CURRICULUM
Health and Social Care
Health & Social Care Curriculum Intent
Health and Social Care supports students to appreciate the importance of putting people at the heart of care, delivering tailored support to meet individual wants and needs. Our curriculum empowers students to make positive choices about health, diet and lifestyle to help them live better for longer. Students learn to respect preferences, values and priorities when involving individuals in decisions about their care. They also develop a range of communication strategies and understand the impact of personal qualities when making connections with individuals.
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Key Strands
Healthy lifestyle
Students will develop their understanding of key nutrients required for good health throughout the life stages giving them the knowledge and skills to enable them to make choices which will affect their body. They gain knowledge and understanding of the respiratory, cardiovascular and digestive body systems and research illnesses affecting them, developing their understanding of how lifestyle can contribute to disease.
Throughout the course students are introduced to the essentials of providing effective care including a consideration of the rights of individuals, values of care, hygiene, safety and security measures that should be used when working in a health, social care or early years environment. Studying Health and Social Care instils in students the importance of valuing individuals and ensuring that needs are met.
Providing effective care
Practical skills
Throughout the course students apply theory delivered in lessons to a range of practical tasks. They will be assessed on their effective communication skills, food preparation and hygiene skills and their ability to record measures of health including pulse rate and BMI.
Students develop their independent research skills to enable understanding of a range of health related issues. They learn to collect ,select and record information from a range of sources and interpret data.