Physical Education
Physical Education acts as a stimulus for personal achievement, and this makes it an ideal platform for developing confidence, resilience, responsibility and working co-operatively with others. The courses also promotes mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing.
07-JUN-2024
Following recommendations from our colleagues at Scottish Disability Sport, we've updated the acceptable activities across our Physical Education courses to include boccia and goalball.
This will help make our Physical Education courses more accessible to all learners, and we hope it will encourage more disabled learners to study National Qualifications in Physical Education.
We’ve updated the National 3 and National 4 course support notes, and the National 5 to Advanced Higher performance coursework assessment tasks and course specifications to reflect this change. Please note:
- Para versions of each activity on the list are also acceptable.
- Wheelchair and/or powerchair activities can only be chosen by learners with physical disabilities who use a wheelchair and/or powerchair to take part in sport and physical activity.
- Goalball can only be chosen by learners with a severe visual impairment.
- Boccia can only be chosen by learners with profound physical disabilities.
The updated documents are dated May 2024 and are valid from session 2024-25.
We’re continuing to meet with Scottish Disability Sport on a regular basis.
View our news article – Update on National Courses for session 2024-25 onwards (13 March 2024).
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