Faculty of Maths, Science, Sports and Leisure

BTEC First Diploma in Sport

Haringey Sixth Form Centre

White Hart Lane, Tottenham, London N17 8HR

Tel: 0208 376 6000 Fax: 0208 376 5999

www.haringey6.ac.uk

Welcome

Welcome to Haringey Sixth Form Centre and the Faculty of Maths, Science & Sports.

We hope that your experience here will be a positive and enjoyable one.

This handbook is provided to give you the information that you need to start your course and will also be useful throughout the time that you are studying here at the Centre. Your Personal Tutor will spend time during induction helping you to find out everything you need to know and part of this time will be spent looking through the handbook.

There are many people who are available to help you through your studies, their names and roles have been included in the handbook so that if the answers to your questions are not here you always have another way of finding them out.

You will also find important dates and deadlines for you to note and include in your Student Diary. It is essential that you stick closely to all course deadlines if you are to succeed and achieve your goals.

As with all organisations there are rules and procedures to follow. We hope that these have been made clear, but if you are not sure about any of them please refer to the relevant sec-tions in the handbook or ask your Personal Tutor.

Finally, in this handbook, you will find various sources of information and advice which are designed to help you achieve the best possible results and provide progression to careers and higher education. But, above all, this handbook is designed to help you to enjoy your time at Haringey Sixth Form Centre.

Contents

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1. Welcome Page 2

2. Contents Page Page 3

3. Staff names, roles and contact details Page 4

4. Aims and objectives of course Page 5

5. Course structure Pages 6

6. Assessment structure Pages 7

7. Progression Page 8

8. Study Centres Pages 9

9. Health and Safety Page 10

10. Cheating/Misconduct Page 11

11. Expectations Page 12

12. Presentation Page 13

13 Reading List Page 14

Staff Names, Roles and Contact Details

Staff Details:

The Centres number is:

Main Reception 020 8376 6000

Programme this number into your mobile phone and keep it safe at home. It is a good idea

to give it to your parent/carer as well.

Name Roles Phone

Extension

E-mail address

Kevin Browne Program

Area Man-

ager

5884 Kevin.browne@haringey6.ac.uk

Jennifer Mays-

mor—gee

PE Teacher 5885 Jennifer.maysmor-

gee@haringey6.ac.uk

Carlos Munoz PE Teacher 5886 Carlos.munoz@haringey6.ac.uk

Aims and Objectives

This course aims to develop knowledge and understanding of the Sports industry and the career within it. A strong interest in sport, sport science and the business of the sports in-dustry is essential and will determine success on the course.

BTEC Level 2 Diploma in Sport will provide a route into Further Education and on the BTEC National Certificate in Sport providing you have obtained a merit. It can also lead to careers and further training relating to Sports Coaching, Sports Massage Therapy, Fitness Instruc-tor, Nutritionist and Physiotherapy. It will also give you a good foundation in understanding many of the contemporary issues that relate to sport in the world.

Units are assessed by a variety of methods these include research, written assignments or practical tasks supported by written reports.

Course Structure

The course is made up of 12 units looking at a wide range of aspects of the sports and fit-ness industry. It is a practical, work related course where you learn to completing projects and assignments based on realistic workplace situations, activities and demands. As well as learning about the employment area you have chosen, you will develop the skills you need to start a career in the Industry. Completions of the following units are;

Fitness Training and Testing

Anatomy and Physiology

Practical Sports

Sport Nutrition

Exercise and Fitness Instruction

Technical and Tactical Awareness in Sport

Sports Development

The faculty work on a two semester timetable. This means that the year is divided into two equal halves of 18 weeks each. At the end of the 18 weeks the timetable for the units be-ing studied is complete and all coursework for those units must be submitted.

Your timetable will change at the end of January. Your study periods will remain the same, but the hours you are timetabled for each day may change – your classes may also begin earlier or finish later or vice-versa.

The advantage of working on a semester basis is that you complete assignments sooner and begin to ‘bank’ achievement and know exactly how you are progressing at an early stage. It does, however, mean that you must be well organised with your work and ensure that you work to the deadlines given to you by your subject tutors.

Assessment Structure

The course is assessed in a number of different ways.

Your work is assessed by the subject tutor responsible for the unit. It will be assessed ac-cording to the requirements and guidelines set by Edexcel, the awarding body. Assessment is then checked by a second tutor to ensure that our standards are correct and consistent. At least once a year a sample of work is checked by an External Verifier (EV) from Edexcel – the decisions of this person are final. The EV will write a report on the assessment of the sample units which may require additional work to be completed to ensure that national standards are met.

It is Centre policy to give you one opportunity to produce a final draft of work for assess-ment. This work should be produced in a style as if it is final; it is not a rough piece of work. Within two weeks you will receive this work back with feedback and you therefore should follow the guidance you are given to make improvements to your work. At this stage you will be given a deadline for final submission. Work will not be given back for any improvements after final submission, so you must make sure that it is accurate and of the highest quality you are capable of.

All units are graded at PASS, MERIT or DISTINCTION. A Pass is worth 2 points, a Merit is worth 4 and a Distinction gains 6 points.

There are twelve units to this course. You must gain a minimum of 72 points to gain a Pass grade, 96 to gain a Merit and 144 to be awarded a Distinction in the overall qualifica-tion.

Keep a record of how you are progressing this year.

Unit Grade Points

Fitness Testing and Training P / M / D 5 / 6 / 7

Anatomy and Physiology P / M / D 5 / 6 / 7

Practical Sports P / M / D 5 / 6 / 7

Sports Nutrition P / M / D 5 / 6 / 7

Exercise and Fitness Instruction P / M / D 5 / 6 / 7

Technical/tactical awareness in sport P / M / D 5 / 6 / 7

Sports Development P / M / D 5 / 6 / 7

Progression

Progression

This is a ONE year course. To return to the centre next September and be entered on to a level 3 programme you must meet the following requirements:

Achieve a Merit grade or higher in all Year 1 assignments

Attend and pass functional English

Have a minimum of 95% attendance and punctuality throughout the year

Have a good reference from your Personal Tutor.

After the successful completion of this course you could follow one of three routes:

1. Employment – this could be in the sporting area or in any other vocational field as this is a recognised Level 3 qualification.

2. Training – you could begin an apprenticeship with an employer or training or-ganisation which will lead to you gaining specific vocational qualifications such as NVQs (National Vocational Qualifications).

You should be thinking about progression from now onwards. It is essential that you plan ahead, don’t leave things until the last minute – places may have been filled if you leave it.

Study Centres

What the Study Centres can provide to support you

Opening Times

Open from: 09:00 -17:00 Monday to Thursday

09:00-15:00 on Friday

Study Centre will be available for Faculty students to work individually or in small groups on assignments and research tasks. The Study Centre is set up with a suite of PCs and a range of work and reading space.

At most times a member of staff will be present to support you and help them with any ques-tions that you may have about your work or about science or maths in general.

The PC network has been set up with a range of useful software designed for use with spe-cific courses or more generally for revision etc. The Centre VLE is also accessible on the net-work with a range of information and activities for students to use in relation to their courses.

Recommended textbooks and other texts that will provide support for your studies will be kept within the book stock in the Study Centre for students to read and refer to whilst working in it. These are not to be taken out of the Centre or used at home. If you would like advice on how to borrow or obtain particular texts or sources of information then please ask a member of staff.

Relevant web-sites and reading material will be provided & regularly updated so that students and staff can research a particular topic or look for inspiration and ideas.

Health and Safety

All students are required to strictly follow all Centre Health and Safety policies and proce-dures. You can read about these in your Student Diary or on the Centre’s Virtual Learning Environment.

Very often you will be given instructions by your Personal Tutor or subject teachers about safety issues within particular areas. You should pay particular attention to the location of fire escapes and fire escape routes which are signposted around the site.

Students on certain courses or subjects will have certain specific health & safety rules and procedures to learn.

Health and Safety-Sports Hall

All participants must follow the below regulation

All students must be accompanied by a member of staff into the Sports Hall

All students must be dressed appropriately lose clothing, tracksuit, trainers etc.

No jeans or outdoor shoes.

No jewellery except studs or small ear rings. Bracelets, chains and rings must be re-moved.

Inappropriate behaviour by participants will not be tolerated and will be asked to leave.

Equipment must be used for the purpose it’s intended for.

No food or drink to be taken into the Sports Hall.

No music to be played publicly

Cheating/Misconduct

The work you submit for assessment must be your own and you are required to sign the box on the assessment front sheet to confirm that this is the case. If you use information word for word from an information source you must clearly show that you have done so by quoting a reference for the source in a bibliography. Where misconduct is suspected, an investigation will take place which, if upheld, can lead to disciplinary action and the non-awarding of qualifications. Please see the Centre’s Assessment and Internal Verification Policy on Fronter for more details. Student misconduct covers a range of offences including (but not only) the following:

Plagiarism: taking someone else’s work, images or ideas and passing them off as your own: thereby not properly ac-knowledging the original source. This particularly relates to material downloaded from the Internet or copied from books

Copying the work of other students with or without their permission and knowingly, allowing another student to copy

your own work.

Collaborating with other students to produce work, which is then submitted individually (except where this is specifically required/allowed by the assessment criteria)

Submitting work done by another student as your own

Appeals If you do not agree with the assessment of your work you may appeal as follows: Stage 1 Speak to your unit teacher. If you are still unhappy then: Stage 2 Speak to your tutor who should be able to help you. If you are still not satisfied: Stage 3 Speak to the Programme Manager who will attempt to provide a solution Stage 4 Consult the Internal Verifier for the unit Stage 5 If you are still not satisfied then use the formal appeals procedure as described in the Assessment and Internal

Verification Policy (and summarised below) Formal appeals procedures

Ask the Internal Verifier, in writing, for a re-assessment. This must be done within 10 working days of receiving the original assessment result.

The Assistant Principal (Teaching and Learning) and Internal Programme Verifier will try to resolve the situation through negotiation between the assessor and the candidate. If it is not possible to reach an agreement, the As-sistant Principal and the Internal Verifier will set a date for the Internal Verification Appeals Panel to meet (comprising at least 3 members where at least one member is independent of the assessment decisions).

The Internal Verification Appeals Panel will normally meet within 2 weeks of the receipt of the appeal by the Internal Programme Verifier, with re-assessment, if deemed necessary by the panel, taking place within 15 working days of the Appeals Panel meeting.

d) The outcome of the appeal may be:

Confirmation of original decision;

A re-assessment by an independent assessor;

An opportunity to resubmit for assessment within a revised agreed timescale.

Expectations

You are expected to attend every session on the timetable. Each course has a Study Period which is available for you to work on assignments in the Centre. The Learning Resourse Cen-tre is open every day, so you can come in and use the computers or research in the library. A learning mentor will also be available to assist with your work in the sports study Centre.

Registers are taken at the beginning of each class. They are scanned by a computer and an attendance record for each student is generated. Personal Tutors will be alerted on a regular basis to any problems regarding attendance and punctuality. Problems of attendance and/or punctuality are dealt with through the Centres disciplinary procedures (see student diary ).

Appointments should be avoided during College time. Dental, Optician and GP appointments can always be arranged for late afternoons, evenings and weekends. If you miss classes due to one of these appointments it will be counted as an Explained Absence (but this is not an authorised absence for EMA purposes). Hospital appointments and interviews with legal rep-resentatives are considered as Authorised Absences for EMA purposes, but only if a copy of the appointment card or letter is given to your Personal Tutor and scanned into the register system prior to your intended absence. Please check with your Personal Tutor if you are un-sure about any of this.

Why is your punctuality and attendance so important?

If you are not in class, you are not learning. You are instantly putting yourself at a disad-

vantage to other students.

You are preparing yourself for the world of work. No employer is going to accept poor

levels of attendance or punctuality - we are preparing you for the world of work.

If you arrive late to class you are disturbing the learning of others.

If you are absent you may find it difficult to understand the work in future lessons as you

will be without the foundations which had been covered in the class for which you were ab-sent.

Your work will be assessed according to the standards required by the examination bodies, we cannot take absence into account – if it doesn’t meet the standard, it doesn’t achieve the grade.

Presentation

Presentation of Work

Where possible, you should aim to word process all of your assignments. Make sure that you save all of your work both on your hard drive and/or user area and onto a disk, don’t just rely on one means of storage. Lost work on a computer system is not a valid reason for an ex-tension to a deadline.

The work you submit for assessment should always be of the highest standard you are capa-ble of. You are not however marked or graded on how ‘pretty’ it looks. The use of colour paper, irrelevant graphs, maps, photographs, etc. will not add to the quality of your assign-ment. If you include irrelevant material or focus on presentation rather than quality you will be wasting your time and could produce a piece of work of a standard much lower than you think it is worth.

Please note the following points for presentation of work:

Use only A4 paper (unless you are informed differently)

Your name must be on each sheet of paper

There must be a title page / cover for each whole unit (not individual tasks)

Include a contents page

Sub-titles and headings should be used in your work to separate tasks and ideas

Give all diagrams, maps, graphs and tables a figure number and title

At the end of your assignment include a bibliography (a list of the sources of information

you have used to complete the assignment)

The whole assignment should be hole-punched and presented in one plastic wallet or file. Do not use individual plastic wallets or ring binders.

Time will be spent in tutorials and classes in the coming weeks to show you how to present your assignments.

At the end of each semester your completed assignments will be added to your Professional Portfolio which is stored within the Faculty. We have to hold onto this until the end of the course in case it is called for by Edexcel. Your portfolio will be handed to you along with your certificate at the Centre’s annual Presentation Evening.

Plagiarism is a term you may not be familiar with – it means copying. You will not gain any credit for copying from source material – books, magazines, websites, newspaper articles, etc. If you find a piece of source material very useful and feel that you wish to use it, you may, but it must be quoted and its source stated alongside the quote. You will be shown how to quote and reference work during tutorials and classes in the coming weeks.

Reading List

As well as the course text books this is a list of additional sources of information you may find of use.

Books

LeQuesne S- Nutrition A Practical Approach (Thomson Learning, 2003)

McArdle W et al – Sports and Excercise Nutrition ( Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2005)

Collins M – Examining Sports Development (Routledge, 2006)

Honeybourne J – BTEC National Sport (Nelson Thornes, 2003)

Websites

www.bases.org - British association of Sport and Exercise Science.

www.nutrition-org.uk - British Nutrition Foundation

www.foodstandards.gov.uk - Food Standards Agency

www.olympics.org - British Olympic Association

www.ilam.org.uk - Institute of Sport and Recreation Management

www.sportengland.org - Sport England