The FDC fun day is Friday NOT Saturday, apologies

Year 12 & 13 students - urgent

Dear all,

This coming Friday is the annual year 7 fun day organised by the FDC.  This annual event is supported by the PE department and the students hwo are taking A-level PE.  The day runs from 12.45 - 4pm, the expectation is that each of you sign up for a 90 min slot through the day - 12.45 - 2.15 or 2.15 - 3.45.  Can you please email myself or Mr Jones the slot you can do by the start of school on Thursday.

Thank you for your help with supporting this event, the FDC do a lot to support various sporting events at DC that you have all benefitted from.

Year 13 students

Another week and another course...could you please complete the following work during your Monday lesson.

Go back through your graphs that detail the effects of anxiety on performance to ensure what the graphs are showing you is enforced.

Aggression & Assertion.
Define aggression & assertion detailing the main differences.
Give examples of when you or a team mate has demonstrated both aggression and assertion, explain what made the examples either aggression or assertion.
Find examples of aggression or assertion in a sport from a you tube clip.
When you have found them can you please make two QR codes - one for each.  You make the QR codes by going to www.qrstuff.com then click on 'YouTube video' on the left hand side.  Copy and paste what is in the YouTube address bar into the 'Video URL' box.  This will then create your unique QR code on the right hand side.
Download the QR code, copy your two seperate codes and copy into an email that you will send to me.

This MUST be done by the end of Monday.

Thanks

Year 12 students

To assist you with your planning and time management between now and the end of term the following is a plan of work in both of your weekly lessons.
The format we will use will compromise of a tutorial in lesson 1 of the week (to take place in the pod) followed by an introduction of a new element of 2.4 work in lesson 2.
You will be expected to complete this new component and hand in electronically via dropbox by the end of Sunday the following week.
Feeback will be available via your support material folder.
Various elements (training analysis, 2.1 work) will be expected to be ongoing on top of the new areas introduced.

Week beginning                   Lesson 1                          Lesson 2
18th November                    Tutorials                         Mechanical analysis (including action photos)
25th November                    Tutorials                         Tactical - attack
2nd December                     Tutorials                          Tactical - defence & bending rules
9th December                      Tutorials                          Training analysis practical (fitness component)
16th December                    Tutorials                          Training analysis session hand in (to date)

A reminder that your current work that is due in is - elite performer notation including the evaluation of that performance and the comparision between yourself and the elite performer.  Physiological slides x 4 looking at energy systems, muscular contractions, bones

Any problems then please see me at any time during the week.

Year 13 students

Due to the ongoing course I am attending, could you please complete the following work in Wednesdays lessons:

• Collect the final side of questions from the recent exam.  Fill in answers as a group based on your combined knowledge.  Leave the finished sheet on my desk.

Short term psychology.

Complete the following work in your books.

• It is said that the most successful performers have:
• 1.     Higher levels of self confidence
  2.     More Task Oriented Focus
  3.     Control over Anxiety Levels
  4.     More Determination and Commitment
• Write down in a statement how a performer of your choice maintains their levels of the four points above.
• Think back to when you have been at your most confident before a performance - what do you think you can attribute that to?
• Bandura looked at self efficacy - self efficacy = self confidence in a particular situation
• Using the model below, explain how you could help a performer with low self confidence prepare for a competition

 

Year 13 students

I am not in your lesson on Monday due to being in Abu Dhabi.

Can i ask you to complete the following work:
On the whiteboard in L1 - gather all the information you have found on ergogenic aids, split the board into quartters and dedicate a quarter to one of the sub sections of;
Physiological
Psychological
Nutritional
Chemical
Summarise the information on the ergogenic aid along with putting who it would benefit.

Take a photo of this board when it is complete, use the department camera or find one from the main office.  One of you download the photo and email a copy of it to me.

Then move to looking at Holding Camps.
Watch the clip below where athletes talk about their experiences and benefits of the holding camp they are in for the Athletics World Championships (the first 2 mins are the most relevant)
Then go to Sweet Search and look for information under the search 'Athletics Holding Camps'
Work through a few articles before devising your list of the most important benefits of a holding camp for an athlete.

Along with compiling the list in your notes i want you to click on the following link:
 Holding Camps Corkboard
Add notes to be able to have a full comment bank of the benefits in the short term to performers.

Keep the most beneficial articles for your folders.

Year 12 students

An update before we start back after the holidays.

With regards your 2.1 & 2.4 coursework, you should have already handed in:

• 2.1 perfromance session plan
• Risk assessment x 2
• Child protection policy
• Coaching session plan (if you have started coaching)
• Additionally, you should be videoing as many of your performances as possible along with confirming the group of students you will be coaching with a designated teacher who leads the club.

• Notation introduction - an overview as to what your notation includes and justifications to your choice of notation template
• First notation on yourself in your specific template
• Technical introduction - identifying your 4 key skills and justifying why they are the key skills

You need to hand in via dropbox, before our next lesson:

• Training anlaysis introduction - with your fitness test results along with the skill you will be working on based on your notation
• Movement analysis for each of the four key skills using the table we went through in the last lesson (on technical PowerPoint)
• Tactical slide - how you and / or an elite performer would tactically use each of the key skills (4 slides in total)

We will be continuing to work at a quick rate to get the different elements completed.  If you do not stay on top of the specific hand in dates then you will struggle to complete the work to a suitable standard.
As it stands I do not seem to have any work in from either Kenny or Lewis via Dropbox.  Please rectify this by the lesson.

Refer back to the starter booklet for additional information.

Year 13 students

An update before we start back after the holidays.

Your exams are ready to give back to you, as soon as I have marked Conors we will go through this paper.

Work to complete - you should be looking at the short term ergogenic aids required with regard to technical preperation.

You need to have completed research into the designated area of either Physiological, Psychological, Chemical or Nutritional.
Completing info on the name of the ergogenic aid, overview of how it is supposed to benefit a performer and who it would specifically benefit.

Conor, as you were not in the lesson, can you please do research on 4 - 5 Physiological ergogenic aids.

Year 13 students

Anaerobbic adaptations Prezzi

Year 13 students

Aerobic adaptations Prezzi

Year 12 students

I am not going to be in your lesson on Tuesday, I apologise for this but will be back in on Wednesday.
From last lesson you should have completed your notation table for your main sport you will be taking practically along with finding an elite performer and completing a notation on them using the notation template you devised.
This MUST be brought with you as a hard copy to the lesson on Wednesday.
For Tuesday i would like you to jump back to unit 1 work.  Can you please complete the following:

• Get a definition for what a lifetime sport is.

• Give examples of 4 lifetime sports and justify your choices.

• Draw up a simple table detailing the benefits of encouraging individuals to take part in lifetime sports, both for them as an individual but also for the country as a whole.

• You should aim to come up with a minimum of ten benefits.

We will be ogoing through this at the beginning of Wendesdays lesson and then concentrating on unit 2 work.

Year 13 Students

I am not going to be in your lesson on Wednesday, could you please complete the following task.
We are now moving into the long term physiological aspects of the course. For part of this we have to look at long term adaptations / effects on the body which can occur when a performer takes part in a particular type of training.
An exemplar of this is below, looking at core stability. Can I ask you to please complete the empty resource for the following type of training I assign you.
Lisa - Continuous
A-L - Plyometric
Rayhaan - Weight/Circuit/Resistance
Conor - Fartlek
Bami - SAQ
Ensure this is completed and brought to the next lesson. Ideally can you complete electronically. If you have any problems with this please see me on Thursday as I will be back in school.

Year 12 students - Unit 2

As I will not be in your lesson on Wednesday I want you to make a start on your Unit 2 work, which will be handed in and discussed the following Tuesday.
The booklet below is an overview of what is required from you for your 2.1 and most of your 2.4 work.  For 2.1 you require to be assessed in two sports / roles and provide the necessary evidence via video and written work as to the level you are performing at through the course of this academic year.

We will discuss the paperwork requirements for this next week.  For this lesson i require you to start on the design of your notation table for your 2.4 work.  In the booklet is an exemplar of a notation.  I require you to devise your own notation for your main sport you will be assessed in 2.1 which gives as much data as possible. 
E.g. from the notation can you split the data into success rate / unsuccessful per half? 
Is the notation able to be completed by an independent person easily - is the criteria objective and not subjective?

When this is done & typed up it needs to go into your 2.4 dropbox folder.

Secondly,  complete a notation form that you made on an elite performer of your choice.

All work in electronically by Sunday morning.

Unit 2 starter booklet

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Year 13 students

Fancy some baking this weekend?EIS' Performance Nutrition team have a range of recipes to keep you busy in the kitchen: bit.ly/iczZth

— EIS (@eis2win) September 28, 2012

Year 12 students

Year 13 students

Recovery system resource to complete with regards the Alactacid & Lactacid components.

Year 13 students

Energy systems overview to assist you with your research you did in the lesson.

Atp pc handout from dcalevelpe

Lactic acid handout from dcalevelpe

Aerobic handout from dcalevelpe

Year 13 students

Monday 17th September

There is a very good chance i will not be in for your first lesson, will hopefully make it in for your second lessons.

We are moving away from short term physiological to fatigue & recovery process.

To start with, have a look at the slides on the Prezi below. This covers in simple terms the three energy systems we utilise to regenerate ATP so that we can continue working at our desired intensity.


After looking through these slides i want you to consider how these systems work alongside each other. Make notes on the three systems (you will be using these notes to complete a task summarising the 8 main points of each system) and then decide what percentage of each of the systems (ATP-PC, Lactic Acid, Aerobic) are used by the following sports people:
Shot putter
Marathon runner
Tennis player
Centre in Netball.
For each of the examples include a paragraph of justification for your percentages.

E.g. 800m runner - ATP PC = 30%, LA = 65%, Aerobic = 5% then followed by your justification as to the figures.

Following on from that, go to the following link:
http://www.sportsscientists.com/2011/03/central-governor-and-athletes-clock.html
Then watch the video on the page, summarise the video with regard the Central Governor and then use Sweet Search (actually use it this time and not just Google) to find out additional information on the Central Governor, ready to feed back in lesson 3 (if im back) or our next lesson.

Year 12 Students

Pathways.

50% of all Olympic medal winners come from public school

E D U C A T I O N

School               Regional Teams               Elite Club

C   L   U   B   S

Local Junior club               Senior Club               Elite Club

Around 5% of school students are involved in sport at school

Pathways have been determined by the sport – Examples?

Big problem is the 'post school gap'

 

Research:

Bath & Loughborough

eis2win.com

Year 13 students

Altitude work attached, handout from the lesson is at the end of the presentation.

Year 12 students - A2 work

Year 12 students - A2 work

Carboloading & creatine, along with introduction to hydration

Year 13 students

Psychological aspects...condensed!

Short term psych revision

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Year 12 students - start of the Unit 3 course

The start of your course, this is under the Short Term Physiological aspects.

Ensure your material is kept in good order and in a structured format.

Year 13 students

Use the following clip to apply the key visualisation points

Football Midfielder

Year 13 students

Session on Aerobic adaptations
Will get the resource on the half Iron Man uploaded shortly

Year 13 students

Todays session on short term Physiology.

Focusing on Heat, Altitude, Hydration, Dietary manipulation

Year 12 students - revision

Can I please refer you to the previous post stating your revision slots.

It specifies that you are to contact us if you are unable to attend the session.  You are supposed to have had two sessions.  Three students sent their apologies for today but we were still expecting 4 of you.

Work is being prepared and it is extremely frustrating if no one then turns up.

Looking at recent exam marks I would suggest you attend every available session as work has to be done.

Year 12 students - revision

Please find below your revision schedule, note the requests about attendance.

Year 12 revision schedule

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Year 13 students

Follow the link!

Areas of concern

Year 12 students

You will have received an email yesterday with final points to improve your 2.4 work.  If these improvements are made you will not be far off full marks for the sections.

A reminder, tomorrows lesson is on.  We will be ensuring all elements are in the correct format.
You will also need to bring in your videos for your practical activities as these will be moderated this week.

CD burning is on Thursday after school.  It usually lasts around 2 hours, potentilly more time if you have technical difficulties.  Ensure you have arranged pick up times from school on Thursday accordingly.

A revision schedule for the two weeks between you finishing on Thursday and your final AS exam will be with you this week.

Year 12 students

Due to the team photos on Sunday there is a little bit of work you need to independently read up on ahead of the Thursday exam. Look through the slide below

As mets

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Work through the different estimations for working out the energy balance someone would require to complete various tasks. The amount of METS attributed to different levels of activities can be found on page 41. Understanding the amount of calories you are putting in and what you would require for a task assist you with maintaining a healthy weight along with staying sufficiently fueled for your sport or activity.

Exam
The exam can start during lesson 2 (if you do not have a timetabled lesson), I will be in L1 with year 13. Otherwise please arrive at the beginning of break to get started on it, you will have until the end of lesson 4.

Please see me if you have any issues.

Year 13 Students

Have a look throught he following clips around various long term psychology themes.

With each of the videos, make notes, compare with the work in your own revision notes, write down and new or additional observations.

Come back into the class with this information along with being able to categorise which area of the long term psychology each video relates to (if not immediately obvious in the title of the video).

1. Why do underdogs succeed, write down your thoughts
2. Sir Steve Redgrave
3. Attribution introduction
4. Attribution - locus of control
5. Learned Helplessness
6. Beckham
7. Cohesion
8. Cohesion (?) if not, caused by?

Reminders

To both year 12 & 13. I hope you hav had relaxing break whilst also getting a good amount of work done. As we get ready for one last push before the study leave I wanted to give a couple of reminders.

Year 12:

• The coursework support session is on tomorrow (Saturday) 3 - 5pm.  You do not need to stay until 5pm if you do not want to, if you only have a couple of questions and want to clarify a couple of points and then leave that id fine.  The aim is for you to be able to ask any specific questions ahead of the final hand in.  Come with any specific questions you may have on any of the elements.  Your video editing should be 99% done by now.
•  Remember to hand in the different pieces of work you were set before the holiday, especially the research on your designated countries.

Year 13:

• Exam question in exam conditions on Sunday
• Full mock exam the following week
• Revision in the other lessons of the week
• If during your revision prep and work over the holidays you have come across any particular question, write them down and hand them in on Sunday.  If there are any reoccuring themes i will address thosei the lessons and in revision tasks.

Year 13 students

Please look at some of the old specification papers I have put in below.
They are not in the same format, however there are still questions from the paper you can use based on the current specification.

2007 paper

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2007 mark scheme

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2008 paper

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2008 mark scheme

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2009 paper

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2009 mark scheme

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Year 12 Students

This task will need to be completed after we have gone through work on health, fitness & exercise in this Thursdays lesson:

• Make notes on 'the rate of fat loss'
• Define Basal Metabolic Rate
• What is the link between BMR & weight / fat loss?
• What factors are involved in the raising or lowering of BMR?
• Consider reasons for the above.

Year 12 Students

Along with completing any improvements on the 2.1 & 2.4 work over the holidays, you have the following task to complete:

Comparision between countries

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The countries you have been assigned to research are the following:
Saif - USA & Japan
A-L - UK & Finland
Lisa - Japan & UK
Conor - Finland & USA
Freddie - USA & Japan
Bami - UK & Finland
Reyhaan - Finland & Japan

You can obviously work with your peers who are looking into the same country.

You must submit your two pieces of work into your 'shared resources' folder through Dropbox.
I will then share the other countries between all of you so you will have research from all 4 countries to reference for your revision.

Year 13 students

As day two of the GCSE practicals are going on tomorrow I need you to complete the following pieces of work:

• Research the Athlete Career and Education Programme (ACE) for Australian athletes
• Watch this clip - AIS in Canberra - and note any additional information you had not picked up in your previous research.
• For Australia, East Germany & USA draw up seperate flow diagrams showing the stages an athlete goes through to reach the elite level in each of the countries
• From that, draw up a discussion piece that compares what has been taken / modified from one country and used in another system.  Has the strategy that was taken been adapted successfully?

So on Thursday you are to bring with you the work I have listed above along with:

• Overview of the AIS
• The research you found on the Super Roo bike (I am not expecting this to be a copy and pasted article from a website)
• The questions I gave you on the USA system.

If you encounter any issues please see me before Thursday

Year 13 students

Please do some research on the structure of the AIS, you can find a web link on the right hand side of this page.

Then look into the 'Super Roo bike', research how it was developed in conjunction with the AIS.

Year 13 students

Peter Uihlein
Have a watch of the short series above, come back ready to discuss the life of a College athlete.

Year 12 students

I have looked through your training analysis sessions, there is some very good work, some work that needs a bit of improvement and some work that is missing.  If it is missing then it is unacceptable, the deadlines are there to assist you with achieving the best possible mark that you can.  You know what is due in and when it is due in, outlined in the previous document.
The deadlines for next Sunday stand and will be hit by everyone, if people continue to not hit deadlines then it will be a build up of work and the overall quality of the final product will suffer.

The feedback for any work that has been completed is now in your 'support materials' folder in dropbox.

Year 12 Students

Please find the schedule for hand ins on the document below.
A reminder on the strengths & weaknesses work we spoke about in todays lesson.

Complete a performance profiling wheel (a sample wagon wheel can be found in your shared resources folder in your drop box account).  Complete the outside sections of the wheel for Physiological & Psychological areas that are important for you as a performer in your sport.
Have two finished wheels, one completed by you and the other completed by your coach handed in by lunchtime on Sunday 4th March.

You are then in a position to complete your analysis looking at the different sub groups of Physiological, Psychological, Mechanical & Technical (from your notation & technical work) & Tactical.

Year 12 hand in deadlines

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Some work for the lesson I am away, along with some additional revision work. Ensure you prepare for the exam on the first day back. Have a good week off.

Long term psychology questions

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Edexcel long term psychology specification

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If you did not finish off the application of Caron's 4 dimensional model from the last lesson, ensure this is also completed.

Year 12 Students

The BBC are currently doing a 30 part series on 'Sport & the British'.  The series covers a lot of the points that you will be looking at in the Development of Competitive Sport section with Mrs Bell.  The link to the page is below.  Each programme is only 15 minutes long.

BBC Radio 4 - Sport & the British

Year 13 students

A couple of interesting articles you may want to look through for revision purposes.
One on heat acclimitisation and one on psychology of winning.  Useful for application of practical examples.

Psychology of winning

Heat Acclimitisation

Year 12 students

Reminder, the next work due in on Sunday are your training analysis sessions.  If for some reason you are unable to get these to me by Sunday then please see me by the end of this week.

You will also need to complete an evaluation, this can only be done after you have retested yourself.  Both of my lessons next week (Sunday & Thursday) will be available for you to retest yourself in the components you have been working on to improve.  You can complete the retesting or continue in the 'pod'.
The evaluation can be completed once your second notation on yourself is finished and you can make reference to any improvement in the skill component.

Ensure your sessions are in the dropbox folder by the end of lunchtime on Sunday.
To assist you with your evaluation, as you write it, I have added an exemplar to a 'support material' folder which is in each of your dropbox folders.  Please keep checking this folder as I add more materials.

Finally, the following is how I want you to arrange each of your dropbox folders to ensure all work is up to date and in a logical order.

Make sure to ask if you have any questions.

Dropbox organisation

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Year 13 students

The following Prezi work may be useful for revision for your upcoming exam along with reminding you of some adaptations for your Development Plan.
Along with the online journals you should have found more resources on the library wider reading list.
As a department we also have a number of different textbooks you can access, if you want to have a look through them then please ask one of the members of the PE department.



Mr B

Year 13 students - cover work

As I mentioned on Thursday, I am not in your lesson on Sunday.

As a result please complete the following work:
Without your notes complete the following quick fire questions, there may be a couple of questions where you do actually have to use your textbooks for a little research.

Long term psychological relay questions

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Then, find three pictures of sporting performers completing a movement, e.g. Basketball player in the preperation phase for a pass.
Then annotate the pictures explaining

• What has just happened,

• What performer movements have been seen,

• What are the external conditions and internal states felt by the performer (research possibly needed)

This will show how performers use mental pictures on the move, how various movements and options are taken in and used in a split second. We will discuss your findings on Tuesday.

This needs to be completed in the Sunday lesson and brought to the lesson on Tuesday.  For the pictures use a computer in the library.

Year 12 Students

Some clarification:On Sunday 5th February you are handing in your 16 training sessions for 2.1 (8 for each sport, but not Athletics at this moment) showing the evidence that you have completed your practical or coaching performance over an 8 week period.
The following Sunday, 12th February, you will be handing in your 16 session plans from your personal training analysis (2.4).  Ideally 8 on the fitness component(s) you have worked on based on your fitness testing and 8 on the skill you worked on based on your first notation.

From that point forward you are then able to:

• Retest yourself and complete your evaluation on the training analysis.
• Complete your second notation on yourself followed by the conclusion
• Be ready to start the final part of 2.4 (strengths & weaknesses) after the February holiday

Finally, get a dropbox account on your laptop, choose the free option.

Any questions on this then please email me over the weekend.

Year 12 Students - Urgent

On Tuesday Mrs Bell spoke to you regarding your assistance at the upcoming FDC Spring Fayre on Friday.  You said you were coming to speak to Mr Jones regarding which timeslot you will do...Mr Jones did not have any of you come to give in your time slot you were assisting with.
So, please turn up at my lesson tomorrow with which of the following time slots you will be assisting at:
1pm - 2.30pm
2.30pm - 4pm

Mr B

Year 13 students

You will require practical kit again for tomorrows lesson.  If you missed the lesson yesterday you need to ensure you arrive with a 5 minute training plan for a game which is 3 vs 3, uses the volleyball court dimensions, ball is tennis ball size, attackers cannot run when in posession and you score by shooting into a waist high basket at either end.
The session plan must be designed using the Holistic approach.

Mr B

Year 12 Students

I am still waiting for some work to be handed in that was due on Sunday.  This must be with me ASAP.  It is also disappointing that some of you have not improved your work based on previous feedback.  The hand in dates are to assist you manage your work load, as soon as improvements are suggested make sure you apply them to your work,

Mr B

Year 13 students

The updated presentation from the current work we are completing.
Please do the research on your areas of perception.

Mr B

Year 12 Students

As you work through your Unit 2.1 & 2.4 work you may want to keep refering to the starter booklet you received in September. So here it is, additions will be made as we continue through the coursework.

Mr B

Unit 2 starter booklet

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Year 13 students

Yet another exam for you to look at...short term technical & fatigue. Be disciplined and complete using your knowledge.
Remember to map out where the marks are for each question and write down two points the examiner does not want to read so that you do not go off on tangents!

Year 13 sports studies fatigue technical-exam

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Following on from the wonderful news about the impending exam. Please use the following short term prep exam in your revision schedule.

Year 13 sports studies exam 1

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QR Code

Have a look at the poll on the right hand side, if you have not used a QR code before see if you can access the Youtube clip behind this...oh, and remember to answer the poll!

Year 13 students

Good news...you will be having an exam on everything we have looked at since September on Sunday 26th February.
You need to let me know if you have a non contact lesson before or after our timetabled lesson.  I will then let you know what the start time is for your exam.

Mr B

Year 13 students

Latest work on Motivation, Attribution theory, Ritual

Your sporting role models

Corkboard

Click on the above link to go through to corkboard.  The aim is to see if you find it a useful and user friendly resource, along with finding out a little more about who you idolise!

Inspiration

An incredibly inspirational video for you to have a look at and remember that you can achieve what ever you put your mind to.

Mr B

Welcome!

Welcome to the Dubai College A Level PE blog.  This resource will assist you in accessing lesson presentations, resources and extension activities. 
Spend a few minutes familirising yourself with the different links on the right hand side, remember to keep checking them as they will continually be updated and added to.
Your first task...enter an email address that you regularly use into the 'follow by email' box at the bottom of the page.

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