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The EverLearner The EverLearner is the home of leading online courses for PE and Sport (covering GCSE, A-Level, BTEC, CNAT, CTEC, NCFE and IBDP).

Don't miss out on new PE Teacher CPD offering - The PE Teacher Academy: https://pages.theeverlearner.com/pe-teacher-academy The EverLearner Ltd, formerly known as myPEexam, is an online learning platform run entirely by teachers, for teachers. The EverLearner radically improves learning. With exam-board specific tutorials, self-marking questions and razor-sharp reporting, students can be sure that they are fully prepared for their exams and that every gap has been recognised and addressed. Teachers dramatically reduce their workload through automated marking, assignments and data reporting, freeing up time for more valuable interactions with students.

We have said this before, and I’m sure we will say this again... Most marks lost in PE and Sport exams aren’t lost throu...
30/09/2026

We have said this before, and I’m sure we will say this again...
Most marks lost in PE and Sport exams aren’t lost through a lack of knowledge.  
They’re lost when students answer a slightly different question to the one asked, write too little for the marks available, or write far too much for a short question.
CUB (Circle, Underline, Box) is a simple metacognitive routine for how students annotate every exam question before they write:
→ Circle the command word, and write what it means above it
→ Underline the topic and any constraint (a performer, a group, a number)
→ Box the marks, and write a 3–5 word plan
Since we first published CUB, it has been adopted faster than almost anything else we’ve shared. It has become a mainstay of our mock exam guidance and revision series.
From today, we’ve now got two free guides just for you and your students:
📘 A new Student Guide, published for the first time, ready to print and teach .
📗 An updated Teacher Guide on why CUB works, how to teach it, how to scaffold it over time, and how to embed it across your department.
Both are free for every school.
You can access them by reading our latest blog post. Link in bio.

New unit alert 🚨 BTEC Sport & Exercise Science, Unit 1: Sport & Exercise Physiology is now live!Everything your learners...
28/09/2026

New unit alert 🚨 BTEC Sport & Exercise Science, Unit 1: Sport & Exercise Physiology is now live!

Everything your learners need for the sport and exercise physiology unit, in one place:

📚 38 lessons
✅ 9 checkpoints
❓ 500+ quiz questions

🎥 Every lesson has a 5–12 minute video tutorial, so it’s short enough to fit around a lesson and focused enough to use for revision.

📊 High and low stakes quizzes build retrieval practice into every topic, and it’s all trackable. You can see at a glance who has watched what, how they scored and where the gaps are.

Swipe through for a closer look 👉

Try it free today. Link in bio 🔗

Almost every platform says it helps students revise.The key question is: how?There is a real difference between answerin...
24/09/2026

Almost every platform says it helps students revise.
The key question is: how?

There is a real difference between answering isolated multiple-choice questions and learning to apply knowledge, interpret command words, construct extended responses and manage time under pressure.

When you are reviewing a provider, look closely at the quality assurance behind its questions, imagery and feedback. Poor exam practice can create misconceptions; realistic practice can reveal exactly where marks are being lost.

We have put together a comprehensive guide to help you find the right EdTech platform. Whether you’re investing for the first time or reconsidering your current platform. This post shares six questions that every Head of PE should ask.

The musculoskeletal system is on the GCSE PE calendar right now for most of us. Quick question: are you 100% sure your M...
23/09/2026

The musculoskeletal system is on the GCSE PE calendar right now for most of us.
Quick question: are you 100% sure your MSK lessons match your exam board?

James spent years teaching it as if AQA, Edexcel and OCR wanted roughly the same thing. They don’t!

👉 AQA assesses abduction/adduction at the shoulder, not the hip.
👉 Edexcel drops contraction types entirely and leans hard on “Analyse” and “Examine” for antagonistic pairs.
👉 OCR won’t accept “skull” for cranium or “shin” for tibia.

If you want to make sure you know the nuances between each exam board for GCSE, then this blog post is a must read for you.
As usual, the link is in our bio.

This is the second of our top tips directed towards helping students out when using the platform.In this post, we look a...
17/09/2026

This is the second of our top tips directed towards helping students out when using the platform.

In this post, we look at students’ data, their assignments, the importance of feedback as well as what it means if a student sees a certain pop up.

PE teachers: do share this with your students and save it for later as well.

What can 100 PE departments across Asia teach us about modern PE?James and Marta have been in China for two weeks now. I...
16/09/2026

What can 100 PE departments across Asia teach us about modern PE?

James and Marta have been in China for two weeks now. In that time, they have attended the FOBISIA PE & Sport Annual Conference in Shanghai and delivered full-day PE CPD events in Xiamen and Beijing.
Across conversations with colleagues from around 100 PE departments, the same professional tensions and opportunities emerged: balancing high-performance sport with holistic physical education, supporting demanding qualification courses, and creating PE theory learning that feels genuinely connected to movement and performance.

Three questions sat at the centre of the CPD:
- If we teach AO1 concepts in isolation, is it really PE teaching? Application-first teaching starts with a sporting, movement or performance context - not a detached definition.
- What if every question challenged every student, every time?
Structured questioning can make PE theory lessons more active, accountable and inclusive.
- Are your PE assessments leading learning - or lagging behind it?
Departments may want to reflect on whether their assessment approach deliberately creates retrieval, spacing and interleaving opportunities.

The blog reflects on the people, places and professional learning behind the trip, from Shanghai and Xiamen to Beijing, and shares more about the three CPD sessions.

Swipe through the carousel for the key questions, then read James’s full reflection from China via the link in bio.

What question is your PE department thinking most seriously about this term?

It’s never too late to introduce your students to the platform. Set up separate classes so you can assign each group its...
16/09/2026

It’s never too late to introduce your students to the platform. Set up separate classes so you can assign each group its own work, assignments and homework, tailored to their needs and progress.

We recommend dedicating one lesson to helping your class get started. During this introductory session, students can:
⭐️Log in to the platform
⭐️Learn how to find and view their assignments
⭐️Complete their first assignment
⭐️Watch our student demo video on YouTube

This works best in a computer room, or when tablets or laptops have been booked for the lesson. Once students know how to access the platform and feel confident logging in and completing assignments, they are ready to go.

Share this guide with your students so they can revisit the basics whenever they need a reminder.

And don’t forget to save this post so you can come back to it in the future.

We provides quizzing/retrieval practice in checkpoint mode for both assessment and learning as well as performance diagn...
14/09/2026

We provides quizzing/retrieval practice in checkpoint mode for both assessment and learning as well as performance diagnostics.

Checkpoints are quizzes but they are quizzes “wrapped up like an exam”. To be clear: a checkpoint is never an exam but it does communicate with exam practice. Here’s how:

Checkpoints are “wrapped like an exam” but are pure quizzing.
All checkpoints are interleaved.
Checkpoints introduce learners to time-restricted assessments in a less formal way than a time-restricted exam.
Checkpoints are summative assessments but can be tweaked towards a mastery experience if time flexibility is available.
We recommend that students experience every course checkpoint at least twice during their studies. Many students experience checkpoints tens of times, generating the spacing effect.
How to achieve these tier 3 targets

Research, as well as years of experience, indicate that teachers should be aiming to cause students to complete checkpoints on at least a monthly basis in order to cause the maximal retention of acquired knowledge, subject vocabulary and skills over time. We recommend that, where possible, teachers should guide students to experience checkpoint mode in two varying formats (with many variations possible):

Used as a data extraction and diagnostic tool at the end of a unit of work. This type of checkpoint should be a single-take with no mastery standard.
Used as a pre-exam practice tool in advance of an exam experience such as an end-of-unit exam. In this context, teachers should consider a mastery standard as an option if the variability of time allows students to achieve the standards at different paces and repetitions.

One minute of teacher setting, tracking and marking homework = 20mins per student of high-impact learning. Anything outs...
10/09/2026

One minute of teacher setting, tracking and marking homework = 20mins per student of high-impact learning.

Anything outside of this structure is not a sustainable homework and should be done very infrequently.

This is why we want to give you the best tips for setting homework and assignments. Whether it is a snappy reactivation assignment or an interleaved, whole-course review, we want to make sure teachers are setting effective assignments which will maximise student learning, knowledge and retention.

“If you open the space for people, they will fill that space with success.”In his latest blog, James reflects on 25+ yea...
09/09/2026

“If you open the space for people, they will fill that space with success.”
In his latest blog, James reflects on 25+ years teaching GCSE and A-level PE and on a recent conversation with a PGCE course lead that stuck with him: trainees are often afraid to teach qualification PE, and host schools are afraid to let them try.
His message to both: don’t be afraid. Give them the opportunity, and watch what they do with it.
Read the full post by clicking on the link in our bio.

Even better, why not drop us a comment and share how you introduce qualification PE to your trainees and ECTs? Or did some opportunity or mentor help to give you the best start at teaching GCSE or A-level PE. Please do share. 🙏

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