AQA Physical Education: September 2025 updates

Welcome to our Autumn 2025 newsletter

We hope you have had a restful summer and that you have had a good start to the new term. I know how busy autumn is for PE departments as school fixtures and deadlines begin to come thick and fast. In this email you’ll find all the information to get you started this term.

We’re looking forward to working with you over the year ahead and receiving the Government’s Curriculum and Assessment review when it’s published. If any members of your team would like to receive subject-specific updates, they can easily sign up for AQA subject updates, so they’re always informed and part of our community.

Will Anns
Subject Lead – Physical Education and Projects

myAQA

Sign up to myAQA to get quick access to resources, CPD training and events, Data Insights (our results analysis tool) and much more this autumn term. Make sure you’ve filled in your myAQA profile including your role and subject specialism so we can instantly start connecting you with the tools, training and resources most relevant to you.

Once you’re logged into your myAQA account, you can also access Centre Services.

myNetwork

Autumn 2025 Curriculum Connects are available to book now – we’ll be exploring summer 2025!

myResources

Find everything you need on myAQA

• Data Insights on Centre Services – see how your school, subject, class and individual students have performed and dig deeper into your students’ results.
• Find summer 2025 question papers, mark schemes, and examiners’ reports, all in one place on Centre Services.
• You can find each of the grade boundaries on our website and the overall results statistics with cumulative pass rates for the whole AQA cohort.
• Exampro – Search thousands of AQA questions and build tailored assessments in minutes! Create assessments for all types of activities, including classroom exercises, homework tasks, revision and topic tests. Good assessment. Made easy. Search Exampro
• Find schemes of work, lesson plans and commentaries in teaching and assessment resources on our website for GCSE and A-level.

mySupport

Post-results services

Log into myAQA for post-results services to find information and deadlines and easy summary guide.

AQA NEA advisers

Each school or college has a dedicated NEA adviser. Our advisers are experienced teachers and moderators who can offer guidance and support throughout the academic year on delivering NEA.

They’re there to answer your questions, explain specification requirements, share teaching ideas and discuss general processes, planning and approaches to NEA tasks.

Their details may have changed from last year – so you can find them on Centre Services by going to ‘Pre-exams’ and then clicking on ‘NEA Advisers’. If you do not have an assigned adviser, please contact eos@aqa.org.uk.

Please be aware that contact details are confidential and must not be shared with third parties including students and on social media. Further information about our commitment to data privacy can be found in our privacy notice.

myTraining

• GCSE PE Training for the autumn term can be found here, these include the live GCSE PE: NEA Planning for 2026.
• A-level PE Training for the autumn term can be found here, these include the live A-level PE: NEA Planning for 2026.

Marking non-exam assessment (NEA)

Are you looking to improve the accuracy of your NEA marking this year? Why not use our free Teacher online standardisation tool during a departmental meeting to check your marking is in line with our lead moderators?

Specification updates and reminders

GCSE Physical Education

For the summer 2026 exams and onwards, we’ve made some small updates to the scheme of assessment in our GCSE Physical Education (8582) specification. The updates involve the skills needed for Association Football, Badminton, Rugby Union and Volleyball. 

Student Advisory Group – recruitment for 2025/26

We’re looking for learners to join our Student Advisory Group to help us make key decisions about the future of exams. We’d love to hear from learners who’ve completed AQA specification GCSEs since 2024, as well as from those taking AQA AS and A-levels. We also really want to hear from students taking our vocational qualifications, or vocational qualifications with any other exam board, as long as they have sat at least one AQA qualification.

Since the Student Advisory group began they’ve; represented the student voice each year at the Parliamentary Youth Reception, shared their views at the Curriculum and Assessment Youth Shadow Panel, fed into our Curriculum and Assessment call for evidence response, given insights on AI in the Classroom at the 2025 Festival of Education, helped with reviewing books for our English literature set texts list, and much more.

So if you know any learners who you think would be interested, please pass this on. Full details of the role and how to apply can be found on our website. Applications open on Monday 8 September and close at 5.00pm on Monday 22 September 2025.

Contact our team

Help is never more than a click away. If you have a question, we’ve got the answer.

Email pe@aqa.org.uk.

Call us on 01483 477 822 8am–5pm Monday to Friday.