Secondary school PE teacher in the North East, have worked in a range of Schools, Academies and Colleges and want to share my top resources that I still use in my teaching today!
Secondary school PE teacher in the North East, have worked in a range of Schools, Academies and Colleges and want to share my top resources that I still use in my teaching today!
KS4 Fitness booklet - Ever been doing a fitness lesson with KS4 students who just seem to lack motivation or direction?? I have!!! This is why I developed this KS4 fitness booklet, to try and direct my students without having to do a full fitness instructor style lesson as I would with KS3.
The booklet includes a range of different training sessions that covers all parts of the body, it includes weight training for use on machines, it includes circuits training sessions each with a different focus, it includes a record sheet if students want to keep track of what they have done (or if you want to keep track of what they have done!), and it includes some more fun and possibly relevant challenges for those students who might even just want to go for a walk on a treadmill.
Each of the sessions can be used independently in core lessons depending on your facilities available, or he full booklet could be used to guide fitness training programmes in exam based lessons. To make it more user friendly or adaptable I have included all of the sessions individually as well as in booklet format so you can choose whichever format works best for you or your school without any extra work. Our current use for them is we have a load of each of the individual session plans printed and in wall mounted holders, then our KS4 students can just pick them up in their lessons or after school and do a session completely independently based on a fitness method or component of fitness of their choice.
Can also double as a unit of work doing a different session each lesson, or could be used with older KS3 students if facilities and behaviour allow for this.
Resource cards to print and laminate that show almost 80 different balances!
Cards are colour coded based on how many people are required (individual, pair, or three), once laminated simply give them to the kids and let them try.
Can be used as a warm up task at random, can be used to develop teamwork, can be taught as a full lesson progressing from simple individual balances to complex group balances, the possibilities are endless, and with nearly 80 cards to print and use it will takes weeks if not months of use before any student gets through all of them!
Here we have resources for a full unit of work on trampolining, suitable for KS3 or KS4.
Includes resource cards on:
Trampoline safety
Basic shapes - tuck, pike straddle
Basic landings - seat drop, front drop, back drop (all including progressions such as swivel hips and half turns)
Front somersault
British gymnastics proficiency awards 3-10
Also includes record sheet tailored to the above resources and a one page teacher tracking document.
SAQ Circuit Training station cards x 16
Each card has:
A visual example of the exercise
A short description of each exercise
A tip or extra challenge section
See my shop for more circuit training station cards.
Set of volleyball resources for KS3 students. Variety of teaching cards that show basic rules and techniques in volleyball.
Can be used to promote independent learning or just a visual resource alongside your teaching or as a reminder tool.
Resource cards for each of the following:
Volleyball rules
Volleyball rules (picture prompts only)
Underarm Serve
Overarm Serve
Dig Shot
Set Shot
Spike Shot
A portfolio of a wide range of sports, with each sport having it’s own dedicated pages that explain things such as:
Main teaching points
Drills or conditioned games ideas
Equipment specifications
Pitch layouts
Basic tactics
Game rules
(Please note, not EVERY sport has EVERY one of the things above. Guides for sports such as Basketball cover more skills and tactics, whereas athletics covers equipment specs, track layouts, world record, and a brief description of how you could teach each discipline, but all of them contain lots of useful information that I still use now many years on from qualifying as a teacher. )
These ‘idiot guides’ are ideal for people early on in their career, or for anyone starting to teach any of these sports where they don’t have a lot of experience. These will not be relevant for experienced teachers who are looking for more advanced drills but would be ideal for ITT, ECT or less confident staff who may want to try and upskill themselves in a new sport.
These were put together from my own experience of teacher training and a wide range of level 1 and 2 NGB coaching courses. Each different sport has things that I found particularly useful and drills that I still use now, or modified versions of these.
Idiot guides are included for the following sports:
Athletics
Badminton
Basketball
Climbing
Cricket (Game resource cards available separately)
Football
Netball
Orienteering (Site cards available separately)
Rounders
Rugby x 2
Softball/Teeball
Table Tennis
Volleyball
Three PE home learning projects for KS3 students, one project per year group for 7, 8 and 9. The projects can be done completely independently, ideal for remote learning or as homework.
They are set up to last for 16 weeks/tasks, with each task covering a different topic. As well as being used for remote learning it can also be set as homework tasks.
Each task is included in an individual powerpoint that can be assigned individually, and as a word document project that can be assigned once as a project that students can work through over a long period of time.
All tasks are fully resourced where necessary, and marking criteria are included on each task so that students can see exactly what they need to do and staff can mark everything easily with minimum workload.
Most work is set up to be marked by a set of simple 1-4 tick boxes, with one task in every 3 also including WWW and EBI marking areas for more in depth marking.
List of topics included: History of sport, sporting events, famous athletes, local sports provisions, fitness testing and training, nutrition, technology, stadiums and facilities, healthy lifestyle, injuries, officials, media, and money in sport.
Please note task 4 will require adapting to your area – currently resourced to suit the Sunderland area.
Also note the projects are also available individually if you only wish to purchase for one year group and modify yourself.
Collection of resource cards for KS3 athletics field events.
Jumps are set up as independent practices that build up to full performance of the jump.
Throws are set up as peer evaluation coaching cards so that teachers can have full control of the group and lesson and students are provided with enough teaching points to assess and improve each other’s performance.
Resource cards included for:
Long jump
Triple jump
Shot
Discuss
Javelin
Sprint start resource is included as a bonus!
Strength circuit training station cards x 18
Each station is numbered to easily keep track of which stations have been completed or to arrange and remember an order of exercises.
Each card is completed with:
Instructional image
Agonist muscle identified
Differentiated alternatives for each exercise
Exercises require little or no basic equipment at all.
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Year 7 PE home learning project.
The projects can be done completely independently, ideal for remote learning or as homework. It is set up to last for 16 weeks/tasks, with each task covering a different topic. As well as being used for remote learning it can also be set as homework tasks. Each task has been separated in to individual powerpoints as well as set up as one big project on word. Tasks can therefore be assigned individually as required, or set as one project that students can work through over a long period of time.
All tasks are fully resourced where necessary, and marking criteria are included on each task so that students can see exactly what they need to do and staff can mark everything easily with minimum workload.
Most work is set up to be marked by a set of simple 1-4 tick boxes, with one task in every 3 also including WWW and EBI marking areas for more in depth marking.
List of topics included: History of sport, sporting events, famous athletes, local sports provisions, fitness testing and training, nutrition, technology, stadiums and facilities, healthy lifestyle, injuries, officials, media, and money in sport.
Please note task 4 will require adapting to your area – currently resourced to suit the Sunderland area.
PLEASE NOTE DISCOUNTED BUNDLE PURCHASE AVAILABLE FOR 3 x FULL PROJECTS FOR YEAR 7, 8 & 9.
Aerobic circuit training station cards x 14.
Each card contains:
Instructional picture
Brief description
A helpful tip or additional challenge
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A presentation I have used to deliver CPD to staff on a wide range of retrieval tasks. Over 30 tasks included with a bonus table of tasks at the end. The main 30 are all set up and colour coded ready to copy and paste into your lesson, simply change the topics/questions/keywords and off you go.
Activities can all be done in a number of ways - mini white boards, written in books, discussed, think pair share, etc. Activity colour codes can represent a number of variables depending on your preference - time content was learned (last lesson, last week, last term), difficulty of topics (simple, moderate, complex), or different numbers of marks.
All have been set up in this presentation with PE examples but can be very easily adapted to work in any subject area.
21 slides of football drills that cover passing, possession, transition, shooting, fitness, and overloads. Ideal to use to plan scheme’s of work, currently being used with an in house football academy.
Almost all drills can be modified or adapted to suit different numbers or to differentiate by ability.
Year 9 PE home learning project.
The projects can be done completely independently, ideal for remote learning or as homework. It is set up to last for 16 weeks/tasks, with each task covering a different topic. As well as being used for remote learning it can also be set as homework tasks. Each task has been separated in to individual powerpoints as well as set up as one big project on word. Tasks can therefore be assigned individually as required, or set as one project that students can work through over a long period of time.
All tasks are fully resourced where necessary, and marking criteria are included on each task so that students can see exactly what they need to do and staff can mark everything easily with minimum workload.
Most work is set up to be marked by a set of simple 1-4 tick boxes, with one task in every 3 also including WWW and EBI marking areas for more in depth marking.
List of topics included: History of sport, sporting events, famous athletes, local sports provisions, fitness testing and training, nutrition, technology, stadiums and facilities, healthy lifestyle, injuries, officials, media, and money in sport.
Please note task 4 will require adapting to your area – currently resourced to suit the Sunderland area.
PLEASE NOTE DISCOUNTED BUNDLE PURCHASE AVAILABLE FOR 3 x FULL PROJECTS FOR YEAR 7, 8 & 9.
Year 8 PE home learning project.
The projects can be done completely independently, ideal for remote learning or as homework. It is set up to last for 16 weeks/tasks, with each task covering a different topic. As well as being used for remote learning it can also be set as homework tasks. Each task has been separated in to individual powerpoints as well as set up as one big project on word. Tasks can therefore be assigned individually as required, or set as one project that students can work through over a long period of time.
All tasks are fully resourced where necessary, and marking criteria are included on each task so that students can see exactly what they need to do and staff can mark everything easily with minimum workload.
Most work is set up to be marked by a set of simple 1-4 tick boxes, with one task in every 3 also including WWW and EBI marking areas for more in depth marking.
List of topics included: History of sport, sporting events, famous athletes, local sports provisions, fitness testing and training, nutrition, technology, stadiums and facilities, healthy lifestyle, injuries, officials, media, and money in sport.
Please note task 4 will require adapting to your area – currently resourced to suit the Sunderland area.
PLEASE NOTE DISCOUNTED BUNDLE PURCHASE AVAILABLE FOR 3 x FULL PROJECTS FOR YEAR 7, 8 & 9.
Three mini cricket games that students can play during lessons. Each one comes with a written walkthrough and a colourful diagram.
Formatted to be able to print double sided on A3 or A4 and then laminate and give out to students during lessons. Have used these with all KS3 year groups and they work fantastically as independent games where students are responsible for setting up and running their own games - promotes independence and resilience as well as giving you as the teacher time to do some targetted intervention or teaching with key groups.
Three games are clock cricket, modified quick cricket, and pairs cricket. For the pairs cricket it also includes a separate score sheet that can be given to any non participants to keep them involved as an umpire.
9 Lessons of practical fitness activities that can used as a unit of work, one off wet weather lessons, or taught alongside KS4 theory content.
All lessons are resourced and explained where necessary - circuit training cards are obviously self explanatory.
All resources in word format so can be edited or amended based on equipment you have available.
MOST sessions require minimal or basic equipment such as cones, floor mats and benches but SOME require more specialist PE equipment such as boxercise which requires gloves and pads, and some circuits that require basic weights (dumbells or barbells) or agiliy ladders/hurdles. Most equipment can be adapted though such as at our school we use rounders posts for agility poles!
Badminton instructional video links, simply scan the QR code and be taken straight to a Youtube video giving a breakdown of each skill and some demonstrations.
Excellent for independent research or extra support, can be stuck on a changing room wall or up in the gym at the side of the court.
Videos linked that cover various types of:
Movement around the court
Serving
Netplay
Drives/Smashes/Clears
Set of 24 orienteering site cards and master answer sheet to check answers.
However you run your orienteering in your school you simply print off these site cards, place them around your school site, give each student or team a category and send them off to find them!
We laminate and attach ours to small wooden boards so that they don’t blow away or get damaged in wet weather (the site cards that is not the students!).
Full set is of 24 sites, each with 11 different categories on them, so once you have your maps prepped for your site you can reuse this same set of site cards over and over again without the students ever having to repeat the same answers. Answer sheet provided so that you can have a copy with you to check student answers in real time without having to collect the sites in first.
Provided in word/power point format so easily adapted to add or change any categories.
3 sets of circuit training cards, all available separately, but at a 30% discount for buying the bundle! 3 x circuit training cards with sets of:
Bodyweight/strength exercises
Aerobic exercises
SAW exercises