Higher Physical Education

This explains the overall structure of the Course, including its purpose and aims and information on the skills, knowledge and understanding that will be developed.

• Higher Physical Education Course Specification
  Apr 2014

This explains the structure of the Course assessment; including the type and method of assessment. It also includes information on Course coverage.

• Higher Physical Education Course Assessment Specification
  April 2016

These provide an outline of what each Unit will cover within the Course and detail the Outcomes and Assessment Standards.

• Physical Education: Performance Skills (Higher) Unit Specification
  Apr 2014
• Physical Education: Factors Impacting on Performance (Higher) Unit Specification
  Apr 2014

These provide advice and guidance for teachers/lecturers on learning, teaching and assessment within the Course and its Units.

The following document contains the Course Support Notes and the Unit Support Notes for this Course. They can be printed together or separately.

• Higher Physical Education Course and Unit Support Notes
  Jun 2014

Case Study Support Notes

• Case Study Support Notes (which accompany the DVD) (212 KB)

These illustrate the standard, structure and requirements of the question papers learners will sit. These also include marking instructions.

• Question Paper Brief Physical Education
  April 2016
• Higher Physical Education Specimen Question Paper
  September 2015

Questions in the Higher Physical Education question paper will now be numbered sequentially throughout, as shown in the Exemplar Question Paper. The Specimen Question Paper will be updated to reflect this in due course.

Provides information on marking instructions and/or the coursework assessment task(s). It includes information that centres need to administer coursework and must be read in conjunction with the course specification.

• Guidance for Internally Assessed Coursework Component - Physical Education: Performance
  January 2018
• General assessment information for Higher Physical Education
  September 2015
• Guidance on conditions of assessment (409 KB)

Information on the production and submission of SQA-assessed coursework for National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher.

These documents contain details of Unit assessment task(s), show approaches to gathering evidence and how the evidence can be judged against the Outcomes and Assessment Standards. Teachers/lecturers can arrange access to these confidential documents through their SQA Co-ordinator.

• Physical Education Verification Key Messages Round 2
  May 2018
• 2017 Higher Physical Education Course Report October 2017
• 2016 Higher Physical Education Course Report October 2016
• 2015 Higher Physical Education Course Report Oct 2015
• Physical Education Verification Key Messages Round 2 May 2017
• Physical Education Verification Key Messages Round 1 March 2017
• Physical Education Verification Key Messages October 2016
• Physical Education Verification Key Messages October 2015

• Physical Education: Quality Assurance - external verification

• Activities for Assessment in PE research paper (113 KB)
• Activities for Assessment in PE guidance (96 KB)

Explains the structure of the Course, including its purpose and aims and information on the skills, knowledge and understanding that will be developed.

• Higher Physical Education Course Specification
  April 2018

Provides information on the performance of candidates - which is useful to teachers, lecturers and assessors in their preparation of candidates for future assessment.

• 2017 Higher Physical Education Course Report October 2017
• 2016 Higher Physical Education Course Report October 2016
• 2015 Higher Physical Education Course Report Oct 2015
• Physical Education Verification Key Messages Round 2 May 2017
• Physical Education Verification Key Messages Round 1 March 2017
• Physical Education Verification Key Messages October 2016
• Physical Education Verification Key Messages October 2015

• Physical Education: Quality Assurance - external verification

This section provides information on marking instructions and/or the coursework assessment task(s). It includes information that centres need to administer coursework and must be read in conjunction with the course specification.

• Coursework assessment task for Higher Physical Education
  June 2018

• Guidance on conditions of assessment

Information on the production and submission of SQA-assessed coursework for National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher.

• Producing and Submitting Coursework

• Examples of candidate evidence with commentaries
• Overview of course assessment - presentation with audio (8 minutes) (8.55 MB)
• Changes to published Understanding Standards materials for all subjects

Please note: Understanding Standards material is regularly reviewed to ensure it remains up to date.

More examples of candidate evidence and commentaries can be found on SQA’s secure website and you can access these through your SQA co-ordinator.

Additional CPD support

Where any particular areas of concern are identified, which are not addressed by our Understanding Standards events or support materials, we will offer free continuing professional development (CPD) training, subject to request. CPD support is subject-specific and can be tailored to cover one or more qualification level. To find out more about this service visit our CPD page.