Bodies influencing and promoting participation in physical activity as part of a balanced, active and healthy lifestyle; the promotion of health, fitness and wellbeing and/or sporting excellence: Candidates should be able to: knowledge and understanding of UK Sport; •demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the United Kingdom Sports Institute •demonstrate (UKSI) and devolved National Institutes of Sport; knowledge and understanding of home country organisations (Sport •demonstrate England, Sports Council Northern Ireland, sport , Sports Council for ); knowledge and understanding of current government and national •demonstrate governing body initiatives; evaluate critically initiatives that have an impact on young people’s aspirations and their • regular participation in physical activity in the . Excellence and participation in the UK . Candidates should be able to: sports development (the sports development pyramid; continuum from mass •explain participation to sporting excellence); opportunity, provision and esteem (with reference to both participation in •explain physical activity and the achievement of sporting excellence); critically social and cultural factors that affect participation in physical activity •evaluate and the achievement of sporting excellence by young people, the elderly, people with disabilities, women and ethnic minority groups; describe possible measures to increase participation in physical activity and • achievement of sporting excellence. Performance enhancing products . Candidates should be able to: the reasons for the use of drugs in sport; •explain the consequences of the use of drugs in sport (with particular reference to •describe health, wellbeing and role modelling for young people); possible solutions to the problem of the use of drugs in sport; •describe explain the impact on performance(s) in sport of modern technological products (with • reference to particular products and activities). Sport, sponsorship and the media . Candidates should be able to: the roles of the media (informing; educating; entertaining; advertising); •explain critically the impact of the media on sport (with particular reference to its role in •evaluate promoting balanced, active and healthy lifestyles and lifelong involvement in physical
Bodies influencing and promoting participation in physical activity as part of a balanced, active and healthy lifestyle; the promotion of health, fitness and wellbeing and/or sporting excellence: Candidates should be able to: •demonstrate knowledge and understanding of UK Sport; •demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the United Kingdom Sports Institute (UKSI) and devolved National Institutes of Sport; •demonstrate knowledge and understanding of home country organisations (Sport England, Sports Council Northern Ireland, sport , Sports Council for ); •demonstrate knowledge and understanding of current government and national governing body initiatives; • evaluate critically initiatives that have an impact on young people’s aspirations and their regular participation in physical activity in the . Excellence and participation in the UK . Candidates should be able to: •explain sports development (the sports development pyramid; continuum from mass participation to sporting excellence); •explain opportunity, provision and esteem (with reference to both participation in physical activity and the achievement of sporting excellence); •evaluate critically social and cultural factors that affect participation in physical activity and the achievement of sporting excellence by young people, the elderly, people with disabilities, women and ethnic minority groups; • describe possible measures to increase participation in physical activity and achievement of sporting excellence. Performance enhancing products . Candidates should be able to: •explain the reasons for the use of drugs in sport; •describe the consequences of the use of drugs in sport (with particular reference to health, wellbeing and role modelling for young people); •describe possible solutions to the problem of the use of drugs in sport; • explain the impact on performance(s) in sport of modern technological products (with reference to particular products and activities). Sport, sponsorship and the media . Candidates should be able to: •explain the roles of the media (informing; educating; entertaining; advertising); •evaluate critically the impact of the media on sport (with particular reference to its role in promoting balanced, active and healthy lifestyles and lifelong involvement in physical