Health & Social Care
Curriculum Intent
- To deliver a broad, balanced and inclusive curriculum that is challenging yet engaging.
- To stimulate students’ curiosity about the world around them and how it works.
- To equip students with the knowledge and understanding of the ideas that will impact on their personal health, development and growth.
- To develop an awareness of health-related issues that may affect the lives of students, in their contexts and beyond.
- To grow cultural capital both within Health and Social Care lessons and through enrichment work by providing students with a range of opportunities, responsibilities and experiences.
- To improve the levels of literacy and oracy by promoting the development, memory and pronunciation of key terminology.
- To grow and foster a thirst for knowledge and love for Health and Social Care that ensures that students leave with the best possible grades, which provides them with access to further health-related courses and careers.
- To promote careers in Health and Social Care, which would enable students to make a positive contribution to society.
Curriculum Overview
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| Y10 |
Human Growth and Development Students learn how an individual grows and develops starting from infancy through to later adulthood. Students look at physical, intellectual, emotional and social development at each life stage in detail. Comparing the life stages as a person develops.
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Lifestyle Factors Students learn how factors such as their lifestyle, culture, income, material possessions and relationships can impact on growth and development throughout different stages of their life. |
Life Events As people progress through their lives they will encounter life events that may be expected like starting school, this will result in a positive effect on development. Other events, such as a death or an accident are unexpected and can cause a negative effect on development. Students will look into these as well as marriage, retirement , divorce, unemployment, moving house and genetic illnesses.
Students will explore the role of different sources of support to help people cope with life events. They will consider the effectiveness of these services in helping people adapt to their situation. |
Health and Social Care Services Students will learn about the range of health care services available in the UK, (primary, secondary and tertiary) including social services for adults and children with specific needs.
Students will explore how physical, geographical, language, culture, intellect, finance, resources and sensory barriers can prevent a person from accessing both health and social care services.
Barriers Students will explore how to overcome the barriers that prevent a service user from accessing health and social care services. They will look at the impact of these barriers on a service user's development. |
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| Y11 |
Health and Social Care Services Students will learn about the range of health services available in the UK (primary, secondary, and tertiary) Social services for adults and children with specific needs.
Barriers Students will explore how physical, geographical, language, culture, intellect, finance, resources and sensory barriers can prevent a person from accessing both health and social care services. Students will explore how to overcome the barriers that prevent a service user from accessing health and social care services. They will look at the impact of these barriers on a service user's development. |
Health and Wellbeing
Part A Students explore how diet, exercise, substance use, personal hygiene, stress, housing, environmental conditions can impact health and wellbeing.
Part B Students learn how to calculate BMI, Pulse rate, measure peak flow and blood pressure. Students learn to interpret data on smoking and alcohol use.
Part C Students explore how a person centred approach is used by health care professionals when assisting service users at their home or in a residential setting. Students learn how to set SMART targets for service users and make recommendations to improve their lifestyle using the patient's data.
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Care Values Students will learn the seven care values such as empowering and promoting independence, maintaining confidentiality, preserving dignity and safeguarding others. Students will learn how these are implemented in order to work in a social care setting. Students will demonstrate these values through role play.
Students will learn how to apply care values in a compassionate way, how to deal with mistakes and work with other people. Students will demonstrate how to implement the seven care values through role play scenarios. Students will reflect on their own practice in a real life scenario.
Examination Preparation Students will retrieve content and practise their exam technique using past paper questions for each topic. |
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Health & Social Care SMSC Statement
Approximately 3 million people in the UK work in the Health and Social Care sector. Demand for Health and Social Care qualifications and professions is likely to continue to rise due to the ageing population, so it will continue to play a key role for society in modern Britain. The demand for people to fill these vital positions will continue to increase, especially due to the current climate as a result of COVID-19. SMSC and British Values are evident throughout the subject and the rationale is to provide a dynamic, knowledge-rich, KS4 curriculum, which gives students access to and progression routes into KS5 or related vocations.
Students are regularly faced with scenarios throughout the course and have opportunities to engage in role play activities, for example, looking into how different cultural and religious beliefs can form barriers that prevent people from accessing a Health and Social Care service and how to overcome these barriers. Students also think through the sequence as if they are a Social Care professional and design a suitable plan to advise a patient how to overcome these barriers in order to access the service whist remaining sensitive to cultural or religious beliefs. As well as reflecting on and sharing their own values, this aspect of the qualification links into the spiritual context of SMSC whilst promoting the British Value of Tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs.
In addition to this, students learn the seven care values that affect all Health and Social Care professionals, as an example, the legal rights governing the health and safety and fair treatment of all service users regardless of age, disability, gender, race, sex, religion or belief. Furthermore, Health and Social care naturally develops students morally, for example by exploring the use of drugs and how it effects the human body. This gives them the opportunity to explore the British rule of law and what is deemed legal and illegal and the consequences of illegal choices.
Students often work together in Health and Social Care, exchanging ideas and respectfully challenging the opinions of others. This involves students developing a range of social skills and working with those from different backgrounds, equipping them for life and the world of work beyond school. The course also helps students to develop key transferable skills such as self-evaluation and research, whilst encountering knowledge that provides them with a sense of enjoyment in learning about the world and people around them.
