Preparatory work

Coursework Preparation

• Consult the AQA PE  specification

  • (https://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/pe/specifications/AQA-7582-SP-2016.PDF)

• PRACTICAL PERFORMANCES

• Identify from the practical sport options (P37 onwards) which one sport you are likely to use as your practical assessments. By the end of the course you will need to provide video evidence of you in a fully competitive situation - a match or performance. 

• If you choose a summer sport, you can start to gather this footage over the summer. Your videos should be a continuous recording of the whole game/performance - no editing, no stopping the filming. As mentioned on the sixth form induction day, filming can be at any point in the course but we recommend collecting some competitive footage as soon as possible to allow for feedback from staff and to ensure there is footage available in the unfortunate of serious injury.

• THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE

• Over the summer there are a number of world / international sporting events. Make sure you pay attention to:

  • The huge variety of sports on show, try to pick up basic information about the structure, skills and tactics for a wide variety of sports, particularly those you are currently less familiar with.

  • Use news sources to follow articles relating to these events. How does the news link the sports event with: politics, injury, funding and sponsorship, barriers to participation and social stereotypes etc. Please bring to your lessons in the first week examples interesting news you have come across over the summer.

Watch or Read

• 'Game On' - Netflix documentary about the unstoppable rise of women's sport (trailer)

• Beastly Fury: The Strange Birth Of British Football. Richard Sanders 

• Sport And The British: A Modern History. Richard Holt 

• Sport in Capitalist Society: A Short History. Tony Collins 

• It's Not Cricket: Skullduggery, Sharp Practice and Downright Cheating in the Noble Game. Simon Rae 

• Bounce: The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice. Matthew Syed 

• The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs. Daniel Coyle 

• Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics. Jules Boykoff 

• The Games: A Global History of the Olympics. David Goldblatt 

• The English Game, Emergence and Evolution of Sport - Sport in 1850s Post-Industrial Britain. (trailer)

• Race, Global Sporting Events - Political Exploitation Berlin 1936 Third Reich Ideology. (trailer)

• Munich, Global sporting Events - Political Exploitation Munich 1972 Palastinian terrorism. (trailer)

• Icarus, Ethics and Deviance - Drugs and Doping in sport. (trailer)

• Gamechangers, Diet and Nutrition - Exercise Physiology. (trailer)

• Remember The Titans, Stages of Group Formation - Sports Psychology. (trailer)

• Andy Murray: Resurfacing - Sports Psychology and Exercise Physiology. (trailer)

• The Last Dance: The untold story of Michael Jordan and the Bulls - Sports Psychology, Exercise Physiology and Socio-Cultural. (trailer)