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Edexcel GCSE PE revision for teachers

These activities are mapped to Edexcel GCSE Physical Education 1PE0 and cover the theory content only. There are 31 across the seven theory areas, and they are marked as the student works. Coverage is uneven, and it is worth knowing which way before you plan around it. Physical training has nine activities and applied anatomy and physiology has six, while movement analysis and use of data have two each. There are also no diagram-labelling activities yet, which matters for a course where students are asked to identify muscles, bones and planes of movement. The practical side of the course is assessed on performance, and nothing on a screen revises that.

This page lists what we actually have for Edexcel GCSE Physical Education 1PE0. It is built from the live activities, so it is accurate on the day you read it, including the parts where it is thin.

Theory only

Everything here is theory content, and that is a property of the course rather than a decision we made. PE is assessed partly on what a student can do in an activity and on the personal exercise programme they carry out, neither of which any revision site can touch. If a student needs to improve those, the answer is coaching and practice.

What can be revised is the written content, and that is what these 31 activities are.

Where the coverage actually is

Thirty-one activities across the seven theory areas, and they are not evenly spread:

Specification area Live activities
Physical training 9
Applied anatomy and physiology 6
Sport psychology 5
Health, fitness and wellbeing 4
Socio-cultural influences 3
Movement analysis 2
Use of data 2

If you teach in specification order, the first area you reach is one of the better covered ones, which is a happier accident than usual.

Two gaps worth naming

Use of data has two activities. Use of data is a named part of this specification, not an incidental skill, and two activities is a supplement rather than a course of revision. Three of the thirty-one involve a typed calculation and two involve a graph. Until that grows, the past papers are the better source for quantitative practice.

No activity asks a student to label a diagram. For a course where students identify muscles, bones, and planes and axes of movement, that is a real hole rather than a stylistic choice. Applied anatomy and physiology has six activities and they test the content in other ways, but if you specifically want labelling practice, this is not yet the place to get it.

Naming those costs nothing and saves you finding out in a lesson.

Finding the right one

The lists below group by classroom use, worked out from what each activity contains. Homework is not a heading, because all thirty-one suit it and a heading holding everything separates nothing.

The three activities embedded below are playable here without an account.

Using them

For short tasks and a weekly routine to drop these into, see the revision homework toolkit. For off-screen options to pair with them, which matter in a subject where students are often not at a desk, see ready-to-run revision activities. To put several in front of one class in order, build a sprint.

Our past paper archive carries Edexcel's own PE papers and mark schemes, free and unaltered.

What this page does not do

It does not touch the practical assessment or the personal exercise programme.

It does not yet give you diagram labelling, and it is thin on use of data.

It does not track anything, so there is no completion list to check.

Every live Physical Education activity for Edexcel

31 activities, all mapped to Edexcel GCSE Physical Education (1PE0).

Good for intervention (22)

Good for independent study (18)

Good for mock preparation (10)

Good for starter (9)

Good for cover lesson (1)

See all 31, by topic

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Edexcel Physical Education 15 minutes

Named Fitness Tests

13 steps, 9 interactive, 9 activity types.

Best used for
Starter Independent study Intervention
  • Starter: Short enough to open a lesson and still leave time to teach.
  • Independent study: Explains before it asks, so a student can work alone.
  • Intervention: Mostly questions, so it finds the gap quickly.

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Which named test measures flexibility?

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Edexcel Physical Education 15 minutes

Aerobic and Anaerobic Exercise

13 steps, 9 interactive, 9 activity types.

Best used for
Starter Independent study Intervention
  • Starter: Short enough to open a lesson and still leave time to teach.
  • Independent study: Explains before it asks, so a student can work alone.
  • Intervention: Mostly questions, so it finds the gap quickly.

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Which of these activities is mainly AEROBIC?

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Edexcel Physical Education 14 minutes

Qualitative and Quantitative Data Collection

11 steps, 7 interactive, 8 activity types.

Best used for
Starter Homework Independent study
  • Starter: Short enough to open a lesson and still leave time to teach.
  • Homework: Set it as a link. It marks itself.
  • Independent study: Explains before it asks, so a student can work alone.

Try one question

A sprinter's 100 metre times have got worse over six weeks. The coach wants to know WHY. What should they collect?

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Common questions

Does this cover the practical assessment?

No. Everything here is theory content. The practical side of the course is assessed on what a student can actually do in an activity, and on their personal exercise programme, so no revision site can help with either.

Which areas are best covered?

Physical training with nine activities, then applied anatomy and physiology with six and sport psychology with five. Health, fitness and wellbeing has four and socio-cultural influences three.

Which areas are thin?

Movement analysis and use of data, with two activities each. Both are examined, so treat this page as a supplement in those areas rather than as a revision plan for them.

Is there anything for labelling anatomy diagrams?

Not yet. None of the current activities ask a student to label a diagram, which is a real gap for a course that asks them to identify muscles, bones and planes of movement. Worth knowing before you set anatomy revision here.

What about data analysis questions?

Three activities involve a typed calculation and two involve a graph. Given that use of data is a named part of the specification, the past papers are currently the better source for that skill.

Will I see who has completed them?

No. Following a shared link records nothing about who followed it, which is a deliberate choice about children's data.

Put one in front of a class

Tell us the subject and how long you have. You get a link to hand out, and it marks itself.

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