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Physical Education
Explain energy, fitness and training, interpret performance evidence and justify training decisions for the Unit 4 external examination.
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Energy And Fitness
- Explain ATP resynthesis through energy pathwaysExternal exam
- Analyse energy-system interplay during performanceExternal exam
- Identify and justify fitness demands of movementsExternal exam
Training Adaptations
- Explain cardiorespiratory responses and performance implicationsExternal exam
- Explain muscle-fibre and hypertrophy responses to trainingExternal exam
Performance Evidence
- Analyse movement and game-performance evidenceExternal exam
- Interpret fitness-test evidence for a position or eventExternal exam
- Calculate and apply work-to-rest relationshipsExternal exam
- Interpret heart-rate evidence and training zonesExternal exam
Training Design
- Apply training principles to a specified strategyExternal exam
- Select and adapt training methods to performance demandsExternal exam
- Explain and sequence periodised trainingExternal exam
- Construct a coherent training sessionExternal exam
- Explain and integrate recovery and taperingExternal exam
Training Judgements
- Devise a training strategy for a microcycle or mesocycleExternal exam
- Synthesise evidence to explain significant training relationshipsExternal exam
- Evaluate a training strategy against performance criteriaExternal exam
- Justify maintaining or modifying a training strategyExternal exam
- Construct a precise technical response to the taskExternal exam
Curriculum Foundations
- Explain motor learning through constraints and perception-actionSupporting learning
- Explain ethical values and influences on participationSupporting learning
Tactical Inquiry
- Analyse tactical decisions and movement relationshipsInternal assessment only
- Devise and justify personal and team tactical strategiesInternal assessment only
- Evaluate and refine tactical strategies from performance evidenceInternal assessment only
Ethical Inquiry
- Investigate an ethical dilemma and stakeholder interestsInternal assessment only
- Devise and justify an ethics strategy using the decision frameworkInternal assessment only
- Evaluate and refine an ethics strategy for stakeholdersInternal assessment only
Practical Inquiry
- Demonstrate and adapt specialised movement performanceInternal assessment only
- Implement a strategy and collect personal performance evidenceInternal assessment only