Key Stage 3 Assessment Overview

Autumn 1

Year 9

Year 8

Year 7

Baseline Testing

Small sided striking and fielding

and invasion games
(overcoming opponents) in
Football and Rounders
Fitness Testing. Resting Heart
Rate, muscular/cardiovascular
endurance test, flexibility,
strength, co-ordination, reaction
time, speed, agility.

Autumn 2
Overcoming Opponents in Football
Concepts: Using a variety of
strategies and tactics in direct
competition through Football.
Skills: Moving into space to get free
from an opponent, passing with
consistency and accuracy and
demonstrating control in practise
situations.

Spring 1
Developing technique and improving
performance in Gymnastics

Spring 2
Designing and delivering a
Fitness Programme.

Summer 1
Overcoming opponents in
Striking and Fielding.

Summer 2
End of Year Exam- Practical Moderation.

Concepts: Creating and skilfully

performing a series of balances in
individual, partner and group
situations. Sequences and Travel.

Concepts: How do we
develop personal fitness and
promote a healthy active
lifestyle?

Concepts: Using a variety of

tactics and strategies in direct
competition through Striking
and Fielding.

Evaluate performances compared to

previous ones and demonstrate
improvement across a variety of
physical activities to achieve their
personal best.

Skills: Demonstrating tension,

extension and control and identifying
strategies to improve performance.

Skills: Plan a warm up and

cool down. Understand and
explain what is needed within
a Fitness programme to
improve their health and that
of others.

Skills: Demonstrating throwing

and catching, a variety of
batting and bowling methods
and applying the correct
technique when striking a ball.

Understand what makes a performance

effective and apply these principles to
their own work. Develop confidence and
become more competent and expert in
their technique.

Dance

Football

Rugby (B) Netball (G)

Gymnastics

Striking & Fielding

Athletics

Concepts: Creating and skilfully

performing a dance using
advanced techniques with a
range of dance styles and forms.

Concepts: Using a variety of skills

and tactics to overcome opponents
in a game situation.

Concepts: Using a variety of skills and

tactics to overcome opponents in a
game situation.

Concept: Developing
technique and improving
performance through flight
in Gymnastics.

Concept: Using a variety of skills

to overcome opponents in a
game situation.

Concept: Developing technique and

improving performance.

Skills: Applying rules, displaying good

positional sense appropriate to the
activity. Demonstrate improvisation,
touch and deception.

Skills: Ability to exercise control,

judging pace and direction. The ability
to switch between and influence a
game in attack or defence. Use of skills
under pressure.

Football

Badminton

Fitness

Football

Striking & Fielding

Athletics

Concepts: Overcoming
opponents in a team game
situation.

Concept: Overcoming opponents in

an individual sport.

Concept: Analysing performance based

on previous ones and demonstrating
improvement.

Concept: Using advanced

tactics to overcome
opponents in a game
situation.

Concept: Overcoming
opponents in team games using
advanced skills and the
application of tactics.

Concept: Developing technique and

improving performance. Analysing
performances made to previous ones
and demonstrating improvement to
achieve their personal best.

Skills: Depth, width and

penetration in attack.
Movements off the ball.
Depth, width, close marking,
delay and concentration in
defence. Zonal Marking. Set
pieces.

Skills: Switching, backing up.

Batter/Fielder placement.
Bowling changes. Applying the
rules to maximise scoring
opportunities or getting the
batters out.

Skills: Develop technique and

improve performance in Dance.
Posture, alignment, balance and
space. Pupils explore height,
pace, cannon and repetition.

Skills: Demonstrating a variety

of passes. Developing a feint.
Applying control frequently in
pressurised situations. Assisting
team mates in a variety of roles.

Skills: General stroke play including

drop shot, underarm, backhand and
serve. Demonstration of grip, stance
and movement around court. Shot
placement and angles.

Skills: An understanding of the

importance of exercise on social,
mental and physical wellbeing. An
understanding of how preparation,
training and fitness relate to, and affect
performance. Design and carry out a
training programme with a specific
purpose.

Skills: Take-off and landing

skills. Understanding of
shape, speed, direction and
timing. To reinforce safety
and awareness in relation to
themselves, others and the
use of apparatus. To select,
combine and perform skills
and build upon prior
knowledge.

Skills: Application of advanced

skills in a practise and game
situation. Batting stance,
direction, forehand and
backhand. Bowling, variation of
speed and height. Fieldingstopping, chasing and returning.

Skills: Developing understanding of

approach runs, take off and flight
phases (jumps). Stance, grip, throwing
action, release (throws). Arm and leg
action, posture and pace (running
events).

Skills: Tactics in athletics. Pacing in

running events, selection of throws for
throwing events and heights for
jumping events. Understanding of run
up, take off, flight and landing. Drive, lift
and technique for running events

Key Stage 3 Assessment Overview