Tuesday, 12 April 2016

3 Health & Safety Procedures at the John Warner Sports Centre




Now that you have notes from Tanya's talk about the procedures they use at the John warner Sports Centre, you should write these up in as much detail as possible.



You should pay particular attention to how the procedures are reviewed and assessed in order to reach the merit/distinction levels.



To hear a recording of the talk, click on the link below:







The 4 procedures that you should look at are:
Normal Operating Procedures (NOP)
Emergency Operating Procedures (EOP)
Swimming Pool Procedures
Fire Procedures


In order to achieve the higher marks in this task, you must explain the procedures in great detail, explain how the systems are reviewed by the sports centre and suggest alternative methods to improve current systems or how the procedures are reviewed.


Finally, I have scanned 2 of the COSHH forms they have for the soap in the toilets and for the chlorine they use in the pool:







Monday, 22 February 2016

Regulatory Bodies

For the final section of the first assignment, you need to describe the 'regulatory bodies that influence health and safety in sport'. Please describe the role and influence the following bodies have:


  • The Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
  • Local Authorities
  • Local Education Authorities
  • Police
  • National Governing Bodies of Sport
Screenshots of the diagrams from the 'Reading for this Unit' would help you to describe the bodies.

Saturday, 9 January 2016

Assessing Risk in Sport - Task 1


Reading for this unit can be accessed in the following location:

W:\Physical Education\BTEC Sport\6 Form BTEC - Level 3\Single - Subsidiary Diploma\Unit 3 - Assessing Risk in Sport

You have been given the details of 9 different legislative factors that impact upon health and safety in sport. You must pick 4 to describe, compare and contrast. Try to choose those which you feel have a bigger impact on sport and use the following subtitiles to structure your writing on your blog entry:
  • Name of Legislation
  • Description of Legislation (when, why, whom, key features)
  • Impact on Sport (consider the impact in schools i.e. PE lessons or in a sports centre)
  • Case Study (a case study that demonstrates a link to sport will help you to achieve a 'merit')
Here is an example of what to write for the C.O.S.H.H. legislation:


Do not attempt M1 yet. We have the legal factors, and regulatory bodies to cover first.

Saturday, 2 January 2016

Year 13 - Practical (Team Sports) Criteria


POST 1: Rules, Regulations, scoring systems and tactics for FOOTBALL

Post 2: Rules, Regulations, scoring systems and tactics for VOLLEYBALL

Read the criteria and check that you have subheadings in your blog entries for each section. You must also have an ‘Application of Rules’ heading where you describe 3 scenarios and state what the official must do to continue the game



Post 3: Skills and Techniques required for Football

Post 4: Skills and Techniques required for Volleyball

This will include a video of perfect technique, a video of you performing the skill, coaching points and a description of the shot and when it should be used in a game

Monday, 30 November 2015

Review of Circuit Training Session

You have been given a sheet from me which contains:

  • Feedback from your peers
  • Feedback from me
  • A link to video footage of your session

In addition, you now have notes on a circuit training session delivered by me.

All of this information should now be collated so that you can write a detailed analysis of your performance when delivering your circuit training session. Be sure to include details on the following:


  • Appropriateness of stations
  • Timings
  • Communication
  • Motivation
  • Enthusiasm
  • Organisation
To enable you to find the link to your YouTube clip, your link will remain on this post for the rest of this lesson and will then be deleted.


To achieve a PASS you must review your session.

To achieve a MERIT you must review your session and identify strengths and areas for improvement.

To achieve a DISTINCTION you must do all of the above and justify the activities you chose as well as give a detailed summary of the changes you would make to future sessions you would deliver. These must include a development plan of how you will address areas requiring improvement.

Monday, 16 November 2015

Fitness Test Profile



Above are the results of the fitness tests so far. We will be running the bleep test on Wednesday afternoon and will be performing the Cooper Run on Thursday afternoon to complete the batch of tests.

For the final task of this unit, you have to analyse the fitness of ONE of your subjects. Use the subtitles below as a template for your next blog post entitled "Fitness Testing Profile of ......"


Subject Profile                                                                                                  Name:

Justification of Chosen Fitness Tests
In this section you should state why you have chosen the tests below. You should discuss the different components of fitness and link these with your subject’s health monitoring test results, PARQs and their sporting interests.

Fitness Test Results and Evaluation (using normative data)
Multi-Stage Fitness Test:
35m Sprint:
Illinois Agility Run:
Vertical Jump:
Sit & Reach:
Cooper Run:
Validity/Reliability of Results
In this section you should discuss whether the results are reliable and whether they actually measure what you set out to test. Here, you should also discuss possible reasons for poor performance in the test (such as test conditions, equipment/clothing of your subject, injuries etc).
Multi-Stage Fitness Test:
35m Sprint:
Illinois Agility Run:
Vertical Jump:
Sit & Reach:
Cooper Run:
Strengths & Areas for Improvement

Recommendations for Future Activities and Training