This course is aimed at students who wish to progress to university to study Sport, PE Teaching, Sports Therapy or Sports Coaching, or alternatively go into employment. This course is 80% theory and includes 20% practical.
Over a two year course you will have the opportunity to develop employability skills and knowledge in the areas of fitness programming, sports coaching and sports massage. Many students who enjoy and successfully complete this course progress onto Higher Education or employment in sport. If you enjoy sport, and are looking to enhance your future chances of employment or higher education in the sport sector, this is the course for you.
Which course is for me?
Choosing whether you want to study A Levels, T Levels, a Vocational Course, or an Apprenticeship depends on many factors including what you want to be, how you like to work and your qualifications at GCSE level.
Overview
This course is aimed at students who wish to progress to university to study Sport, PE Teaching, Sports Therapy or Sports Coaching, or alternatively go into employment. This course is 80% theory and includes 20% practical.
The Extended Diploma in Sport Development, Coaching and Fitness is a non-examination course and enables you to confidently build upon your knowledge and progress through the course.
Some of the units studied are:
anatomy and physiology
fitness testing
sports nutrition
sports coaching
sports massage
work experience in sport
Entry Requirements
For our Advanced Vocational courses our entry requirements are a minimum of 5x GCSEs at Grade 4, Maths or English Language or Literature at Grade 4 and Grade 3 in the others.
Some courses and subjects will have additional specific entry requirements or require DBS clearance to undertake placements. Information about this can be found on the Apply Portal, and on your offer letter which you will receive after your interview.
How will I be assessed?
Assessment methods are varied to meet the needs of all students and to ensure a wide variety of employability skills are developed.
They include the following:
reports
essays
presentations
interviews
practical observations
History
Runshaw College was established in 1974. It initially began life catering solely for school leavers from Balshaw’s High School in Leyland, and Parklands High School in Chorley.
In the early years of its existence, the college gained a reputation for high-quality education and expanded at a gentle rate. Our students at Runshaw College always perform outstandingly well in their advanced level qualifications and that is certainly the case for Runshaw’s highly talented Class of 2023. Over 1000 A*/A grades were achieved by our A Level students. Overall, 95% of our Vocational students progressed to their chosen university.
Since 1974, six College Principals have worked incredibly hard to make Runshaw the success that it is.
The 1990s saw the college expand rapidly, as it undertook an extensive building programme (naming each new building after a place in the Lake District, the most recent of which is Buttermere – a nod to the trees and wildlife that make the campus so attractive) to accommodate increasing student numbers, as its reputation for high calibre teaching and strong exam results spread beyond the borders of South Ribble and Chorley.
It was during this phase, under the nationally recognised leadership of Principal Bernard O’Connell (who was later knighted for his services to education and to the college) that the college started to recruit in large numbers from surrounding towns of Blackburn, Wigan and Preston.
After the millennium, the college’s results went from strength to strength, and it achieved: Investors in People Awards, Grade 1 inspections and superb links with the country’s top universities, allowing the college to consistently have more than strong progression to the country’s elite universities including Oxford and Cambridge.
Today, Runshaw College has consolidated the previous 49 years of hard work and is now acknowledged as one of the finest providers of Further Education in the sector, attracting students from all around the North West now including Southport, Preston, Blackburn, Bolton and Wigan.
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