Sport Key Stage 4

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Key Concepts

R186 Sport in the Media

 

Explore the relationship that media has with sport and understand how linked they are. The relationship to real world examples and the different ways in which sport and the media represent each other will be applied.

 

R185 Performance and leadership in sports activities

 

Develop skills as a performer in two different sporting activities and learn how to lead sporting activity sessions.

Create a plan, write and evaluate an activity session, to further develop leadership skills.

Analyse their own performance to help improve themselves and their skills in sport.

Quality Mark Assessments

Autumn Term

(Sep-Dec)

R186 Sport in the Media

 

Topic Area 1: The different sources of media that cover sport

 

1.1.1 Digital and social media and how they are a fast-changing aspect of sports coverage. 

 

1.1.2 Different forms of broadcast media and their role as traditional sources in comparison to newer broadcast and other media sources.

 

1.1.3 Print media sources and their role as traditional media sources in comparison to other media sources

 

Topic Area 2: Positive effects of the media in sport

 

2.1.1 Participation:

How the media can help promote sport to increase awareness and improve participation levels

2.1.2 Raising profile of the sport

2.2.1 Education: Exposure for emerging and minority sports

2.2.2 Revenue: Relationship between sport and the media, how they use each other to promote themselves and increase revenue

Quality Mark Assessments

Topic Area 1: The different sources of media that cover sport

Spring Term

(Jan-April)

Topic Area 3: Negative effects of the media in sport

 

3.1.1 External factors affecting decline in live spectatorship 3.1.2 Ethical appropriateness of sponsors

3.1.3 How the media is assisting a widening wealth divide in sport

3.1.4 Impact of wider global issues on sport/ performers and spectators 

3.1.5 Media demands affecting sport fixture scheduling

 

3.2.1 Coverage of inappropriate behaviour.

3.2.2 Rejection of sporting heroes

3.2.3 Scrutiny and criticism of participants.

3.2.4 Increased pressure on athletes to look a certain way and links to mental health

 

R185 Performance and leadership in sports activities

 

Topic Area 1: Key components of performance

 

Topic Area 2: Applying practice methods to support improvement in a sporting activity

 

Quality Mark Assessments

Topic Area 3: Negative effects of the media in sport

Summer Term

(May-July)

Topic Area 3: Organising and planning a sports activity session

Topic Area 4: Leading a sports activity session

Topic Area 5: Reviewing your own performance in planning and leading a sports activity session

Quality Mark Assessments

Topic Area 5: Reviewing your own performance in planning and leading a sports activity session

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Key Concepts

Unit R184: Contemporary issues in sport

 

Exam Content

 

Understand topical and contemporary issues in sport, including; why people do and do not participate in sport, the promotion of ethics and

values, the roles of National Governing Bodies and high profile events have in sport, as well as how technology is used within sport.

Quality Mark Assessments

Autumn Term

(Sep-Dec)

Unit R184: Contemporary issues in sport

 

Topic Area 1: Issues which affect participation in sport

 

1.1.1 Different user groups 

 

1.2.1 Possible barriers which affect participation in sport

 

1.3.1 Possible solutions to the barriers which affect

participation in sport

1.4.1 Positive and negative impacts on the

popularity of sport in the UK includes

 

1.5.1 The growth of emerging/new sports in the UK

 

Topic Area 2: The role of sport in promoting values

 

2.1.1 Values which can be promoted through sport

 

2.2.1 Olympic and Paralympic games

 

2.3.1 Initiatives, campaigns and events which

promote sporting values:

 

2.4.1 The importance of etiquette and sporting

behaviour of performers

 

2.4.2 The importance of etiquette AND sporting

behaviour of spectators:

 

2.5.1 The reasons why sports performers use PEDs

 

2.5.2 The reasons why performers should not use

PEDs

 

2.5.3 The role of WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency)

in eradicating the use of PEDs:

 

□ WADA’s Whereabouts Rule

 

□ WADA testing methods

2.5.4 Sanctions to prevent the use of PEDs

 

2.5.5 Educational strategies to prevent the use of

PEDs

 

2.5.6 Impact of the use of PEDs on the sport

Quality Mark Assessments

Topic area 1 and 2 mock exam

Spring Term

(Jan-April)

Topic Area 3: Negative effects of the media in sport

 

3.1.1 External factors affecting decline in live spectatorship 3.1.2 Ethical appropriateness of sponsors

3.1.3 How the media is assisting a widening wealth divide in sport

3.1.4 Impact of wider global issues on sport/ performers and spectators 

3.1.5 Media demands affecting sport fixture scheduling

 

3.2.1 Coverage of inappropriate behaviour.

3.2.2 Rejection of sporting heroes

3.2.3 Scrutiny and criticism of participants.

3.2.4 Increased pressure on athletes to look a certain way and links to mental health

 

R185 Performance and leadership in sports activities

 

Topic Area 1: Key components of performance

 

Topic Area 2: Applying practice methods to support improvement in a sporting activity

Quality Mark Assessments

Topic Area 1/2/3/4 mock exam

Summer Term

(May-July)

Topic Area 5: The use of technology in sport

 

5.1 The role of technology in sport

 

5.1.1 To enhance performance

 

5.1.2 To increase the safety of participants

 

5.1.3 To increase fair play and increase the accuracy

of officiating

 

5.1.4 To enhance spectatorship

 

5.2 Positive and negative effects of the use of technology in sport

 

5.2.1 Positive Effects

 

5.2.2 Negative Effects

 

5.2.3 Positive and negative effects of technology on

the spectator experience

Quality Mark Assessments

Final mock exam – All topics

 

 

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