National 3 Practical Craft Skills

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.

• N3 Practical Craft Skills Course Specification
  Apr 2012

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

• Practical Craft Skills Making an Item (National 3) Unit Specification
  September 2018
• Practical Craft Skills Working with Materials (National 3) Unit Specification
  September 2018
• Practical Craft Skills Working with Tools (National 3) Unit Specification
  September 2018

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

• National 3 Practical Craft Skills Course and Unit Support Notes
  Apr 2012

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.

Qualification Verification Summary Reports distil messages from verification activity from a given session. In 2020 not all planned activity took place, so reports have a more limited scope than in previous years.

• Practical Craft Skills Verification Key Messages Round 1
  March 2017
• Practical Craft Skills Verifications Summary Report June 2019
  June 2019
• Practical Woodworking Qualification Verification Summary Report
  July 2020
• Practical Woodworking Verification Key Messages Round 1 March 2018

• Practical Craft Skills: Quality Assurance - external verification