Physical Education

The Physical Education department at Burnholme Community College deploys a vibrant, charismatic teaching and learning ethos. 

Opportunities are provided for every student to shine- whether it be through participation, officiating or leadership.

At Key Stage 3 (Years 7, 8, and 9) we cover a variety of sports and activities in line with the key strands of the national curriculum: invasion games, gymnastics, dance, athletics, net/wall games, and striking and fielding.  In Year 9, we also offer the Junior Sports Leaders Award which contributes towards College applications. During this term, pupils get the opportunity to learn about leadership and volunteering in sport, and are expected to help run primary school festivals.

There are a number of extra-curricular clubs including boys/girls football, netball, rounders, rugby league, cricket, badminton, basketball, fitness, athletics and dance. We aim to put teams out in as many sports as possible, entering local leagues and sports partnership competitions in activities that are less traditional, such as Volleyball.

At Key Stage 4 (Years 10, 11) we again offer the above sports as a leisure option, with an applied emphasis placed upon student independent learning.  In Key Stage 4 where the students at Burnholme have a more significant role to play within their P.E curriculum, through the general organisation, coaching, officiating, and structuring of lessons. Extra curricular clubs are again offered to in football, rugby league, basketball, netball, rounders, cricket, badminton, and dance.

Here at Burnholme we offer an ever improving and thriving GCSE P.E course for students in Key Stage 4.  The 2 year course consists of 3 further hours of P.E lessons every week, one of which is practical and the other theoretical, focusing on the physiological and sociological elements of the sporting world and more importantly the human body. This is a very successful course, in 2011 92% of GCSE PE students gained an A* to C grade!  This is very much higher than the national average.

Burnholme teams and also individuals were extremely successful in 2010-11, with both year 8 and year 11 winning the North Yorkshire championships for rugby league, girls badminton getting through to the York finals, girls table tennis to the North Yorkshire finals, individual pupils taken on by Featherstone Rovers, iNorth Yorkshire athletics champions, National kickboxing champion, and karate champions, member of GB junior squad - for combat and kata.