SPORTS AND SOCIETY

Hello everyone,

Sports and Society is part of the Physical Education Course and gives you the chance to look into Sporting History and Sporting Society. I hope you have fun researching the tasks and finding a little bit more about your favourite sports! Mr Holman

Firstly, you need to pick a sport of your choice which will be the same sport you will use as a focus throughout all of the tasks set below. You have free choice of sports so my advice is to look at the tasks below, make some notes and find a sport that can incorporate all the tasks! Popular sports which are quite easy to find information on are; Association Football, Rugby, Athletics, Cricket.

Task 1

Create a Sport Fact file for a sport of your choice. This can be done in any format that you want whether it be a Powerpoint, Word or even a Publisher document! Be creative! Please don’t make this a long piece of text, bullet points would be fine with clear presentation (use pictures!)

In this fact file here are some ideas of what you could include;

• A timeline of important events that have happened in that sport between 1800 and today. For example; you may include World Cups and their winners if you did Football. You may include key rule changes that happened e.g when Cricket introduced the 3^rd stump!
• The origin of the sport;
  • Where was the sport first played?
  • What did the sport look like in the 1800’s?
  • Was it around before the 1800s and what did it look like?
  • Who founded the sports association (FA, ICC, RFA etc)
  • How is the sport different today?
  • These are just a few of the pointers you can add so really get into the research and surprise me with some interesting information.

There are no specific websites for this as it depends what sport you are choosing. Just using Wikipedia is dangerous and could give the wrong information so be careful! Have a look below at the ‘useful links’ section.

Task 2

Choose an influential person in your chosen sport and create a profile for them. This could be done in the style of a facebook profile and I have give you a rough layout below. In the profile you must include;

• A picture of the person
• Where did they live?
• A little bit about them? What was their background?
• Why were they so influential – what did they do?
• How did they help develop the sport?
• You might decide to give them a friends section of people they worked with! Or have a photo page!
• Once again be creative and these are only a few pointers feel free to write more interesting information!
• This can again be done on Powerpoint, Word or Publisher.

Task 3

Third and final task, keeping in line with history of sport, you are going to find a sporting event in history or scandal that you are going to write a newspaper article about. Ideally for this you will need to use word or publisher. For this you will need to include;

• Who was involved?
• Dates of the event!
• Do you want to include a conspiracy story?
• Maybe include an interview with a local resident/ witness!
• What happened at the event?
• Was there any change because of the event happening?
• A catchy headline to make the reader want to read!
• Pictures of the event.
• Decide are you writing for a tabloid or broadsheet? Tabloid = less serious, Broadsheet = more serious! Not all of your article has to be 100% true as long as the facts are!

Useful Links and Documentaries

The English Game – Documentary on Netflix is very good for Association Football

Chariots of Fire – A great film for the History of Athletics. This is on Amazon Prime.

Tom Brown’s School Days – The whole film can be found on Youtube. The history of origin of lots of sports through public schools!

Rugby History Documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfiJ6jybzYU

Complete Football History Documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gij3guHfs3g

Sporting Scandals (A Top 10) - https://www.thegentlemansjournal.com/sporting-scandals/

 H555 – A-level Physical Education