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Curriculum

Sports Studies

Curriculum intent, implementation, and impact

About the subject

Sports Studies develops physical competence, leadership, teamwork and understanding of health and performance. The subject combines practical participation with vocational knowledge and transferable employability skills.

About the Curriculum intent, implementation, and impact

Intent

Improve practical performance and confidence in physical activity.
Develop teamwork, communication, leadership and resilience.
Understand health, fitness, training and sporting performance.
Apply knowledge through practical and written assessment.
Prepare students for the academy’s current sports qualification.

Implementation

Learning is planned from students’ assessed starting points and reviewed as they make progress.
Lessons follow Kickstart’s lesson pathway: Learning Intention, Remember, Learn, Practise and Review.
Teachers use adaptive teaching, modelling, scaffolding, retrieval and regular checking for understanding.
Literacy, vocabulary and communication are taught explicitly within the subject.
Assessment information is used to address gaps, adjust teaching and make qualification-entry decisions.
Students learn through practical participation, analysis, leadership tasks, discussion and vocational assessment.

Impact

Students build knowledge and skills from their individual starting points.
Work, assessment evidence and student voice demonstrate increasing confidence and independence.
Students are prepared appropriately for accredited assessment and their next stage of education, employment or training.
Progress is considered alongside engagement, attendance, resilience and readiness to learn.

Enrichment

Opportunities may include leadership, competition, visiting coaches, sports facilities, outdoor activities and links with clubs, colleges and employers.

Careers

Careers learning in this subject contributes to Kickstart’s wider careers programme and the Gatsby Benchmarks. Through our work with Future Focus, students receive individual support to explore suitable pathways, make applications and prepare for a positive post-16 transition. Sports Studies supports progression into coaching, fitness, leisure, public services, teaching, physiotherapy, sports development and outdoor education.