EPQ Presentation Sepr 2010 - The Grange School Blogs

THE EXTENDED PROJECT
QUALIFICATION
EPQ
•

The Extended Project qualification
is a Level 3 stand-alone
qualification
(equivalent to an AS)

Who can do an EPQ?
• Any of you can choose to do an EPQ – it will
help your University application and future
employment opportunities
• Year 12’s – if you are only doing 3 AS’s (or less)
you HAVE to do an EPQ
• Year 13/14’s – if you are only doing 2 A level
courses (or less) you HAVE to do an EPQ

Points for the Extended Project for entry into higher education.
• Extended Project (Stand alone)*
• GradeTariff Points
• A*70
• A60
• B50
• C40
• D30
• E20

When do I do my EPQ?
TAUGHT SESSIONS
• Year 12s and some Year 13s - Wednesday
afternoons L5/6 – when you will be
supervised by LSe or DC
• Year 13s (most)– Friday mornings when you
will be supervised by JB
• BUT the majority of work needs to be done in
your own time e.g. at home.

Choosing Project Title
• It is very important that you choose a
suitable project and your project
supervisors will help you with this.
• If possible it should relate to one or more
of your other subjects
• All projects have to be approved by LSe

YOU CAN CHOOSE TO…
• explore a further aspect of a subject
you are studying

IDEALLY, YOU WILL…
• combine 2 or more of your subjects
• relate your project choice to interests
and concerns
• think about your future progression
when choosing a project

WHEN IDENTIFYING A
PROJECT…
• you will have a high degree
of choice and flexibility
• you will have the advice and
support of a supervisor
(JB,DC or LSe)

YOUR FINISHED PROJECT
COULD BE…
• a written report or extended essay
• a book or guide
• a performance
• a website
• a piece of art or other physical object
• a community or citizenship project
• a piece of music or a film
• a piece of computer software etc.

Assessment
• You will be assessed in 4 main areas:
• 1. Managing
• 2. Using Resources and Research
• 3. Developing and realising
• 4. Reviewing
• If any of these areas are incomplete you will
not be awarded the qualification.

Paperwork
• You have to complete all the paperwork
properly and keep a production LOG as
you go along.
• Your project supervisors will help you
with this.
• Very important you meet deadlines.

Outline of Year
• 1. By end of September – choose project title,
fill in planning sheets and Project proposal
form.
• 2. Oct/Nov Work on Project
• 3. Dec – Mid term review.
• 4. Dec/Jan – Work on project
• 5. Feb – End of Project Review, Plan
Presentation
• 6. March – Presentations, evaluations.
• 7. April – all projects completed and handed
in for marking.

THE EPQ GIVES YOU
OPPORTUNITIES TO…
• take responsibility for a project that
will motivate and engage you
• develop valuable transferable skills for
the workplace and further or higher
education
(project management, working with others, research,
critical thinking, reflection and evaluation, creativity
and problem-solving, ICT, etc…)

Skills
• Your Project supervisors will help you plan
and monitor your project.
• Teach you how to do a bibliography,
reference your work correctly and keep a
Log of all your work.
• You have to attend Lessons EVERY week
regularly.

Project Titles
• Your project supervisors will show you lists
of projects students have done in the past
but good if you come up with your own
ideas.
• Previous project titles:

Project Titles
• Victorian fashion (Booklet)
• Speaker technology (written report)
• Nuclear power (written report)
• Celebrity photography (artefact)
• Crime or Design? – graffiti (report and scrapbook)
• Expansion of Bristol International Airport (written report)
• Internet safety (PowerPoint)
• Discrimination in Western cultures (written report)
• Pneumatics and hydraulics (written report)
• ID cards (written report)
• Eco-houses (written report)

• How Formula 1 cars have developed (PowerPoint)
• Coping with bulimia (booklet)
• The role of the RSPCA (PowerPoint)
• Global warming (PowerPoint)
• Gangs (PowerPoint)
• Banksy’s art (artwork)
• Child abuse (PowerPoint)
• Teenage pregnancy (booklet)
• Drugs and alcohol awareness (PowerPoint)
• Street art (PowerPoint)
• Motorbike photography (PowerPoint)
• Mountain bike manufacture (PowerPoint)

• Sports photography (PowerPoint)
• Is graffiti art? (PowerPoint)
• How filming techniques have changed
(PowerPoint)
• Performance enhancing drugs in sport (written
report)
• Poetry (recital and report)
• How Wembley Stadium was designed and made
(booklet)
• Fashion around the world (visual display)
• The Indian textiles industry (booklet)

• Child exploitation in the clothing industry (written report)
• Online animation techniques (PowerPoint)
• Childcare facilities in Kingswood (written report)
• Guide to hairdressing techniques (booklet)
• Fantasy poems and photographs (exhibition)
• Job opportunities in the Construction industry (PowerPoint)
• Motocross graphics design (PowerPoint)
• Eating disorders (written report)
• Local people’s experiences of WW2 (written report)
• Safety in the Construction industry (PowerPoint)
• A new motocross kit design (PowerPoint)
• History of Anfield (website)

• How has the bicycle developed? (PowerPoint)
• The development of BMX design (PowerPoint)
• Medicine in ancient Greece and Rome
(PowerPoint)
• What was life like in Tudor times? (PowerPoint)
• Drug taking in sport (PowerPoint)
• Visual perception (PowerPoint)
• Children and exercise (booklet)
• Performing Arts investigation (PowerPoint)
• Graffiti in Bristol (Photographs and artwork)

Further Information
• http://www.aqa.org.uk/qualifications/projec
ts/extended-project.php
• School Blog - Extended Project
• Talk to LSe,JB,DC or ATw

TO SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE
A PROJECT YOU WILL…
• choose a topic to study
• Get your PROJECT PROPOSAL approved
by LSe
• complete a PRODUCTION LOG to
document the project process
• PLAN, RESEARCH AND CARRY OUT
the project
• give a PRESENTATION on the outcome

THE PROJECT
ANY QUESTIONS?