The Diploma in Sport and Active Leisure

The Diploma has been developed mainly for 14- to 19-year-olds, to promote diversity,
opportunity and inclusion by offering high-quality, credible, work-related learning opportunities.

It provides an exciting, stretching and relevant programme of learning for all young people,
with pathways to accommodate a wide range of aspirations.

All Diplomas have three interlinked components.

• Principal learning serves to engage young people’s interest in a particular line of
  learning and to develop the knowledge, skills and understanding associated with that
  sector or subject, including its social, political, economic and environmental
  dimensions.
• Generic learning develops the general skills for learning, employability and personal
  capability that can be applied within the sector or subject, and more widely.
• Additional and specialist learning (ASL) enables learners to deepen sector or subject
  learning and to broaden their curriculum by taking complementary qualifications.
  Coherence is promoted through the active involvement of learners in planning and reviewing
  their different experiences, with time and support to help them to understand, manage and get the most from their Diploma programme.