Evolution Education
Subject curriculum
Use sport as a pathway to engagement, health, leadership and recognised awards. At Key Stage 4, Sports Performance and Leadership builds young leaders half term by half term, with Ismail leading delivery.
Subject overview
Use sport as a pathway to engagement, health, leadership and recognised qualifications. Sports Performance and Leadership is not built around a single award. It develops confident young leaders and coaches through sport, then uses Sports Leaders, PE Life Skills and related certificates to accredit that learning.
Leadership styles, communication, session planning, the STEP framework, coaching and feedback, safeguarding and professional conduct, event leadership, fitness, teamwork and employability habits.
Practical leadership tasks each half term, plus three termly assessment windows for portfolio evidence, internal sign-off and awarding-organisation verification where required.
Sports Leaders Levels 1 and 2, PE Life Skills, FA EE Playmaker, Safeguarding in Sport, Basic Health and Safety, and optional Emergency First Aid, alongside BTEC Sport where studied.
College sport courses, coaching and fitness pathways, apprenticeships, public services, community leadership and lifelong healthy habits.
Fitness and discipline
From gym sessions to boxing, students learn discipline, teamwork and leadership in spaces designed for active learning.
Sport is not an add-on here. It is a pathway to engagement, health and recognised awards.
Key Stage 4
Six half-term units, delivered by Ismail. Autumn builds the leader. Spring builds the coach and the professional. Summer builds the event leader and the next step beyond sport. Every unit ends in a real task.
Skills, qualities and leadership styles. Culminating task: lead a warm-up and respond to feedback.
Session structure, risk assessment and the STEP framework. Culminating task: deliver a led activity with a plan.
Coaching versus instructing, constructive feedback and rapport. Culminating task: assessed coaching session.
Safeguarding, inclusion and professional boundaries. Culminating task: safeguarding assessment and conduct scenario.
Event roles, fair play and leadership under pressure. Culminating task: deliver and evaluate a live sporting event.
Transferable skills, CV, interview and destinations. Culminating task: portfolio sign-off and mock interview.
Assessment windows
Across the year, learners submit workbook and portfolio evidence in three windows. Ismail assesses against the award criteria. Quality of Education samples decisions for consistency. Awarding organisations moderate samples where required before certificates are claimed.
Session plans, risk assessments and early Sports Leaders Level 1 evidence, plus Basic Health and Safety where completed.
Safeguarding assessment, coaching evaluation and further Sports Leaders and FA EE Playmaker evidence.
Event evidence, logged leadership hours, completed portfolio, CV, and final Level 1 / Level 2 / PE Life Skills sign-off.
How we teach it
Ismail, our Sport and Vocational Teacher, leads Sports Performance and Leadership on the sports pathway. Teaching stays practical: short applied leadership tasks, peer feedback and real sessions with others.
Learning is adapted so every young person can take part. That can mean co-leading, visual prompts, shorter stages, or more challenge for those ready to organise a full event. Progress sits in the personal plan alongside English, mathematics and destination goals.
Safeguarding content is taught as a professional standard for young leaders, and is reviewed with our Designated Safeguarding Lead before it is delivered each year.
Personalisation
Every learner has a personal plan. Subject teaching is adapted to starting points, pathway goals and any extra support agreed with families and professionals.
Sport, mentoring and enrichment sit alongside subject study so young people can stay engaged and make progress that matters.
Assessment framework
Whole-school assessment journey
KS4 Personalised Pathways
Sports route
Leadership Skills Foundation
PE Life Skills and Sports Leaders
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Curriculum
KS3 and KS4 pathways
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For schools and local authorities
Places are arranged through schools and local authorities. Email admin@evolution-sportsgroup.com.
Partners
Group, charity, local authority and programme partners who help us deliver sport, learning and opportunity.
