Sports Studies

Course summary

This qualification develops students’ knowledge, understanding and skills of the essentials of Sport and Physical Activity. How will I be taught? Oral work: Students engage in class discussions, debates, seminars, tutorials and presentations. Independent study: Our students are encouraged to actively seek out academic articles and wider reading which is reflected upon and discussed in class. Students complete Prep work before their lessons so that they can think deeply in their lessons and access challenging academic works. Written work: Students will produce coursework, practice exam questions, interpret research and data, and evaluate all against the effects on sport and performance. Practical work: Student will demonstrate and evaluate their performance in team sports, individual sports, OAA, officiating, running sports events and fitness testing. What career opportunities does this open up? Units include Performance analysis in sport and exercise, Sports injuries and rehabilitation and Organization of sports events. The type of job roles this pathway could lead to are Multi-Sports Coach, Activity Leader or Assistant Sports Coach; so the knowledge, understanding and skills learners will need to achieve in this pathway will include how teams are formed and different leadership approaches to suit them, different types of practice methods that can be used within sport to improve performance and how to safely set up and run individual coaching activities or larger-scale sporting events. Other skills which will be developed include planning and organization, communication and adaptability.