{"id":32,"date":"2015-02-24T13:14:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T13:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullenglish\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2015-02-24T13:14:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T13:14:40","slug":"national-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullenglish\/our-courses\/national-4\/","title":{"rendered":"National 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header fix\">\n<h1 class=\"posttitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/EnglishatClydeValley\/files\/2011\/08\/Sqa_logo.png\" rel=\"lightbox[878]\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sqa_logo\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/EnglishatClydeValley\/files\/2011\/08\/Sqa_logo-300x159.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-container fix\">\n<div class=\"entry fix\">\n<p>The\u00a0National 4 course is run in S4.\u00a0It allows pupils to progress from the Broad General Education received through CfE in S1-S3 and work towards\u00a0attaining a recognised English award. Pupils can progress from National 4 in S4, to attempt National 5 in S5.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0National 4 course covers two units:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Analysis and\u00a0Evaluation<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A unit which looks at the skills of and Reading and Listening and develops pupils\u2019 abilities to analyse specific literary techniques.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Creation and Production<\/strong>&#8211; A unit which looks at the skills of Writing and Talking and assesses pupils\u2019 abilities to produce texts (written and spoken)\u00a0in a variety of genres.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The units are assessed in class by the teacher and verified externally by the SQA.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the two units above, students will also complete a <strong>Literacy Unit.\u00a0<\/strong>This is a mandatory unit in the course and will record pupils&#8217; ability in basic literacy skills.<\/p>\n<p>At National 4 level there is no final exam. This has been replaced by an internally assessed <strong>Added Value Unit,\u00a0<\/strong>which involves students researching a chosen topic independently and completing a written (or oral) presentation of their work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0National 4 course is run in S4.\u00a0It allows pupils to progress from the Broad General Education received through CfE in S1-S3 and work towards\u00a0attaining a recognised English award. Pupils can progress from National 4 in S4, to attempt National 5 in S5. The\u00a0National 4 course covers two units: Analysis and\u00a0Evaluation\u00a0\u2013 A unit which looks at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullenglish\/our-courses\/national-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National 4<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3775,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/33"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}