Level 3 Sports Studies - Te Kaiārahi Tākaro (SPO303)

Level 3 Sports Leadership students will participate in a variety of sports and activities. The course will cover Nutrition, Injury prevention, Practical activities, Coaching and Bush walking. In Level 3 Sport Leadership, students are exposed to a wide variety of sport and physical learning experiences that assists them in their assessment.

You will enhance their learning in physical movement and coach Junior PE classes as part of their assessment. Students gain intermediate skills in an unfamiliar sport then have the opportunity to apply these skills to a coaching environment. 

In this course, you have the opportunity to participate in a variety of physical activities and will learn about the risk management and injury management that is involved when planning and completing a challenging outdoor activity. 

This course is in alignment with the New Zealand Curriculum and students will become confident, actively involved and lifelong learners. Sport helps you develop the skills, knowledge and competencies to live healthy and physically active lives at school and for life beyond school. Sport makes a person flexible and happy. Activities play an important role in the healthy growth and development of the human body. Taking part in physical activities and sport allows students to relieve their academic stress and anxiety. Sport helps with stress, a physically active students is more likely to be happy and healthy and have a focus on their work. 

In Sports Leadership the work is assessed in a variety of ways that include practical, written, verbal, presentations and demonstrations allowing the you to have a variety of methods, within these methods they can show their learning which is key to their success. This subject set students up for real-life and for life long healthy lifestyles.