Pearson Edexcel GCSE Physical Education Student Revision Conference

ABOUT THIS CONFERENCE

This exciting, interactive and refreshed Pearson Edexcel GCSE PE programme will provide students with a motivational, informative and valuable revision day. Specially designed by practising senior examiners, the day will allow your students to gain greater understanding of the requirements of the examinations and how to improve their performance in the theory papers, whilst gaining motivational support and advice on Pearson Edexcel GCSE PE and high performance sport.

KEY FOCUS AREAS

• Exciting and interactive sessions that will demonstrate how to produce high quality exam answers with model responses and key insights
• A unique opportunity to ask expert examiners questions about the assessments
• Advice on revision techniques for PE that really work
• Take away a comprehensive set of notes which can be used as part of your revision

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PROGRAMME

Welcome and Introduction

10.00 – 10.30am

• Video montage of sporting clips and achievements with a student quiz to complete
• Bringing the specification to life: Theory through sport

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Successful examination techniques

10.30 – 11.00am

• Learn what examiners are looking for, and to make sure answers do that
• Expert guidance on how to tackle Paper 1 and Paper 2 and get the best marks possible
• How to write successful developed statements
• Using the Assessment Objectives – what are they, why do they matter and how to use them to boost revision and exam performance

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Paper 1 Fitness and Body Systems: Tackling the key topics

11.00 – 11.30am

• Examine the tougher questions on how the Musculo-skeletal and Cardio-respiratory systems work together
• Student Activity: working in pairs: planning a response to a sample data analysis question to get the top marks
• How the Assessment Objectives are key to scoring well in 9 mark extended questions
• Prepare for typical 9-mark questions

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Break - submit your questions to the experts

11.30 – 11.50am

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How to achieve high marks on Paper 1: Session 2

11.50 – 12.30pm

• Examiner’s tips: improve your marks on Movement analysis
• Examiner’s tips: how to score higher on Fitness Training
• Student activity: using your PEP to answer fitness questions
• Improving an answer: how to move from Grades 5 to 6 and then to 7 – 9

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Lunch

12.30 – 1.00pm

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Question Box

1.00 – 1.10pm

• A chance to ask direct questions to all speakers

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Paper 2 - Health and Performance - Session 1

1.10 – 2.00pm

• Health, fitness and well-being– how to avoid common faults
• Sport psychology: – gain confidence in tackling the key areas
• Top tips for questions in Paper 2
• Student activity: partner work to develop quality answers on practice structures and feedback

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Break

2.00 – 2.10pm

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Scoring high marks on Paper 2

2.10 – 3.00pm

• How to answer questions on commercialisation and deviance in sport
• Write high quality extended answers in this topic
• Q and A session with the subject experts: take away unique key points to apply to exam questions in your own preparations

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Final Top Tips

3.00 – 3.15pm

• KEY POINTS from each of the presenters
• ACTION PLAN – how to improve your final marks

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