THE EXTENDED PROJECT QUALIFICATION (EPQ)

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THE EXTENDED PROJECT
QUALIFICATION EPQ

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

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Points for the Extended Project for entry into
higher education.

• Extended Project (Stand alone)
• GradeTariff Points
• A70
• A60
• B50
• C40
• D30
• E20

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Why do an EPQ?

• It will help your University application and
  future employment opportunities
• You will learn and improve many work and other
  skills
• You can choose to do an EPQ on a subject related
  to your career interests
• It will help to give you that something extra
  that employers and Universities are looking for

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When do I do my EPQ?

• TAUGHT/SUPERVISED SESSIONS
• A Wednesday L5/6 and B Fri 1/2 when you will be
  supervised by Mrs Skuse, Miss Webb and Mrs
  Jenkins.
• Yr 13 some flexibility after agreement with Mrs
  Skuse
• BUT the majority of work needs to be done in your
  own time e.g. at home.

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What do we do next?

• Complete Core Options form
• Extended Project sessions will start next
  Wednesday Lesson 5 - in ICT 4

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Ground Rules

• You HAVE to turn up each week for your timetabled
  lessons.
• HOWEVER - majority of work will be done outside
  of these times
• You MUST keep file up-to-date which all work
  printed off and signed.
• You MUST keep a Bibliography - all work needs to
  be referenced

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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

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YOU CAN CHOOSE TO

• explore a further aspect of a subject you are
  studying

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Outline of Year

• 1. By end of September 2013 choose project
  title, fill in planning sheets and Project
  proposal form (It then has to be approved)
• 2. Oct/Nov 2013 Work on Project
• 3. Dec 2013 Mid term review.
• 4. Dec/Jan 2013-14 Work on project
• 5. Feb 2014 End of Project Review, Plan
  Presentation
• 6. March 2014 Presentations, evaluations.
• 7. April 2014 all projects completed and handed
  in for marking.

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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)

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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

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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)

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

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• 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)

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• 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 peoples experiences of WW2 (written
  report)
• Safety in the Construction industry (PowerPoint)
• A new motocross kit design (PowerPoint)
• History of Anfield (website)

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• 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)

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Further Information

• http//www.aqa.org.uk/qualifications/projects/exte
  nded-project-epq.php
• School Blog - Extended Project
• Talk to Lse,KWb or SJ

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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

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ANY QUESTIONS?
THE PROJECT