Year 9 Sports Science

Week beginning 20th July

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Learning intentions

  • To understand the characteristics of Anaerobic and Aerobic exercise.

Total study time this week: 1 hours

Office hours

If you have any questions or need support, we will be running a live email Q&A at the time shown below.

  • Teacher: Mr Turner (aturner@q3academy.org.uk)

  • Office hours: Wednesday 12-1pm


Understanding aerobic and anaerobic exercise.

  • Open up the PowerPoint on the right.

  • Click on the links to gain an understanding, and make notes on the differences between the two.

  • Complete the task, placing the 10 sports on the continuum.

Aerobic Anaerobic sports.pptx

Tasks to be submitted by 4pm on Friday:

  • Email your completed table to Mr Turner

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Learning intentions

  • To define and understand the components of fitness.

  • To apply knowledge of components of fitness to your own sporting performance.

Total study time this week: 2 hours

Office hours

If you have any questions or need support, we will be running a live email Q&A at the time shown below.

  • Teacher: Mr Turner (aturner@q3academy.org.uk)

  • Office hours: Wednesday 12-1pm


Understanding the Components of Fitness

  • Open up the word document on the right.

  • Read the introduction paragraph.

  • Follow the document and complete the two tables within it fully.

  • For support, click these links BBC Bitesize / BrianMac. Or you can search 'components of fitness' and a huge number of results will appear which may further cement your understanding.

  • When you have completed the work, email it to Mr Turner (aturner@q3academy.org.uk) by Friday at 4:00pm.

Year 9 lesson 1 - 1st June 2020.docx

Tasks to be submitted by 4pm on Friday:

  • Email your completed table to Mr Turner

Previous weeks work

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Learning intentions

  • Apply knowledge of sports injuries to write a newspaper article.

Total study time this week: 1.5 hours

Office hours

If you have any questions or need support, we will be running a live email Q&A at the time shown below.

  • Teacher: Mr Turner (aturner@q3academy.org.uk)

  • Office hours: Wednesday 12-1pm


Two weeks ago you researched three different sports injuries. This week you will create a newspaper front page and write an article detailing your favourite sports star who has suffered one of these injuries:

o soft tissue injuries, i.e. sprains, strains

o overuse injuries, i.e. tendonitis, tennis elbow, golfers elbow, shin splints

o fractures, i.e. open, closed

o concussion

Use the template attached on the right to put your own newspaper name, headline, pictures and text in.

Your article must contain these four success criteria:

  1. How the injury happened?

  2. What were the symptoms (how did the performer feel)?

  3. What treatment was given?

  4. How long will recovery take (when can they perform again)?

3_Newspaper front page.docx

This week's video seminar

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Learning intentions

  • To understand three common medial conditions

Total study time this week: 1.5 hours

Office hours

If you have any questions or need support, we will be running a live email Q&A at the time shown below.

  • Teacher: Mr Turner (aturner@q3academy.org.uk)

  • Office hours: Wednesday 12-1pm


The course you will be studying is the OCR Cambridge National in Sports Science.

For the next few weeks we will be looking at Unit 1 - Sports Injuries.

This week's video seminar

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Learning intentions

  • To understand the symptoms and treatment of three sports injuries

Total study time this week: 1 hour

Office hours

If you have any questions or need support, we will be running a live email Q&A at the time shown below.

  • Teacher: Mr Turner (aturner@q3academy.org.uk)

  • Office hours: Wednesday 12-1pm


The course you will be studying is the OCR Cambridge National in Sports Science.

This week, we will be having a look at Unit 1 - Sports Injuries.

Within this unit you will learn about a number of different sports injuries.

Your task this week is to complete the table attached on the right.

Select a sport, and then choose three injuries that are likely to occur within that sport from the list below

o soft tissue injuries, i.e. sprains, strains

o overuse injuries, i.e. tendonitis, tennis elbow, golfers elbow, shin splints

o fractures, i.e. open, closed

o concussion

o abrasions, i.e. grazes and cuts

o contusions, i.e. bruises

o blisters

o cramp

o injuries related to children (e.g. severs diseases, Osgood Schlatter’s disease)


1_sports injuries table.docx