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Sport and fitness is seen as highly significant in today’s society. With more access than ever before to health statistics, and a growing trend in promoting an active and healthy lifestyle in the media, people are increasingly concerned with how they look and feel. There is a wide array of opportunities to work in the public, private and voluntary sectors. By choosing to study this varied topic you will focus on the all-important physical and biological factors involved, whilst in the classroom and out on the sports field.

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Tapiwa Sibanda Sport

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Sports-mad Tapiwa – known as Tap to his mates – started Leek College three years ago with limited GCSEs. But he left on a high this summer with a place at Derby University to study Sports Therapy. Nineteen-year-old Tap, who loves playing football and basketball, but hates sitting exams, found his route to success through the College’s BTEC National Diploma in Sport. He enrolled at college straight from Painsley RC High School in Cheadle. Now, he will be spending his summer working at the Alton Towers theme park to save for his studies at Derby University. And he was happy to learn that, for the first year of his course, he will study at the university’s Buxton campus, just a short commute from his home in Leek

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The course is very practical, the work’s never boring and, best of all, it’s all coursework and, unlike A Levels, there’s no final exam at the end of it all.
 
I really enjoyed the course. The tutors are fantastic, I’ve made some great friends and I’ll be staying in touch with them because several of us have opted to carry on studying on the same course at Derby.
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Posted date 02/02/2012

As part of the governments pledge to inspire people to make sport happen at the local level, embedding the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic values in grass roots sport, 40,000 Sport Makers will be recruited and trained as the next generation of sports volunteers to organise and lead sporting activities.

Career Ideas

  • PE Teacher
  • Fitness Instructor
  • Public Services Worker
  • Sports Coach
  • Personal Trainer
  • Sports Centre Manager

Apprenticeships in Sport

Apprenticeships are not currently available in this subject area at Leek College, but please contact us to find out about future opportunities or visit National Apprenticeship Service to search for local vacancies.