Sport BTEC

Applications Open: - 17 November 2025

Applications Close: - May 2026

Entry Requirements: - 5 GCSEs at grade 4 including English Language or Literature, and Maths. There are some further entry requirements for specific courses.

How to Apply: - Please apply via KentChoices

Open Event: - Wednesday 12th November 2025 16.30-19:30 - talks at 17.30 and 18.30pm

This BTEC qualification is designed to provide highly specialist, work-related qualifications in a range of vocational sectors. It gives learners the knowledge, understanding and skills that they need to prepare for employment. This qualification provides career development opportunities for those already in work, and progression opportunities to higher education, degree and professional development programmes within the same or related areas of study, within universities and other institutions.

The Units covered in Sport are:

Unit 1 - Anatomy and Physiology

Unit 2 - Fitness Training and Programming for Health, Sport and Well-being

Unit 3 - Professional Development in the Sports Industry

Unit 4 - Sports Leadership

Sport is assessed by a combination of internally and externally assessed units.

Internally assessed units and subject to external standards verification:

• Unit 3: Professional Development in the Sports Industry

• Unit 4: Sports Leadership

Externally assessed units:

• Unit 1: Anatomy and Physiology: Written examination set and marked by Pearson

• Unit 2: Fitness Training and Programming for Health, Sport and Well-being: A task set and marked by Pearson and completed under supervised conditions. Part A, learners will be given a case study one week before a supervised assessment period in order to carry out preparation. In Part B, the supervised assessment period is 2.5 hours as timetabled by Pearson.

In the BTEC National units there are opportunities during the teaching and learning phase to give learners practice in developing employability skills.

In order to attend Meopham Sixth Form the minimum entry requirement is 5 level 4 GCSEs, including English Language and Mathematics.

A GCSE/BTEC Level 2 in Sport is not required and students will not be at a disadvantage if they do not hold a previous Sport qualification.

Studying Sport could be beneficial to careers in exercise physiology, personal training, sports therapy, coaching, fitness centre management and nutrition.