Physical Education
The Physical Education Department is based in the Sports Centre, currently undergoing an extension due for completion in September 2006. The main sports complex includes a large sports hall with sprung wooden floor, a newly enlarged weights and cardiovascular gym, a projectile range with indoor cricket nets, three glass-back squash courts and an aerobics area. The new extension will add a new office and classroom fitted with a data projector and interactive whiteboard, treatment and resources rooms and new changing rooms. A full size floodlit astro turf pitch provides the base for hockey and converts to twelve tennis courts in the summer. A 25-metre heated indoor swimming pool is available throughout the year and is fully equipped for competitive swimming, water polo and canoe polo.
Years 7-11
PE is usually taught in mixed gender groups throughout the School, to give pupils a broad range of experience in many activities to complement the Games programme. They acquire knowledge and skills in invasion games (soccer, basketball, handball, water polo), racket sports (badminton, tennis, squash), athletics, dance, gymnastics, health and fitness, orienteering, swimming strokes and survival, trampolining, volleyball and weight training. Around 40% of Year 11 students sit GCSE PE - results have been consistently good (2005 - 100% A*/A/B).
Sixth Form
PE is taught to A2 level (2005 - 83% A/B). Topics include Anatomy and Physiology, Exercise and Training, Skill Acquisition, History of Sport, Contemporary Issues and Sports Psychology.
Staff
Richard Hill BA (Ed)
Peter White BEd
Cate Brocklehurst BSc
Charlotte Keyser
Christine Illman BEd, BSc