Course Modules

You will learn and apply innovative and cutting-edge methods of analysis evident in coaching literature.

This first research module will allow you to consolidate prior learning and explore a variety of research methodologies and their application. You will also extend your basic research skills and address current thinking in the field.

A focus on planning and monitoring training of athletes and how a programme of physiological support can be used to enhance performance. You will engage in current literature identifying the physiological demands of the athletes chosen sport, key measures of

This final school placement allows you to gain proficiency in whole class teaching across the secondary curriculum and to develop knowledge about school management, performance and national targets. This placement is linked to and designed to enable you to meet

You will be given opportunities to reflect on the knowledge base introduced in taught modules and to extend and demonstrate the inter-relationships between pedagogical theory, mathematics and your placement experiences. It is designed to be focused on the awareness that

This module aims to develop the practical skills and knowledge base essential for designing, delivering and monitoring individually tailored nutritional interventions that optimise sports performance and recovery, and enhancement of athlete wellbeing.

You will learn how nutrition can be used to support the varied physical and physiological challenges associated with sport and exercise performance in a range of settings and be introduced to general issues concerning best practice of exercise nutrition.

This provides the opportunity to put theory into practice and develop key transferable skills such as teamwork, communication, task deadline accomplishment, working under pressure and professional work ethic.

You will complete whole-class teaching for Physical Education in a range of curriculum areas, on this twelve-week placement. You will work alongside the teacher on the weekly planning for all aspects of the curriculum. It is assumed that, by the

Sports performance and the development of athletic ability relies on the individual being in peak health and having the correct nutrition support to fuel training adaptation and exercise performance. This module aims to examine the ways in which dietary intake