Health and Social Care

Health and Social Care focuses on effective communication skills. Pupils are provided with the underpinning knowledge and understanding of how to communicate effectively and what personal qualities and attributes will contribute to the creation of a caring environment when working with individuals. These are transferable skills that can be used in everyday life, promoting responsibility for self and others and a culture of inclusivity, dignity and mutual respect. Pupils will appreciate factors that affect physical, social and emotional development both in themselves and others and how these aspects of development can be further fostered to live successful lives.

Health and Social Care promotes opportunities for students to draw from case studies and opportunities to undertake research to compliment learning and create skills that will be used throughout their lives. These skills encourage students to think outside typical adolescent egocentrism and begin to challenge the way they perceive the world.
Furthermore, highlighting how human relationships, physical environments and socioeconomic status may influence how they develop and affect life choices which in turn raises expectations of how they can lead productive and healthy lives now and in the future.

Our aim is for pupils to complete the course feeling knowledgeable, ambitious and keen to make a strong and positive contribution to the world around them. They will use the tools they acquire in the subject to make positive life choices and to challenge views that they feel are unethical or discriminatory. Our pupils will leave Health and Social Care as inquisitive, reflective and compassionate practitioners who are keen to use their skills in a broad range of careers either within the sector or beyond.