Social Science

The Social Science department is a new and developing part of the school curriculum at KS4 and KS5 and is growing every year to include more courses to widen the choice that pupils have when taking their options in year 9 and choosing their A level/level 3 courses.

Welcome to the Social Science department – Subject Leader: Mrs T Hennah

Health and Social Care

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 teenage ego-centrism and 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 well-being and how our lifestyle choices effect how healthy we are, students 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. We believe that students deserve a curriculum that prepares them for career pathways in a variety of vocational areas, providing them with the knowledge and skills within Health and Social Care that can then be transferred in to a variety of environments.

Sociology

Sociology is the study of the structure and development of society and how it has impacted human social relationships. The Sociology curriculum intends to develop student’s sociological imagination by imparting fundamental skills such as critical analysis, independent thinking and balancing judgements. Within the rich and broad subject, students will solidly grasp key sociological approaches such as functionalism, Marxism and feminism to then apply their understanding to the processes and purposes of institutions such as the family, education system, criminal justice system within society. Students will be able to critically evaluate each debate between perspectives encompassing key vocabulary and make acute comparisons. Alongside this, students will analyse the usefulness of various research methods used to understand social processes and issues within some of these topics. This provides students with the sociological understanding to be able to apply to contemporary issues within our postmodern world today, and to which can be applied to other subjects.