Physical activity and sport studies

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND SPORT STUDIES

Physical Activity and Sports Studies (PASS) is a course designed for those students who want a more indepth study of the human body and its mechanics than covered in PDHPE. The course specifically looks at how the human body develops and performs during strenuous activity such as sport.

The course’s theory component looks at the major body systems and how they work under movement. It also investigates the major Sports Sciences of Kinesiology and Physiology. It trains students in coping and dealing with sports injury as well as the development of coaching skills.

The topics that have previously been covered in the theory component of the course include: Event Management, Enhancing Performance, Sports Coaching, Body Systems and Energy for Physical Activity, Nutrition, Issues in Sport-Drug Use, Technology/Participation and Performance and Physical Fitness.

The practical component gives a wide range of experience of various sports and activities. It aims to give students the strategies and tactics that are used to succeed in competition. It also applies the coaching techniques used in these sports by which coaches develop strong performances from their athletes.

The sports that have been taught in PASS include: Self-Defence, Soft Lacrosse, Tennis, Duathlon, Gymnastics, Weight Training, Stand Up Paddle Boarding, Canoeing, Ice-skating, Ten-Pin Bowling and Indoor Soccer.

Christian values and attitudes will be taught in relation to how athletes can glorify God by participating in Sport.