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This course offers exciting content that focuses on key areas within sport, outdoor adventure, and public services.You will have opportunities to participate in various activities like climbing, mountain biking, and water-based activities. Alongside these, you will also participate in several team and individual sports like football, basketball, netball, badminton,and tennis. Your leadership skills will be developed through the challenge of preparing and leading outdoor activities and an expedition.
You will also work on your physical fitness, this will support your understanding of the fitness requirements for entry to the public services, and more broadly in terms of general health and wellbeing benefits. The range of skills gained and developed on the course will allow you to progress to any of our Level 3 courses. From there, you will have the opportunity to explore employment, university degrees, and Apprenticeships.
There will be a focus on gaining real- life experience by undertaking work placements to understand more about the opportunities and further study this course could lead to. A large part of this course focuses on skill progression within a range of activities but will also require a level of commitment to advance your own development outside of the normal college time. In turn, this will help provide you with the skills needed to secure a job once completing your studies.
Five GCSEs at grade 3 or above, including Mathematics or English.
On this one-year course you will study the following units: • Anatomy and physiology for exercise • Participating in sport • Outdoor and adventurous activities • Leading an outdoor activity session • Psychology for sports performance • Expedition experience • Development of personal fitness through training
There will be a mix of both theory and practical work. This will take place on-campus and at various locations in the local area. There will also be several day trips to facilities further afield when required.
The course is 100% coursework completed through a mixture of assignments, class activities, practical tasks, discussions,and presentations. In addition, you will sit assessments during and at the end of the year as part of a resit programme in either English Language or Mathematics.
This balanced programme offers opportunities to progress onto the Level 3 courses in sport or public services.
