Y9 Options ? No P.E other then 1 hour

[Patty5]

My Y8 son is doing his options/choices for Y9. He is good academically but also excels in sport he plays for school in many of their teams and also plays football for the city. We were told that in Y9 there is only 1 hour core P.E and absolutely no options/choices for him to do anything in any area of sport. Is this the same everywhere ?. Please help.

[MaureenMLove]

That is very unusual I think. They certainly do it at options at both my school and DD's school.

[oshgosh]

I suppose schools differ, as ever.
DS is doing so much that he is being forced into having to choose between school and club. Don't your school teams have additional training, outside of lessons?
Like your DS, mine is academic but is doing sport as his 'fun' GCSE.

[bruffin]

DS is yr 9 and has two sessions of PE a week but he is only doing his options at the moment, didn't have any options for yr9.

[magentadreamer]

Yr9 at my DD's school do two hours a week of PE there is no option to do more PE but they do have to do a BTEC in PE which I think involves one PE lesson one classroom ased lesson.

[magentadreamer]

B key is sticking so that should have read classroom based lesson.

[roisin]

That sounds very unusual. Is it a very academic school?

I thought all schools had to over at least 2 hrs compulsory PE for all. And that Ofsted have criticised some schools because they had 2 timetabled hrs, but with getting changed and so on the students were only getting, say, 2x40mins of PE.

Most schools offer a GCSE in PE or a National Certificate of Sport or BTEC. As well as doing more sport, these offer opportunities to study some theory behind sports, help organise events for younger children and sometimes do coaching qualifications.

If all else fails, surely if he's very sporty he can continue his sporting interests as a hobby in clubs and extra-curric teams?