Your Sport and Physical Activity offer holder day
Offer holder days provide the perfect opportunity to experience life at Edge Hill. Tailored to your chosen subject area, these exclusive events include subject sessions, campus tours, accommodation viewings, and a buzzing student experience fair. Discover everything Edge Hill has to offer and get a real feel for your future.
Select your chosen programme to find out more about your subject session.
Your offer holder day dates:
- Saturday 18 April
Your subject session:
Physical Education: Theory and Practice
This session will provide you with the opportunity to engage in a variety of practical activities in our award-winning facilities. You’ll gain knowledge and understanding of how physical education can holistically promote children’s and young people’s cognitive, affective, and social development through the medium of physical activity. The session will also highlight how physical education develops leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills through enjoyable and interactive activities. We’ll also provoke discussion surrounding your understanding of what physical education means, and we will discuss recent developments in physical education and school sport and the implications of these for you as future practitioners. The session will conclude by emphasising how studying for a degree in Physical Education and School Sport will prepare you with the skills, knowledge, and experiences needed to enhance your employability prospects and capabilities within schools as a physical education teacher.
You should be prepared to participate in practical physical activities.
Your offer holder day dates:
- Saturday 18 April
Your subject session:
Are you interested in learning more about the science behind sport and exercise?
During your session, our sport and exercise science team will give you an insight into the science of high-performance sport and how exercise is beneficial to health and wellbeing. Staff have interests in biomechanics, psychology, and physiology in an applied and multi-disciplinary context. So you’ll get to see how this will inform your own learning during your course, which is endorsed by the Chartered Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (CASES). This interactive laboratory-based session will provide you with an opportunity to experience some of the contemporary and innovative approaches to research and vocational practice that are undertaken in the Department of Sport and Physical Activity. You’ll be able to find out how the state-of-the-art laboratories can be used to enhance health and help prepare athletes for high-performance sport. You should come prepared to participate in some practical activity.
Your offer holder day dates:
- Saturday 18 April
Your subject session:
What is it like to study Sport, Health & Exercise Science
Our Health & Exercise Science staff would like to provide you with the opportunity to learn more about the Sport, Health & Exercise Science degree including topics and activities you would study as part of the degree. You’ll learn how we aim to combine theory and practice to develop community-based and scientific knowledge and/or consider some of the strategies employed when delivering exercise and health initiatives across the lifespan.
Your offer holder day dates:
- Saturday 18 April
Your subject session:
What is it like to study Sports Business Management?
Get some real-life experience of your degree programme with our dedicated staff. In this session, you’ll be introduced to several activities and topics which you will study as part of your sports business management degree. You’ll be introduced to new ideas and theories about sport and physical activity, along with key approaches to sports business management. We’ll think about what constitutes sport management and how we can strive for excellence in the sector. There’ll be some practical activity in our award-winning facilities, which will allow you to put into practice some of the exciting opportunities discussed. You’ll understand how to think differently and critically about sports business management, whilst being given a real insight into your programme of study.
Your offer holder day dates:
- Saturday 18 April
Your subject session:
What is it like to study Sports Coaching?
Coaching is different to teaching, it helps others to learn and develop and is a process that aims to improve this learning and/or performance of the individual, group, or team. You’ll be introduced to ideas and theories about sport and physical activity, along with key approaches to sports coaching. You’ll then investigate new ideas and strategies for sports coaching and will take part in a practical session in our award-winning facilities. You’ll use various technologies, and you’ll put your ideas into practice with our staff as facilitators. You’ll understand how to think differently and critically about sports coaching, whilst being given a real insight into your programme of study and the real world of sports coaching.
Your offer holder day dates:
- Saturday 18 April
Your subject session:
Are you interested in learning more about becoming a Graduate Sports Therapist?
During your visit, you’ll have the chance to apply specific practical skills informed by best practice. These are the skills you’ll gain whilst studying your programme, which is accredited by the Society of Sports Therapists. This interactive practical session provides you with an opportunity to experience some of the contemporary and innovative strategies employed when dealing with sports injury management and/or rehabilitation based on current evidence. You should come prepared to participate in some practical activity.
Please note: due to the dynamic nature of these events, information is subject to change.
