Sport BTEC Curriculum Area by Trinity Sixth Form Academy

Welcome to L3 Btec Sport

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My name is Mrs Ryan and I am one of the BTEC Sport teachers, as well as the Duke of Edinburgh manager.
I studied a BA (Hons) in Leisure and Recreation at Leeds Beckett University.
Before teaching I was a Personal Trainer at local gyms and on a Cruise Ship. I am also an outdoor instructor in climbing and dragonboating.

Introduction

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My name is Mr Read and I am one of the BTEC Sport Teachers, as well as a Learning mentor at TSFA.

I studied a BA (Hons) in Physical Education with Outdoor Education at Leeds Beckett University. After university I completed my PGCE with Trinity institute of Education, working within different schools within the MAT.

After completing my year training I became a Personal Progress Tutor at TSFA for 2 years before becoming a PE Teacher.

BTEC Sport course information

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We hope you have fun having a go at some of the subject knowledge Kahoots. These will test your prior knowledge before we meet in September. We look forward to seeing you then!

Kryan@sixth.trinitymat.org

Lread@sixth.trinitymat.org

contactus@sixth.trinitymat.org

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Visit our website.

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Careers in Sport

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There are several careers in sport. Studying BTEC Sport allows you so many opportunities within the sport industry.

AQA PE

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Good archive source of relevant articles related to AQA Physical Education.

https://twitter.com/tythyalevelpe?lang=en-gb

A-Level PE Blog

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Blog based A-LEVEL P.E. site great for revision.

https://sites.google.com/view/mrwnukpe/home

Ski Trip

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Maddie Hinch MBE

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BSc Sport and Exercise Science (2013)

Dan Walker

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Sports Journalism

Victoria Pendleton

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Sport & Exercise Science

Tom Briscoe

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BSc (Hons) Sport & Exercise Science, 2020

Alistair Brownlee

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Sports Science & Physiology

Podcast 8

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The Football Association, founded in 1863, was set up to ensure that players should be gentlemen both on and off the pitch.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01bllxk

Podcast 7

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The importance of boxing for the 19th-century alpha male. With no gloves or armour, pugilism was pure, painful and deeply patriotic.

Podcast 3

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Why and when the British government got involved in sport, when the country had always prided itself on keeping them apart.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01cvk8l

Podcast 4

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The demise of the amateur gentleman and the rise of the professional player, as the 1960s saw the beginning of a new, more egalitarian era in British sport.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ckmgn

Podcast 5

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The rise of the middle class in Victorian Britain heralded the birth of suburban tennis and golf clubs

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01bwmwd

Podcast 6

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A look at Rugby School, which can claim to be the birthplace of the modern Olympic games.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01b9h7c

Podcast 2

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Podcast that explores the way global television has changed our relationship with sport forever.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01cwszw

Podcast 1

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A story of lies, expulsions, bigotry and witch-hunts, as a civil war in sport erupted when rugby split in two.

Https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01bwfyd

Icarus

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When filmmaker Bryan Fogel sets out to uncover the truth about doping in sports, a chance meeting with a Russian scientist transforms his story from a personal experiment into a geopolitical thriller. Dirty urine, unexplained death and Olympic gold are all part of the exposure of the biggest scandal in sports history.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80168079

Murderball

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This documentary introduces the U.S. quad rugby team -- a team composed entirely of young paraplegic men. Using special wheelchairs and very little protection, the players play full-contact competitive rugby, using rules only slightly altered to accommodate their limitations. The film follows the team as they discuss the sport, their lives, and how they ended up in their chairs to begin with, while they play their way to the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece. This has great links to disability sport and factors effecting participation. A DVD copy can be borrowed from the P.E. office.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Murderball-Joe-Soares/dp/B00EUX57DI

Lance & Oprah - This Interview

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In this interview disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong has held a "no-holds barred" interview with chat show host Oprah Winfrey. The 41year-old American lifts the lid on one of the most high-profile stories in sporting history. Links to the drugs in sports and deviance areas of the course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jtDH-10m2s

The Crazy Gang - When Wimbledon Won the Cup

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This documentary spills the beans on the notorious Wimbledon football team who climbed from non-league status to the pinnacle of the British game in less than a decade. In this revealing documentary, Crazy Gang members disclose for the first time the extent of the brutality between the players themselves and how being part of that process was the making of them all.

Links to deviance in sport and group dynamics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdU1qUN7LX8

ESPN Films: Enhanced

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(Six Episode Docuseries 2019) Unprecedented behind-thescenes look at how athletes are using modern technology and science to achieve greatness. Can be found on the media platform vimeo.com. Great links to sports technology physiology & psychology.

https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/24055829

Whites Vs Blacks: How Football changed a Nation.

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BBC Documentary. Adrian Chiles looks into an extraordinary game of professional football that took place in May 1979, when an all-white team took on a side comprised solely of black players. Links to factors effecting participation in sport.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ne6eRxtBCs

Catch Me if you Can

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BBC Panorama Documentary. Mark Daly investigates doping in athletics and explores apparent allegations against Alan Wells, Alberto Salazar and Galen Rupp, allegations which they all strenuously deny.

Great links to deviance and drugs in sport.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ck8LwApd4

Anatomy for Beginners – The Human Body Dissected.

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In this series you can see highlights of the dissections and learn more about the human body. Your anatomical guides are controversial anatomist Dr Gunther von Hagens, who dissects the bodies, and pathologist Prof. John Lee who explains how they work in health and in disease. At the heart of each episode is a human dissection, carried out by von Hagens, each episode focusing on a different set of anatomical systems: movement, circulation, digestion and reproduction.

https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-for-Beginners-Season-1/dp/B00ZDAJ8XM

Living with Lions

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Groundbreaking documentary focusing the British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa in the summer of 1997. The unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to the team shows the preparations, the training, the fun, the team selection, the 'earthy' language, the bonding, the awesome task of playing and some shocking footage of injuries. Despite securing the series with wins in the first two tests, the Lions remained motivated by the prospect of a 3-0 whitewash, a feat never achieved against the Springboks throughout the century. Great links to motivation, arousal and group dynamics

Running to the Limits

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A 2009 documentary film about filmmaker Alex Vero's journey to qualify for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Marathon. Narrated by Vero and set against the backdrop of a massive decline in British professional marathon running, the film spans over three years and several continents as he works to overcome physical and personal demons and complete his marathon training.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwLkPkqMdjk

The Test of Fitness

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A 2014 documentary about cross fit. A look at different

methodology of improving fitness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eGgWEr-Vv8

The Truth about Fitness

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Medical journalist Michael Mosley teams up with scientists whose latest research is turning common knowledge about fitness on its head. They reveal why 10,000 steps is just a marketing ploy and that two minutes of exercise is all a person needs each week. They discover how to get people to stick to their fitness plans and what exercise can actually make everyone more intelligent. Whether it is for couch potatoes who hate the thought of exercise, someone too busy to consider the gym, or even for fitness fanatics who are desperate to do more - science can help everyone exercise better.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09qjl7d/the-truthabout-15-getting-fit

Born to Run: The Kenyan Secrets

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A look at the success of Kenyan distance runners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25BywC5-p2U

The English Game

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Netflix drama that shows the impact on society on sport. This series looks at the invention of football and how it rose to become the world's game by crossing class divides.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80244928

The Test

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Great Amazon TV documentary focusing on how the Australian cricket team recovered from the ball tampering controversy. This 8 part series links to both the group dynamics and deviancy section of the specification.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Test-New-Era-Australias-Team/dp/B085FV9XL3

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

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This book explores the question of nature versus nurture as it pertains to training for athletes in sports using anecdotes which favour both sides of the argument. These anecdotes are combined with the results of statistical studies to give the reader an understanding of the magnitude that biology plays in athletics. Topics such as the effects of gender, race, genetics, culture, and physical environment are discussed as contributors to success in specific sports.

The Science of the Tour de France Training secrets of the world's best cyclists

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Find out why Formula One telemetry is key to more bike speed; how power meters dictate training sessions and race strategy; how mannequins, computational fluid dynamics and wind-tunnels are elevating aerodynamics to the next level; why fats and training on water alone are popular in the peloton; and why the future of cycling will involve transcranial brain stimulation and wearable technology.

Fatigue in Sport and Exercise

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The book examines the different ‘types’ of fatigue and the difficulties of identifying which types are prevalent during different types of exercise, including a discussion of the most important methods for measuring fatigue. It introduces the fundamental science of fatigue, focusing predominantly on covering physiological aspects, and explores key topics in detail, such as energy depletion, lactic acid, dehydration, electrolytes and minerals, and the perception of fatigue.

Training Secrets of the World's Greatest Footballers How Science is Transforming the Modern Game

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Why does Paul Pogba wear custom-made compression socks? Why does Sergio Agüero altitude-train when returning from injury? From virtual-reality units to the

omnipresence of GPS vests, taking in brain-training, innovative gear and performance nutrition along the way, you'll discover what it takes to reach the top of the game - and how to apply this knowledge to your own training.

Bounce: The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice

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What is the magic spark that sees David Beckham and Tiger Woods soar above all their competitors, and could the secret lie in the practice regime of Mozart? Matthew Syed's dazzling investigation of high achievement draws on the stories of sports stars and the most up-to-date science to uncover the surprising factors that lead to world beating success. The follow up books The Greatest: The Quest for Sporting Perfection is also worth a read. Lots of relevance to the skill acquisition section of the specification.

Peak Performance

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Peak Performance combines the inspiring stories of top performers across a range of capabilities from athletic to intellectual to artistic with the latest scientific insights into the cognitive and neurochemical factors that drive performance in all domains. Peak Performance presents the newly-discovered links that hold promise as performance boosters, but that have been traditionally overlooked.

Acquiring Skill in Sport: An Introduction

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The book is a user-friendly, highly accessible text for the students to understand the basic concepts of sport skills acquisition. Each chapter covers important theoretical background and shows how this theory can be applied through practical examples from the world of sport. The book also examines the ways in which skills can be most effectively and addresses issues such as: characteristics and classifications of abilities and skills in sport, information processing in sport, motor programmes and motor

control, phases of learning and presentation of skills and practices.

Running for My Life: How I Built a Better Me, One Step at a Time

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Running for My Life is a funny, heartfelt and inspirational story of one woman's marathon journey through mental illness. The book is based in Calderdale.

Suffering from depression but desperate for 'normality', Rachel Cullen found herself in failing relationships, the wrong career and a reliance on alcohol and chocolate to get her through each day. Stuck in an endless cycle of mental misery, she put on a pair of old trainers.

Peak : How All of Us Can Achieve Extraordinary Things

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Ericsson's research focuses on the real world, and he explains in detail, with examples, how all of us can apply the principles of great performance in our work or in any other part of our lives.' Do you want to stand out at work, improve your athletic or musical performance, or help your child achieve academic goals? Anders Ericsson has made a career studying chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens.

Women's Rugby League

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Men's Football

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Women's Netball

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Men's Women Rugby League

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BTEC Sport Year 12 Curriculum Map

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BTEC Sport Year 13 Curriculum Map

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