Mr Gardner

How can Eddie Howe still be in a job after this…..

@leelinale @MissSmith_PE I’ve searched around and some of best advice is kind of reverse engineer their full performance and get them to do the skills they use in their dance in isolation and then linking to other moves

@MissSmith_PE @PEmrG We are having Irish dancing moderated this year - full context easy to provide evidence. Skills will give us some headaches next week

AQA GCSE PE - dance - how have centres performed the skills section? Absolute minefield

@JFiskPE I’ve searched around and some of best advice is kind of reverse engineer their full performance and get them to do the skills they use in their dance in isolation and then linking to other moves

@PEmrG Edexcel but showed them through four little twenty second “dances” I guess you’d call them showing each of rotation, travel and locomotion, balance and stillness and jumps.

@MissSmith_PE Not had our selection yet, but trying to ensure staff and students are better prepared for all situations

@PEmrG Is this being moderated?

@MrDunnPE 😂😂😂

@Missrainsfordpe @RSpendelow @PE_MrShepherd @HWT_PE No budget for it, each year I try buy a new piece of kit for everyone though e.g this year a coat for everyone and then every few years option to buy their own staff kit and can buy as little/much as they want - we use macron

How much do departments spend on their staff kit and do they have a budget for this? @RSpendelow @PE_MrShepherd @HWT_PE @PEmrG #pe #physicaleducation

Anyone deliver the NCFE Sports Studies?

The Eddie Howe era has been one of the best as an NUFC fan, but this can’t continue, team look like they don’t know how to play football every week

@Wylierob Same boat on the amount of marks. Still flabbergasted by it! What month did you have moderation?

@PEmrG Just seen this - a bit late for any action- we were marked down horrendously by Aqa this year some 15 marks down never been marked down before. We appealed but the wouldn’t accept it as we had footage of the day except 1 sport, so they wouldn’t review it….

Has anyone ever challenged a moderators decision for NEA of gcse PE? We annoyingly couldn’t film the day due to memory card and battery errors but feel very hard done by on the outcomes seen on results sheets today - some students have dropped 10 marks!

Anybody got or used one these? Trying to find an alternative to Veo due to their high subscription costs!

@GrovePE17 Our kids would 1000% rather be in PE and hate being removed from it, trust and leadership but as ‘it is not an assessed subject, we don’t want to take time from any assessed subjects’

@PEmrG Took a lot of time, increasing the value of ks4 PE to all the stakeholders. Parents eg whose kid is failing maths to do maths, pupils prioritising their academic progress over PE and the SLT. Gave pupils have the choice. Our job is to raise that value of PE by yr11

Anyone had any success stopping their leadership from taking kids out of core PE for interventions? 1 hour a week at KS4 and they’re being taken out of it for more maths

@mrJ_JonesPE @WannaTeachPE No mate we still have our class but they are handpicking kids for selected reasons, those kids then are getting 0 hours of PE a week

@PEmrG @WannaTeachPE Do you just get the hour back?

@Mr_O_PE1 I agree I’ve made our stance completely clear to leadership, however they come and collect the kids and if they refuse will get sanctioned so can’t really advise the kids that!

I’ve told pupils it’s their choice whether to attend them or not. I understand this might be controversial. However, they only get 1 hour of scheduled PE a week. They can do intervention at any time before/lunch/after school 5 days a week. We even run Saturday revision. The only exception to this is near their actual GCSE’s.

Anyone else feel they spend most of the school year with a cold/flu? Not ill enough to be ill but enough to make you lethargic etc, got any recommendations?!

@GrovePE17 @PEScholar @WannaTeachPE We did better than all AQA centres in nearly all aspects and still not close to that! On average 50 students per year and no input on who’s allowed to pick the course so think for us that number is a pipe dream! Don’t forget P8 last year and this year is fake…

Looking for anyone who does AQA GCSE PE who are hitting +1 P8? @PEScholar @WannaTeachPE

Anyone think they’ve got AQA GCSE PE coursework nailed down? Especially when you have a lot writing about football?

@mrsangovePE I really don’t want to not do GCSE, it’s worth so much more than BTEC and Cambridge in my own opinion but I know the feeling!

@PEmrG Absolutely! I’m lucky if my kids have 1 sport let alone 3. Worked so hard these last 2 years to improve results and technically we have, but the stats won’t say that. Sadly it’s time we moved away from AQA which is such a shame as I really like the spec 😩

Is anyone else shocked at the AQA PE hike in grade boundaries? I understand the concept of it… I’m just shocked 😳 #aqapegcse

@mrsangovePE They seem to think that kids smash the NEA and therefore the boundaries need to be high, but let’s be realistic with their expectations hardly any kids can get good marks in the NEA!

@PEmrG 10 marks?! That’s huge! Have you read your moderators report yet? Sorry to hear that. Our kids also did well on the papers.. we have some of the best scores we’ve seen in a long time but sadly the grades don’t reflect that