Nelson Physical Education for VCE

Nelson Physical Education for VCE is a complete teaching and learning solution designed to engage and motivate VCE PE students.

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Engaging, comprehensive, and active learning and teaching resources for VCE PE

Nelson Physical Education for VCE Units 1-4 provides a complete teaching and learning solution designed to engage and support VCE Physical Education students.

Written to comprehensively support the revised VCE Physical Education Study Design (2025-2029), the new edition has been informed by our author team’s deep expertise, up-to-date research, and evidence-based pedagogical approaches to learning and assessment. The result is a fresh approach to this trusted series with a renewed focus on maximising opportunities for all students to actively engage, explore, practice, and critically apply their key knowledge and skills.

Our expert author team have seamlessly interwoven explicitly aligned coverage of the revised Study Design with preparation for both internal assessment and the end of Year 12 exam to help build your students’ confidence in their knowledge, equipping them for exam success and ultimate study score attainment.

Roadmap to internal assessment and exam success

VCE PE Students have never had a clearer view of the roadmap to success than now with this comprehensive resource written to explicitly support the revised VCE PE Study Design (2025-29).

Reignite the excitement

Access tools to motivate students at different confidence levels, with a focus on the application to real-world examples ensuring all VCE PE students remain engaged and supported throughout the subject.

Capture students' attention

Increase student engagement with Masterclass and In Focus videos that unpack and drill into key knowledge and skills that students need to understand with real-world examples and expert advice.

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A toolkit for VCE PE Students

The new editions of Nelson Physical Education for VCE now begin with a Getting Started section. Designed as a one-stop toolkit that PE students can refer to throughout the year, this section covers key concepts and skills students, including advice on creating a Reflective Folio, steps to unpack and support data literacy and a glossary of command terms to ensure students are set up for exam success right from the beginning.

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Empower students to delve deeper into their learning journey

Each chapter of the student books contain 'Above and Beyond' sections that offer students a chance to explore concepts outside of the scope and structure of the new VCE PE Study Design and extend their knowledge. These sections are clearly labelled to highlight when students are stepping beyond the scope of the new study design.

Above and Beyond

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Support for exams and internal assessments

Ensure students are fully prepared for their SACs and end of year exams. With our extensive exam support, including exam-style questions in module and chapter reviews, learning hacks and Worked Examples, Nelson Physical Education for VCE ensures students are well-equipped with the necessary tools to excel in their internal assessments and exams. Unit Review questions model exam-style extended response questions that analyse the interrelationship of concepts across units providing practice for the final SAC and end-of-year exam in Year 12.

Exam Support

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Making connections across the VCE PE Study Design

‘Looking Forward’ and ‘Looking Back’ feature boxes highlight important cross-threading of concepts throughout the course assisting students to make connections and recognise interrelationships between different Key Knowledge points.

Looking Back and Looking Forward

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Experience in-depth learning and support

New Masterclass videos deconstruct and delve into the content of each chapter. These videos provide comprehensive explanations and targeted guidance on the key knowledge areas where students commonly require additional support. By breaking down complex concepts and offering step-by-step explanations, our Masterclass videos empower students to build a solid foundation of understanding and overcome challenging topics with confidence.

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Masterclass Videos

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Support Students' Learning Needs

In Focus videos take a deep dive into key concepts that students often find challenging, incorporating animations and clear explanations to support students’ comprehension and engagement .

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Adjustable Reading Levels

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Support every student in the lead up to their exams

Cognero Assess offers comprehensive exam preparation support. With a vast test bank consisting of hundreds of exam-style questions and past VCAA-exam questions mapped to Key Knowledge in the revised VCE PE Study Design (2025-29) multiple-choice questions and unlimited algorithmic questions, teacher can design formative and summative tests tailored to their students' requirements. This powerful tool enables targeted assessment, allowing educators to gauge students' understanding, identify areas for improvement, and provide personalised feedback to optimise their exam readiness.

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Peak Performance Workbooks

The Nelson Physical Education VCE Peak Performance workbooks provide complete coverage of the examinable content from the VCE Study Design (2025 – 2029). These comprehensive workbooks scaffolds chapter questions to gradually build student understanding and skills in preparation of for internal assessments and their end of year exam.

With the new Peak Performance Workbooks you can:

Access a range of multiple-choice, short answer and extended response questions for valuable end-of-year exam practice.

Challenge your students with exam-style questions that are crafted by an experienced author team to maximise exam success.

Engage your students with questions that contain updated data and stimulus, so they apply their skills to real-world situations.

Meet your expert author team

Rob Malpeli
Amanda Telford
Rachael Whittle
Mark Corrie
Monique Sharp

Rob Malpeli

Rob Malpeli is based at The Knox School, Victoria. Rob works across multiple schools throughout Victoria, but also other states and he has been a leading light in senior physical education for over 30 years. His texts and resources are used in Victoria, NSW, Queensland, Western Australia and New Zealand. Rob has led professional learning sessions in HPE for teachers across multiple states over the last 20 years. He has been involved in curriculum benchmarking, focus groups that investigate curriculum improvements as well as being a member of previous study design panel.

Amanda Telford

Professor Amanda Telford (PhD) is a teacher and researcher in health and physical education, wellbeing, physical activity and educational leadership within the National School of Education, Faculty of Education and Arts at ACU. Amanda has over two decades experience in senior learning and teaching leadership roles as a former secondary teacher and academic across four universities including: Associate Dean Education (Learning & Teaching) Deputy Head of School (Learning & Teaching), Interim Associate Dean (Partnerships), Course Co-ordinator for the Master of Education and Director/program manager of Health and Physical Education teacher education degrees. Amanda is a multi- award-winning teacher, researcher and author, she has co-authored over 100 learning and teaching publications including over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 50 textbooks and book chapters used nationally and internationally at secondary and tertiary level. Amanda’s has collaborated on more than 45 research projects (over 3 million dollars of grants) with a learning and teaching, physical activity and/or wellbeing focus. As a Cofounder and Codirector of Peak Phys Ed with Rob Malpeli Amanda has been the Conference director of the Discovery Health and Physical Education Conferences since 2009 supporting thousands of teachers nationally.

Rachael Whittle

Rachael Whittle is a highly respected educator with extensive experience in the development of VCE Physical Education curriculum and has vast teaching experience in both secondary and tertiary education settings. Her expertise is in curriculum, pedagogy and assessment and she has developed and delivered teacher professional learning both nationally and internationally on senior secondary Physical Education curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. Rachael was involved in the development and assessment of high stakes examinations for VCE Physical Education in Victoria for almost 20 years. Her research focus for her doctoral studies focused on influences on academic performance in VCE Physical Education.

Mark Corrie

Mark Corrie is the Assistant Principal at Scoresby Secondary College where he continues to teach VCE Physical Education. He has been a Physical Education exam assessor for over 30 years. A respected presenter at numerous conferences for both teachers and students throughout the state, Mark was also a member of the VCAA review board that developed the previous (2017-24) and current study designs (2025-2029) for VCE Physical education.

Monique Sharp

Monique Sharp is currently Head of Health and Physical Education at Melbourne Girls Grammar School. She has taught VCE PE for over 10 years and is an experienced assessor. Monique spent two years working in an exercise physiology laboratory and RTO administering laboratory tests such as the VO2 max test and working to deliver and assess Cert III and IV fitness and training. She has written chapters in textbooks for Years 7-10 in the NSW syllabus. She has delivered lectures and created support material for a variety of support organisations including ACHPER in the VCE space.