Sport & Exercise Sciences Schools Conference

The Sport and Exercise Science Department pride themselves on the links that they develop with local schools and are particularly pleased to offer an annual Sport and Exercises Sciences Schools Conference for AS and A2 students studying Sport and PE. This multi-disciplinary conference day is designed to support current AS and A2 students with curriculum topics through practical application, offering an informative, valuable and unique applied learning experience, while giving students an insight into what studying Sport and Exercise Sciences is really like.

The day is organised in the form of four workshops for AS/A2 students to attend, each of them with relevance to their current AS and A2 level curriculum, including Physiology, Psychology, Biomechanics and Sociology.

2011 Schools Conference

This year’s conference will took place on Tuesday 1st November and welcomed over 80 students from High schools and Sixth Form Colleges from local region. The students attended sessions in Biomechanics, Exercise Physiology, Sociology of Sport and Sport and Exercise Psychology which focussed on the following themes:

Biomechanics: ‘How Newton’s Laws influence our athletes and their equipment’

Exercise Physiology: ‘Energy systems brought to life’

Sociology of Sport and Exercise: ‘Drugs in sports and raising participation in sport’

Sport and Exercise Psychology: ‘The Dynavision Challenge; How will you respond to your emotions?’

 

Testimonials

The day was a great success. We received a really positive response from the students and teachers attending the conference.

"I'd like to thank you again for all your efforts yesterday. The feedback from the pupils has been really positive and I'm sure they have a greater understanding of certain topics now with the help of some of the sessions.All the staff involved were excellent and the students/guides gave great advice and answered some of the questions about the uni that our guys didn't want to ask the staff".

Stephen Smith (PE Teacher, Calday Grange Grammar School, Wirral) 

"I just wanted to say a massive thankyou for hosting us the other day, the group had a great time and got a lot out of it. You even managed to convince 2 who weren't thinking about uni to change their minds. Please say a big thankyou to all your team for making us feel welcome, especially the student helpers. Many thanks, and hopefully we will be able to come again next year."

Jim Granger (PE Teacher, The Grove School, Market Drayton)

"The staff had obviously considered the A level specification when putting together these extremely interesting and relevant hands on sessions. The students had a great day, I picked up some good ideas and we will definitely be back next year."

Pat Riley (Head of PE, Birkenhead 6th Form College, Wirral)