Useful Weblinks

Physical education and sport associations

• Association for Physical education (afPE) (www.afpe.org.uk)
• AfPE has an excellent, annotated list of useful websites
• Sport England (www.sportengland.org )

14 – 19 awards

• Department for Children, Schools and Families (www.dcsf.gov.uk/14-19)
• AQA (Assessment and Qualification Alliance)  (www.aqa.org.uk)
• Edexcel (www.edexcel.org.uk)
• OCR (Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations) (www.ocr.org.uk)
• CCEA (www.ccea.org.uk)
• WJEC (www.wjec.co.uk) 
• International Baccalaureate (www.ibo.org)
• BTEC (www.edexcel.org.uk 
• National Qualifications Framework (NQF) (www.accreditedqualifications.org.uk)

General Teaching Councils

• General Teaching Council for England (GTCE) (www.gtce.org.uk)
• General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland (www.gtcni.org.uk)
• General Teaching Council for Scotland (www.gtcs.org.uk) 
• General Teaching Council for Wales (www.gtcw.org.uk/)

Government Agencies

• Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) (http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/) 
• Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) (http://www.tda.gov.uk/) 
• Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) (www.ofsted.gov.uk) 
• Qualifications and Curriculum Authority http://www.qca.org.uk/

National Curriculum

• National Curriculum for England and Wales (www.nc.uk.net/) 
• The National Curriculum for England (www.nc.uk.net)
• The National Curriculum for Physical Education: Key Stage 3 (http://curriculum.qcda.gov.uk/key-stages-3-and-4/subjects/key-stage-3/physical-education/index.aspx) 
• The National Curriculum for Physical Education: Key Stage 4 (http://curriculum.qcda.gov.uk/key-stages-3-and-4/subjects/key-stage-4/physical-education/index.aspx) 
• The National Curriculum for Northern Ireland (http://www.nicurriculum.org.uk)

Online teaching materials 

• Teachernet (www.teachernet.gov.uk) 
• The Standards Site (www.standards.dfes.gov.uk)

Professional development

• The Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) (www.agcas.org.uk)

Research

• British Educational Research Association (www.bera.ac.uk)
• Scottish Educational Research Association (www.sera.ac.uk)

Resources

• British Sports Trust (http://www.bst.org.uk/)
• Observing and Analysing Learners' Movement: A CDRom presenting a selection of motor skills for analysis (http://www.observinglearnersmoving.co.uk) 
• Physical Literacy (http://www.physical-literacy.org.uk) 
• Skills Active http://www.skillsactive.com
• Teachernet (http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/ )
• Teacher training resource bank (http://www.ttrb.ac.uk/) 
• The Times Educational Supplement (TES) (http://www.tes.co.uk)
• Youth Sport Trust (http://www.youthsporttrust.org/)

Teacher unions 

• National Union of Teachers (NUT) (http://www.teachers.org.uk)
• National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) (http://www.teachersunion.org.uk)
• The Association for Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) (http://www.atl.org.uk/)
• Voice (http://www.voicetheunion.org.uk/) 
• The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) (http://www.eis.org.uk/)