The Team

Team Member	Position	Email Address
Mr J Wilding	Director of Learning for PE and Expressive Arts	jwilding7rrn@nsix.org.uk
Miss C Beech	Head of Expressive Arts and Teacher of Drama	cbeech3nrm@nsix.org.uk
Mr M Hardman	Principal - Teacher of PE	mhardman7hr5@nsix.org.uk
Mrs K Hardman	Assistant Principal - Teacher of PE	khardman9bru@nsix.org.uk
Mr S Brett	Assistant Principal - Teacher of PE	sbrett2srf@nsix.org.uk
Mrs K Abbott	Teacher of PE and Science	kabbott46r3@nsix.org.uk
Miss D Steward	Teacher of PE and Science	dsteward7krq@nsix.org.uk
Mrs A Light	Teacher of Art	alight8nrp@nsix.org.uk
Ms L Holmes	Teacher of Art and Design Technology	lholmes5drk@nsix.org.uk
Miss L Cowell	Teacher of Drama	lcowell48rv@nsix.org.uk

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Curriculum Intent

The school curriculum seeks to provide outstanding personal development by supporting, promoting, and instilling the values of APHS - Ambition, Pride, Happiness, and Success.

PE and Expressive Arts curriculum seeks to meet the aims and scope of the Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 National Curriculum for Art, Music, Drama, and Physical Education.

The PE and Expressive Arts curriculum has the following intent:

Value	Intent
Ambition	For students to be taken out of their comfort zone and discover what they are truly capable of. To have the ambition to participate in and gain high-value qualifications in physical, artistic, and musical fields of study. To achieve mastery.
Pride	To showcase the talents which enable students to represent their tutor group, house, school, county, region, or even their country in their chosen pursuit.
Happiness	To experience the joy and exhilaration of performing and developing self-confidence. To make a significant contribution to the physical, mental and emotional well-being of students. To make lifelong memories as part of a team.
Success	To feel successful through rewards and celebration events. To experience success graciously and accept failure gracefully. To be creative individuals.

 

Curriculum Implementation

Key Stage 3 is delivered in Year 7, 8 and 9 across three years. Students will then undertake their options process during year 9, after which Key Stage 4 is formally delivered in Year 10 and 11 across two years.

At Key Stage 4, the faculty provides the following curriculum offer:

• Edexcel GCSE Physical Education
• OCR Cambridge National in Sport and Exercise Science
• OCR Cambridge National in Sports Studies
• Edexcel GCSE Art and Design: Fine Art
• AQA GCSE Drama
• Edexcel GCSE Music

Curriculum Overview plans can be found in the links below:

 

Curriculum Impact

The PE and Expressive Arts faculty make a significant contribution to the Open Element of the Progress 8 Performance Measure.

Using ALPS KS4 benchmarks, the faculty has also produced the following outcomes:

• Music – Consistently ‘Excellent’ and ‘Outstanding’ outcomes with consecutive results that are in the Top 1% of all providers.
• GCSE PE – Consistently ‘Very Good’ or ‘Excellent’ with most recent results considered ‘Outstanding’ in the Top 10% of all providers.
• Drama – Consistently ‘Excellent’ results which are in the Top 25% of all providers.

Consistently ‘Very good’ outcomes which have been in the Top 25% of all providers.

In addition, the PE curriculum has been nationally accredited and locally celebrated as the Norfolk Sports School of the Year on multiple occasions.

APHS was also awarded ‘Norfolk Music School of the Year’ in 2018.