Year 10 

Knowledge focus

• Originality (Pathway)
• Football (Invasion)
• Handball (Invasion)
• Trampolining (Aesthetic)
• Badminton (Net Wall)

Key skills

Football:

• Managing Spaces
• Switching Play
• Attacking Strategies to Score
• Defensive Pressing

Handball:

• Passing and receiving
• Game based shooting (standing, jump and dive shot)
• Attacking and defending combinations

Trampolining:

• Safety recap, basic shapes and seat landings
• Swivel Hips
•  Front and back landings/ somersaults

Badminton:

• Serving tactics
• Doubles play/tactics
• Attacking play
• Defensive play
• Doubles Competitions

Assessment

• Heart/Head/Hands
• Teacher observation
• Student observation
• Competitive games
• Teacher Q&A
• Effort Levels

Key Vocabulary 

• Originality - Demonstrating creativity to apply techniques and tactics in game situations to overcome opponents.

Year 11

Knowledge focus

• Originality (Pathway)
• Football (Invasion)
• Handball (Invasion)
• Trampolining (Aesthetic)
• Badminton (Net Wall)

Key skills

Football:

• Managing Spaces
• Switching Play
• Attacking Strategies to Score
• Defensive Pressing

Handball:

• Passing and receiving
• Game based shooting (standing, jump and dive shot)
• Attacking and defending combinations

Trampolining:

• Safety recap, basic shapes and seat landings
• Swivel Hips
•  Front and back landings/ somersaults

Badminton:

• Serving tactics
• Doubles play/tactics
• Attacking play
• Defensive play
• Doubles Competitions

Assessment

• Heart/Head/Hands
• Teacher observation
• Student observation
• Competitive games
• Teacher Q&A
• Effort Levels

Key Vocabulary 

• Originality - Demonstrating creativity to apply techniques and tactics in game situations to overcome opponents.

Year 10 

Knowledge focus

• Originality
• Table Tennis (Net Wall)
• Badminton (Net Wall)
• Basketball (Invasion/Net Wall)
• Fitness (HRF)

Key Skills

Table Tennis:

• Serving and Scoring
• Attacking Play
• Defensive Play
• Attacking and Defensive Footwork
• Tournament Organisation

Badminton:

• Serving tactics
• Doubles play/tactics
• Attacking play
• Defensive play
• Doubles Competitions

Basketball:

• Defensive Approach
• Attacking Approach
• Attacking – Fast Break
• Competitive Game Scenarios

Fitness:

• Fitness Testing – Carousel
• Training Programme Creation
• Applying the Principles of Training

Assessment

• Heart/Head/Hands
• Teacher observation
• Student observation
• Competitive games
• Teacher Q&A
• Effort Levels

Key Vocabulary 

• Originality - Demonstrating creativity to apply techniques and tactics in game situations to overcome opponents.

Year 10 

Knowledge focus

• Originality
• Table Tennis (Net Wall)
• Badminton (Net Wall)
• Basketball (Invasion/Net Wall)
• Fitness (HRF)

Key Skills

Table Tennis:

• Serving and Scoring
• Attacking Play
• Defensive Play
• Attacking and Defensive Footwork
• Tournament Organisation

Badminton:

• Serving tactics
• Doubles play/tactics
• Attacking play
• Defensive play
• Doubles Competitions

Basketball:

• Defensive Approach
• Attacking Approach
• Attacking – Fast Break
• Competitive Game Scenarios

Fitness:

• Fitness Testing – Carousel
• Training Programme Creation
• Applying the Principles of Training

Assessment

• Heart/Head/Hands
• Teacher observation
• Student observation
• Competitive games
• Teacher Q&A
• Effort Levels

Key Vocabulary 

• Originality - Demonstrating creativity to apply techniques and tactics in game situations to overcome opponents.

Year 10 

Knowledge focus

• Originality
• Athletics (Field and Track)
• Tennis (Net Wall)
• Cricket (Striking and Fielding)
• Softball (Striking and Fielding)
• Rounders (Striking and Fielding)

Assessment

Athletics:

• Shotput
• Javelin
• Discus
• 1500m
• 800m
• 400m
• 200m
• 100m
• 4 x 100m Relay

Tennis:

• Recap on basic strokes
• Singles Game Play
• Doubles game play
• Singles and Doubles league.

Softball:

• Positional play – Catching and throwing tactics
• Batting Tactics - Strategies to Score
• Fielding tactics – to reduce the score and get people out.
• Advanced base fielding tactics and change in field.

Rounders:

• Positional Play
• Batting tactics
• Fielding tactics
• Advanced Post fielding

Assessment

• Heart/Head/Hands
• Teacher observation
• Student observation
• Competitive games
• Teacher Q&A
• Effort Levels

Key Vocabulary 

• Originality - Demonstrating creativity to apply techniques and tactics in game situations to overcome opponents.

Year 11 

Year 10 

Knowledge focus

• Component 1 Preparing Participants to Take Part in Sport and Physical Activity

Key Skills 

• Provisions in Sport – Private/Public and Voluntary
• Barriers to Sporting Participation for a range of different individuals
• How to overcome or mitigate barriers to sporting participation
• Technological advances in sporting equipment
• How to warm up effectively and prepare our bodies for exercise
• Be and to plan and deliver an effective 3 part warm up

Assessment 

PSA built around:

• Task 1 - Produce a written response to choose two physical activities
• Task 2-Produce a written report describing and explaining the barriers to physical activity and the methods that could be used to overcome them.
• Task 3- Produce a presentation about the types of equipment and technology that you would need participate in one physical activity of your choice from the following list: Sport/outdoor activity/physical fitness activity

• Task 4 - Produce a written response of a plan for a warm-up to prepare for participation in your chosen physical activity, giving reasons for your choices of activities for each component of the warm-up.

  • A warm-up plan that includes a pulse raiser, mobiliser and preparation stretches for the selected participant
  • An account to justify the choice of activities in each component of the warm-up related to the needs of the participant, the responses of the cardiorespiratory system and musculoskeletal system.
  • A warm-up plan that includes a pulse raiser, mobiliser and preparation stretches for the selected participant
  • An account to justify the choice of activities in each component of the warm-up related to the needs of the participant, the responses of the cardiorespiratory system and musculoskeletal system.
• Task 5 – Provide video evidence of you demonstrating that you are able to deliver your planned warm up to the participants:
  • Practical evidence including demonstrations and audio of you delivering a warm-up to a group of participants to include: pulse raiser / mobiliser / preparation stretches
  • Practical evidence including audio of you supporting participants to take part in a warm-up for your chosen physical activity using key teaching points to support good practice.

Key Vocabulary 

• Cardiorespiratory
• Musculoskeletal
• Mobiliser
• Synovial joint
• Synovial fluid
• Muscle groups
• Types of stretches
• simple/compound/static/dynamic
• Technology
• Clothing
• Protection
• Facilities
• Equipment
• Disabilities
• Officiating
• Performance
• Social
• Mental
• Physical
• Public
• Private
• Voluntary
• Age
• Disability
• Race/Culture
• Gender
• Adolescents
• Weight Bearing
• Asthma
• Diabetes
• Hypertension
• CHD

Year 11 

Knowledge focus

• Component 2 -Taking Part and Improving Other Participants Sporting Performance

Key Skills 

• Components of fitness Learning outcome A: Understand how different components of fitness are used in different physical activities
• Participating in sport Learning outcome B: Be able to participate in sport and understand the roles and responsibilities of officials
• Officiating in sport Learning outcome B: Be able to participate in sport and understand the roles and responsibilities of officials
• Improving participants’ sporting skill (written) Learning outcome -Demonstrate ways to improve participants sporting techniques
• Improving participants’ sporting skill (video)

Assessment 

PSA built around:

• Task 1 - how each of the components of fitness will be used during participation in the chosen team sport
  • The impact of each of these components of fitness on performance in the chosen team sport.
• Task 2- Video clips of practical demonstrations of:
  • At least three sports skills being performed in isolated practices
  • Sports skills and strategies being performed in a competitive situation
• Task 3: A presentation including an account of:
  • The different roles and responsibilities of officials in your selected sport
  • Rules and regulations around: – the playing area and – non-adherence to the rules when taking part in your selected sport
  • Actions the officials would be expected to take to ensure the rules associated with: – the playing area and – non-adherence to the rules when taking part in your selected sport.
• Task 4 (Two parts): A written response of:
  • a plan of the drills and conditioned practices to develop participants’ techniques for your chosen sports skill
  • An account to justify the choice of activities in each drill and conditioned practice related to the requirements of the sports skill in competitive situations.
  • Video footage should include: practical evidence of you demonstrating the techniques required to perform the chosen sports skill using key teaching points to support good practice
  • Practical demonstrations of your choice of drills for the group of participants to take part in to improve your chosen sports skill
  • Practical evidence of you supporting participants to take part in your choice of drills to improve your chosen sports skill

Key Vocabulary 

• Components of fitness
• Application

Physical fitness:

• Aerobic Endurance
• Muscular Endurance
• Flexibility
• Speed
• Muscular strength
• Body Composition
• Optimal performance
• Components of fitness

Skill Related fitness:

• Agility
• Balance
• Coordination
• Power
• Reaction Time

Year 10 

Knowledge focus

• Component 1 Preparing Participants to Take Part in Sport and Physical Activity

Key Skills 

• Provisions in Sport – Private/Public and Voluntary
• Barriers to Sporting Participation for a range of different individuals
• How to overcome or mitigate barriers to sporting participation
• Technological advances in sporting equipment
• How to warm up effectively and prepare our bodies for exercise
• Be able to plan and deliver an effective 3 part warm up

Assessment 

PSA built around:

• Task 1 - Produce a written response to choose two physical activities
• Task 2-Produce a written report describing and explaining the barriers to physical activity and the methods that could be used to overcome them.
• Task 3- Produce a presentation about the types of equipment and technology that you would need participate in one physical activity of your choice from the following list: Sport/outdoor activity/physical fitness activity

• Task 4 - Produce a written response of a plan for a warm-up to prepare for participation in your chosen physical activity, giving reasons for your choices of activities for each component of the warm-up.

  • A warm-up plan that includes a pulse raiser, mobiliser and preparation stretches for the selected participant
  • An account to justify the choice of activities in each component of the warm-up related to the needs of the participant, the responses of the cardiorespiratory system and musculoskeletal system.
  • A warm-up plan that includes a pulse raiser, mobiliser and preparation stretches for the selected participant
  • An account to justify the choice of activities in each component of the warm-up related to the needs of the participant, the responses of the cardiorespiratory system and musculoskeletal system.
• Task 5 – Provide video evidence of you demonstrating that you are able to deliver your planned warm up to the participants:
  • Practical evidence including demonstrations and audio of you delivering a warm-up to a group of participants to include: pulse raiser / mobiliser / preparation stretches
  • Practical evidence including audio of you supporting participants to take part in a warm-up for your chosen physical activity using key teaching points to support good practice.

Key Vocabulary 

• Cardiorespiratory
• Musculoskeletal
• Mobiliser
• Synovial joint
• Synovial fluid
• Muscle groups
• Types of stretches
• simple/compound/static/dynamic
• Technology
• Clothing
• Protection
• Facilities
• Equipment
• Disabilities
• Officiating
• Performance
• Social
• Mental
• Physical
• Public
• Private
• Voluntary
• Age
• Disability
• Race/Culture
• Gender
• Adolescents
• Weight Bearing
• Asthma
• Diabetes
• Hypertension
• CHD

Year 11

Knowledge focus

• Component 3

Key Skills 

• A1 – Explore the importance of fitness for sports performance 
• B1 - Understand the importance of fitness testing and requirements for administration of each fitness test 
• C1 - Requirements for each of the following fitness training methods. 
• D1 Personal information to aid fitness training programme design 

Assessment 

External Examination- summer exam series. 

Year 10 

Knowledge focus

• Component 2 -Taking Part and Improving Other Participants Sporting Performance 

Key Skills 

• Components of fitness Learning outcome A: Understand how different components of fitness are used in different physical activities 
• Participating in sport Learning outcome B: Be able to participate in sport and understand the roles and responsibilities of officials 
• Officiating in sport Learning outcome B: Be able to participate in sport and understand the roles and responsibilities of officials 
• Improving participants’ sporting skill (written) Learning outcome C: Demonstrate ways to improve participants sporting techniques 
• Improving participants’ sporting skill (video) Learning outcome C: Demonstrate ways to improve participants sporting techniques 

Assessment 

PSA built around:

• Task 1 - how each of the components of fitness will be used during participation in the chosen team sport
  • The impact of each of these components of fitness on performance in the chosen team sport. 
• Task 2- Video clips of practical demonstrations of:
  • At least three sports skills being performed in isolated practices
  • Sports skills and strategies being performed in a competitive situation 
• Task 3: A presentation including an account of:
  • The different roles and responsibilities of officials in your selected sport
  • Rules and regulations around: – the playing area and – non-adherence to the rules when taking part in your selected sport
  • Actions the officials would be expected to take to ensure the rules associated with: – the playing area and – non-adherence to the rules when taking part in your selected sport. 
• Task 4 (Two parts): A written response of:
  • A plan of the drills and conditioned practices to develop participants’ techniques for your chosen sports skill
  • An account to justify the choice of activities in each drill and conditioned practice related to the requirements of the sports skill in competitive situations.  
• Video footage should include:
  • Practical evidence of you demonstrating the techniques required to perform the chosen sports skill using key teaching points to support good practice
  • Practical demonstrations of your choice of drills for the group of participants to take part in to improve your chosen sports skill
  • Practical evidence of you supporting participants to take part in your choice of drills to improve your chosen sports skill 

Key Vocabulary 

• Components of fitness
• Application
• Physical fitness
• Aerobic Endurance
• Muscular Endurance
• Flexibility
• Speed
• Muscular strength
• Body Composition
• Optimal performance
• Skill Related fitness: Agility, Balance, Coordination, Power, Reaction Time 

Year 11

Knowledge focus

• Component 3

Key Skills 

• A1 – Explore the importance of fitness for sports performance 
• B1 - Understand the importance of fitness testing and requirements for administration of each fitness test 
• C1 - Requirements for each of the following fitness training methods. 
• D1 Personal information to aid fitness training programme design 

Assessment 

External Examination- summer exam series. 

Key Vocabulary 

• Body Composition
• Aerobic Endurance
• Muscular Endurance
• Flexibility
• Muscular Strength
• Reaction
• Balance
• Coordination
• Power
• Agility
• Frequency
• Intensity
• Borg scale
• Aerobic Endurance
• RPE
• Max HR
• Progressive overload
• specificity
• Aerobic Endurance
• Training principles
• Adaptation
• Reversibility
• capillaries
• Muscular endurance
• variation
• Intensity
• Heart rate zones
• Target zones
• Training thresholds
• Multi Stage fitness test
• Harvard Step test
• Yo yo test
• 12 minute Cooper tests
• Methods of training: Aerobic Endurance., Continuous Training, Fartlek Training, Interval Training, Circuit Training, Flexibility Training, Static and Passive stretching
• PNF: proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation
• Agility training
• Plyometrics
• Power training
• Explosive
• Concentric action
• Eccentric action
• Performance related pay, Voluntary sector, Par – q, Lifestyle, Screening, Client 

Year 12 

Knowledge focus

• Unit 2 – Fitness Training and Programming 
• Unit 3 – Professional Development in the Sports Industry 

Key Skills 

Unit 2: 

• -Lifestyle factors and there effect on health and wellbeing. 
• -Screening Processes for training programme 
• -Nutritional Guidance 
• -Training methods for different components of fitness 
• -Training programme design  

Unit 3 

• Understand the career and job opportunities in the sports industry  

Assessment 

• Unit 2 – External Exam – Start of January 

Key Vocabulary 

• Ability
• Accountability
• Adaptation
• Aerobic
• Aggression
• Alveoli
• Altitude
• Anaerobic
• Appropriate
• Arousal
• Attributes
• Axes
• Barriers
• Body composition
• Bradycardia
• Cholesterol
• Commercialisation
• Considerations
• Credibility
• Data
• Deception
• Dehydration
• Endurance
• Energy
• Etiquette
• Extrovert
• Fartlek
• Fitness
• Frequency
• Function
• Goals
• Health
• Heart rate
• Hooliganism
• Hypertrophy
• Intensity
• Introvert
• Leader
• Levers
• Limitations
• Mechanical advantage
• Media
• Mobiliser
• Obesity
• Officials
• Osteoporosis
• Oxygen debt
• Perceived exertion
• Planes
• Progressive overload
• Qualitative
• Quantitative
• Recovery
• Re-distribution
• Resources
• Risk assessments
• Rules
• Sedentary
• Set plays
• Skill
• Somatotypes
• Sponsorship
• Synovial fluid
• Tactics
• Tendons
• Threshold
• Training threshold

Year 13

Knowledge focus

Unit 1: 

• Cardiovascular System 
• Energy System 
• Muscular System 
• Respiratory System 
• Skeletal System 

Key Skills 

Unit 1: 

• Cardiovascular System 
• Energy System 
• Muscular System 
• Respiratory System 
• Skeletal System 

Assessment 

• Unit 1 – External Exam – Start of January

Key Vocabulary 

• Ability
• Accountability
• Adaptation
• Aerobic
• Aggression
• Alveoli
• Anaerobic
• Appropriate
• Arousal
• Attributes
• Axes
• Barriers
• Body composition
• Bradycardia
• Cholesterol
• Commercialisation
• Considerations
• Credibility
• Data
• Deception
• Dehydration
• Endurance
• Energy
• Etiquette
• Extrovert
• Fartlek
• Fitness
• Flexibility (not in list — skipping)
• Frequency
• Function
• Goals
• Health
• Heart rate
• Hooliganism
• Hypertrophy
• Intensity
• Introvert
• Leader
• Levers
• Limitations
• Mechanical advantage
• Media
• Mobiliser
• Obesity
• Officials
• Osteoporosis
• Oxygen debt
• Perceived exertion
• Planes
• Progressive overload
• Qualitative
• Quantitative
• Recovery
• Redistribution
• Resources
• Risk assessments
• Rules
• Sedentary
• Set plays
• Skill
• Somatotypes
• Sponsorship
• Synovial fluid
• Tactics
• Tendons
• Threshold
• Training threshold
• Altitude
• Endurance 

Year 12 

Knowledge focus

• Unit 2 – Fitness Training and Programming 
• Unit 3 – Professional Development in the Sports Industry 
• Unit 5 - Application of Fitness Testing 
• Unit 22: Investigating Business and Sport and the Active Leisure Industry 

Key Skills 

Unit 2: 

• -Lifestyle factors and there effect on health and wellbeing. 
• -Screening Processes for training programme 
• -Nutritional Guidance 
• -Training methods for different components of fitness 
• -Training programme design  

Unit 3: 

• -Understand the career and job opportunities in the sports industry  

Unit 5: 

• - A: Understand the principles of fitness testing 

Unit 22:  

• -Organisation of Sport and Leisure Businesses 
• -Business Models 

Assessment 

• Unit 2 – External Exam – Start of January 

Key Vocabulary 

• Ability
• Accountability
• Adaptation
• Aerobic
• Aggression
• Alveoli
• Altitude
• Anaerobic
• Appropriate
• Arousal
• Attributes
• Axes
• Barriers
• Body composition
• Bradycardia
• Cholesterol
• Commercialisation
• Considerations
• Credibility
• Data
• Deception
• Dehydration
• Endurance
• Energy
• Etiquette
• Extrovert
• Fartlek
• Fitness
• Frequency
• Function
• Goals
• Health
• Heart rate
• Hooliganism
• Hypertrophy
• Intensity
• Introvert
• Leader
• Levers
• Limitations
• Mechanical advantage
• Media
• Mobiliser
• Obesity
• Officials
• Osteoporosis
• Oxygen debt
• Perceived exertion
• Planes
• Progressive overload
• Qualitative
• Quantitative
• Recovery
• Re-distribution
• Resources
• Risk assessments
• Rules
• Sedentary
• Set plays
• Skill
• Somatotypes
• Sponsorship
• Synovial fluid
• Tactics
• Tendons
• Threshold
• Training threshold

Year 13

Knowledge focus

• Unit 1 – Anatomy and Physiology 
• Unit 6 – Sports Psychology 
• Unit 23 – Skill Acquisition in Sport 

Key Skills 

Unit 1: 

• Cardiovascular System 
• Energy System 
• Muscular System 
• Respiratory System 
• Skeletal System 

Unit 6: 

• A: Understand how personality, motivation 
• and competitive pressure can affect sport performance 
• B: Examine the impact of group dynamics in team sports and its effect on performance 

Unit 23: 

• A: Investigate the nature of skilled performance 
• B: Examine ways that sports performers process information for skilled performance 

Assessment 

• Unit 1 – External Exam – Start of January

Key Vocabulary 

• Ability
• Accountability
• Adaptation
• Aerobic
• Aggression
• Alveoli
• Anaerobic
• Appropriate
• Arousal
• Attributes
• Axes
• Barriers
• Body composition
• Bradycardia
• Cholesterol
• Commercialisation
• Considerations
• Credibility
• Data
• Deception
• Dehydration
• Endurance
• Energy
• Etiquette
• Extrovert
• Fartlek
• Fitness
• Flexibility (not in list — skipping)
• Frequency
• Function
• Goals
• Health
• Heart rate
• Hooliganism
• Hypertrophy
• Intensity
• Introvert
• Leader
• Levers
• Limitations
• Mechanical advantage
• Media
• Mobiliser
• Obesity
• Officials
• Osteoporosis
• Oxygen debt
• Perceived exertion
• Planes
• Progressive overload
• Qualitative
• Quantitative
• Recovery
• Redistribution
• Resources
• Risk assessments
• Rules
• Sedentary
• Set plays
• Skill
• Somatotypes
• Sponsorship
• Synovial fluid
• Tactics
• Tendons
• Threshold
• Training threshold
• Altitude
• Endurance 

Year 12 

Knowledge focus

• Unit 3 – Professional Development in the Sports Industry 
• Unit 4 – Sports Leadership 

Key Skills 

Unit 3: 

B: Explore own skills using a skills audit to inform a career development action plan 

Unit 4: 

A: Understand the roles, qualities and characteristics of an effective sports leader 

Assessment 

• Unit 3 and Unit 4 – Pearsons set assignment briefs 

Key Vocabulary 

• Ability
• Accountability
• Adaptation
• Aerobic
• Aggression
• Alveoli
• Altitude
• Anaerobic
• Appropriate
• Arousal
• Attributes
• Axes
• Barriers
• Body composition
• Bradycardia
• Cholesterol
• Commercialisation
• Considerations
• Credibility
• Data
• Deception
• Dehydration
• Endurance
• Energy
• Etiquette
• Extrovert
• Fartlek
• Fitness
• Frequency
• Function
• Goals
• Health
• Heart rate
• Hooliganism
• Hypertrophy
• Intensity
• Introvert
• Leader
• Levers
• Limitations
• Mechanical advantage
• Media
• Mobiliser
• Obesity
• Officials
• Osteoporosis
• Oxygen debt
• Perceived exertion
• Planes
• Progressive overload
• Qualitative
• Quantitative
• Recovery
• Re-distribution
• Resources
• Risk assessments
• Rules
• Sedentary
• Set plays
• Skill
• Somatotypes
• Sponsorship
• Synovial fluid
• Tactics
• Tendons
• Threshold
• Training threshold

Year 13

Knowledge focus

• Unit 4 – Sports Leadership 

Key Skills 

Unit 4: 

B: Examine the importance of psychological factors and their link with effective leadership 

C: Explore an effective leadership style when leading a team during sport and exercise activities. 

Assessment 

• Unit 4 – Pearsons set assignment briefs 

Key Vocabulary 

• Ability
• Accountability
• Adaptation
• Aerobic
• Aggression
• Alveoli
• Altitude
• Anaerobic
• Appropriate
• Arousal
• Attributes
• Axes
• Barriers
• Body composition
• Bradycardia
• Cholesterol
• Commercialisation
• Considerations
• Credibility
• Data
• Deception
• Dehydration
• Endurance
• Energy
• Etiquette
• Extrovert
• Fartlek
• Fitness
• Frequency
• Function
• Goals
• Health
• Heart rate
• Hooliganism
• Hypertrophy
• Intensity
• Introvert
• Leader
• Levers
• Limitations
• Mechanical advantage
• Media
• Mobiliser
• Obesity
• Officials
• Osteoporosis
• Oxygen debt
• Perceived exertion
• Planes
• Progressive overload
• Qualitative
• Quantitative
• Recovery
• Re-distribution
• Resources
• Risk assessments
• Rules
• Sedentary
• Set plays
• Skill
• Somatotypes
• Sponsorship
• Synovial fluid
• Tactics
• Tendons
• Threshold
• Training threshold

Year 12 

Knowledge focus

• Unit 3 – Professional Development in the Sports Industry 
• Unit 4 – Sports Leadership 
• Unit 5 - Application of Fitness Testing 
• Unit 22: Investigating Business and Sport and the Active Leisure Industry 
• Unit 7 – Practical Sports Performance  

Key Skills 

Unit 3: 

• B: Explore own skills using a skills audit to inform a career development action plan 

Unit 4: 

• A: Understand the roles, qualities and characteristics of an effective sports leader 

Unit 5: 

• B: Explore fitness tests for different components of fitness 
• C: Undertake evaluation and feedback of fitness tests results. 

Unit 22: 

• Marketing 
• Financing 
• Human Resources 

Unit 7: 

• A: Examine National Governing Body rules/laws and regulations for selected sports competitions 
• B: Examine the skills, techniques and tactics required to perform in selected sports 

Assessment 

• Unit 3 and Unit 4 – Pearsons set assignment briefs 
• Unit 22 – External Exam - June 

Key Vocabulary 

• Ability
• Accountability
• Adaptation
• Aerobic
• Aggression
• Alveoli
• Altitude
• Anaerobic
• Appropriate
• Arousal
• Attributes
• Axes
• Barriers
• Body composition
• Bradycardia
• Cholesterol
• Commercialisation
• Considerations
• Credibility
• Data
• Deception
• Dehydration
• Endurance
• Energy
• Etiquette
• Extrovert
• Fartlek
• Fitness
• Frequency
• Function
• Goals
• Health
• Heart rate
• Hooliganism
• Hypertrophy
• Intensity
• Introvert
• Leader
• Levers
• Limitations
• Mechanical advantage
• Media
• Mobiliser
• Obesity
• Officials
• Osteoporosis
• Oxygen debt
• Perceived exertion
• Planes
• Progressive overload
• Qualitative
• Quantitative
• Recovery
• Re-distribution
• Resources
• Risk assessments
• Rules
• Sedentary
• Set plays
• Skill
• Somatotypes
• Sponsorship
• Synovial fluid
• Tactics
• Tendons
• Threshold
• Training threshold

Year 13

Knowledge focus

• Unit 4 – Sports Leadership 
• Unit 6 – Sports Psychology 
• Unit 23 – Skill Acquisition in Sport 
• Unit 7 – Practical Sports Performance 

Key Skills 

Unit 4: 

• B: Examine the importance of psychological factors and their link with effective leadership 
• C: Explore an effective leadership style when leading a team during sport and exercise activities. 

Unit 6: 

• B: Examine the impact of group dynamics in team sports and its effect on performance 
• C: Explore psychological skills training programmes designed to improve performance 

Unit 23: 

• C: Explore theories of teaching and learning in sport 
• D: Carry out teaching and learning strategies for sports skills 

Unit 7: 

• C: Develop skills, techniques and tactics for sporting activity in order to meet sport aims 
• D: Reflect on own practical performance using selected assessment methods 

Assessment 

• Pearsons set assignment briefs 

Key Vocabulary 

• Ability
• Accountability
• Adaptation
• Aerobic
• Aggression
• Alveoli
• Anaerobic
• Appropriate
• Arousal
• Attributes
• Axes
• Barriers
• Body composition
• Bradycardia
• Cholesterol
• Commercialisation
• Considerations
• Credibility
• Data
• Deception
• Dehydration
• Endurance
• Energy
• Etiquette
• Extrovert
• Fartlek
• Fitness
• Flexibility (not in list — skipping)
• Frequency
• Function
• Goals
• Health
• Heart rate
• Hooliganism
• Hypertrophy
• Intensity
• Introvert
• Leader
• Levers
• Limitations
• Mechanical advantage
• Media
• Mobiliser
• Obesity
• Officials
• Osteoporosis
• Oxygen debt
• Perceived exertion
• Planes
• Progressive overload
• Qualitative
• Quantitative
• Recovery
• Redistribution
• Resources
• Risk assessments
• Rules
• Sedentary
• Set plays
• Skill
• Somatotypes
• Sponsorship
• Synovial fluid
• Tactics
• Tendons
• Threshold
• Training threshold
• Altitude
• Endurance 

Year 12 

Knowledge focus

• Unit 3 – Professional Development in the Sports Industry 
• Unit 4 – Sports Leadership 

Key Skills 

Unit 3: 

• C: Undertake a recruitment activity to demonstrate the processes that can lead to a successful job offer in a selected career pathway  
• D: Reflect on the recruitment and selection process and your individual performance. 

Unit 4 

• B: Examine the importance of psychological factors and their link with effective leadership 

Assessment 

• Pearsons set assignment briefs 

Key Vocabulary 

• Ability
• Accountability
• Adaptation
• Aerobic
• Aggression
• Alveoli
• Altitude
• Anaerobic
• Appropriate
• Arousal
• Attributes
• Axes
• Barriers
• Body composition
• Bradycardia
• Cholesterol
• Commercialisation
• Considerations
• Credibility
• Data
• Deception
• Dehydration
• Endurance
• Energy
• Etiquette
• Extrovert
• Fartlek
• Fitness
• Frequency
• Function
• Goals
• Health
• Heart rate
• Hooliganism
• Hypertrophy
• Intensity
• Introvert
• Leader
• Levers
• Limitations
• Mechanical advantage
• Media
• Mobiliser
• Obesity
• Officials
• Osteoporosis
• Oxygen debt
• Perceived exertion
• Planes
• Progressive overload
• Qualitative
• Quantitative
• Recovery
• Re-distribution
• Resources
• Risk assessments
• Rules
• Sedentary
• Set plays
• Skill
• Somatotypes
• Sponsorship
• Synovial fluid
• Tactics
• Tendons
• Threshold
• Training threshold

Year 13

Knowledge focus

• Unit 4 – Sports Leadership 

Key Skills 

Unit 4: 

B: Examine the importance of psychological factors and their link with effective leadership 

C: Explore an effective leadership style when leading a team during sport and exercise activities. 

Assessment 

• Unit 4 – Pearsons set assignment briefs 

Key Vocabulary 

• Ability
• Accountability
• Adaptation
• Aerobic
• Aggression
• Alveoli
• Altitude
• Anaerobic
• Appropriate
• Arousal
• Attributes
• Axes
• Barriers
• Body composition
• Bradycardia
• Cholesterol
• Commercialisation
• Considerations
• Credibility
• Data
• Deception
• Dehydration
• Endurance
• Energy
• Etiquette
• Extrovert
• Fartlek
• Fitness
• Frequency
• Function
• Goals
• Health
• Heart rate
• Hooliganism
• Hypertrophy
• Intensity
• Introvert
• Leader
• Levers
• Limitations
• Mechanical advantage
• Media
• Mobiliser
• Obesity
• Officials
• Osteoporosis
• Oxygen debt
• Perceived exertion
• Planes
• Progressive overload
• Qualitative
• Quantitative
• Recovery
• Re-distribution
• Resources
• Risk assessments
• Rules
• Sedentary
• Set plays
• Skill
• Somatotypes
• Sponsorship
• Synovial fluid
• Tactics
• Tendons
• Threshold
• Training threshold

Year 12 

Knowledge focus

• Unit 3 – Professional Development in the Sports Industry 
• Unit 4 – Sports Leadership 

Key Skills 

Unit 3: 

• C: Undertake a recruitment activity to demonstrate the processes that can lead to a successful job offer in a selected career pathway  
• D: Reflect on the recruitment and selection process and your individual performance. 

Unit 4 

• B: Examine the importance of psychological factors and their link with effective leadership 

Unit 5: 

• B: Explore fitness tests for different components of fitness 
• C: Undertake evaluation and feedback of fitness tests results. 

Unit 7: 

• A: Examine National Governing Body rules/laws and regulations for selected sports competitions 
• B: Examine the skills, techniques and tactics required to perform in selected sports 

Assessment 

• Pearson set assignment briefs 

Key Vocabulary 

• Ability
• Accountability
• Adaptation
• Aerobic
• Aggression
• Alveoli
• Altitude
• Anaerobic
• Appropriate
• Arousal
• Attributes
• Axes
• Barriers
• Body composition
• Bradycardia
• Cholesterol
• Commercialisation
• Considerations
• Credibility
• Data
• Deception
• Dehydration
• Endurance
• Energy
• Etiquette
• Extrovert
• Fartlek
• Fitness
• Frequency
• Function
• Goals
• Health
• Heart rate
• Hooliganism
• Hypertrophy
• Intensity
• Introvert
• Leader
• Levers
• Limitations
• Mechanical advantage
• Media
• Mobiliser
• Obesity
• Officials
• Osteoporosis
• Oxygen debt
• Perceived exertion
• Planes
• Progressive overload
• Qualitative
• Quantitative
• Recovery
• Re-distribution
• Resources
• Risk assessments
• Rules
• Sedentary
• Set plays
• Skill
• Somatotypes
• Sponsorship
• Synovial fluid
• Tactics
• Tendons
• Threshold
• Training threshold

Year 13

Knowledge focus

• Unit 4 – Sports Leadership 
• Unit 6 – Sports Psychology 
• Unit 23 – Skill Acquisition in Sport 
• Unit 7 – Practical Sports Performance 

Key Skills 

Unit 4: 

• B: Examine the importance of psychological factors and their link with effective leadership 
• C: Explore an effective leadership style when leading a team during sport and exercise activities. 

Unit 6: 

• B: Examine the impact of group dynamics in team sports and its effect on performance 
• C: Explore psychological skills training programmes designed to improve performance 

Unit 23: 

• C: Explore theories of teaching and learning in sport 
• D: Carry out teaching and learning strategies for sports skills 

Unit 7: 

• C: Develop skills, techniques and tactics for sporting activity in order to meet sport aims 
• D: Reflect on own practical performance using selected assessment methods 

Assessment 

• Pearsons set assignment briefs 

Key Vocabulary 

• Ability
• Accountability
• Adaptation
• Aerobic
• Aggression
• Alveoli
• Anaerobic
• Appropriate
• Arousal
• Attributes
• Axes
• Barriers
• Body composition
• Bradycardia
• Cholesterol
• Commercialisation
• Considerations
• Credibility
• Data
• Deception
• Dehydration
• Endurance
• Energy
• Etiquette
• Extrovert
• Fartlek
• Fitness
• Flexibility (not in list — skipping)
• Frequency
• Function
• Goals
• Health
• Heart rate
• Hooliganism
• Hypertrophy
• Intensity
• Introvert
• Leader
• Levers
• Limitations
• Mechanical advantage
• Media
• Mobiliser
• Obesity
• Officials
• Osteoporosis
• Oxygen debt
• Perceived exertion
• Planes
• Progressive overload
• Qualitative
• Quantitative
• Recovery
• Redistribution
• Resources
• Risk assessments
• Rules
• Sedentary
• Set plays
• Skill
• Somatotypes
• Sponsorship
• Synovial fluid
• Tactics
• Tendons
• Threshold
• Training threshold
• Altitude
• Endurance