Physical Education

Course summary

This course builds on experiences from GCSE to enhance your knowledge and increase your understanding of the factors that affect performance and participation in physical education. PE offers you the opportunity to experience a variety of different practical roles including, performer, coach and official, as well as looking into the physiological and psychological effects sport can have on the performer. PE is a two year course. There are terminal exams at the end of year 13. This makes up 70% of the A Level with the remaining 30% non-exam assessment (practical) with students assessed in the role of player/performer or coach. Applied Anatomy and Exercise Physiology – musculo-skeletal system, cardiorespiratory system, neuromuscular system and energy systems. Biomechanical movement – biomechanical principles, levers, analysis of movement. Sports acquisition – skill continuums and transfer of skills, principles and theories of learning and performance, skill classification and use of guidance and feedback. Sports psychology – factors that can influence an individual in physical activities, dynamics of a group/team and how they can influence the performance of an individual and or team and goal setting. Sport and Society – the factors leading to the emergence of modern sport through to the globalisation of sport in the 21st century and the impact of sport on society and of society on sport. The Role of Technology in Physical Activity and Sport – the use of technology to analyse physical activity and sport.