Sports Participation GCSE Physical Education

What does PESSCL stand for, what does Sport England do and what is the Active Kids Program?

PESSCL

• PE and Sport School Club Links.
• School and clubs work together to increase the participation in sports.

Sport England

• Start - increase participation in sport to increase the good health in the nation.
• Stay - use clubs, facilities, coaches + volunteers to keep people in sport.
• Suceed - acheive sporting sucess at every level.

Active Kids Program

• Various supermarkets give out vouchers
• Parents and the public collect them and donate them to schools
• School can buy sporting equipment with the vouchers.
  

What are the 5 factors that effect participation?

• People - family, peers and rolemodels.
• Image - fashion and media coverage
• Cultural - disability, age, race, gender
• Health and wellbeing - Ilness and healthproblems
• Socio-economics - cost, status.
  

What are the 5 reasons for taking part in sport?

• Co-operation - team work, working together and team games.
• Competition - mental challenge and adrenaline.
• Physical challenge - attempting something seemingly impossible.
• Aethetic appreciation - seeing the 'beauty' is sport.
• The development of friends and social mixing - involvement with other people.
  

What are the benefits of sports participation?

• To increase fitness - increase physical fitness and lose weight.
• The help the individual feel good - serotonin is released, helps people gain confidence and makes people feel better about their looks.
• To relieve stress and tension - distraction from daily stresses, allow aggression to be released through sport, will reduce muscle tension and help people sleep better.
• To increase self-esteem and confidence - sense of acheivment, acheiving something difficult, helps people believe in themselves.
• To improve health - helps people cope with illness better, keep organs in good condition and helps people be less prone to injury.
• For enjoyment - different people have different ways of enjoying physical activity, some like competition, some like meeting new people and some people like the adrenaline rush of risky activities.
• For a mental challenge - people gain satisfaction from sucess and is for people who really want to improve their sports.