Level 3 Cambridge Technical

Applications Open: - 3rd November 2025

Applications Close: - To be confirmed

Entry Requirements: - 5 GCSEs Grade 9-4 - Some requirements vary slightly dependent on course.

How to Apply: - Please apply via Applica here

About the Course

Board: OCR (Cambridge Technical Level 3)

Sport is one of the fastest growing industries in the UK and it is not just about being a professional performer. There’s a huge range of professions within sport, from grassroots through to international level, covering areas such as nutrition, marketing, therapy and coaching.

This course offers students; an exciting, inspiring and challenging qualification that develops transferable skills essential to the work place or for further study.

The course offers a wide range of units such as Sports coaching and leadership, sports organisation and development, performance analysis in sport and exercise and nutrition and diet for sport and exercise – providing students with the opportunity to acquire a range of transferable skills and knowledge areas from all aspects of sport.

Both qualifications will give learners an understanding of sport in the wider contexts of coaching, anatomy and physiology, the structure of sport in the UK and the organisations involved, the effects of physical activity on the body and safe practice in sport and leisure. Learners will also develop skills such as coaching skills for sport and the ability to conduct risk assessments as well as transferable skills such as planning, communication, adaptability and leadership

Units of Study

Cambridge Technical Extended Certificate in Sport and Physical Activity

2 x 90 GLH units, 1 x 60 GLH and an appropriate combination of 30 GLH and 60 GLH units – two externally examined units and a choice of centre assessed units moderated by OCR). Learners will take between five and six units made up of mandatory and optional units:

Everybody will study the following mandatory units:

Body systems and the effects of physical activity

Sports coaching and leadership

Sports organisation and development

There will be a practical element to this course which will involve students practicing and developing sports skills in both a team and individual setting.

Along with the mandatory units and practical unit, students will study at least one of the units below:

Performance analysis in sport and exercise

Organisation of sport events

Nutrition and diet for sport and exercise

Sports injuries and rehabilitation

Sport and exercise psychology

Sport and exercise sociology

2 x 90 GLH units, 1 x 60 GLH and an appropriate combination of 30 GLH and 60 GLH units – two externally examined units and a choice of centre assessed units moderated by OCR). Learners will take between five and six units made up of mandatory and optional units.

Five Grades 9 to 4 at GCSE. Students must have studied PE or Sport at GCSE or Level 2 and have achieved at least a Grade 4.

Pathways • Enter employment and training, e.g. senior play worker, personal trainer, safety steward, head groundskeeper, outdoor instructor, coach, fitness instructor, gym manager, youth support worker. • Undertake an Advanced Apprenticeship, e.g. coaching, teaching and instructing, instructing physical activity and exercise, outdoor education development training and recreation, sports development, leisure management, youth work, spectator safety, activity leadership. • Progress to further education (Higher National Diplomas/Certificates) • Progress to higher education (Foundation and Honours degrees) e.g. sports science, sports development, sports management, health promotion, physiotherapist, occupational therapist,