Sport and Fitness
Students benefited from a wide range of partnership
initiatives to promote, foster and develop sports
activities in communities across Ayrshire. Every
student at every course level was exposed to
working with diverse groups which enriched their
academic experience significantly. All sport and fitness
students delivered sport development activities to
pupils in primary, secondary and Additional Support
Needs schools via the pan-Ayrshire Active Schools
partnership.
HND Fitness students worked with KA Leisure staff and
customers on the practical delivery of Current Exercise
Trend, Fitness Assessment and Personal Training.
Students benefited from real world experience by
supporting their clients to meet their exercise and
wellbeing goals.
Scottish Disability Sport delivered specialist practical
workshops to students to show how sport can
overcome barriers. Students applied this learning in
volunteering opportunities, for example by working
with athletes with disabilities at Beith Astro, Ayrshire
Sportsability and in delivering activity sessions to
children with varied and complex additional needs at
Hayesholm School.
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Participation in a wide and varied range of community
projects and events enabled sports students to
develop strong UCAS applications for progressing to
university. Many students who continued from HNC to
HND successfully gained third year entry to university
to study BSc (Hons) Sport Coaching, BA/BSc (Hons)
Sport Development or a BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise
Science.
Improved links with South Ayrshire Active Schools
led to a consistent delivery model across Ayrshire,
providing students on all campuses with equal access
to community volunteering opportunities. Along with
a standardised curriculum and updated course design,
this contributed to a significant increase of 8.5% in HE
completed success rates to 73.6%
The contribution of students and staff in 2014-14 to
delivering innovation and excellence in supporting
communities was recognised at the SQA Star Awards
in November 2015 when they won awards for College
Candidate, SQA Champion