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REPOST: ‘Flipping Trampolining on its head’ by @JennyBeck85 via DrowningintheShallow @ImSporticus
It’s been just over eleven years since I was attending lectures at Brighton University (Chelsea School). During one memorable Thursday morning seminar, I was listening to a lecturer talking about her ...Read More
PE Challenges – Give one a go!
PE Challenge 1 – Health, Wellbeing and Activity Levels Survey PE Challenge 2 – Take a Flipped Lesson PE Challenge 3 – Give Sports Context PE Challenge 4 – Individual Ver...Read More
Flipped Teaching and Learning – Teach the Teacher
A recent lesson involved me sitting for nearly half of the lesson time as a student while the students in the A Level PE group stood up at the front and ran the lesson off the back of pre-lesson Flipp...Read More
One Simple Rule (For My Classroom)
Whether you are a veteran teacher or a beginning teacher; whether it is the beginning of the year or middle of the year: we all need good classroom management. We all need to have a classroom routine ...Read More
The PE Umbrella Podcast – Primary PE
Welcome to the Umbrella my friends, Ryan Ellis here, and I am excited you have made it to the home of The PE Umbrella podcast! Primary PE Podcast You can find all of my podcasts attached to the blogs ...Read More
Setting and within-class ability grouping: A survey of practices in physical education
Abstract Within the United Kingdom and internationally, the practice of separating pupils by ability endures as a characteristic feature of mathematics and science classrooms. Although there is extens...Read More
Call of Duty – Badminton Rank and Perks
An excellent development of @TomBrush1982 Call of Duty Dodge Ball from our North East Partnership SCITT student @MrMcAleenanPE.
Using the Vivo reward system; a reflection from a PE viewpoint @jboucher07
An overview. Vivo is a web-based rewards system aimed at improving student engagement and help achievement. The more good things a student does, the greater the quantity and quality of rewards availab...Read More
PE Homework – Bucket List
Idea Is there any scope for developing a homework bucket list for PE? Would there be any value/point to it?
Desk Art Part 1 – Creative T&L Ideas in Theory PE
Creative teaching and learning ideas using classrooms desks and some art attack style resources. When creating table art ask the students to talk through what the table represents once finished and r...Read More
Super Six Cards – @PE_Hill
Downloads This file can be found alongside many others in the ‘resources’ section of the site as well as in the PE4Learning Google Drive.
Box Revision Mats #BRMats – @PE4Learning
Gallery Example AS and A2 OCR A Level Physical Education Physiology Box Revision Mats. Example and Storage Purchase an A3 Presentation Folder to store the A3 Box Revision Mats and general mind-maps to...Read More
Flipped Learning Booklet
Print out a Flipped Learning Mat Create and print a front cover Photo copy the Flipped Learning Mat 50 times Spiral bind the booklet together Hole punch one side to store it in the students’ stu...Read More
Assessment With and Without Levels – Display Posters
Assessment With and Without Levels – Display Posters Assessment With and Without Levels – Display Posters available to download and add your own criteria to the speech bubbles. Located in...Read More
Assessment without Levels in PE | @ImSporticus
Assessment without Levels in PE @ImSporticus Blog – Drowningintheshallow This is a draft hypothetical ‘assessment without levels’ model for curriculum PE. It is still at an early stage and many ...Read More
PE VLOGs and Podcasts
The post provides links to video based blogs and podcasts on areas of interest in physical education and sport pedagogy PE and Sport VLOGs from @VGoodyear VLOG 15: Summer Break VlOG 14: Sport and Spor...Read More
Class of 2035 – @YouthSportTrust
What role will PE, sport, and physical activity play in the development of our future generations? The Youth Sport Trust has worked with the Future Foundation to fast-forward 20 years, conducting in-d...Read More
Sharing Your Failures – A Rich Learning Tool
Questions before reading… Q – Do you use social media as a CPD tool in your subject? Q – Do you believe social media is often used as a tool for self promotion in the teaching...Read More
Past Paper Exam Questions and Mark Schemes – GCSE PE & A Level PE
GCSE PE Past Papers GCSE PE Past Papers AQA GCSE PE Past Papers – Direct Link Unit 1 Past Paper 2012 Unit 3 Past Paper 2012 Unit 5 Past Paper 2012 Unit 1 Past Paper 2013 Unit 3 Past Paper 2...Read More
Core Tasks in Physical Education
Guest Post by @TomBrush1982 So, what are core tasks? They are tasks that provide both teachers and pupils with an authentic context in which to teach and learn in each unit of work. Core tasks can be ...Read More
Challenge No 9 – Simple Tweaks for Core PE
PE Challenge 9 – Simple tweaks for Core PE by @PE4Learning Over the next 8 weeks, every weekend, I (@ImSporticus) will offer you a challenge for the following week. These challenges will come fr...Read More
PE Challenge 8: Plan your questions
PE Challenge No. 8 by @ImSporticus Over 8 weeks, every weekend, I will offer you a challenge for the following week. These challenges will come from other teachers, researchers, academics and coaches ...Read More
PE Challenge 7: Correct as well as Critique
PE Challenge No. 7 by @ImSporticus Over 8 weeks, every weekend, I will offer you a challenge for the following week. These challenges will come from other teachers, researchers, academics and coaches ...Read More
What does success look like in Physical Education? @ImSporticus
What does success look like in Physical Education? by @ImSporticus Perhaps why there are misconceptions about Physical Education is because we can’t universally agree on what success looks like in our...Read More
Project based learning in PE – Organic PE @Mat6453
Project based learning in PE – Organic PE @Mat6453 Direct Link – Here. Working with a fellow PESS facilitator Beverley Symonds @beverleysymonds she introduced me to the idea of Organic PE....Read More
PE Challenge 6 – Introduce an element of Group Processing into your teaching
PE Challenge 6 by @ImSporticus Over the next 8 weeks, every weekend, I will offer you a challenge for the following week. These challenges will come from other teachers, researchers, academics and coa...Read More
PE Challenge No. 5: Go and observe another PE teacher or Sports Coach.
PE Challenge 5 by @ImSporticus Over the next 8 weeks, every weekend, I will offer you a challenge for the following week. These challenges will come from other teachers, researchers, academics and coa...Read More
Act on Feedback Mat #AoFMat @PE4Learning
Below is an example of a resource sheet designed by @PE4Learning to encourage students to ‘Act on Feedback’ from a piece of marked work in various ways. The sheet was originally de...Read More
PE Challenge 4 – Individual Verbal Feedback
PE Challenge 4 by @ImSporticus Over the next 8 weeks, every weekend, I will offer you a challenge for the following week. These challenges will come from other teachers, researchers, academics and coa...Read More
PE Challenge 3 – Give Sports Context
PE Challenge 3 by @ImSporticus Over the next 8 weeks, every weekend, I will offer you a challenge for the following week. These challenges will come from other teachers, researchers, academics and coa...Read More
Topic Tracker Sheets – “I Can” AQA PE from @GymaholicTracy
Quick Guide Access the original Topic Tracker subject knowledge MOT sheet here. Basically, the student rates their knowledge and understanding of the specification/assessment criteria from 1 – 5...Read More
Edexcel GCSE PE Revision Mat – Topic on a Page @MrWallis_PE
Downloads This file can be found alongside many others in the ‘resources’ section of the site as well as in the PE4Learning Google Drive.
Quick Teaching Tool – Talk It, Cover It, Improve It, Apply It, Write It
How do I use it? A – Create a list of essential key topics, terminology or key definitions. B – Create a list of trigger words to structure discussion, but put them in random order so the ...Read More
PE Challenge 2 – Teach a Flipped Lesson
PE Challenge 2 Over the next 8 weeks, every weekend, I will offer you a challenge for the following week. These challenges will come from other teachers, researchers, academics and coaches and take on...Read More
PE Challenge 1 – Physical Activity Levels
PE Challenge No.1 A challenge is a test of one’s abilities or resources in a demanding but stimulating undertaking. Over the next 8 weeks, every weekend, I will offer you a challenge for the following...Read More
Celebrating School Sport – Part 2 by @ImSporticus
Celebrating School Sport – Part 2 In my previous post I explained how my school attempts to celebrate school sport. So what are the issues that now come flooding into my mind? I intially couldn’t get ...Read More
Celebrating School Sport – Part 1 by @ImSporticus
Celebrating School Sport – Part 1 This time of year is always a reflective one for me, probably more so than at beginning of a new academic year. It is a time to take stock; to muse on the past, analy...Read More
Demonstrating Progress in PE
@ImSporticus – Read his blog here. Demonstrating Progress in PE The issue There seems to be a worrying rise of the need of physical evidence to back up a teachers judgement in the progress of pr...Read More
Finding Praise in PE – @ImSporticus
In a recent post I wrote about the Sutton Trust and Praise, specifically in PE. It was a long, rambling windy post where I finally got to my own practice at the bottom. This was what I thought: 1. Tas...Read More
Fast Finisher Task Cards – Stretch and Challenge Extension Tasks
Fast Finisher Task Cards What’s the aim? – The aim of the Fast Finisher Task Cards #FFTCards is to occupy those students who complete a task fast or finish their work early. In essence &#...Read More
The Health and Wellbeing of a (PE) Teacher @ImSporticus
The Health and Wellbeing of a (PE) Teacher by @ImSporticus Can you relate to this post? At the end of the last academic year I was standing on a precipice. I was overweight, was suffering from insomni...Read More
QuickKey – Fast Formative Assessment @4_teachers
What’s the aim? The aim is to create a quiz / assessment task using the QuickKey app or desktop browser and then create the question document the students will use when sitting the test. This q...Read More
PE Exam Question Mat – Marking, A4L & Feedback Tool
What are they? The PE Exam Questions Pack is a huge collection of PE4Learning adapted past paper exam questions and mark schemes for the AS and A2 OCR exam board plus others from AQA/Edexcel for GCSE ...Read More
Baseline Testing, Multi Skills & Games For Understanding in Physical Education
A quick post on a popular topic at the moment with the new term just around the corner. This post aims to spark some thoughts on the topic of baseline testing, multi skills and games for understandin...Read More
Extra Curricular Competition & Results Form Tracker- PE4Learning
This post sheds light on a brilliant website Typeform that enables online form creation. Entries can then be tracked and collated which can also be adapted to suit extra curricular or school team res...Read More
Assessment With and Without Levels in PE | PE4Learning
@PE4Learning Creation – Draft Pack TWITTER COMMUNITY EXAMPLE AWOL DESIGNS Finally finished ME in PE learning board with inspiration from YST and others. pic.twitter.com/3tL8vAJpoD — Tom Br...Read More
GCSE & A Level PE Command Word Learning Mats #CWLMats – @TomBrush1982
A re-post on an outstanding resource designed and developed by @TomBrush1982 with inspiration from @ASTSupportAli. Original link to Tom’s website and post here. Check it out! Command Word Learni...Read More
Question Assessment Sheet – Attempt, Mark, Improve
A quick post on a resource I found useful when designing the booklets I use for A Level. Pop the most important questions onto the resource sheet to act as a booklet summary or piece of homework/clas...Read More
Athletics Progression Check Grid #PCGrid + QR Codes & World Records
Athletics #PCGrid Another fine example of adapting and developing the Progression Check Grid #PCGrid series for Practical Core PE. The Athletics #PCGrid includes score recording, improve technique th...Read More
WWE Wrestle Mania BTEC First Lesson Structure – Principals of Training
A wonderful guest post from our PGCE SCITT student on a themed style lesson using Wrestle Mania as the focus of the tasks. Scroll down the electronic flyer below to find out more information on the s...Read More