. We engage and motivate all our learners through personalised and challenging learning objectives, in a context where, our students feel safe to evaluate their own and other’s performance in order to support progression. It is important to provide opportunities for students to take on different roles and responsibilities both inside and outside of the classroom.

We want our students to be inspired by sport and to instil a passion for maintaining their health and wellbeing into adult life. Similarly, we aim to encourage our students to enjoy physical activity, by ensuring all lessons are exciting and challenging with high quality teaching and learning. We provide pathways for all our students to continue their sport and physical activity within the local community by developing links to local sports clubs and activities.

Students are encouraged to work individually and as part of a team, which helps build trust, and develop problem-solving and communication skills. Competition is a huge part of the sporting environment and life in general and whilst we encourage competition and the competitive spirit, we also promote the ideas of fair play and sportsmanship in addition to the other Paralympic/Olympic and British values. Through our curriculum we hope students build the confidence and interest to get involved in exercise, sports and activities out of school and later in life. Our extensive extra-curricular programme is open to all of our students to attend on a competitive and social basis, which is run throughout the academic year. There are also sports leadership opportunities throughout their time at Knole Academy.

At Knole Academy, the Physical Education curriculum is designed to build and expand on previous skills and subject knowledge, over a five to seven-year period. The curriculum is sequenced so that students have opportunities for repetition to embed knowledge and develop skills, increasing the chance of information recall and to integrate new knowledge into larger ideas.

Our curriculum is progressive and challenging, so that students develop a life-long love for a physical lifestyle, whilst developing a knowledge and skills base that helps them to develop opportunities for the future.

The curriculum is designed specifically to help students develop exceptional ‘theoretical knowledge’ and practise and refine ‘practical skills’.

Our ongoing work with the Knole Partnership, ensures that we provide exceptional outreach opportunities and pathways for pupils in Key Stage 2, which supports a successful transition for those students who join us in Year 7.