Bulgaria Ski discussion board

I am a PE teacher so I'll ignore the jokes about Inset Days!

It all depends on what examination board your son is following for his GCSE course. This can be checked by your son through his PE teacher. The PE teacher should then be able to get hold of the criteria for you if they allow it as a sport.

The criteria would need to be give to the instructor so they can grade your son.

You will definately need to get a video of your son on his board. The video would need to show all of the things that your son can do on the board (ie the things on the criteria). The video might then be requested by an external examiner. Highly unlikely but you never know and would put the PE teacher in a difficult situation!

Grades have to be submitted to examination boards after the Easter hols but PE teachers would be thinking very soon of sorting the grades for the pupils.

I would suggest that you son speaks to his PE teacher and find out if its worth going through all this. If he has 4 other sports that are better grade wise then these would go forward.

I hope this helps.

AQA 2008 exam - page 87 of PE A syllabus (there's 2 - A or B) section 14.5
Skiing - acquire & develop -
basic stance,
getting up after a fall.
side stepping,
snow plough turns/stops,
side slipping,
traversing,
stem turns,
carved turns,
parallel turns/stop skid to a halt - over four different routes.
Plus - select & apply - analysis of problem/challenge, knowledge of skills to overcome/achieve it,
recognition of safety issues/procedures,
selection of equipment/skills/route,
adoption/adaptation of skills to complete course

If they don't have a snowboarding skill area, then I'm sure he would be able to achieve the skiing syllabus.

Hope this helps. But you need to check with PE teacher for the exact syllabus he is following as there's 2 and the 2009 exam maybe slightly different.