1. Social Groupings Task:
Name the sports you are interested in. Then decide who is responsible for getting you started/encouraged/influencing you?
Think in terms of groups: Peers/Family/Gender/Ethnicity, rather than naming individuals.

2. Create a Table for Positive and Negative effects + Examples
Positive Effects
Negative Effects
Example
Peers
Family
Gender
Ethnicity
There can be both positive and negative effects from each group.
Can you think of both and how they influence you?

3. Groupings Peers: people of the same age and status as you.
How much have peer groups shaped your sporting behaviour?

4. Family Positive effects
Level of support – financial for specialist kit, coaching, transport, support and watching them play.
Parents may be role models and child follows their path.
Negative effects
No money/ not prepared to support their child.
No interest/ sporting background.
They had negative experiences of sport when they were young.
Concerns about academic work.

5. GENDER
Women at the Olympic Games
776 BC Olympic rules forbid the men-only Games from taking place unless a priestess of Demeter is present.
1908 Yachtswoman Frances Clytie Rivett-Carnac and her husband win gold, making her the first woman in any event to win gold against men
1928 The collapse of several runners at the end of the 800m run (the first three women beating the world record) sees the race declared dangerous for women and banned.
1928 At the first post-war Olympics, Fanny Blankers-Koen of the Netherlands was the first mother to be successful at the Olympics. In achieving this success she breaks the social barrier that had previously discouraged women with children from participating in sport
1952 The first woman ever to compete in equestrian sport (against men) Lis Hartel, from Denmark, wins a silver medal
1964 Dawn Fraser becomes the only swimmer, male or female, to win the same event at three successive Olympics.

6. 1968 Enriquetta Basilio becomes the first woman to light the Olympic flame in the stadium; sex tests for women are introduced at the Mexico City Games
1976 Margret Murdock, of the United States, outshoots male rifle shooters to win
1984 Women’s cycling and marathon are added to the Olympic program
1988 Tennis returns to the Games, with the inequitable situation of fewer women than men being allowed to compete
1992 Women’s judo, a demonstration sport in 1988, becomes a fully fledged Olympic sport
1996 The 5000m and triple jump are added to the women’s athletic program
2000 Women’s water polo, triathlon, taekwondo and weightlifting are added to the Olympic program

7. Gender Now More opportunities. More sports available.
More roles, women officials, management roles examples.
Role models.
Do you feel that things are equal??

8. Ethnicity
Some cultures are against women taking part in PE on religious grounds due clothing and exposure.
Play ‘Just a minute’/Taboo