Summary

The Level 1 Certificate in Skills for Sport and Active Leisure is designed to provide you with the necessary skills, knowledge and understanding to develop your Walking Football performance.

The programme explores a range of modules including:

• Taking part in exercise and fitness
• Working in sport and active leisure and walking football
• Anatomy and physiology for walking football
• Planning a healthy diet
• Planning own fitness programmes
• Career planning
• Skills for creative thinkers
• Using and communicating data to enhance performance

You will develop an understanding of different training methods, how to improve performance, and the anatomy of a footballer. You will also learn about walking football specific nutrition and how to fuel your body for success. Learners will also use basic numeracy to assess and interpret data related to your performance.

How will I learn?

With this course we have brought the classroom to you and createed an interactice online learning environment. The sessions are never pre-recorded and like in a classroom you will have a teacher and other students interacting with you live on set teaching dates. This allows you to ask questions and gain skills all without leaving your desk. The course is delivered over a 6-week period.

For more information on how you will learn please email [email protected].

Entry Requirements

This course has no entry requirements however you must be 19 or over and have access to a home computer that can connect to the internet. This will allow you to access our online learning platform.

If you have any questions regarding entry requirements please email [email protected].

What can I do next?

On completion of the programme, you will be invited to attend a Walking Football Performance Training Day at the SGS Wise Campus. You will have the opportunity to take part in trainng sessions with our football coaching team in our state-of-the-art failities, as well as workshops from our specialist Strength and Conditioning coaches, Sport Psychologists and Physiotherapy team.

Who will i be coached by?
The football sessions will be taken by the Head of Male football David Hokaday, holding a English FA A License, David has coached at U18 reserve/U23 and first team levels. While also working at top level professional clubs including Watford, Southampton, Leeds Utd, Coventry City, MK Dons and Forest Green Rovers. David also played professional football for 20 years with over 650 senior appearances and 5 promotions (Blackpool, Swindon Town, Hull City, Shrewsbury Town).

*Subject to Covid restrictions and training guidance by the FA at the time sessions are due to take place.

Additional Information

IMPORTANT INFORMATION DUE TO THE IMPACT OF COVID-19
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic we may need to take a number of measures that could affect our planned delivery method. For example; planned on site delivery may take a blended approach; a mixture of classroom based and online activities. We will endeavour to ensure course information, including delivery method and pricing, is updated when changes are having to be made. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us before completing an enrolment form.

This course is an online distance learning course and is not effected by any Covid-19 delivery changes.

For information on how this may impact sport courses please email [email protected]

DISTANCE LEARNING PLATFORM
The choosen platform for this course is Microsoft Teams. Teams allows learners and teachers to seamlessly work together, create content and share resources from a single, easy-to-learn and simple platform. On successful enrolment onto this course you will be provided with all the details required to set up Teams.

COURSE FEES
Please be aware this course does not have a fee that is payable on enrolment.

If you require financial support including payment plans, bursaries and advanced learner loans please visit the Money Management Service section of the website.

For more information on fees please view our Fees, Charges and Refunds Policy and our Applications, Admissions and Enrolment Policy and Procedures.

ONLINE ENROLMENT
This course offers simpler and safer online enrolment requests, which means in a matter of minutes you can submit an enrolment request to us. However please be aware that upon submitting your enrolment form you are not guaranteed to be accepted. A number of our courses require assessments, qualification checks or simply a conversation with you before we can confirm your enrolment.

Within 24 hours of enrolment submission you will receive an automated email notification with information on what happens next.