Key Details
Course Area:
Sport
Student Type:
14 - 16 options
Course Type:
Full-time FE course
Start Date:
Monday 1st September 2025
Duration:
1 year
Location:
High Pavement Sixth Form
Course code:
C055007 / Q055008
Course Introduction
This course is perfect if you are aged 14-16 and interested in pursuing further studies in sport and a career in the sporting sector.
During the course you will learn about the human body and how our body works to help us reach peak performance.
A passion for sport and an interest in exploring the different areas of sport including health, fitness, performance, coaching and sports science is essential
If you are ready to progress quickly to further sports studies and thrive in a fast-paced environment, then this course could be for you.
You will learn about different aspects of the sports industry, from fitness training, understanding how the body works and preparing to coach a range of sports activities.
You can expect to study sport in a vocational setting where your study combines classroom based learning with practical consolidation. You will develop transferable and sector-related skills, covering communication, working with others, problem solving, managing information and self-management and development, as well as sector-related functional skills.
Course Information
- Pearson BTEC Level 1 Introductory Certificate in Sport
- AQA Entry Level Certificate in Maths
- AQA Entry Level Certificate in English
- ASDAN Personal Development Programme (Bronze)
Students must be electively home educated.
Assessment of this subject is split between your development of core skills and sector-specific skills.
Core skills units which reflect the skills and behaviours needed to progress to further study.
Sector units containing sector-specific content to enable you to develop sector-specific skills and some knowledge to support progression to the next stage of vocational learning.
All your assessment of this course will be completed internally and majority of it completed through practical activities, including:
- Explore techniques to improve own organisational skills.
- Review the use of techniques to improve own organisational skills.
- Explore the skills and behaviours needed to meet personal progression goal.
- Produce a progression plan to meet intended progression goal.
- Carry out tests to measure the effects of exercise on the body.
- Manage information and communicate tests results.
- Planning a training session that meets specific needs.
- Demonstrating communication skills in the delivery of a training session to meet specific needs.
- Coach a sport skill to others
- Demonstrate clear communication and positive attitude when coaching a sports skill to others.
