Two Experimental AQA GCSE PE Resources - Feedback please!

The aim of this week’s blog post is a little different to the normal ones. I have chosen to share with you two AQA GCSE PE resources that we have in development and to seek the feedback from the sector on their concept, structure and design. Please look closely at both resources and add your comments in the blog comments section at the bottom of the page. All feedback is warmly received and all comments will be read and answered. Thank you in advance.

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➚ Jump to resource 1: Mapping the AEI content for 2022 exams
➚ Jump to resource 2: Supporting students with 9-mark questions
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 Resource 1: Mapping AEI content for 2022 exams 

I recently supported a parent of a student who experiences dyslexia to map out the highest priority learning in advance of the summer 2022 exams. As you will be aware, this year’s papers feature Advance Exam Information content for AQA GCSE PE. This content will definitely feature on the exams on “higher tariff” questions. For this reason, students, including the student I mentioned above, are unsure about which topics to “overlearn”, learn or avoid.

In order to support this student, I made the resource below. The resource is based on the following assumptions:

• The user of the mapping document has access to AQA GCSE PE 9-1 on TheEverLearner.com.
• The user recognises the need to learn all material regardless of the AEI listings.
• The user has already downloaded the exam analysis document for AQA GCSE PE 9-1 and is using this in combination with this document.

In essence, I have RAG (well, dark green, light green, yellow) rated the lessons on the site to encourage students to spend more time on some areas over others. You will notice that the lowest priority lessons (indicated with a yellow circle) are still necessary to learn. I've also made 13 lessons free to access.

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 Resource 2: Supporting students with 9-mark questions 

There is a strong sense in the PE teaching sector that 9-mark questions on AQA GCSE PE 9-1 are poorly answered by students in exams. This plays out when viewing the data below:

Students are failing to hit the majority of marks in 9-mark responses.

My conversations with teachers tend to revolve around the best way to support students in practising the 9-marker and structuring their answer, with a specific concern being the need to provide synoptic links.

With these points in mind, I made the following document. I want you to be aware that this document is relatively untested with students, having been trialled in only five schools thus far. However, it is also reasonable to state that the trialists have been very positive about the overall experience.

I encourage you to download this document and to experiment with it with some year 10 students. You are very welcome to use it with year 11s but I want to stress that this document is in its development phase and is not considered ready for full publication. I also want to remind teachers that year 11 students are just days from their assessments, so be cautious when introducing new concepts to them.

I seek your feedback in order to truly “nail” this structure. Once achieved, this model might be able to be adapted to other courses and other extended writing experiences. 

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We recommend printing single sided or alternatively, two pages per sheet.

You will notice that the planning support document also links to a further document used for developing synoptic links. This document is below:

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Please add your feedback comments or questions below in the blog comments section. I look forward to reading your views.

Have a lovely day.