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Diploma in Sport (Double)

The OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Diploma in Sport (Double) is a vocational / practical based course. It is designed to give students grounding into all areas of the sports industry. The course is designed to provide students with a broad understanding of the sports industry and the skills and knowledge required to pursue a career within the sports industry.

Qualifications & Assessments

Exam Board OCR
Level Level 3
Qualification Certificate / Extended Certificate / Technical Diploma
Assessment Method 100% Internal assessment (Grade subject to external moderation)
Entry Requirements Entry Requirements

Technical Diploma is 100% coursework and takes up 2 of your subject choices. Sport focuses on the skills, qualities and attributes that universities and employers demand of our students. This is a practical based subject with students developing professional, social and interaction skills between peers, teams and organisations in the local community. In Lower 6 students will study a range of units including anatomy and physiology, physiology of fitness, sports coaching and current issues in sport.

In their upper 6th will study another 6 units including sports injuries, organising events, practical individual sports and work experience. At the end of their upper 6th students will achieve the equivalent of a 2 A Levels.

Undergraduate courses in PE/Sport Science/Sport Studies/PE Teaching and Sports Apprenticeships.

Undergraduate courses in PE/Sport Science/Sport Studies/PE Teaching and Sports Apprenticeships.

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On Wednesday 19th June the media department took a group of students to visit the excellent facilities at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN)’s Media Factory. The students were given a tour of the facilities including a state of the art fully functioning TV studio.

Photograph of inside the Media Factory's TV studio control room.

You can never rely on the British weather, from pouring down rain, to beautiful blue sky, our L6 successfully completed their Duke of Edinburgh Gold practice expedition. What an amazing, all be it, wet, experience they had. Their resilience shown to keep going, support each other and work as a team to finish what was […]

Photoshop of students walking up a hill

After sadly losing our dear friend and colleague Grainne last year the Art & Design department are raising money for Sarcoma UK. Those of you that knew Grainne will know, she was energetic, loved life and the great outdoors and was always up for a challenge. So today (7th June) we are hiking 3560ft to […]

Photograph of the art department travelling to Snowdonia

In February this year, Aquinas College took part in some research led by Associate Professor Tomomi Ohba from Tama University in Japan. The research was looking at foreign language education across the world and Aquinas was one of the schools approached in the UK because of our teaching of Japanese. Classes were observed in all […]

Screenshot of the Japanese university zoom call.