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GCSE PE SKIING
Need to get some good footage for your GCSE PE?
Working with the NSSA, Impulse work to run sessions that deliver both the Competitive and technical elements required by exam boards for GCSE PE – Skiing.
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The majority of the exam boards currently require candidates to be assessed on snow and not on dry slopes which is very unfortunate as we would love for the exam boards to recognise the excellent work that is going on training our skiers and racers on plastic and indoors in this country.
Tips for planning for your GCSE skiers for the foreseeable: • Have they got any historical footage that you can use? You will not get away with footage of them hurtling down a slope after their parents at 5 years old but your moderator may accept footage from a school, competition or family ski trip from the past couple of years.
• Take them to an indoor slope to record the skills and if you can, some competitive skiing.
The National Schools Snowsports Association can help with this.
• Are they planning on a family ski trip? Encourage them to ask their parents to film them on a variety of runs. Write a check list for videoing for the parents to follow, keeps them on track! If they are in lessons, brilliant perhaps the instructor can do all the work!
• Contact the NSSA if you’d like to know about how they can help with putting on GCSE PE training sessions or advising on the quality of footage that you have gathered. We are here to help.
• Many schools have ski trips planned for the upcoming season. Who knows? Have a plan ready if they do. If you have a number of skiers on the trip requiring filming, assign a couple to each member of staff and use your rep and instructors. Ask your rep and the ski school to organise a race with the
GCSE skiers during the week. Take a laptop with you and get the candidates to edit their own footage during down time or evenings! Let them take some responsibility, they are also usually much quicker than we are at doing tech stuff!
Most UK exam boards ask for competitive skiing to be filmed and the footage from a phone, with poor zoom facility will, in most likelihood not be sufficient. This is where the NSSA can help with the use of professional coaches, experienced in filming these skills for numerous years and using good quality HD cameras with adequate zoom facilities.
For more information, or to book your school or individual for this service, please contact office@schoolssnowsports.co.uk for information and assistance.
Finally, good luck to you and all your candidates.
The NSSA, working with Impulse, has great experience in collecting the relevant footage for numerous exam boards. We run these through coached sessions at our partner indoor centres and in the alps.
GCSE AND BTEC ASSESSMENTS
• Carried out by professional coaches in the UK and the alps • Including hi resolution video footage, edited for each trainee • We cover the technical and competitive elements required by most Exam boards • More cost effective than a ski trip and submitted in an accepted format • No need to take up part of your ski holiday
A LEVEL ASSESSMENTS
We can offer specialist, professional advice on how and where to do these, take the required video and set up the competitive element in a mountain environment.
For information and to arrange and book these sessions please contact us on the below e-mail, or telephone 01279 444621
