PE Overview Year 8
CURRICULUM OVERVIEW – Physical Education
YEAR 8 – SPRING TERM
Main areas of work:
OAA
- Leadership skills
- Communication and trust games
- Orienteering – how to read a compass
- how to walk on a bearing
Football
- Left + right foot dribbling
- Tactics
- Short + long range passing
- Shielding + holding ball
- Movement off the ball
- possessional play
Dance
- Suga Brown Dance Company
- Routine building for late spring performance
Hockey
- Reverse and open stick development
- Positional play
- Tackling
Circuits/Fitness
- Illinois agility tests
- Flexibility tests – stamina
- Measuring fitness through heart rate monitoring