Subject Information

Our Sports Leadership qualifications are specially designed on an easy to administer framework. The qualifications are designed to use sport and physical activity to help young people develop and hone their leadership skills whilst helping themselves and others stay physically active.

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Young people undertaking a qualification in Sports Leadership will learn and demonstrate important life skills such as effective communication and organisation whilst learning to lead basic physical activities to younger people, their peers, older generations and within the community.

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The courses involve both guided & peer-to-peer learning and supervised leadership to ensure that learners have all the skills they need to lead basic physical activities to other people.

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This qualification is designed for learners with an interest in health and fitness, coaching and playing an active healthy lifestyle in sport. It will give students an insight into coaching, fitness and building subject knowledge into sports.

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This qualification is equivalent to a GCSE qualification D-G or 3-1 for level 1. For level 2 this is equivalent to a C at GCSE or 4 on the 1-9 system.

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Throughout the delivery of this qualification, the following core areas and transferable skills should be evident:

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• communication

• problem-solving skills

• research skills

• planning

• health and safety