SEHS FAQs

Those students interested in a successful career in sports science, education, management, communication, psychology, health or fitness fields, nutrition, physiotherapy.

The IB SEHS will help prepare students to work in a variety of exercise fields.

Sports management

Sports performance

Sports marketing

Sports Coaching/teaching

Fitness/Health Club managers

Recreation leaders/youth programmers

Industrial health and wellness programs

Sports psychology

Biomechanics

Sports Nutrition

Exercise Physiology

Medicine

Physical/Occupational Therapy

Physiotherapy

Further Anatomy and Physiology

Biomechanics and movement analysis

Training to optimise physical performance

Data interpretation and analysis

Measurement of human performance

Nutrition for sport and exercise

Non nutritional Ergogenic aids

Overtraining and burnout

Hypo kinetic disease and physical health

Information processing and skill in sport

All of them in detail - Biology, Physics, Chemistry applied to the body during sport and exercise.

No but a knowledge and interest in sport helps.

No, but it definitely helps with the familiarity of some of the content. However a lot of the content is previously untaught in Key stage 4 and in much greater detail than the GCSE syllabus.

You are not awarded any marks for your practical ability but we may teach concepts through physical activity. The course is a Science subject, and as a result is largely theory.

20% Multiple choice (Paper 1)

35% Extended data questions (Paper 2)

25% Option topics

20% Internal Investigation (coursework)

Standard Level students learn 6 core topics, 2 options and complete the IA.

Higher Level students complete the 6 core topics, plus 7 higher level topics, 2 options and complete the IA.

It is not compulsory, however keeping abreast of sports news via television, twitter and a variety of news sources is advisable. Also, these 3 popular books are a great introduction to the course: The body: A guide for occupants by Bill Bryson, Bounce: the myth of talent and the power of practice by Matthew Syed and The Sports Gene by David Epstein

Within the Physical Education Department and in lesson from EYFS to Year 13 on the SEHS programme, we firmly believe in developing the pupils skills and understanding necessary to maintain a healthy, active, enjoyable lifestyle and to promote physical activity as being intrinsically worthwhile, as well as developing knowledge and understanding of fitness and health. We have found that our passion as teachers and coaches has motivated students to be active and take part in regular exercise. Particularly in the IB when the students feel more pressure of academic work and deadlines our students take part in daily clubs to relieve stress, stay fit and maintain a sense of perspective.

The SEHS is very broad with a wealth of interesting topics I think the students really find interesting, as a teacher of the course I would have loved to have been given the choice to study SEHS at school. I am very delighted when I see my year 12 and 13 students explaining the course to year 11 prospective students, they are animated, excited and very knowledgeable about the course which is great to see and infects the other students who to get really excited about taking the course. The SEHS really captures the interest of the students as a lot of the syllabus we can add practical elements the students can apply to their lives outside of school and in a sporting context. We have particularly seen active learning when our Year 13 students have taught our year 12 students parts of the syllabus, their interest, passion clearly shines through.

Since we were one of twelve schools piloting the SL SEHS course we have really worked hard to overcome misconceptions about Physical Education and its importance in students’ lives. As a school and department we have tried to educate not only students but parents on the opportunities the IB SEHS course can lead to and its application to everyday lives of students and their families. Last year we invited Alison Oliver Chief Executive of Youth Sport Trust and Professor Ray Lloyd to speak about in a PE symposium attended by parents, students and teachers about

• The contribution of PE to raising academic achievement

• The challenges facing young people going forward that can impact on their achieving their potential both holistically and academically and where PE and sport can/could contribute.

• IB SEHS `The future of sport in Higher Education and beyond

• The importance of parental involvement and support of students taking part in sport

Through our internal assessments students develop their scientific solutions, as the years has gone on and through links with other schools delivering SEHS we have produced IA that link and consolidate work within topics and options. The students have really relished taking part in investigations that they then administer to other students. During our Grp 4 project SEHS students were mixed with other Grp 4 students to develop projects were they had to work with other students from different subjects and nationalities to develop a unified concept and produce it, were communication, teamwork, cooperation, problem solving and confidence were developed.

Working in an International school we see on a daily basis how our students become global citizens by how they respect the opinions and beliefs of their peers and team mates. When we have delivered topics particularly in Nutrition we have encouraged students to explore how nutrition and sport differs from country to country. Many of our SEHS students are also successful sportsmen and women who play for our school and local clubs meaning they regularly represent their teams in a local environment but many compete abroad and have develop skills in which they are able to interact within diverse cultures, languages and beliefs. The school has a popular International Award and CAS programme that challenges students to volunteer in the local community and many of the students use sport to engage students from diverse nationalities and social backgrounds. Our school holds an annual International Dinner, I have found the students that are involved in teams have been the ones to also take responsibility for the organising of the events, the skills they learn in sport also gives them tools for so many aspects of they lives. Working and learning in an increasingly interconnected world, our students learn to be able to engage in communication with people from a wide range of different cultures and traditions. The I.B SEHS course offers this through TOK, CAS and extended essays done on the subject.