Physical Education - Higher
SCQF Framework
SCQF Level: 6
SCQF Credit Points: 24
Skills Framework
Delivering Centre
Vale of Leven Academy
Purpose and Aims
- The course enables candidates to demonstrate and develop a broad and comprehensive range of complex skills in challenging contexts in physical activities.
- Candidates demonstrate initiative, decision making and problem solving by engaging in physical activities.
- Candidates develop the ability to use strategies to make appropriate decisions for effective performance. These strategies will be based on an analysis and understanding of the impact of mental, emotional, social and physical factors on performance.
- The course supports the way that individual attitudes, values and behaviours are formed by participating in physical education. The skills, knowledge and understanding that candidates acquire by successfully completing the course are transferable to learning, to life and to the world of work.
Recommended Entry
Candidates should have achieved the National 5 Physical Education course or equivalent qualifications and/or experience prior to starting this course.
Progression
Other qualifications in physical education or related areas
Further study, employment and/or training
Career Options
Further Information
Course Content
The course offers opportunities for personalisation and choice through the selection of physical activities.
The course consists of two areas of study: Factors impacting on performance Candidates develop knowledge and understanding of mental, emotional, social and physical factors that impact on personal performance in physical activities. Through collecting information, candidates consider how these factors can influence effectiveness in performance. They develop knowledge and understanding of a range of approaches for enhancing performance. Candidates select and apply these approaches to factors that impact on their personal performance.
Candidates create and implement Personal Development Plans (PDPs), modify these, and justify decisions relating to future personal development needs. Performance Candidates develop their ability to demonstrate a broad and comprehensive range of complex movement and performance skills through a range of physical activities. They select, demonstrate, apply and adapt these skills, and use them to make informed decisions.
They also develop their knowledge and understanding of how these skills combine to produce effective outcomes.
Candidates develop consistency, precision, control and fluency of movement. They also learn how to respond to, and meet, the demands of performance in a safe and effective way.
Course Assessment Structure
Question paper- 50 marks
The question paper assesses the candidates’ ability to integrate and apply knowledge and understanding from across the course.
It gives candidates an opportunity to demonstrate the following skills, knowledge and understanding: analysing factors that impact on performance
explaining a range of approaches for developing performance
analysing the recording, monitoring and evaluation of performance development
The question paper has a total mark allocation of 50 marks. This is 50% of the overall marks for the course assessment.
Performance- 60 marks
The performance assesses candidates’ ability to perform in two different physical activities. The context for each single performance event must set it apart from normal learning and teaching activities so that it is challenging, competitive and/or demanding.
This gives candidates an opportunity to demonstrate the following skills, knowledge and understanding:
repertoire of skills — a broad and comprehensive performance repertoire (including complex movement and performance skills)
control and fluency of complex movement and performance skills
effective decision making and problem solving
using and applying well established composition, tactics and roles
extent to which rules and regulations are followed and etiquette is displayed (including working with others)
extent to which emotions are controlled on the day of the performance
The performance has 60 marks out of a total of 110 marks. This is scaled by SQA to represent 50% of the overall marks for the course assessment. Each single performance event is marked out of 30.