Physical Education
National 4/National 5
Course Overview
AIMS OF THE COURSE
The purpose of the course is to enable candidates to demonstrate and develop movement and performance skills. By engaging in practical activities, candidates can demonstrate initiative, decision making and problem solving.
The course aims to enable candidates to:
· Develop the ability to safely perform a comprehensive range of movement and performance skills
· Understand factors that impact on personal performance in physical activities
· Build capacity to perform effectively
· Develop approaches to enhance personal performance
· Monitor, record and evaluate performance development
COURSE CONTENT
Performance – This aims to develop candidate’s ability to perform in physical activities by enabling them to acquire a comprehensive range of movement and performance skills. They can learn how to select, use, demonstrate and adapt these skills. Candidates develop the control fluency during movement to enable them to meet the physical demands of performance in a safe and effective way.
Factors Impacting on Performance – This aims to develop candidates knowledge and understanding of the factors that impact on performance in physical activities. Candidates consider the effects of mental, emotional, social and physical factors on performance, and acquire an understanding of how to plan, monitor, record and evaluate the process of performance development.
Faculty Principal Teacher
Mr B Petrie
Assessment Methods
Unit Assessment (National 4 Only)
The performance unit will be assessed through personal performance in 2 activities. The Factors Impacting performance unit will be assessed through completion of a project to improve personal performance and writing this up.
Course Assessment at both National 4 and National 5 will be assessed as follows:
National 4 – Candidates will be assessed in a whole performance situation.
Candidates will be assessed on their ability to Prepare for a performance, Perform and Evaluate the performance and this will be on a pass/fail basis.
National 5 – Course assessment comprises of a Performance and a Portfolio.
Portfolio – 60 marks – Submitted to SQA for marking. The purpose of the portfolio is to assess the candidate’s knowledge and understanding of the performance development process. It assess the candidate’s ability to integrate skills and apply knowledge and understanding from across the course.
Performance – 60 marks – The purpose of this component is to assess the candidate’s ability to effectively perform in two different physical activities. Each performance is a single event in a challenging, competitive and/or demanding context.
The performance assessment is two, one of performances from two different activities.
Learning and Teaching Approaches
Pupils will be taught in various different ways. In striving towards personal performance improvements students will often be taught in quite direct ways. At other times pupils will work individually and in small groups when analysing their performances in various forms.
This form of teaching will be more geared towards students discovering, through guidance, the different requirements of various tasks.
Progression Pathway
National 4 Pass:
National 5 Physical Education
Skills for Work Sport and Recreation
National 5 A or B: