PEfest2025

Course Overview This teaching and learning-focused course explores how to teach some of the most challenging areas of the OCR A Level PE Paper 3 specification through adaptive teaching strategies and high-quality explanations. Built around live lesson simulation, video analysis and structured discussion, the course focuses on how difficult socio-cultural content can be sequenced, explained and adapted so that all learners can understand, retain and apply knowledge confidently in exam situations. What’s Included Adaptive explanation strategies Explore how expert teachers:

• break down difficult concepts through step-by-step, segmented explanations
• use visuals and multi-modal teaching approaches to reduce cognitive overload
• sequence explanations to build on prior knowledge
• adapt explanations in response to misconceptions and checks for understanding

Simulated classroom experience Engage with:

• live lesson modelling
• classroom video analysis
• structured discussion around effective teaching and learning
• examples of responsive teaching in real classroom situations

Collaborative lesson design and practice Teachers will also have opportunities to:

• design and refine their own step-by-step explanations for challenging topics
• build multi-modal teaching sequences using visuals, questioning and structured student talk
• practise delivering explanations within small-group lesson simulations
• receive feedback and discuss how explanations can be adapted for different learners and misconceptions
• explore how checks for understanding can guide responsive teaching in real time

Tough topic teaching approaches Examine practical ways to teach and sequence challenging socio-cultural content from:

• Sport and Society
• Contemporary Sporting Issues

Example areas explored may include:

• commercialism and the media
• emergence and evolution of sport and pastimes
• routes to excellence
• ethics and deviance in sport

Student talk and checks for understanding Develop strategies to:

• improve student verbal reasoning before writing
• structure paired discussion and explanation tasks
• use purposeful questioning to uncover misconceptions
• adapt teaching in real time based on student responses

Classroom-ready ideas Leave with:

• practical explanation frameworks
• adaptive teaching strategies
• lesson sequencing ideas
• classroom activities and modelling approaches
• approaches to improve retention and exam application

Timings 9.30 – 10.45 • Session One 10.45 – 11.00 • Break 11.00 – 12.15 • Session Two 12.15 – 1.00 • Lunch 1.00 – 1.45 • Session Three 1.45 – 1.50 • Break 1.50 – 2.35 • Session Four 2.35 – 2.45 • Break 2.45 – 3.15 • Session Five 3.15 – 3.30 • Q&A + Chat

• 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

10:45-11.00 – Break

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

12.15-1.00 - Lunch:

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

Stretch / Screen Break: 1:45-1.50

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

2.35-2:40 - Stretch / Screen Break

Session 5: 2:40-3.15 - Exam focus and the Synoptic Question

• How to approach biomechanics as part of the synoptic question

3.15 – 3.30pm     Chat will remain open

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