Overview
Availability
Years 9-10
Qualification
RoSA
Physical Activities and Sports Studies (PASS) offers a dynamic, hands-on view of sport snd movement, empowering students to build active, healthy lifestyles. The course embraces a wide range of lifelong pursuits—from recreational, leisure and adventure activities to competitive individual or team games and fitness.
PASS is widely recognised as one of the most enjoyable and highly practical courses on offer at Snowy Mountains Grammar School, we firmly believe in learning through movement. Most course concepts are explored directly on the field, court, or trail where students actively experience, examine, analyse and apply new skills in real time.
Students dive into diverse and engaging units such as Sports Coaching, Body Systems, Issues in Sport, and Sports Nutrition, with plenty of room to specialise, work toward personal performance goals, or pursue formal qualifications. A major highlight of the PASS experience is our action-packed annual 3-day excursion to Sydney, where students attend elite sporting events, tour premier facilities and experience professional sports culture firsthand.
Term 1
Module: Body Systems and energy for physical activity
This module outlines the importance of each system and explains how each system works together to allow the efficient movement of the human body. Students examine how the body works to use energy for efficient movement and the relationship of the body systems that function together to allow movement for physical activity to occur. Students will explore these concepts through practical laboratories.
Term 2
Module: Sports Coaching
This module develops skills in coaching and instruction. Students investigate qualities of effective coaching and assess their own and others’ coaching skills to become more effective coaches.
Students will have the opportunity to practically apply their coaching skills in real-life situations.
Term 3
Module: Technology, Participation and Performance – a | Project Based Learning initiative
This module explores the issues of using technology and evaluating its impact, and how to manage technology use in physical activity and sport.
Term 4
Module: Enhancing performance – strategies and techniques (SUP, Lawn Bowls, Bouldering)
This will be a largely practical module. Participants learn how they can change, try new things, practise, or give and take advice to enable them to be better at that activity or sport. This module outlines the importance of appreciating the importance of participating in outdoor leisure activities to improve holistic health and connect with the local community.