You study six units over the two-year A Level.

1. ‘Anatomy and Physiology’: This is where you will learn about the key fundamentals and systems that allow our body to work efficiently. This includes work on the heart, lungs, muscles, bones, and energy systems.

2. ‘Skill Acquisition’: An opportunity to delve into the learning of skills. Skill Acquisition follows on from GCSE by building on work undertaken on reaction time, skills continua, transfer and guidance and pairs this with memory, schema, and practice types.

3. ‘History and Sociology of Sport’: Interested to know where sports such as association football originated from or what makes a sport equitable? This unit will capture your interest. Looking at the origins of Tennis from the time of Henry VIII, to exploring modern contractual issues surrounding performers, this unit explores the history of the sport in the UK.

4. ‘Biomechanics and Exercise Physiology’: A module centered on sports injury, rehabilitation, and prevention along with some applied mathematical principles that make the difference between winning and losing. We explore concepts like angular momentum, fluid mechanics and manipulation of training methods.

5. ‘Sport’s psychology’: Interested in knowing why teams gel or how to support athletes following injury? This unit explores reasons elite athletes give for success and failure through attribution, through to team dynamics and effective leaders and coaching principles.

6. ‘Contemporary issues’: In this unit we look at some of the issues surrounding sport now. Think drugs in sport, the development of technology and its impact as well as how the law regulates sport. An interesting and insightful look into how modern issues are affecting performers and the development of sports.