Key Stage 3 PE @ TheEverLearner
Three brand new short courses for your KS3 PE students to study alongside their core, practical curriculum. Covering the key themes of health and well-being, movement and balanced, healthy, active lifestyles, our courses are a superb support for delivery and assessment of KS3 aspects of the national curriculum in physical education in schools.
Following the success of our original KS3 provision over lockdowns in 2020 and 2021, we are providing you with bespoke short courses covering key knowledge around health and well-being, movement and performance. Each course features tutorials, note-taking, practice, test and checkpoint modes and allows teachers to set assignments for students in seconds. The course is 100% auto-marked and tracked meaning there is no additional work for PE teachers. Every lesson is taught by our lead PE teacher, James Simms and is an exploration of "real" learning in the domain of physical education in schools.
Our first three courses ready for release September 2022:
- Diet, Nutrition and Health
- Body Systems and Health
- Body Systems and Exercise
SPACER
Diet, Nutrition and Health
A balanced, healthy diet
Balanced diet
- Energy requirements
- What is a balanced diet?
Food groups and their impact on health
- Carbohydrates
- Proteins
- Fats
- Vitamins
- Minerals
- Fibre
- Water
Unhealthy diets
Under and over-eating
- BMI
- Obesity
- Eating disorders
Other issues
- Alcohol consumption
Adapted diets
Adapting calories, fats and carbs
- Calorie counting
- Reducing fat diets
- Keto diets
Vegetarianism and veganism
- Types of vegetarianism and their impact
- Veganism
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Knowing Your Body Part 1
Body Systems and Health
Health and my body
Health
- What is 'good health'?
- The effect of exercise on health
Body systems
- Body systems and health
- The brain and the nervous system
- The respiratory system
- The CV system
- The skeletal system
- The muscular system
- The digestive system
How I move
Energy for movement
- Respiration
- Aerobic energy
- Anaerobic energy
Contracting muscles
- How muscles contract
- Role of the tendons
Skeletal Movement
- Movement at joints (Part 1)
- Movement at joints (Part 2)
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Knowing Your Body Part 2
Body Systems and Exercise
What happens when I exercise?
Body systems
- CV response to exercise
- Respiratory response to exercise
- Muscular response to exercise
- Skeletal response to exercise
Injuries
- Acute injuries
- Chronic injuries
- Injury rehabilitation
What happens after I exercise?
The recover process
- Recovery
- Speeding up recovery
Long term adaptations
- CV adaptations
- Respiratory adaptations
- Muscular adaptations
- Skeletal adaptations
Exercising in different conditions
Exercising in the heat
- Exercising in the heat
Exercising in the cold
- Exercising in the cold
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Benefits for PE departments
Our short courses have the following benefits for PE departments:
- Improve students' knowledge and understanding of health, movement and physical literacy.
- Develop and assess key knowledge and skills in PE.
- Provide robust teaching of cross-curricular links with biology, chemistry, food technology and many other subjects.
- Provide students who feel less confident in practical performance with an opportunity to be immediately successful in PE.
- Establish a KS3 PE homework strategy with no need for planning or marking.
- Build our courses into your KS3 schemes of work so that learning in this way is an intrinsic feature of core PE.
- Provide a more objective assessment of learning in core PE.
- Improve recruitment of students on to KS4 qualifications by raising the profile of KS3 PE.
- Support students who go on to KS4 qualifications to gain insights into theoretical learning during KS3.
Coming soon? We need your feedback...
Our initial three courses are only the start point. Based on teacher feedback and interest, we plan to release a further series of KS3 short courses so that PE departments have a broad range of material to select from. These are likely to feature the following:
- Movement in Context - The UK
- A Healthy Mind - The Role of Movement in Better Mental Health
- A Healthy Body - Lifelong Movement and Why it Matters
- Training - The Principles and Methods of Improving Fitness Levels
- Teenager's body - Puberty and Maturing
- Sport Psychology - What Can We Learn From Elite Sports Performers?
- Movement in Numbers - Applying Mathematical and Statistical Skills
- Learning Movement Skills - Introduction to Learning, Coaching and Leadership
We are also very open to the feedback from teachers and students about the types of courses you would like to have access to. As time progresses, we aim to provide you with exactly what you need to tailor your KS3 provision to your students.
If you have any suggestions and/or would like to get involved in our sector feedback program, please complete the form below.