Health and Social Care

Curriculum Overview

Health and Social Care equips our learners to discover the impact of positive and negative human development and how to critically analyse how these factors affect our day to day lives. It also enables learners to explore areas, both academically and practically, that influence how we develop throughout life stages and, in turn, raises expectations of how we can live successful and healthy lives now and in our future. Modern society is ever evolving in terms of ‘societal norms’ however human development and how we treat and care for one another continues to be at its core. 

Health and Social Care promotes opportunities for learners to draw from real life experiences, case studies and opportunities to undertake research to compliment learning and create skills that will be used throughout their lives. These skills encourage learners to begin to challenge the way they perceive the world we live in. Furthermore, highlighting how human relationships, physical environments and socioeconomic status may influence how they develop.

Through investigation of health and wellbeing and how our lifestyle choices effect how healthy we are, learners access different resources and external agency advice and guidance that encourages them to talk about areas and raise awareness of signs and symptoms of: abuse, addiction, illness and mental health. Our diverse range of young people here supplements learning by allowing group discussions to be engaging, promoting time for powerful knowledge and cultural capital to be explored and teenage mindsets to be broadened.

The Health and Social Care long-term plan is available here.