Sport and Fitness

Our January NC Sports and Fitness course can be studied at all our main campuses.

Your course will incorporate units at SCQF Level 5 and 6 in order to ensure a smooth progression towards higher level sport and fitness units/qualifications.

If you're into sport and fitness and are thinking about a future career in the sport or fitness industry, this course can help you get started.

For entry to this course you’ll need:

• A real interest in sport and fitness
• 2 Graded National 5 qualifications (A-C)
• An interview with us

If you don't have formal qualifications, but have life experience, then we'll also consider you for a place, so please call us for a chat.

This course gives you a good introduction to sport and fitness, its opportunities and what you'll need for a successful career in it.

You’ll spend some of your time in our fitness suites and sports facilities, both indoor and outdoor. Motivation and participation is essential and you'll work alongside your peers, gaining confidence and developing leadership skills.

Here's just some of what you'll be doing:

• Contemporary Fitness and Exercise Training - ever tried spin, HIIT or plyometrics? You'll love it!
• Planning Personal Fitness - you’ll create a plan to improve your own level of fitness. How tough will you be on yourself?
• Nutrition, Health and Wellbeing - "You are what you eat", so let’s find out what's best for your body.
• Sports Activities - you'll develop your own skills in football, badminton and volleyball so you can coach them effectively.
• Circuit Training - you'll improve your own fitness with exercise for your whole body, featuring every component of fitness training.
• Resistance Training - it's all about push and pull, as you safely train those muscles for strength.
• Teamwork through Sport and Recreation - "Teamwork makes the dream work". We all need the support of a team to ensure success and you'll do this through a range of activities.
• Developing Leadership within Physical Activities - you’ll plan your own short coaching session to try and improve your players.
• Citizenship through sport and fitness - you'll have the chance to volunteer in your local community, making you more employable and successful.
• Human anatomy, physiology and physical activities - you'll learn about bones, muscles and breathing and how it all works.

When you successfully complete this course, you’ll have the choice of:

• Moving onto a Level 6 course such as Advanced Sports and Fitness or, with outstanding achievement, an HNC such as HNC Coaching and Developing Sport
• Exploring your future career options such as Active Schools opportunities, Sports Coach opportunities or Leisure Centre roles.

With additional qualifications at Level 6 or HNC/D Level (Level 7/8), other career options will become possible

Your course will allow you to use and develop your Meta Skills.

Meta-skills are innate, timeless, higher-order skills that create adaptive learners and promote success in whatever context the future brings.

Your course, in particular, help you to develop these Meta Skills – focusing, integrity, adapting, initiative, communicating, collaborating, leading, sense making (problem solving) and critical thinking.