Mrs G Chadwick, Art & Design Lead
Every child is an Artist
– Pablo Picasso
At Oakfield Lodge School we believe that every child is an artist and provide students with many opportunities that inspire creativity.
Creativity is an important life skill, allowing us to express ourselves. We encourage creative thinking in Art which leads to better academic achievement in all subjects. Art allows students to build their confidence, not only in Art processes, but in having the courage to express themselves, form opinions and gain a sense of accomplishment. We want to instil in our students a confidence in their own creative ability and empower them with a critical awareness of their own work. We promote passion, purpose and pleasure that combine to create the magic, which is Art.
Intent
Oakfield Lodge Art department aims to provide a rich and diverse range of practical activities and skills based learning, which encourages students to follow their creative talents and give depth and breadth to personal knowledge and understanding. Students have the opportunity to participate in engaging lessons, where learning experiences accelerate, challenge and infiltrate thinking and visual outcomes. We use the work of artists, both past and present, as a constant inspiration for work.
At Oakfield, we see creativity as a combination of intellectual, emotional, aesthetic and spiritual values, informed by a continuum of learning experiences. Understanding ones’ individual creativity is at the core of progression in any field of human endeavour and our aim is to support all students in developing this essential life skill.
Implementation
The Art curriculum is designed to deliver a wide variety of art disciplines from traditional drawing and painting to photography. We explore many engaging projects and learn about the visual elements, Art history and make work that reflects life now.
At KS3 students work on fun and engaging projects each half term. Each project looks at a variety of artists and disciplines from portraiture to graffiti. Every project has a final outcome which then displayed in the art room and around school. This gives students a sense of pride in their work.
We enhance student’s cultural capital by visiting Art galleries and museums. This allows students to experience and appreciate artwork in the flesh, which feeds back into their classwork. The museum trips allow students to draw from life observations and inspires ideas for individual projects.
At KS4 students work towards an Art and Design GCSE (AQA) qualification. In year 10 we focus on the coursework element of the GCSE. Students have a sketchbook to fill with their Pop Art, Art history and then begin a Natural Forms project. In year 11 we continue with the Natural Forms project until the Spring term when they start an externally set assignment leading to a ten-hour Art exam.
The GCSE course consists of:
A portfolio of work (worth 60% of the total marks).
An externally set project (Exam paper) which students can choose from a set of open starting points. This culminates in a ten-hour Art examination session (worth 40% of the marks). This project allows students to independently design and create a piece of art work in the media they choose which best suits their skills and your ways of working.
For this course students must have portfolio evidence of sequential development, in the form of sketchbooks and/or presentation boards. These should contain preparatory ideas, developed in the form of drawings, sketches, notes, collected photographs and images etc. as well as an awareness of the work of professional artists, designers and craftsmen, past and present.
Impact
In creating a wide range of artefacts and a personal portfolio at each stage within the curriculum, newly acquired skills can transfer to other areas of the curriculum and bring learning to life, as we endeavour to make all our students ‘School and life ready’.
At Oakfield we challenge all our students to be innovators and creative thinkers and not merely technicians; free thinking, sensitive and communicative individuals who understand the value of sequential development and the importance of a challenge to the status quo in which ever career pathway they choose later on their learning journey.
Art and Design remains a rapidly-growing global industry and opportunities for employment have never been more exciting; we envisage all our young people are able to engage more intuitively with highly-sophisticated imagery on a daily basis. Student success in external examinations further reflects the impact of individual learning during their time at Oakfield Lodge.
Learning Journeys
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
Mr Neil Cochrane, English Lead
n.cochrane@oakfieldlodge.cheshire.sch.uk
Oakfield Lodge School promotes an environment in which students develop a comprehensive and enduring understanding of the English Language through access to the highest quality English teaching and learning. The main aim for English is to develop the whole child. We want students to learn about themselves, their relationships and to have an awareness of their place in a multi-cultural society, as well as prepare them for the resilience needed to meet the demands of the 21st Century.
The English Department’s vision is to create a stimulating climate for learning, to support everyone in our school community as they strive for excellence and to work in partnership with others to remove barriers to learning. We strive to empower all students by fostering a love of reading, fostering a diverse and equitable environment and enthusiasm for English that will promote their lifelong learning as confident, flexible, and resourceful thinkers in anticipation of a global future.
Intent
The intent of our English Curriculum is to design a subject that is accessible to all, maximizing the development of every child’s ability and achievement. We offer a variety of approaches to teaching and learning to engage and motivate students, encouraging their active participation in lessons.
Through English Language, we seek to provide students with the language capacity to navigate and succeed in courses of their own choosing, as well as inspiring students to become ambitious and pursue more language-based careers, such as writing, journalism, speech therapy or education. Additionally, we seek to develop students ‘ability to think deeply about humanity, and to discover the riches of their Literary Heritage, whilst developing the critical faculties to evaluate the ideas and the craft in these texts. We challenge students to think, act and speak as those who work in the field would; to read like writers, to write like readers, to speak like orators.
We develop English knowledge including reading, writing and speaking & listening that encourages confidence and enjoyment and utilise students’ interests and popular current events in the world to stimulate learning. We set realistic yet challenging targets, with high expectations for all students.
We do our utmost to ensure all students leave Oakfield Lodge with an English qualification that reflects the best of their ability.
We enhance our students’ cultural capital by visits to theatres (local & national), visiting authors/poets, museums & historical sites, media/journalist environments and Library visits.
Implementation
Students have full access to the English National Curriculum that is differentiated to meet students’ learning needs and styles.
The English Curriculum is designed to be challenging, appropriate to each student’s stage of development. Our curriculum covers the different areas of reading and writing fiction and non-fiction, and study of literary texts each year with the sophistication of the skills gradually increasing, and regular spiralling back to ensure key content is secure. Discussion and debate are a regular feature of lessons, as is extended reading and writing. We engage with real-life contexts where possible to enable students to connect their learning with the world beyond.
The English Curriculum offers opportunities for cross-curricular learning, to ensure students make significant personal development.
We offer a GCSE in English Language as a qualification.
Useful Links to English websites.
Learning Journeys
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
Mr Andy Suter, Technology Lead
asuter@oakfieldlodge.cheshire.sch.uk
Intent
Within Technology we aim to re-engage students in Learning. Students have the opportunity to develop their life skills. Gain an understanding of Health and safety and the correct use of a range of tools and equipment, helping build confidence and recognise the importance of a varied and interesting diet.
Implementation
At KS3 students get to work on a variety of projects and produce a range of high quality products that will explore processes, allowing the development of knowledge of materials, methods and ingredients. Involving problem solving and decision making on how their outcomes evolve. Higher attaining students undertake a more independent approach to designing and making, will evaluate, develop the complexity, and improve their finished products.
Within KS4 students will have the opportunity to study Construction (AQA Unit awards) and Btec Home Cooking Skills. Within Construction students will develop their practical skills within a range of construction related tasks. This will include bricklaying, and carpentry.
Within Btec Home Cooking Skills Level 1 and Level 2 Awards. The learners to develop: the knowledge, understanding and confidence to cook meals at home. Giving them an insight to understanding of how to economise when planning a meal, an ability to transfer skills learned to different recipes.
Impact
Through each stage of learning students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of Materials and Processes and Methods and Ingredients, which will be further built upon over time. Students’ ability to apply knowledge in multiple contexts and solve problems will be evident. Retrieval and retention of knowledge is promoted through the interleaving of content. Formative assessment and feedback used regularly to support planning to move learning forward.
Learning Journeys
Construction
Year 10
Year 11
Food Technology
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
Mrs R J Denham, Humanities Teacher
Rdenham@oakfieldlodge.cheshire.sch.uk
Intent
Oakfield Lodge School promotes an environment in which students develop their knowledge of the elements of Humanities in a variety of ways. They will cover at a block of lessons each half term with a focus on either Geography or History and RE being incorporated where relevant.
Humanities plays an important role in our students education, providing them with knowledge of the world in which they live, how it was formed and giving them a greater understanding of how the past has shaped the present and future.
We will support the development of literacy by encouraging students to communicate their knowledge and understanding of a variety of topics and key vocabulary as well as the use of spelling, punctuation and grammar. They will develop an ability to read and interpret a variety of sources and how to separate relevant and bias information.
Implementation
The Humanities curriculum is designed to deliver an up to date knowledge of how world works, using a variety of project based learning such as field trips, local studies and
At KS3 all students will complete a variety of tasks based on Geography, History and RE. This will be delivered in blocks of six lessons each half term, with a focus on a specific area. For example, half term one will look at the local area, focusing on the history of Cheshire towns and map reading skills.
Students are supported to overcome barriers and succeed with content through appropriate in class intervention and wider programmes of support.
Students are assessed on their ability to interpret sources and form opinions on events, this enables us to identify gaps in learning and starting points.
We will enhance the cultural capital of our students by visiting areas of local interest, historical landmarks and linking learning to real life situations.
Impact
At each stage of learning students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of how the different elements of Humanities have shaped the world we live in. Students’ ability to apply knowledge and skills will be evident in their completed work. They will be able to demonstrate their knowledge during projects and fieldwork. Formative assessment and feedback used regularly to support planning to move learning forward.
We will support students to be ambitious by linking learning to relevant careers and job roles and offering an opportunity to study a humanities related course in KS4.
Learning Journeys
Year 9
Intent
Oakfield Lodge School promotes an environment in which students develop their ICT skills in a safe and responsible way across a variety of subjects.
Technology is now a major part of our students lives and has a massive impact on what they do during, outside and after education. ICT at Oakfield Lodge aims to provide our students with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in the modern world and how to use technology to benefit their own futures.
Implementation
ICT is delivered discretely throughout the curriculum. Students are provided with up to date knowledge of how technology has shaped our society, using the latest software to complete a variety of project based learning.
At KS3 all students will complete a variety of projects that improve ICT skills whilst developing knowledge of past and current trends or issues. For example, they will use it to create presentations in different subjects, access MyMaths, use design packages in Technology and look at E-safety in PSHE.
At KS4, students have the option of taking Functional Skills qualifications ICT, Level one for year 10 and Level 2 for year 11. This course allows them to obtain a qualification in the use of ICT software.
Students who lack the pre requisite skills and understanding are supported to overcome barriers and succeed with content through appropriate in class intervention and wider programmes of support.
We enhance students cultural capital by inviting guest experts to run workshops on specialised topics such as gaming, music production and robotics.
In ICT students are supported in literacy by being encourage to search for and retrieve information from the internet. They will interpret information and present it in a way that is relevant to the task and target audience.
Impact
At each stage of learning students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of Technology and how to get the most out of the hardware and software that they use both in school and at home. Students’ ability to apply knowledge and skills to solve problems will be evident in their completed work. They will be able to demonstrate their skills when using ICT across other curriculum areas. We assess students formatively to enable us to identify gaps in learning and starting points.
Students are supported to be ambitious by being given careers advice that links ICT qualifications to specific post 16 pathways and jobs. They will be given talks from positive role models within
ICT Online Learning Websites
https://oakfieldlodge.bksblive2.co.uk – all students have a login. Please contact the school if you can’t remember you user name or password and ask to speak to Mrs Denham
https://www.skillsworkshop.org/ict – this is a free website with lots of resources to practice your skills
Mr Paul Ibbotson, Maths Lead
pibbotson@oakfieldlodge.cheshire.sch.uk
Intent
Oakfield Lodge School promotes an environment in which students develop a comprehensive and enduring understanding of the concepts of mathematics through access to the highest quality mathematics teaching and learning.
The Mathematics Department’s vision is to create a stimulating and ambitious climate for learning, to support everyone in our school community as they strive for excellence and to work in partnership with others to remove barriers to learning. We strive to empower all students through rich mathematical exploration, fostering a diverse and equitable environment and enthusiasm for mathematics that will promote their lifelong learning as confident, flexible, and resourceful thinkers in anticipation of a global future.
In Mathematics we aim to support the development of literacy by providing opportunities for students to communicate their mathematical reasoning.
Implementation
Maths is a hierarchical subject therefore the curriculum is designed to deliver a coherent journey with a succinct delivery to ensure time is maximised to develop understanding through practice.
At KS3 all students work through the curriculum at the same pace, with higher attaining students extended through depth rather than an acceleration of content.
At KS4 all students continue their studies on an appropriate GCSE pathway determined by their prior attainment and knowledge gains of previous study.
Students who lack the pre requisite skills and understanding are supported to overcome barriers and succeed with content through appropriate in class intervention and wider programmes of support.
In Mathematics we enhance the cultural capital of our students by providing opportunities to experience the application of mathematics in the real world.
Impact
At each stage of learning students should be able to demonstrate a conceptual understanding of the topic which will be further built upon over time. Students’ ability to apply knowledge in multiple contexts and solve problems will be evident. Retrieval and retention of knowledge is promoted through the interleaving of content. Formative assessment and feedback used regularly to support planning to move learning forward.
We offer a GCSE in Maths. Along with Functional skills at Entry level and Level 1 and 2 in Maths.
Useful Home Learning Websites
Learning Journeys
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
Oakfield Lodge is a Pupil Referral Unit and as such does not deliver the full national curriculum. At Oakfield Lodge we believe in providing a wide range of enrichment opportunities to allow all students to experience a wide and diverse learning experience. Many students who attend Oakfield Lodge have struggled to access the arts subjects in their mainstream settings, often lacking confidence in these areas.
Music is important to our students, in their daily lives. At Oakfield Lodge we work closely with The Love Music Trust (Cheshire East music hub) to provide accessible and enjoyable mucic learning experiences.
In 2024 – 25 Oakfield Lodge will provide the following opportunities for students to experience music and the arts.
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Music provision from Love Music Trust every Friday to offer group based band sessions for all children. Opportunities to play different instruments, work as a team and produce musical performances. These sessions are funded by the grant provided by Love Music Trust annually and pupil premium funding received by the school. |
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Provision of 1:1 music lessons, for students who wish to access these. These sessions are provided by tutors from Love Music Trust and are fully funded by school. |
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Opportunities for students to access visiting theatre groups and cultural capital visits to theatres and performances – these are arranged by curriculum areas to enhance the learning in the subject area. |
Qualifications
Where students express an interest and talent for Music, AQA unit awards can be achieved. For students who access 1:1 peripatetic lessons access to graded qualifications will be supported by the school.
Mrs D Fisher-Sherratt, Outdoor Education Lead
dfisher-sherrat@oakfieldlodge.cheshire.sch.uk
Intent
At Oakfield Lodge we believe the beauty of Outdoor Education is that our natural world offers us so many opportunities to provide hands-on learning experiences for our children, we aim to explore this in so many way for our students. At Oakfield Lodge, we use Outdoor Education to provide an alternative classroom for our students, in order for them to feel comfortable and so that they can apply themselves to their full potential.
We aim to create resilience in these young people preparing them for future adulthood. For some children learning within the confines of a classroom is often stifling. Therefore, Outdoor Education can offer so much more for our children, motivating them with their learning, building self-belief, delivering marked improvements in both mood and confidence. Outdoor Education provides our students with the motivation and resilience that they will require to succeed in mainstream education and even on their post 16 pathway.
In today’s modern, technology-focused era, children are spending more and more time indoors rather than experiencing outdoor adventurous activities. By taking education and learning outside this provides an opportunity for our children to be more active, provide them with creative experiences that ultimately help learning to become embedded. At Oakfield Lodge we aim to give all of our students the opportunity to have experiences that they would not normally have the opportunity to engage in and to make memories that they will cherish forever. All this is aimed at generating a positive impact in children’s physical, mental health and general wellbeing allied to positive learning outcomes.
Implementation
Across all Year Groups at Oakfield Lodge, Outdoor Education is designed to deliver a weekly timetabled coherent learning journey for our students, building on, what we have determined to be, skills for life, culminating in a vast range of AQA Unit Awards at a variety of levels. We deem this a successful way for students to monitor their own successes and take this into their post 16 pathway.
Impact
Outdoor Education at Oakfield Lodge aims to ensure that our students are Ready, Respectful and Safe for a variety of experiences. This may be, alternative lessons whilst they are at school, including core lessons, building resilience, determination and self-belief. This will give the students the ability to use learnt transferable skills to progress with their next steps.
Outdoor Days Out
Learning Journeys
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
Mr Sloan, PE/RSELead
dsloan@oakfieldlodge.cheshire.sch
Intent
Oakfield Lodge School aims to provide the most enjoyable and inclusive experience for all ability levels within Physical Education. Opportunities are made for students to compete against students from other schools and participate in a range of activities away from the classroom and in the community. The PE department offers extra-curricular and after school PE sessions so that the students can further their understanding, and develop their knowledge and skills. Through using PE and fitness facilities within the community and of other schools, the students develop vital independence skills as well as reinforce knowledge gained from the SMSC curriculum. Students not only participate in a wide range of practical PE but also learn tactics, rules, principles, ethics and the importance of being able to review and analyse individual and team performances using a range of ICT software within theoretical lessons.
Implementation
At KS3 students have the opportunity to achieve accreditation though the OCR Entry level Physical Education course where they will participate in individual and team sports/activities and analyse performances and make adjustments and improvements. Traditional team sports are present throughout KS3 as well as individual sports and opportunities to access physical activity in the community. The students will learn the importance of strategies such as outwitting opponents and be able to use specific vocabulary when referring to anatomy.
At KS4 students have a combination of theoretical and practical PE and have the opportunity to gain accreditation again through the OCR Entry level course as well as Pearsons BTEC First Award in Sport (level 1/2) and OCR GCSE PE. Students engage and develop knowledge in topics such as applied anatomy and physiology, physical training, nutrition, strategies, sport psychology and performance analysis.
Impact
Through each stage students will be developing their performance and skill level through a range of PE activities and recognise links to other subjects (e.g. anatomy in science, and nutrition in technology) which will reinforce and develop their knowledge. Through engaging in PE students understand the importance of leading healthy lives and have ownership of their own performance and progression through self-assessments, with the ability to implement changes to aid improvement.
Learning Journeys
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
Mr Sloan, PHSE/RSE Lead
dsloan@oakfieldlodge.cheshire.sch
Intent
Oakfield Lodge is committed in providing a rich curriculum and high quality teaching of RSE to equip the students with knowledge, values and an understanding to assist them in making positive choices in order to lead a healthy and balanced life.
We recognise not only the high importance of teaching and assisting our pupils to understand, recognise and form healthy friendships and relationships, but also the vulnerability that our students have in the community when it comes to matters of sexual activity and the possibility of being exploited.
Implementation
Impact
Students will develop healthy and positive relationships with themselves and their peers, both now and in the future and develop a deep knowledge of how to keep safe in a number of situations. Students will be better prepared for the challenges, opportunities and responsibilities which they will face.
Learning Journeys
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
Miss Emma Thompson, Deputy Headteacher & Science Lead
e.thompson@oakfieldlodge.cheshire.sch.uk
Rationale
The provision of a broad and balanced Science curriculum at Oakfield Lodge school involves more than coverage of the National Curriculum outcomes relating to the areas of Biology , Chemistry and Physics it also encompasses experiences of cultural capital, social, moral, spiritual and cultural experiences.
In Science we also understand that having a wide vocabulary and good reading skills are crucial for our students to able to access all of all the curriculum and also wider skills and experiences such as extracurricular activities, trips and exploring future career paths, these form part of the Science curriculum within school.
Oakfield Lodge School Science curriculum is linked to our vision and values and reflects the community we serve – We believe that every individual is valued and is given the greatest possible opportunity to achieve their best in a school where pupil needs are met, enabling social and academic achievement with the highest possible outcomes.
Intent
Science at Oakfield Lodge school is planned to develop and encourage a can do mindset in learners and staff by ensuring that the curriculum is relevant and accessible to all whilst providing appropriate stretch and challenge at every stage. Students will leave Oakfield Lodge with an appropriate range of qualifications in Science that allow them to make positive choices in preparation for adulthood.
It is the intention that the Science department will seek to allow the Science curriculum to evolve in order to include the following aims:
- To ensure and promote the provision of stretch and challenge to all students at Oakfield Lodge
- Provide learning opportunities that are relevant interesting and support the preparing for adulthood curriculum whilst inspiring creativity and original thinking
- Build skills of independence and resilience in a safe and nurturing environment where pupils feel comfortable to challenge or question their own learning as well as the teachings of others
- To develop and embed schemes of learning that embrace fundamental British values, healthy living, careers guidance and the promotion of citizenship
- Promote the preparation of our pupils for the next stage of their education and adulthood by ensuring that the teaching of science provides opportunities for pupils to consider how their own learning in science contributes to the decision making processes relating to future employment, independence, community, inclusion and their own health and wellbeing.
Implementation
Implementation is how the curriculum is delivered, it is the journey of learning from Year 9 through Year 11. In Science we seek to develop a broad, rich and rigorous curriculum that stretches and challenges all our students.
The Science department consists of a Lead for Science and a HLTA.
Students are generally taught in pastoral groups and the teacher are expected to differentiate to ensure there is stretch and challenge for all abilities in every class. The Science department has planned out topics in detail, which include where applicable reference to the requirements of the National Curriculum. Year 9 to 11 pupils are studying AQA Trilogy Combined GCSE Science, which will equate to 2 GCSE’s . This modified national curriculum is planned to meet the needs of each students as an individual learner.
Impact
Teachers have high expectation of all pupils, whether in terms of upholding the core values of the school or in respect to their own progress and responsibilities within science lessons. Expectations of behavior and learning are visible to students in their books. All students reflect on their own progress with termly targets at the front of every book.
The teacher monitors student progress throughout the year to ensure that the needs of all the students are being met. This is done by utilizing assessment data in a meaningful way. For example, to address misconceptions in learning and to target intervention to improve individual outcome and monitor progress. In terms of planning for learning, data is used to ensure that LTP and MTP provide appropriate stretch and challenge to those who are most able and provides appropriate learning experiences to those that struggle to access particular aspects of the curriculum. Scrutiny of individual student’s data ensures that students are placed on appropriate pathways to learning at all key stages.
As a department and a school we seek to unsure that when our learners leave Oakfield Lodge School they are well rounded young people with an excellent set of examination results and planned path forward in preparation for adulthood.
We offer a GCSE in Science AQA Trilogy along side AQA unit awards.
Learning Journeys
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
STEM Day
In September 2024, we welcomed our students back after Summer with a STEM Day. Students were given the opportunity to design, build and then race, their own Go Karts in a ‘Wacky Races’ style track. The students designed the course, along with obstacles to avoid and plenty of distractions throughout the course!
The day celebrated Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics by ensuring that the students had to plan and design their go kart with weight and dynamics in mind. Students produced blue prints of their designs and then began to build them, having immense amounts of fun along the way!
British Science Week 2025
‘Change & Adapt’
British Science Week is entering its third decade in 2025, taking place on 7-16 March, and the theme to mark the start of this new era is ‘Change and adapt’!
Changing and adapting plays a big part in science; you can find examples in every area of STEM*. Cities, towns and other areas where people live change and adapt as the world’s population grows, plants and animals change and adapt to their surroundings to survive. Technology has changed exponentially and adapted to our new, busier lives (or have we changed as technology has developed?). For example, phone technology has changed rotary home telephones to smartphones.
Our behaviours change too – we need to change how we consume the world’s resources to offset the worst effects of the climate crisis, and adapt our lifestyles to reduce our impact through recycling or reducing waste.
But change and adaptation doesn’t just happen here on Earth, even the stars and other celestial bodies change as they gain and lose mass. Perhaps there is life on other planets that adapts as their environment changes.
When exploring this theme, we can also consider how attitudes to STEM and the people who do it have changed and adapted. Perceptions of scientists are changing and we need to keep adapting our thinking until we can no longer picture a ‘stereotypical scientist’ – anyone can be a scientist.
Change and adaptation is often a good thing, but not always! A topic we have all become more familiar with in the last four years, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is viruses and how they adapt to better infect and multiply within their living hosts. This can be scary, but understanding this behaviour allows scientists to develop the most effective vaccines and other treatments.
Stay tuned for what we will be getting up to during British Science Week 2025!
Science Days Out
Mr David Sloan, BTEC Sport Lead
Intent
The BTEC First Award in Sport qualification (level1/2) provides engaging and stimulating introduction to the sports industry. The course encourages personal development through practical participation and performance in a range of sports and exercise activities. The students will gain an understanding and appreciation of the human body and the development of health-related and sport specific fitness. The staff encourage students to develop their communication, self and peer assessment and leadership skills through sport activities including competing against other schools.
Implementation
Units of work that contribute to a BTEC Level 1/2 qualification in Sport includes a wide range of training opportunities. BTEC Sport students will complete four units during the course on the following topics:
• Practical Sports Performance (Assignments) – sports rules, regulations, tactics and practical demonstrations (Internally Assessed)
• The Mind and Sports Performance (Assignments) – personality, motivation and the effects on sport performance (Internally Assessed)
• Applying Principals of Personal Training (Assignments) – creating, leading and reviewing a personal training programme (Internally Assessed)
• Fitness for Sport & Exercise (Online Exam)
Students are introduced to the base knowledge of physiology, training methods and leadership skills that form the foundations for the subsequent units. We provide vocationally relevant scenarios to support the delivery of units. For example, working towards and leading sports sessions.
Impact
It is expected that students will have an understanding of the importance of health and fitness, exercising safely and the importance of following rules within sport and society. It is also hoped that students will view their experience in BTEC Sport at Oakfield Lodge as a positive one and that this will shape future behaviour. Some students may wish to follow a career as a result of their experience in sport and these careers could include: teacher, personal trainer, coach, physiotherapist, sports scientist, diet and fitness instructor, armed forces, leisure and tourism industry.
Learning Journeys
Year 10
Year 11
100% of Parents/Carers agree that ‘The school expects my child to work hard’
90% Parents/Carers agree that: ‘My Child experiences a wide variety of learning opportunities’
– Parents/Carer Survey 2024