Edexcel GCSE PE – Personal Exercise Programme (PEP) – Complete Component 4 Support Pack

A complete Pearson Edexcel GCSE PE Component 4 Personal Exercise Programme (PEP) support pack designed to guide both teachers and students through the entire process step by step.

Rather than simply giving students a checklist of what to include, this resource walks them through each stage of the PEP in a clear sequence, helping them understand what to do, how to do it, and how to develop stronger evidence.

The pack follows the full PEP journey:

performance analysis → fitness testing → identifying a weakness → aim and SMART targets → selecting and justifying a training method → applying principles of training → planning and completing the programme → monitoring progress → mid- and post-PEP testing → evaluation → future recommendations

Students are supported throughout with structured writing frames, data tables, planning templates, sentence starters, progress checks and prompts that encourage them to link their fitness data directly to sporting performance.

For teachers, the accompanying guidance provides a clear framework for delivering each stage, including model responses, common mistakes, suggested questioning and practical checkpoints to help identify whether students are ready to move on.

This complete pack includes:

• Student PEP workbook
• Teacher guidance and model answers
• Editable training log template
• PEP checklist and progress tracker
• Performance analysis support
• Fitness test analysis templates
• SMART target builder
• Training method comparison and justification
• Principles of training application
• 6–8 week programme planner
• Monitoring and progressive overload tracking
• Mid-PEP review
• Pre-, mid- and post-PEP comparison
• Evaluation writing support
• Future recommendation prompts
• High-level writing guidance
• Final submission checklist

A key feature of the resource is the repeated use of clear analytical chains:

DATA → INTERPRETATION → SPORTING IMPACT

and

TRAINING → ADAPTATION → PERFORMANCE CHANGE

This helps students move beyond simple description and produce more developed, evidence-based PEP work.

Suitable for Pearson Edexcel GCSE PE Component 4, this pack can be used for whole-class teaching, guided coursework sessions, intervention, homework or independent study.

It is designed to save teachers planning time while giving students a clear, manageable route through what can otherwise feel like a complex piece of coursework.