Sports Studies

Course summary

The study of sport particularly encourages the development of skills and behaviors such as team working, leadership, performance analysis, resilience, evaluation, analysis and synthesizing concepts. These skills are developed through the variety of approaches to teaching and learning enabled by the specification. This is an interesting and challenging learning experience, linking key sporting ideas with practical performance and gaining insight into the relationships they have with each other. There is also the development of transferable skills including: decision making, psychological understanding of people, independent thinking, problem solving and analytical skills as well as thinking and acting under pressure. The study of BTEC Sport opens up a range of possibilities for further study and careers associated with the subject.