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Year 10 - Physical education

Non-examined assessment: writing your personal exercise programme

Non-examined assessment: preparing for the written coursework

Unit Summary

This unit will provide guidance and support to enable pupils to successfully complete their exam board specific coursework.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to analyse and evaluate the performance of myself, or someone else, in a named activity from the specification.

Key Notes

  • Analyse fitness and skill strengths and weaknesses in chosen activity.
  • Evaluate a training method to increase a fitness weakness.
  • Produce a training plan to increase a fitness component.
  • Compare pre-PEP data and post-PEP data.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • PEP: a personal exercise programme is a training programme aimed at improving fitness
  • fitness: the ability to meet the demands of the environment
  • principles of training: guidelines that help ensure training is effective and results in improved performance
  • training methods: the type of training done to achieve a specific goal (e.g. circuit training)

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Once planned, I just need to take part in the training without writing anything down.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Analyse fitness and skill strengths and weaknesses in chosen activity. Evaluate a training method to increase a fitness weakness.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'PEP'

a personal exercise programme is a training programme aimed at improving fitness.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Once planned, I just need to take part in the training without writing anything down. Correction: It is useful to keep up to date training logs for each session to help monitor progress (these are not included in the word count) as well as doing mid PEP fitness testing to check progress and adapt the planned training programme where needed.

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