Hi! My name is Rose and I studied A-level Law, Politics and PE. As a student, I know how hard it can be to find good resources, especially revision resources. I am now selling my A grade resources to help others and teachers.
Hi! My name is Rose and I studied A-level Law, Politics and PE. As a student, I know how hard it can be to find good resources, especially revision resources. I am now selling my A grade resources to help others and teachers.
This pack contains all revsision resources for the participation and health of the nation unit for A-level edexcel PE (5.7).
5.7.1 Knowledge and understanding of barriers to participation, the
benefits of mass participation and the impact of wearable
technology on participation.
5.7.2 Concept of mass participation and initiatives/programmes to
promote community participation in the UK.
5.7.3 Participation trends in the UK in the 21st century
This pack contains all revision resources on the Development routes from talent
identification through to elite performance unit for A-level edexcel PE (5.6).
5.6.1 Knowledge and understanding of UK talent identification and development: novice to elite performer.
This pack contains all revision resources on the ethics and deviance in sport unit for the edexcel A-level PE course (5.4).
5.4.1 Knowledge and understanding of ethics and deviance in
sport. The pressures on sports performers and
spectators to behave in a deviant way.
5.4.2 The impact of commercialisation on the sportsmanship
ethic and the growth of gamesmanship in the UK.
5.4.3 Deviance in sport: use of performance enhancing drugs,
(early conception of drug use up to the modern day);
blood doping and transfusions; diuretics and pain relief;
simulation; bribery; ‘bungs’; match fixing, betting
syndicates and other contemporary forms of deviance.
5.4.4 Different responses of national and international
governing bodies, governments and the law to combat
deviance in sport, including the utilisation of
technology.
5.4.5 The role of the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) in
combating the use of performance enhancing drugs.
This pack contains all revision resources for the commercialisation of sport unit for A-level edexcel PE (5.3).
5.3.1 Knowledge and understanding of the commercialisation
of sport and its impact on society.
5.3.2 An understanding of the concept of commercialisation
and commodities. Comparisons between advertising,
sponsorship, endorsement and merchandising.
5.3.3 The historical and social context of commercialisation:
broken time payments; spectatorism; developments in
the media.
5.3.4 The events of the 1968, 1972 and the 1976 Olympics
and their impact on the 1984 games in Los Angeles. The
blueprint for the commercialisation of future sport
created by Peter Ueberroth at the 1984 Games.
5.3.5 Franchises in sport (USA and UK), the concept of the
‘golden triangle’. Sports stars as global stars. The
Americanisation of sport. The concept of competitive
sports fixtures and events being played on other
continents. For example, NFL, NBA, Tour de France.
This pack contains all revision resources for the globalisation of sport unit in A-level edexcel PE (5.2).
5.2.1 Overview of the concept of the ‘globalisation of sport’;
definition, features and the impacts on sport and society.
5.2.2 Colonial diffusion of sport across the British Empire; roles of
the Army, Church, Industry and Education. Overview of the
further creation and development of international sport.
5.2.3 The creation, development and impact of national and
international governing bodies on sport and society.
5.2.4 The context and impact of participating at the modern Olympic
Games, World Cups, and major international sporting events.
Exploration of the issues of bidding for, staging and competing
at world events.
This pack contains all revision resources on the the factors leading to the emergence and development of modern day sport unit of A-level edexcel PE (5.1).
5.1.1 Overview of the emergence and development of modern-day
sport. The historical and social context of popular recreations:
characteristics of mob activities (peasants) and those for the
courtly/aristocracy in pre-industrial Britain – field sports,
games and pastimes.
5.1.2 The effect of the Industrial Revolution on British society and
how it was reflected in recreational activities. The impact on
recreational activities leading from: industrialisation,
urbanisation, education and transport developments.
5.1.3 The social cultural factors that influenced the development of
rational recreation of sport in the post-industrial era. The role
played by Thomas Arnold, Muscular Christianity and the cult of
athleticism, the development of factory teams; the growth of
the sporting press; establishment of the early national
governing bodies (NGBs).
5.1.4 The emergence of competing for corporations rather than
geographically-based teams; advantages and disadvantages.
5.1.5 Equality and diversity in disability sport and for gender, with
specific reference to the ParaSport movement and improved
opportunities for women in global sport.
5.1.6 Migration patterns of sporting labour and the impact on
domestic competitions and national teams.
This pack contains my revision resources for the self-confidence and self-efficacy unit of A-level edexcel PE (4.5).
4.5.1 Knowledge and understanding of self-confidence.
Knowledge and understanding of Vealey’s model of
sport-specific confidence, including relevant sporting
examples.
4.5.2 Self-efficacy
Bandura Self-Efficacy: Explanation and effect of the four
factors that build sport-specific self-confidence: past
accomplishments, verbal persuasion, emotional arousal
and vicarious experiences (modelling).
Learned helplessness and its impact on performance.
This contains my revision resource for Weiner’s attribution theory, in correlation with unit 4.4 of the A-level PE edexcel specification.
4.4.1 A knowledge and understanding of reasons for success
and failure in sport.
Weiner’s attribution theory and the four attributions:
ability, effort, luck, task difficulty.
The three main dimensions of attribution: locus of
causality, locus of stability and locus of controllability.
Strategies to allow for attribution retraining.
This pack contains all revision resources for the group dynamics unit of edexcel A-level PE (4.2).
4.2.1 Knowledge and understanding of the characteristics of a
successful and cohesive group/team.
Understanding that group cohesion is based on a combination
of task or social cohesion.
Theories
Carron: the four factors that affect formation and development
of a cohesive group/team – environmental, personal,
leadership and team factors.
Steiner: actual productivity = group productivity – losses due
to faulty processes
Group dynamics and how they can influence the performance
of an individual and/or team.
Social loafing: causes and factors that contribute to minimising
its effect.
Coordination/cooperation factors: Ringlemann Effect
Strategies to develop group cohesion.
This pack contains all revision resources for the factors that can
influence an individual in physical activities unit in A-level PE edexcel specification (4.1).
4.1.1 Knowledge and understanding of different personality theories
and their application to different sporting situations.
Personality theories
Trait (Innate) theory – introvert/extrovert, neurotic/stable
(Eysenck, Cattell’s 16 Personality Factors)
Interactionist theory
Behaviour = function (personality, environment)
Hollander’s and Martens personality structure.
4.1.2 Wood’s Triadic Model: ideas/cognitions, emotions/effects and
actions/behaviour.
Understanding how attitudes are formed and shape behaviour.
Changing attitudes: negative to positive – create ‘cognitive
dissonance’ – Festinger.
4.1.3 Arousal and its effect on performance.
Positive/negative effects, under-/over-arousal,
introverts/extroverts.
Arousal and achieving optimal levels for performance – task
differences, e.g. simple/gross skills, situational factors, stage
of learning and personalities – Inverted-U hypothesis, Hull’s
Drive Theory.
Catastrophe Theory.
4.1.4 Anxiety and its effect on performance. The three dimensions of
anxiety: cognitive, somatic and behavioural. Types of anxiety,
state and trait anxiety.
The effects of anxiety of performance: over arousal, choking
and catastrophe theory.
Relationship between arousal and anxiety.
Stress and stressors leading to anxiety – physiological,
psychological, behavioural symptoms.
Cognitive/Somatic strategies: mental practice/rehearsal, use of
visualisation and imagery, ‘self talk’, pre-game routines,
relaxation techniques, centring, thought stopping, PMR
(Progressive Muscle Relaxation).
4.1.5 Aggression v. Assertion
Knowledge and understanding, in relation to the player, coach
and spectator, of aggression and assertion and the difference
between the two.
Theories
Instinct (Lorenz), Social Learning (Bandura), Aggressive-Cue
Hypotheses (Berkowitz) and Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis
(Dollard).
Types of aggression: hostile, channelled, reactive and
instrumental.
Causes of aggression, e.g. over-arousal, under developed
moral reasoning, bracketed morality, and application to
specific sporting situations.
Strategies to reduce aggression/aggressive play.
4.1.6 Knowledge and understanding of motivation
Types of motivation – self-motivation characteristics, positive,
negative, intrinsic and extrinsic; link to rewards –
internal/external, tangible/intangible.
Theories of motivation
Achievement Motivation Theory (Atkinson and McClelland).
NAF (Need to Avoid Failure) and NACH (Need to Achieve).
Characteristics of each and how they may be reflected in the
same individual but in different circumstances and/or times.
An application of these theories to optimise performance.
Factors that influence behaviour: situation, personality,
motivation and expectation.
Use of goal setting to develop and enhance motivation.
This pack contains revision resources for the memory models unit of A-level PE edexcel specification (3.7).
3.7.1 Information processing
Components of information processing, including: input,
stimulus identification, perception and selective
attention, response selection, response programming,
output – based on the models of Welford and Whiting.
Detection, comparison and recognition (DCR) phases.
3.7.2 The three memory systems as short-term sensory store
(STSS), short-term memory (STM) and long-term
memory (LTM).
3.7.3 STM and STSS: capacity, duration, encoding, chunking,
selective attention.
3.7.4 LTM: capacity, duration, encoding, recall, multi-store
memory.
3.7.5 Link between STSS, STM and LTM in terms of retrieval
and rehearsal and how this affects output.
3.7.6 Measuring reaction and response times using appropriate
technology.
Hick’s Law, simple/choice reaction time.
Plotting, interpreting and analysing data generated from
reaction and response times.
Psychological refractory period.
Implications to a coach and performer in optimising
performance.
3.7.7 Understanding that schema theory is an organised
package of information stored in LTM that updates and
modifies motor programmes.
Recall schema as in information about producing the
movement.
Recognition schema as in judging the movement.
Schemas based on knowledge of the initial conditions,
response specifications, sensory consequences and
movement outcomes.
Implications of schema theory to a coach and performer
in optimising performance.
This pack contains all revision resources for the guidance unit of A-level PE edexcel specification (3.5).
3.5.1 The types, purpose and effectiveness of guidance methods:
visual, verbal, manual and mechanical.
Visual guidance in the form of demonstration and visual
materials.
Verbal guidance in the form of knowledge of direct, indirect and
prompting.
Manual and mechanical guidance in the form of physical support
and aids, restrictions and forced responses.
3.5.2 Uses of technology to underpin guidance methods in order to
optimise performance, e.g. to measure, monitor and evaluate
performance.
This pack contains all revision resources for the practices unit for A-level PE edexcel specification (3.4).
3.4.1 Knowledge and understanding of practice methods and
structure as a coach and for a performer and their impact on
performance.
3.4.2 Practice methods as part, progressive part, whole, whole-part-whole.
Practice structure as in massed, distributed, fixed and variable
This pack contains all revision resources for the learning theories unit for A-level PE edexcel specification (3.3).
3.3.1 The associative theories (classical and operant conditioning).
Reinforcement – positive, negative, punishment, stimulus–
response (S-R) bond – and its use in skill learning.
3.3.2 Thorndike’s three laws in relation to learning as effect, exercise
and readiness and their application to practical situations.
3.3.3 Fitts and Posner’s three stages of learning (cognitive,
associative and autonomous). The characteristics and coaching
requirements at each stage. The type and role of different types
of feedback at each stage.
This pack contains all revision resources on the coach and performer unit for A-level PE edexcel specification (3.1).
3.1.1 Coaching styles to improve the performance of learners:
command, reciprocal, guided discovery and problem solving.
3.1.2 The development of tactics and strategies in a competition or
performance to optimise outcome.
3.1.3 Dissection of a skill in order to identify technical elements:
preparation, execution and recovery phases leading to the
correct result or outcome. Exploration of how to analyse a skill
in order to identify any technical strengths and weaknesses.
How to compare to higher-level performer.
This pack contains all revision resources for linear, angular and projectile motion, as well as fluid mechanics. This comes under the edexcel A-level PE specification of sub-topics 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7.
2.4 - Linear motion:
2.4.1 Knowledge and understanding of the factors associated
with linear motion and the application of definitions,
equations, calculations and units of measurement in a
sporting context.
2.4.2 Calculation of the distance and displacement, speed and
average speed, velocity and acceleration.
Speed = distance/time (s =d/t)
Velocity = displacement/time or distance/time (m/s)
Acceleration = (final velocity – initial velocity)/time
taken (m/s²)
2.5 - Angular motion:
2.5.1 Knowledge and understanding of how angular motion is
applied in a sporting context.
2.5.2 Factors affecting moment of inertia: mass and
distribution of mass from axis of rotation.
2.5.3 Effects of increasing or decreasing the moment of inertia
when rotating about an axis (whole body or specific joint).
2.5.4 Conservation of angular momentum during flight,
moment of inertia and its relationship with angular
velocity
2.6 - Projectile motion:
2.6.1 Knowledge, understanding and application of projectile
motion in refining technique in different sporting
contexts.
2.6.2 Forces acting during flight that affect projectile motion:
gravity, air resistance and lift forces.
2.6.3 Factors that determine the horizontal displacement of a
projectile: velocity of release, height of release, angle of
release.
2.6.4 Technique modification through the application of
technology by the performer and coach in order to
improve performance.
2.7 - Fluid mechanics
s 2.7.1 Knowledge, understanding and application of
aerodynamics and hydrodynamics to appropriate sports
contexts.
2.7.2 Factors affecting fluid friction and air resistance:
velocity, drag force, mass, streamlining and surface
characteristics of body.
2.7.3 Interaction of lift forces with objects: upward and
downward lift forces, angle of attack and the Bernoulli
effect.
2.7.4 Types of spin: topspin, backspin, sidespin. Magnus effect
and how they impact on flight path and bounce.
2.7.5 Principles of fluid mechanics and how it has influenced
technological advancements in technique modification,
clothing/suits, equipment/apparatus.
This pack contains most of the information needed for the Preparation and
training methods in relation to maintaining and improving physical activity and performance (2.2) for the A-level PE edexcel specification.
2.2.1 Knowledge and understanding of preparation and training
methods in relation to maintaining and improving physical
activity and performance.
2.2.2 Fitness tests: functional thresholds, lactate threshold/anaerobic
threshold/maximum steady state, gas analysis, multi-stage
fitness test, step tests, yo-yo test, Cooper minute run, Wingate
test, maximum accumulated oxygen deficit (MAOD), RAST
(repeat anaerobic sprint test), Cunningham and Faulkner, jump
tests, Margaria-Kalaman, strength tests, agility tests, sprint
tests < 100 m.
2.2.4 Determinants of movement/running performance and their
application to sprint, endurance and intermittent activities.
2.2.5 Components of fitness: localised muscular endurance, V O2
max, anaerobic capacity, maximal strength, strength, power,
speed, agility, coordination, reaction time, balance, flexibility,
exercise economy, maximal and ‘submaximal’ aerobic fitness.
2.2.6 Principles of training: individual needs, specificity, progressive
overload, Frequency Intensity Time and Type (FITT),
overtraining, reversibility.
2.2.9 Contemporary technologies used by the performer and coach
to monitor fitness and performance.
2.2.10 Periodisation: Macro, Meso and Micro Cycles Knowledge and
understanding of the preparation phase (general and specific),
competition phase and transition phase.
2.2.11 Methods of training and their appropriateness for different
activities: interval, circuits, cross, continuous, fartlek, flexibility
(static, ballistic and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation
(PNF)), weights (free weights and machines), resistance
(including pulleys, parachutes), assisted (including bungees,
downhill), plyometrics, speed agility quickness (SAQ) and
functional stability.
Advantages and disadvantages of each method of training.
This pack contains all revision resources on the A-level PE edexcel specification on diet and nutrition (2.1).
2.1.1 Knowledge and understanding of dietary manipulation for
performance pre-, during and post-physical activity.
2.1.2 Optimal weight for performance to include energy balance,
energy intake and expenditure.
2.1.3 Electrolytes, hypotonic, hypertonic and isotonic solutions and
their importance in maintaining hydration and performance.
2.1.4 The role and use of supplementation to enhance energy stores,
hydration, recovery, metabolic process and delay fatigue.
2.1.5 Contemporary supplements.
2.1.6 Strategies for ensuring optimal food, fuel and fluid intake for
pre-, during and post-physical activity: carbohydrate (CHO)
loading, two-hour window of opportunity, protein intake, pre-,
during and post-event hydration.
This pack contains all revision resources on energy systems (1.4) under the A-level PE edexcel specification.
1.4.1 Knowledge and understanding of the concepts of energy,
with specific reference to physical activity and sport.
1.4.2 Understanding of the forms of energy, processes by
which it is regenerated, how depletion occurs and the
recovery process.
1.4.3 Forms of energy to include: mechanical, electrical,
potential, chemical and kinetic. The role of energy as
adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in muscular contraction
and the use of phosphocreatine (PC), glycogen and fat as
sources for ATP re-synthesis.
1.4.4 The characteristics and physiology of the three energy
pathways (ATP-PC, glycolytic and aerobic).
1.4.5 The characteristics of the three pathways with regards to
ease and speed of ATP production, the force of contraction
that each will support, the intensity and duration of
exercise supported by each as the dominant energy
provider, and the regeneration of ATP for each pathway.
1.4.6 The principle of the energy continuum when based
around athletic running events.
1.4.7 Use of the continuum as a medium to support
understanding of the joint and collaborative role of the
three energy pathways in physical activity.
1.4.8 Positioning of athletic running events on the energy
continuum.
1.4.9 The concept of fatigue and factors that contribute to
fatigue: energy depletion, dehydration and the build-up
of waste products (including an exploration of the role of
lactic acid in performance).
1.4.10 Stages of recovery and their application to specific
physical and sporting contexts.
1.4.11 The fast component of recovery and re-phosphorylisation;
the speed and rate of phosphogen replenishment.
1.4.12 The slow component of recovery; the oxidation of lactate
(removal of lactate and H+), replenishment of energy
stores and the two-hour window of opportunity:
rehydration, physical cooling and thermoregulation; the
48-hour window of opportunity: resaturation of
myoglobin, re-synthesis of protein, glycogen and
carbohydrate (CHO); exercise induced muscle damage
(EIMD) and delayed onset muscular soreness (DOMS).
1.4.13 EPOC (excess post-exercise oxygen consumption), and
the stages of recovery.
1.4.14 Understanding of how the energy systems respond
acutely to the stress of warming up/priming exercise.