Physical Education and Dance
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Team Byrchall – Sport for life
- Promoting and celebrating success
- Encouraging all to lead a healthy, active lifestyle
- Giving any ability the chance to participate and engage
- Motivating all members of the school community
- Helping talented performers to further develop excellence
- Developing fair play and sportsmanship in students
- Providing opportunities to develop leadership skills through sport
‘Team Byrchall – Sport for Life’ encourages lifelong participation in sporting activity. The Team Byrchall ethos helps students to build confidence and security in PE, which in turn impacts on the high volume of students who are involved in extra-curricular activities both in and out of school.
The Department hopes to develop a stimulating environment where students work in a safe, informed, skillful and creative manner, towards achieving many of the following aims:
- To actively support and positively contribute to the school’s overall philosophy.
- To provide for the development of communication, planning and organisational skills through structured problem-solving learning situations.
- To develop a positive working environment which considers each individual’s special needs and student’s differing rates of progress.
- To enable and encourage students to evaluate their work and the work of others.
- To develop the student’s ability to assess themselves and others.
- To enable students to follow programmes that may lead to further study.
Physical
- To promote an appreciation of physical movement through observation and analysis.
- To develop the student’s ability to plan and compose movement sequences in a wide variety of activities.
- To develop the capacity to create and express ideas through the media of planning, performing and evaluating movement.
- To utilise modern technology to analyse physical performance and movement.
- To encourage the appreciation of and the ability to monitor physical fitness.
- To encourage students to remember, adapt and apply knowledge, skills and concepts in a variety of movement related activities.
- To promote the development of movement coordination, confidence and the acquisition of a range of motor skills.
Personal
- To allow for students to work cooperatively and develop interpersonal and communication skills.
- To encourage responsible attitudes towards safety and develop a working knowledge of safe practice in all activities.
- To educate students with regard to health, hygiene and fitness.
- To give students the opportunity to discover and to use appropriately the facilities available locally.
- To develop a healthy attitude towards competition.
- To provide through all activities the highest form of enjoyment.
- To develop awareness of the relationship between physical, mental and social health and the impact the healthy lifestyles can have on overall health.
Curriculum Aims
- To develop skilful use of the body, the ability to remember, repeat and refine actions and to perform them with increasing control, co-ordination and fluency
- To develop an increasing ability to select, link and apply skills, tactics and compositional ideas
- To improve observation skills (at times utilising ICT) and the ability to describe and make simple judgements on their own and others work, and to use their observations and judgements to improve performance
- To develop an understanding of the effects of exercise on the body and an appreciation of the value of safe exercising
- To promote an understanding of safe practice, and develop a sense of responsibility towards their own and others’ safety and well-being
- To encourage and foster lifelong interest in participation in sport and exercise
- To create leaders who will work within the sporting industry as volunteers, coaches, officials and players
Team Byrchall offers an amazing range of activities for students to experience. The department has a fantastic record of results in a range of courses and qualifications. Additionally, Team Byrchall extensive extra-curricular programme offers students the opportunities to take part in competitive sport. The department operates a “Sport for All” and firmly believe that all students should have the opportunity to take part in activity. Furthermore, the department has enjoyed huge success in local and regional competitions and have outstanding results in many sports such as hockey, football and athletics.
Year 7
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| Table Tennis, Rugby, Dance, Netball, Hockey, Gymnastics, Football, Fitness (Boys), Fitness (Girls), Athletics |
Year 8
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| Fitness (Girls), Hockey, Dance, Fitness (Boys), Football, Athletics, Rounders, Ultimate Frisbee, Handball, Basketball, Football (Boys), Rugby, Table Tennis, Basketball, Athletics, Softball |
Year 9
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| Hockey, Dance, Fitness (Boys), Fitness (Girls), Volleyball, Trampolining, Athletics, Rounders, Table Tennis, Football, Rugby, Basketball, Athletics, Softball, Ultimate Frisbee, Short Tennis, Cricket (Striking and Fielding) |
Year 10
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GCSE
- Homework should be set for Y9/10/11 students and marked in accordance with school and departmental policy.
- Students should always write homework in homework diaries.
- Homework will also be available on School Synergy.
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DANCE
Homework will be set for upper school students and marked in accordance with school and departmental policy.
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CAMBRIDGE NATIONAL: SPORT SCIENCE
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| YEAR 10 | Sport Science Unit R181: Applying principles of training, fitness and how it affects skilled performance | 48 |
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| YEAR 11 | Sport Science Unit R183: Nutrition and Sports Performance | 24 |
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Meet the Staff
Miss Nelson
(Head of PE)
Joined Byrchall in: 2020
Favourite Sport: Netball
Favourite Sporting Memory: Attending Wimbledon and meeting
Sporting Idol: Serena Williams
Inspirational Quote: “Believe you can and your half way there” –Theodore Roosevelt.
“In the middle of every difficulty, lies opportunity” –Albert Einstein
Mrs Johnson
Joined Byrchall in: 2004
Favourite Sport: Dance
Favourite Sporting Memory: Liverpool winning the Premiership last year – just to annoy Mr Johnson!
Sporting Idol: Gene Kelly (tap dancer)
Inspirational Quote:
“Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion”. -Martha Graham
Mr Holland
Joined Byrchall in: April 2024
Favourite Sport: Rugby League
Favourite Sporting Memory:
Representing Great Britain Teachers Rugby League
Sporting Idol: Isaac Luke
Inspirational Quote:
“The harder you work for something, the greater you will feel when you achieve it”
Mr Johnson
Joined Byrchall in: April 2024
Favourite Sport:
Rugby League but I have recently started to play Padel
Favourite Sporting Memory:
Playing at Knowsley Road just before it closed. Or being the best staff member at pickleball.
Sporting Idol: Kevin Sinfield
Inspirational Quote:
“In a world full of adversity you must still dare to dream” – Rob Burrow MBE
Mr Gregory
Joined Byrchall in: 2005
Favourite Sport: Football
Favourite Sporting Memory:
Played for England U16 in the 4 nations Championship
Sporting Idol: David Beckham
Inspirational Quote:
“I have not failed. Ive just found 10,000 ways that wont work.” -Thomas A. Edision
Mrs O’Sullivan
Joined Byrchall in: 2019
Favourite Sport: Swimming
Favourite Sporting Memory: Swimming the Channel
Sporting Idol: Katie Ledecky
Inspirational Quote:
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Jon Urbanchek
Mr Thomas
Joined Byrchall in: 2025
Favourite Sport: Rugby Union
Favourite Sporting Memory: Playing at the Millennium Stadium
Sporting Idol: Sam Warburton
Inspirational Quote:
Whatever your situation, make the most you can of each and every day. Be nice to people, and laugh as much as possible.
“Doddie Weir.”
Mr Powell
Joined Byrchall in: 2022
Favourite Sport: Football and Golf
Favourite Sporting Memory: 16th February 2011 Watching Andrea Arshavin’s winner for Arsenal against Barcelona at the emirates with my dad.
Sporting Idol: Tommy Fleetwood
Inspirational Quote:
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take”
Miss Hesketh
Joined Byrchall in: Sept 2022
Favourite Sport: Water Polo and Netball
Favourite Sporting Memory: Playing Water polo for Great Britian at the 2017 World Games
Sporting Idol: Helen Housby (New South Wales Swifts, AUS & England Netball, GA)
Inspirational Quote:
‘It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.’
Mrs Crowley
Joined Byrchall in: 2006
Favourite Sport: Netball
Favourite Sporting Memory: Helen Housby’s winning goal in the final seconds of the Commonwealth Games Final 2018, beating favourites Australia 52-51
Sporting Idol: Jessica Ennis Hill
Inspirational Quote:
“Smile and the world smiles with you”- Mrs Crowley
External Links (click on the logo to be taken to the relevant Website)
TOPEND SPORTS: Topend Sports provides a wide range of quality information about sports, science, fitness and nutrition, plus much more.
PEARSON GCSE: Pearson is the UK’s largest awarding organisation offering academic, vocational and work-based learning qualifications.
PEARSON BTEC: Pearson is the UK’s largest awarding organisation offering academic, vocational and work-based learning qualifications.
AQA DANCE GCSE: AQA provides qualifications that enable students to progress to the next stage in their lives.
BBC BITESIZE: Exam board content from BBC Bitesize for students in England, Northern Ireland or Wales.
THE FA: The FA is a member of UEFA, FIFA and IFAB which is responsible for the Laws of the Game.
TEACH PE: Your free resource for Sports Coaching and Physical Education.
ENGLAND NETBALL: The National Governing body for England’s biggest female team sport, with 92000 affiliated members.
REVISION WORLD: Revision World is part of a group of revision websites, offering you thousands of free GCSE and A Level revision resources.
BRITISH ATHLETICS: UK Athletics is the National Governing Body for athletics.
BBC SPORT: Breaking news & live sports coverage including results, video, audio and analysis.
ENGLAND HOCKEY: The national governing body for hockey in England.
RUGBY LEAGUE: The national governing body for Rugby League in England, supporting schools, clubs, and communities to play and grow the game.
WIGAN WARRIORS: A professional Rugby League club with strong community and education programmes.
WIGAN ATHLETIC: A professional football club competing in the English Football League, with a strong academy and community programme developing talent and supporting local people.
SPORT ENGLAND – THIS GIRL CAN: A campaign that inspires women and girls of all ages to get active, breaking down barriers to participation and celebrating real stories of getting moving.
LTA PADEL: The Lawn Tennis Association promotes padel, one of the fastest-growing racket sports in the world, combining elements of tennis and squash to make the game fun, fast, and accessible for all.
