Physical Activity Project
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State Examinations Commission
Leaving Certificate Examination 2023
Physical Education
Higher and Ordinary Level
Physical Activity Project
Examination Number 6 Digit Number
Day and Month of Birth Format DD/MM
Information for Candidates
Physical Activity Project
The Physical Activity Project is worth 100 marks, which is 20% of the overall marks for Leaving Certificate Physical Education. You are required to complete a Physical Activity Project.
● Please note the following important information in relation to the selection of a physical activity and completion of the Physical Activity Project:
You may undertake the Physical Activity Project in the role of the performer or coach/ choreographer. If you choose to complete the project in either the role of coach or choreographer you must do so working with a peer in your class or club/group. A peer is understood to be a student in senior cycle. You must have the appropriate consents.
You may undertake the Physical Activity Project in an out of school setting with the co-operation of your school and teacher, provided that the physical activity concerned complies with the definition of competitive sport as outlined in the Irish Sports Council Act, 1999, and has a national governing body (NGB) affiliated to Sport Ireland.
You must complete the Physical Activity Project in a different physical activity area to the one selected by you for Performance Assessment.
Physical activities should be selected on the basis of what is practical and safe at the time in line with public health advice.
The Physical Activity Project must be completed on the physical activity in its entirety, and not a specific exercise or skill.
Please note it is not permissible to complete the physical activity project in a physical activity where the effort, exertion or power are generated by a source other than the performer, such as activities where power is generated by a motor vehicle e.g. motocross.
The same Physical Activity Project applies to Higher and Ordinary level candidates. You do not need to make a final decision about which level you are taking when you submit your project. Your project will be graded in line with the standards that apply to the level at which you take the final examination.
You must complete your finished report and present it to your teacher by the 20December 2021. The SEC will provide further information in relation to the appropriate file name to use and how to upload the digital coursework to the school portal in due course.
Completion of the report
Your report on your Physical Activity Project must be completed in this booklet, using the prescribed structure. The booklet has been supplied to you in Microsoft Word (.docx) format. You must submit your completed booklet in this format. It is your responsibility to ensure that all electronic material submitted is free from viruses etc., so that the file can be opened for assessment.
Examiners will only mark work that is submitted as outlined in this booklet.
The three sections of your project must not exceed a total length of 1600 words, excluding references and bibliography. The booklet gives a maximum number of words for each section of the report, and these are listed in the guidance on the report structure below. The total number of pages of your booklet must not exceed 28 pages.
You must not change the structure or format of the booklet in any way and should adhere to the following formatting guidelines:
The text should be in Arial, font size 12.
You may make use of text editing features such as italics, bullets, postscript, etc.
Document margins have been set and should not be changed. The text margins for each A4 page are:
Left, right and top margins 20 mm
Bottom margin 30 mm
You are not allowed to change these settings or otherwise circumvent these restrictions which are set to facilitate online marking. You are also not allowed to attach or include links to any other material.
An image can be any relevant graph, chart, diagram or photograph. They can be inserted in the appendices at the end of each section in this booklet. When referring in the body of the report, to any specific image, then the image must be properly labelled (figure 1, figure 2, etc.). You are not allowed to include picture collages. Images must not be used as a means to include additional text. The total number of images allowed throughout this booklet is 16.
Your coursework must be submitted digitally in a folder. The folder must contain the completed coursework booklet and three video files. The video files must be named Section A, Section B, and Section C. The section A video file must include video collected at the outset of the project to support performance analysis. The section B video file must include video collected to provide evidence of participating in the programme designed to enhance performance. The section C video file must include video collected to support the concluding analysis at the end of the programme. Further instructions in relation to the naming of your folder will issue to your school in due course.
Your three videos must be in mp4 format. Their combined length must not exceed 4 minutes in total and their three file sizes combined must not exceed 1 GB in total. This can readily be achieved by using standard definition (720 x 480) at 25 frames per second.
Please annotate your videos clearly, using voiceovers and/or subtitles. For example, you might include a voiceover saying “this section of the video shows evidence of ongoing training and practice for performance goal 1”. You are not allowed to include slides of text, images or audio reflections as part of your videos. You are not allowed to include video collages. Background music should only be used where it is a requirement of the physical activity selected, for example, rhythmic gymnastics.
You must be clearly identifiable in the video. This is of particular importance in physical activities where there is more than one person appearing in the video.
In the interest of equity and fairness to all candidates it is essential that you do not exceed the overall word count, number of images, page count, video duration or file size. Penalties may apply where the overall word count, number of images, page count, video duration or file size is exceeded.
At the end of the booklet, you must also include references and bibliography in the space provided. You must reference any information used in your report, such as: publications including books, professional journals and government reports; online sources and other types of media; specialist organisations and relevant individuals. To include such material without properly referencing the source will be considered plagiarism.
Candidates should keep all notes in relation to coursework (such as consent forms, records of the planning, research and execution of the project), until the appeals process has concluded. Such material may also need to be made available to staff of the State Examinations Commission if the authenticity of your work is called into question.
Your project must be backed up on a secure encrypted storage system until the State Examinations Commission is satisfied that the projects have been received and are accessible. This will require material being retained until the examination process is complete, including until after the appeal process is completed.
Authentication
The project and report must be your own individual work – authenticated by yourself, your teacher and the management authority of your school. Authentication is an important part of how we in the State Examinations Commission ensure fairness to everybody in the assessment of coursework.
Your teacher must supervise your completion of both the project and the reporting booklet. If your teacher cannot confirm that the project is your own work, and that you carried out the project and completed the report under his or her supervision, the State Examinations Commission will not accept it for assessment. In that case, you will forfeit the marks for this component of the examination. Teachers and the authorities of schools are familiar with the detailed requirements to ensure that practical and project work is valid for examination purposes. You should comply fully with all requests that are made by the teacher and the school in order to enable authentication of your work.
Any case of suspected copying, plagiarism, improper assistance, or procurement of work prepared by another party will be thoroughly investigated. These actions are breaches of examination rules and attract the penalties described in the Rules and Programme for Secondary Schools. The penalties include: loss of the marks for the coursework, loss of the subject, loss of the entire examination in all subjects, or being debarred from the Certificate Examinations in subsequent years. There may be serious consequences for any persons who provides you with inappropriate assistance, as this is an offence under the Education Act 1998.
Note: Responsibility for complying with examination requirements rests with you, the candidate. If the requirements are not followed, your teacher and school will have no choice but to bring this to the attention of the State Examinations Commission.
Project Structure
Section Content Marks
A Maximum 400 words approximately Performance Analysis Provide a summary of the performance analysis undertaken and the data collected. Analyse the performance – what the data tells you about your/peer’s performance based on sound theoretical principles. 22
B Maximum 800 words approximately Identification of three performance goals and evidence of on-going training/ practice and reflection Formulate three distinct performance goals. Explain the rationale for the selection of each of these three performance goals based on sound theoretical principles.Design and implement a training/practice programme which addresses the goals identified based on sound theoretical principles. Include three pieces of ongoing reflection – one reflection for each of the three performance goals focusing on your experience of working to improve your/peer’s performance by addressing each goal. 42
C Maximum 400 words approximately Concluding analysis Repeat the performance analysis process and provide a summary of results to evaluate your/ peer’s progress at the end of the programme.Complete a final reflection about the effectiveness of the programme. Each of the performance goals should be addressed in this context. Include suggestions for next steps for further improvement. 20
Overall coherence Relates to the overall preparation, planning, implementation and completion of the Physical Activity Project. 16
References and Bibliography Include full references for all sources cited in your report. You should also include details of additional sources of information that you have consulted but have not cited in your report.
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Project on Physical Activity
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Commission for State Examinations
Exam for the Leaving Certificate in 2023
Physical Education is an important part of a child’
Ordinary and Higher Level
Project on Physical Activity
Day and Month of Birth Format Examination Number 6 Digit Number 6 Digit Number 6 Digit Number 6 Digit Number 6 Digit Number 6 Digit Candidates’ DD/MM Information
Project on Physical Activity
The Physical Activity Project is worth 100 points, or 20% of the total grades for Physical Education in the Leaving Certificate. A Physical Activity Project is a requirement for you to fulfill.
● Please note the following important information in relation to the selection of a physical activity and completion of the Physical Activity Project:
You may undertake the Physical Activity Project in the role of the performer or coach/ choreographer. If you choose to complete the project in either the role of coach or choreographer you
