Year 9 Sports Performance

LENGTH: One semester

KEY CONTACT: Adam Langley

COURSE CONTENT:
Year 9 Sports Performance provides students with the opportunity to build on some of the basic skills developed in Year 8 Health and Physical Education. This course is designed for students who have an interest in completing Physical Education in the senior years. A stronger emphasis is placed on skill development and performance improvement through analysis of data.

Students will complete a selection of practical activities. For at least two of these practical activities, students will focus on one or more movement concepts or strategies to critically reflect on their own and/or another person’s performance. Students will explore and analyse evidence of physical activity to reflect on their strengths and areas for improvement. Evidence includes game data, video analysis, fitness data, and/or literature research performance. Activities may include Badminton, Cricket, Touch, Volleyball and Hockey.

Theoretical topics include:

• Fitness components, training principles and methods
• Physiology and anatomy

Students will be required to change into their PE uniform for practical lessons.

ASSESSMENT:
Students are assessed based on the concepts, capabilities and dispositions of the South Australian curriculum. Assessment types include:

• Practical performance and data collection
• Performance analysis task
• Presenting assignment work in multi-modal
• Class activities (lab work)

SUBJECT COSTS: Nil