Physical Education
Course Title: GCSE Physical Education (1PE0)
Exam Board: Edexcel
Qualification: GCSE
About the course
GCSE Physical Education allows students to demonstrate their ability to perform in a practical context and demonstrate theoretical understanding within the two units of Healthy, active lifestyles and your healthy, active body.
Key Subject Aims - Edexcel’s GCSE in Physical Education:
- Encourage students to be inspired, moved and changed by following a broad, coherent, satisfying and worthwhile course of study and to develop an awareness and appreciation of their own and others’ cultures in relation to physical education
- Encourage creativity and decision-making skills to enable students to plan effectively for performances and to respond to changing situations.
- Prepare students to make informed decisions about further learning opportunities and career choices
- Enable students to become increasingly physically competent through being actively engaged in a range of physical activities, and to become increasingly effective in their performance in different types of physical activity and roles such as player/participant, leader and official.
- Enable students to develop their ability to engage independently and successfully in different types of physical activity, and to develop and maintain their involvement in physical activity as part of a healthy, active lifestyle.
The GCSE course is assessed over two units to include a practical assessment and theoretical assessment.
How it is assessed
Unit 1: Externally assessed written examination paper – 60%
Unit 2: Practical assessment and of performance – 40% (30% / 10%)
