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H555/01 – Physiological Factors with Will Laidlaw Tuesday 22 September Time: 3:15 pm – 5:15 pm
Online Webinar, PEfest2025Outline Alongside analysing common mistakes made on Paper 1, Will will provide detailed examples of how and why the highest-performing students excelled. Teaching and learning strategies will address both exam skills and subject knowledge to maximise future success. There will also be plenty of opportunity to ask questions, with straightforward, supportive and reliable answers. Focus Why did students drop marks?£115.00 .- FG muscle fibres – making clear, specific links between structural and functional characteristics
- Increase in CO₂ affecting depth of breathing
- Training and VO₂ max
- The 6Rs
- Wind tunnel evaluation and sporting performance
- Definitions
- Comparing the ATP-PC and Glycolytic energy systems – recognising command words and structuring responses
- Linking practical examples specifically to the named energy system factor
- Glycogen loading protocol
- Evaluating glycogen loading for a games player
- Discussion and Q&A
- Head of Academic PE at a school in Cumbria for 15 years
- Taught OCR A-Level PE for 23 years
- Senior Team Leader for H555/01
- Former Assistant Examiner for H555/02
- Former A-Level PE Practical Moderator
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H555/03 – Socio-cultural Issues With Wes Davis Tuesday 6 October 3:15 pm – 5:15 pm
Online Webinar, PEfest2025Outline Having analysed areas of difficulty on Paper 3, Wes will suggest innovative ways to approach the more challenging areas of the specification. Teaching and learning strategies will focus on both subject knowledge and exam skills. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions, with straightforward, supportive and reliable answers. Focus Why did students drop marks?£115.00 .- Ensuring effective AO1 responses for freedom of movement and legal supplements
- Explaining the effect of transport and time on increasing standards of performance in team games in post-1850 Britain
- Interpreting data to analyse the impact of social and cultural factors on participation in physical activity in the 21st century
- Analysing the impact of the exploitation of the Berlin Olympic Games on Olympic aims
- Evaluating the impact of elite sport creating its own media platforms
- Understanding the impact of commercialism in contemporary sport
- Interpreting the specific requirements of Part 1 – using examples to discuss the social and cultural factors limiting the growth of elite women’s sport compared with elite men’s sport
- Part 2 – ensuring students exemplify the commercial disparity between elite female and male sport
- Discussion and Q&A
- Senior Leader for Teaching and Learning at Worcester Sixth Form College
- Over 18 years’ experience teaching all components of OCR A-Level PE
- Highly experienced A-Level PE Examiner and Team Leader for a major awarding body
- Recently shortlisted for both the TES and Worcestershire Education Awards Teacher of the Year
- Experienced CPD provider
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H555/02 – Psychological Factors With Wes Davis Tuesday 29 September 3:15 pm – 5:15 pm
Online Webinar, PEfest2025Outline Alongside analysing common mistakes made on Paper 2, Wes will provide detailed examples of how and why the highest-performing students excelled. Teaching and learning strategies will focus on both exam skills and subject knowledge. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions, with straightforward, supportive and reliable answers. Focus Why did students drop marks?£115.00 .- Describing the processes of Observational Learning Theory
- Explaining strategies to improve memory
- Explaining arousal levels
- Analysing the impact of sports confidence on performance
- Using innovative frameworks to produce outstanding responses
- Are examples needed in both parts of the question?
- Describing and exemplifying SMART goal setting
- Evaluating and exemplifying fixed and varied practice types
- Discussion and Q&A
- Senior Leader for Teaching and Learning at Worcester Sixth Form College
- Over 18 years’ experience teaching all components of OCR A-Level PE
- Highly experienced A-Level PE Examiner and Team Leader for a major awarding body
- Recently shortlisted for the TES and Worcestershire Education Awards Teacher of the Year
- Experienced CPD provider
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Biomechanics with Alice Allen and Richard McDonald on Friday 13th June – 9 .30 am – 3.30 pm – Online
Online Webinar, PEfest2025£225.00 .- a quality assured, power-packed day with a supremely experienced and knowledgeable presenter • increased knowledge and confidence – whether starting out or upskilling • stacks of powerful tips, tools, techniques and ideas to equip, motivate and inspire • links to exam questions and essential exam technique throughout
Session 1: 9.30-10.45
Teaching the toughest topics - a classroom simulation! Angular motion- Calculations for angular motion o Radians as measurement of angle of rotation
- Conservation of angular momentum during flight. o Angular Analogue of Newton 1 o The relationship between moment of inertia and angular velocity
Session 2: 11.00-12.15
Projectiles- The Bernoulli Principle and Magnus effect o Pressure differentials and the flight of objects o Creation of different types of spin using eccentric forces
- Resolution of forces acting on a projectile in flight o Flight paths and free body diagrams o Drawing and interpreting parallelograms of forces
Session 3: 1.00-1.45pm
- Newtons laws o Building student confidence o Ensuring explicit application to examples
- Plotting and interpreting graphs of linear motion o Know the differences in shapes between distance / time and speed / time graphs o Velocity time graphs and change of direction
Session 4: 1.50 - 2.35 pm
- Centre of mass and factors affecting stability . o Stability: when we need it and when we don’t o How to manipulate the COM to be efficient in sport
- Forces and free Body Diagrams o Drawing practice and interpretation
Session 5: 2:40-3.15 - Exam focus and the Synoptic Question
- How to approach biomechanics as part of the synoptic question
Tutor Profile – Alice Allen
- PE Teacher and Advanced Practitioner in Mastery (previously Curriculum Manager for PE) at The Sixth Form College Farnborough
- 7 years' experience teaching all components of OCR A Level PE
- Experienced examiner for a major awarding body
- Experienced deliverer of staff INSET.
Tutor Profile - Richard McDonald
- Head of A-Level Physical Education at Aquinas 6th Form College
- Senior Tutor with a focus on academic attainment
- An expert in his field whose students consistently attain excellent examination results (ALPS grade 2 with 80% high grades in 23/34)
- Teaching all components of the OCR course
- Experienced examiner and body systems unit 1 team leader for a major awarding body Previously a practical moderator for major examination board
£225.00 .
