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Exercise & Sport Sciences
The Shell Exercise & Sport Sciences curriculum is designed to assist pupils to develop their ability to move well through a series of fun and active teaching activities. Pupils are taught in small, co-educational classes, with the support of a teacher, graduate assistants, and input from the strength & conditioning team. The entire programme is spread across our fantastic sports facilities, championed by the state-of-the-art physical conditioning suite.
The Lower School Exercise & Sport Sciences curriculum has been redesigned to be progressive across the Shell and Remove years. The Shell are introduced to a number of physical activities, such as: “Athleticism”, where pupils challenge their ability to apply fundamental movements like accelerating, squat, lunge, jump, and land in a range of physical settings; Free Flow (a series of movement challenges based on the principles of gymnastics, play and climbing); Fundamental Movement, where pupils develop their fundamental skills and challenge their movement patterns; swimming; and traditional track and field athletics, with a focus on the functional movements required for success.
The Shell curriculum is supported by relevant Sport Sciences theory wherever applicable to help educate pupils on the benefits of a commitment to physical activity on their wellbeing, as well as introduce theoretical concepts taught on our GCSE course in the Remove and Hundred.
Geography
The Shell Geography course encourages pupils to look more closely at their immediate surroundings and to develop a broader interest in the world that lies beyond it. The themes that we study give pupils a good grounding in the core topics that they will encounter at GCSE. There are three core components of the course: Wilderness Environments, Hazards and Oceanography.
Core topics include the wilderness environments of Antarctica and Siberia, as well as primary and secondary hazards associated with Tsunamis and Avalanches. Oceanography includes issues surrounding plastic pollution and oceanic dead zones. In addition, one or two special topics are chosen by individual beaks.
Throughout the course there are structured units of work that allow pupils to develop their IT skills and to take advantage of the vast amount of electronic resources. We introduce Geographical Information Systems (GIS) which provide IT tools for investigating important and relevant physical and human phenomena.
