Health and Social Care

Health and Social Care

Health and Social Care is a 2-year course offered at KS4 which follows the Cambridge National Level 1 / 2 Award 2022 Specification. Health and Social Care is for those who want to acquire sector-specific applied knowledge through vocational contexts. Students will develop their knowledge about growth and development through the life stages, the needs of individuals who have been affected by life events and how to recommend support to meet their needs. Students will complete a second coursework unit chosen by the department lead. This will either be researching therapies and the benefits of creative activities or researching health promotion campaigns and learn about the benefits to society. Both units require students to plan and deliver a presentation and evaluate their planning and delivery. The third unit of work is assessed via an exam. Students will learn about topics that are important when caring for and protecting people in health and social care.

Health and Social Care

• R033: Supporting individuals through life events
• R034: Creative and therapeutic activities or R035 Health promotion campaigns 
• R032: Principles of care in health and social care settings

Health and Social Care

The three units are taught using the terminal assessment rule which means the exam (R032) must be taken in the final assessment series of the student's course, therefore both internally examined assessments (R033/R034/R035) are taught in the infancy of the course to allow time for thorough moderation time, submission and resubmissions of work if required before the exam is sat. The exam (R032) allows students to gain knowledge and understanding relevant to health and social care and the non-examined assessments as this draws on and strengthens the learning which has already taken place. To fully achieve the qualification, students need to complete all three units.

Health and Social Care

In Health and Social Care lessons at Tottington you will see an engaging environment which begins with recall and retrieval of prior learning. The learning intentions are always made clear with a big question which students will explore within the lesson through information being presented to the class followed by series of independent learning. The independent learning section of the lesson will allow students to explore their learning outcomes through a range of pedagogical tasks/activities such as analysing case studies, research tasks and group work. Each lesson will end with a reflection task/exit ticket to consolidate key learning in that lesson. This allows us to see how students have understood the learning outcomes on a lesson by lesson basis to address any misconceptions in their understanding in future lessons.

Health & Social Care

• R033: Supporting individuals through life events (non-examination internal assessment) = 30%
• R034: Creative and therapeutic activities or R035 Health promotion campaigns (non-examination internal assessment) = 30%
• R032: Principles of care in health and social care settings (external examination assessment) = 40%

Health and Social Care

We enrich the Health and Social Care curriculum by providing revision materials for students to revise independently throughout the course, arrange guest speakers from local health and social care businesses to deliver workshops specific to the learning outcomes and also a bespoke after school intervention session is offered weekly to support coursework submissions and revision for the R033 exam unit. Homework is set weekly in Year 11 in preparation for their examination in the summer exam series. 

Health and Social Care

This course will allow students to progress onto working in a range of pathways in further education such as A Levels, a vocational course such as BTEC Level 3 National in Health and Social Care as preparation for entry to higher education to study a degree, the workplace or apprenticeships all within the health and social care sector. Job roles an careers that this course can lead to are: midwifery, nursing, social work/care, doctor, occupational therapist, youth work, healthcare assistant, care manager/assistant or support workers.