Home
Your courses
Click Apply nowabove and continue to stage 2 where you can review and choose your 1st choice course to apply for.
Sport and Physical Activity - Working in Sport and Leisure - Level 3
Start Date: 1st September 2025
Other start dates:
2nd September 2024
- Length 2 Years
- Study Full-Time
- Location Kidderminster College
More about the course
Our Sport and Physical Activity - Working in Sport and Leisure - Level 3 course is an advanced programme of study that combines the opportunity to study a Level 3 qualification while cultivating your sports industry knowledge with the chance to develop your overall fitness.
This course investigates current issues and principles around working in the sport and leisure sector, including sports coaching and development, fitness and programming, customer service in sports, physical activity, fitness testing, marketing skills and practical sports.
Throughout this course, you'll be provided with the knowledge and practical skills required to work in or study at higher levels in sports development, sports coaching, fitness instructing and physical education.
Entry requirements
- 5 GCSEs at grade 4/C or above, including English and maths.
What will I achieve?
Upon successful completion of this course, you will receive a Level 3 NCFE Diploma in Sport and Physical Activity.
What will I learn?
- Fitness training and programming
- Customer service in sports and physical activity
- Practical team sports
- Sports coaching
- Marketing skills for sports and physical activity
- Working in sport and leisure.
How is the course taught?
- Presentations
- Task-based exercises
- Practical demonstrations
- One-to-one support
- Tutorials and lectures.
This study programme will be taught over 12 hours across three days each week and will be delivered at Kidderminster College alongside local sporting facilities.
Classes generally run between 9am-4:15pm but may vary.
How am I assessed?
- Practical assignments
- Coursework
- Presentations
- Classwork.
Work experience opportunities
You'll undertake a 30-hour work experience placement as part of your course. This placement can be chosen by you to help you decide on the area you wish to progress into as a future career.
There will also be opportunities to visit local sporting and leisure facilities, receive guest talks from local sports industry experts and go on trips to relevant industry locations.
English and maths
If you're aged 16-18 and haven't achieved a GCSE grade 4/C in English and maths, you'll need to take English and maths classes alongside your programme of study.
English will be included through learning new terminology and being comfortable in creating presentations
Maths will be included through looking at and understanding statistics.
Where can I progress?
Upon completion of this course, you can go on to study the BSc (Hons) Sports Coaching offered by Worcester University, or similar subject degrees at a university of your choice.
Alternatively, you can also go on to work in the leisure industry and look at taking your personal training qualifications.
Get in Touch
Meet our tutors and students
Jerome Chambers
Tutor - SportI'm Jerome Chambers, the Sports Lecturer at Kidderminster College. My journey has been fuelled by a profound background in sports coaching and health & fitness. With a strong passion for education, I merge academic knowledge with practical experience gained over years in the field. My teaching style consists of a dynamic blend of sports sciences and coaching methodologies, aiming to equip students with a holistic understanding of the subject. My mission revolves around nurturing the upcoming generation of sports enthusiasts. I strive to inspire and guide students towards excellence in sports education through innovative teaching methods.
Sport
Gallery
What can I do with a qualification in Sport?
Daily tasks:
- Discusses performance problems with coaches, physiotherapists, dieticians and doctors.
- Maintains clothing and other specialised sporting equipment.
- Builds stamina, physical strength and agility through running, fitness exercises and weight training.
- Attends training sessions to develop skills and practice individual or team moves and tactics.
- Participates in exhibitions, pre-qualifying events, tournaments and competitions.
Powered by EMSI
Daily tasks:
- Manages the playing areas and competitors, starts race, competition or match and controls its progress according to established rules.
- Inspects and maintains specialised clothing and equipment.
- Understands health and safety aspects of various activities and ensures any statutory requirements are met.
- Provides information and develops facilities to encourage greater participation in sport, and to enhance the standards of participants.
- Deals with administrative aspects such as arranging matches, contests or appearances for athlete or team, and organising required transport and accommodation.
- Monitors and analyses technique and performance, and determines how future improvements can be made.
- Controls team selection and discipline and recruits ancillary staff such as coaches or physiotherapists.
- Coaches teams or individuals by demonstrating techniques and directing training and exercise sessions.
Powered by EMSI
Daily tasks:
- Understands the health and safety aspects of different forms of exercise and ensures that any statutory requirements are met.
- Plans and monitors personal fitness schedules.
- Ensures that clients do not injure themselves through over exertion or using incorrect training techniques.
- Demonstrates and leads fitness activities and supervises exercise classes.
- Devises programmes of training appropriate to the needs of clients with varying levels of strength, fitness and ability.
- Assesses the fitness levels of clients.
Powered by EMSI
Daily tasks:
- Serves food and beverages to passengers.
- Makes announcements to passengers and deals with enquiries.
- Receives passengers on ship, examines tickets and other documentation, directs them to their cabin and assists with any luggage.
- Completes way-bill at scheduled points on route and balances cash taken with tickets issued.
- Signals to driver when to stop and start bus, collects fares from passengers and issues tickets and changes destination indicators as necessary.
- Responds to enquiries and complaints, books excursions and other entertainment and provides other assistance and advice to holidaymakers.
- Makes local arrangements at stopover points for food and accommodation.
- Receives passengers, checks tickets and guides them to their seats, makes announcements regarding travel arrangements and places of interest, and deals with passengers.
- Observes regulations concerning the carrying capacity of vehicles and controls the boarding of passengers accordingly.
Powered by EMSI
What can I do with a qualification in Sport?
Physiotherapists
Sports Players
Daily tasks:
- Discusses performance problems with coaches, physiotherapists, dieticians and doctors.
- Maintains clothing and other specialised sporting equipment.
- Builds stamina, physical strength and agility through running, fitness exercises and weight training.
- Attends training sessions to develop skills and practice individual or team moves and tactics.
- Participates in exhibitions, pre-qualifying events, tournaments and competitions.
Powered by EMSI
Sports Coaches, Instructors and Officials
Daily tasks:
- Manages the playing areas and competitors, starts race, competition or match and controls its progress according to established rules.
- Inspects and maintains specialised clothing and equipment.
- Understands health and safety aspects of various activities and ensures any statutory requirements are met.
- Provides information and develops facilities to encourage greater participation in sport, and to enhance the standards of participants.
- Deals with administrative aspects such as arranging matches, contests or appearances for athlete or team, and organising required transport and accommodation.
- Monitors and analyses technique and performance, and determines how future improvements can be made.
- Controls team selection and discipline and recruits ancillary staff such as coaches or physiotherapists.
- Coaches teams or individuals by demonstrating techniques and directing training and exercise sessions.
Powered by EMSI
Fitness Instructors
Daily tasks:
- Understands the health and safety aspects of different forms of exercise and ensures that any statutory requirements are met.
- Plans and monitors personal fitness schedules.
- Ensures that clients do not injure themselves through over exertion or using incorrect training techniques.
- Demonstrates and leads fitness activities and supervises exercise classes.
- Devises programmes of training appropriate to the needs of clients with varying levels of strength, fitness and ability.
- Assesses the fitness levels of clients.
Powered by EMSI
Leisure and Travel Service Occupations
Daily tasks:
- Serves food and beverages to passengers.
- Makes announcements to passengers and deals with enquiries.
- Receives passengers on ship, examines tickets and other documentation, directs them to their cabin and assists with any luggage.
- Completes way-bill at scheduled points on route and balances cash taken with tickets issued.
- Signals to driver when to stop and start bus, collects fares from passengers and issues tickets and changes destination indicators as necessary.
- Responds to enquiries and complaints, books excursions and other entertainment and provides other assistance and advice to holidaymakers.
- Makes local arrangements at stopover points for food and accommodation.
- Receives passengers, checks tickets and guides them to their seats, makes announcements regarding travel arrangements and places of interest, and deals with passengers.
- Observes regulations concerning the carrying capacity of vehicles and controls the boarding of passengers accordingly.
Powered by EMSI
How To Apply For a Course
Work Experience - Student
Student Support
Levels Explained
What's happening?
Events
Course Added
This course has now been added to your basket. Please click below to apply now or contine browsing.
Apply Now