Skills you learn from Physical Education (Year 9)

Physical Education builds a distinctive mix of skills - analysing performance, understanding the body, coaching and leading others, making decisions under pressure, and the discipline that comes from sustained training. This lesson plan will help you to show Year 9 students the skills they're building from PE.

This lesson is designed to be delivered in 30 minutes as a teacher-led classroom activity.

This activity supports the following frameworks:

  • Gatsby Benchmark 4

This activity is suitable for Year 9 and features careers linked to the following subjects:

  • Physical Education

This is one of three lesson plans designed for Year 9 Physical Education teachers:

These lesson plans will help you show students how Physical Education connects to their future careers.

We recommend using this lesson plan at the end of the autumn term. By this point students will have a term of PE behind them, giving them real material to reflect on when thinking about the skills they've been building. Recognising those skills helps students see PE as more than a subject to study, and sets them up for GCSE choices in the spring.

Learning objectives

  • Students will understand that Physical Education builds a broad range of transferable skills.
  • Students will be able to name 2-3 skills they've developed this term and give examples.

Before the lesson

  • You will need a computer connected to the internet and a classroom screen.
  • Open the What can you do with Physical Education? page and have it ready on the screen.
  • Review the Skills that Physical Education builds section and think of teaching examples for each one - sports played, fitness work, team activities, and any leading or coaching students have done.

During the lesson

1. What have we done in PE this term? (5 mins)

  • Ask students to call out sports, activities, or fitness work they've done in PE this term.
  • Write the suggestions on the board and highlight any patterns.

2. Skills that Physical Education builds (15 mins)

  • Bring up the What can you do with Physical Education? page on the classroom screen.
  • Review the contents of the page with students so that they understand what it covers.
  • Scroll to the Skills that Physical Education builds section and work through each skill in turn.
    • Ask students which sport or activity from the board involved that skill.
    • Share your own teaching examples if students are stuck.

3. Making it personal (10 mins)

  • Ask students to pick 2-3 skills from the list they feel they've developed this term.
  • Go round the class, asking each student to name one skill and give an example of when they used it.
  • Close by reminding students that these are valuable skills for work and life, not just for school sport.

After the lesson