PE / Sport

Vision

Students who attend Barr’s Hill will experience a variety of sporting activities where they will develop their core skills through our PE DNA including performance, their knowledge and understanding of the rules and officials in games, and understand what it means to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Students will experience sports in the following areas: Invasion, Net/wall, Strike/Field, Athletics, Dance/Gymnastics, and Health and Fitness.

Students who enjoy sport and are aspiring towards sports related professions, have the opportunity to study it at KS4 and KS5 where they will experience high quality teaching and career opportunities and guidance will be offered. Students will also develop their communication skills such as oracy and use of vocabulary, both inside and outside the classroom. The courses are aspirational and aim to not only allow students to gain a GCSE/A-level equivalent qualification, but also experience visits to top universities and sports stadiums, gain coaching badges, and participate in student leadership opportunities by volunteering to transform our local communities through work experience placements. Students are encouraged to reflect and celebrate their achievements in these opportunities available to them.

Alongside the PE curriculum we also offer a variety of enrichment experiences and opportunities. Students are widely encouraged to attend these activities and can either do so for leisure or get invited to one of our sporting academies and represent school teams. These opportunities help with character development where they will learn discipline, resilience and sportsperson ship, and we actively encourage students to reflect on and embrace these learning experiences.  Alongside this we also have an elite sporting pathway where we help students join elite teams outside of Barr’s Hill through the community links that we have. This varies widely between the Elite basketball club, Coventry Godiva Harriers Athletics Club, and Coventry RFC and many more.