Year 10 GCSE Exam Checklist

In the final week before christmas, you will have an end of module test on Health Related Exercise. You will need to revise:-

1. Reasons for taking part in physical activity

Social, mental and physical reasons

Definitions of :-

• Health
• Peformance
• Exercise
• Fitness

2. Five components of Health-Related Exercise -

• Cardiovascular Fitness
• Muscular Endurance
• Muscular Strength
• Flexibility
• Body Composition

3. Six Components of Skill Related fitness

• Speed
• Reaction Time
• Power
• Agility
• Co-ordination
• Balance

4. Principles of training

• Specificity
• Progression
• Overload
• Reversibilty
• Type

• Frequency
• Intensity
• Time
• Type

You will need to say what they are, what they mean and give sporting examples to show us what you think it means.

For example,

Agility is - The ability to move quickly and accurately.

Examples of this would be:-

A Tennis player changing direction to return a forehand

A Footballer dribbling with the ball to outwit an opponent

A High-Jumper clearing the bar

The test will last for 30 minutes and will be worth a total of 40 marks to the assessment of this module.

Please see you're teacher if you need more help.

Year 10 Leadership Award Level One - 2008/2009: Unit 4 - Understanding Fair Play in Sport

Fair play is a key part of all the sessions you will lead.

1. What do you understand by the term 'Fair Play'?

2. What do you do during a session to make sure games are played in the right way?

3. How do you make sure everyone is treated with respect?

4. How did you deal with disruptive behaviour or pupils lacking respect for others?

5. How did you feel when dealing with problem behaviour?

6. Did it make a difference to how the rest of the session worked?

Year 10 Leadership Award Level One - 2008/2009: Unit 3 - Principles and practice in delivering a basic health and fitness session

It is important that you understand the advantages of why people will take part in regular activity on a regular basis.

1. Why do you think people will take part in regular sporting activity?

2. What are the current issues in society regarding a lack of physical activity?

3. Why is having a healthy life-style important?

4. What are the long-term disadvantages of smoking, drinking and having a high-fat diet?

5. What can you do as a young sports leader to help solve this problem?

6. What more could the school do to promote a 'Health for Self' drive?

Year 10 Leadership Award Level One - 2008/2009: Unit 2 - Basic communication skills for leading a sporting activity

To make a session work, you have had to rely on communicating effectively with other people.

1. What did you do to make sure everyone understood why they were doing a task?

2. What did you do to control the group during your session?

3. How did you feel when you were giving teaching points to the group?

4. What is the main thing you learnt when trying to communicate with other people?

Year 10 Leadership Award Level One - 2008/2009: Unit 1 - Planning, preparing and assisting a simple sporting activity

Please comment on the following areas and explain :-

1. What did you do to make sure that you planned and structured the lesson in the right way?

2. Where did you go to research your information?

3. How did your teacher/friends help in preparing and planning the session?

4. Did you think about the health and safety involved in your lesson?

5. How was the lesson? What went well? What would you different next time?

6. Any other comments.

Year 10 Leadership Award Level One - 2008/2009

In the next part of the course we will be looking at Planning, Preparing and Teaching a session.

Question

WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU WILL NEED TO THINK ABOUT WHEN PLANNING AND PREPARING A LESSON?

Please write 3 - 5 most important things for you and give reasons why.

Year 10 Leadership Award Level One - 2008/2009

Congratulations for successfully signing up for the course.
You will have been given your log-book by your teacher.

The first section needs you to think of what you want to achieve and write comments on how you plan to do it.

1.What do you want to achieve on this course?
2.What skills do you want to develop?
3.What do you need to do to develop these skills?

If you are not sure leave a message for us or your friends and we may be able to help.

GOOD LUCK!

Year 10 GCSE PE - Training Methods

As we start our next module on Training methods, we are going to ask you to reflect on the Cardiovascluar Fitness session this week.

You did three sessions:-

1. Fartlek Training -

'Speed play': Changing Speed, distances and times of excercise with rests in the same session.

2. Interval Training -

'Mixing periods of hard exercise with rest periods'.

3. Continuous Training -

Aerobic exercise at a moderate to high level with no rests lasting for a sustained period of time.

Answer the series of questions to log how you felt about each session and how they will improve performance.

1. What happened to the body as soon as you started to exercise?

Talk about breathing rate, heart rate and body temperature.

2. Why did these things happen?

3. Which session was harder - The steep hill circuit or gradual incline with jog back recovery?

Why was it harder?

4. Which session do you think would suit your preparation for competition?

Why?

5. Why do you think you're body wanted to stop?

6. Why do you think an untrained person would find the two sessions difficult?

Type your answers straight in to the text box opposite. Don't forget to put your name on your work and click 'anonymous' or you're work will not be sent to us!!

DEADLINE: MONDAY 3rd NOVEMBER 2008 -PERIOD 2

A2 Scientific Principles

The title of your essay is:-

'Identify the link between motor units, motor neural firing patterns and the sliding filament theory.'

Compare the energy systems used in team, racket and individual sports to illustrate your answer.

The deadline for you essay is Monday 3rd November.

If you have any questions or aspects you are not sure about please raise them so you are in a position to provide the best answer possible.

AS Unit 1: Structure of sport in the UK and Europe - Exam questions

As we begin our Local and National project it is important you understand that your research will also be useful in answering questions in the exam.

Complete the questions and place your answers directly into the blog.

Please see me if you are unclear in any of the areas.

1) Explain what is meant by 'Sport for all'. Describe the benefits 'Sport for All' programmes. (5 marks)

2) Describe three basic requirements necessary in order to participate in sport and recreation. (3 marks)

3) Participation in sport is affected by social influences. Using one disadvantaged group as an example what is meant by access, opportunity, provision and esteem when applied to participation in sport. (5 marks)

4) Outline reformative policies that have been used to increase participation of disadvantaged groups. (3 marks)

5) At local level, sports clubs are the basic unit of sports administration. Describe how amateur sport clubs are organised and funded. (5 marks)