Curriculum Overview

 

Key Stage 3 Key Stage 4 Sixth Form

Term 1: Life Balance

In this unit students learn about the challenges many people face in creating a 'balanced life' and will explore their own ideas about what makes for a happy successful life.

Not applicable

Priority
A thing that is regarded as more important than others

Employment
Having paid work

Vocation
A strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation

Fulfilment
The achievement of something desired, promised, or predicted

Stress
A state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances

Goal
The object of a person's ambition or effort; an aim or desired result.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:
This unit helps to prepare students for their lives after school.

Create a supportive community:

Term 2: RSE: Marriage and Raising Children

In this unit students will explore lifelong relationships and marriage. They will learn about successful relationships, and will also consider abuse within relationships.

Not applicable

Relationship
The way in which two or more people or groups regard and behave towards each other

Marriage
The legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a personal relationship

Engagement
A formal agreement to get married

Conflict
A serious disagreement or argument

Children
A son or daughter of any age

Teenager
A person aged between 13 and 19 years

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:
This unit helps to prepare students for their future personal lives.

Create a supportive community:

Term 3: Being an Informed Citizen

In this unit students will consider how to be a responsible, informed citizen through their lives.

Not applicable

Voting
Give or register a vote

Taxes
A compulsory contribution to the government on a workers' income.

Volunteering
Freely offer to do something

Jury
A body of people sworn to give a verdict in a legal case on the basis of evidence submitted to them in court.

Council
A body of people elected to manage the affairs of a city, county, or other municipal district.

Media
The main means of mass communication - broadcasting, publishing, and the Internet.

Citizen
An inhabitant of a particular town or city

Informed
A decision or judgement based on an understanding of the facts of the situation

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:
This unit enables students to be more socially and politically aware and will enable them to be more aware of their consumption of media.

Create a supportive community:

Term 5: Handling Exams

In this unit students learn about protecting mental, emotional and physical health during public examination periods.

Not applicable

Exam
A formal test of a person's knowledge or proficiency in a subject or skill

Goal
The object of a person's ambition or effort; an aim or desired result.

Revision
Reread work done previously to improve one's knowledge of a subject, typically to prepare for an examination.

Wellbeing
The state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy.

Sixth form
The two final years at school for students between the ages of 16 and 18 who are preparing for A or AS levels

Planning
The process of making plans for something

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:
This unit will help students as they start to prepare for taking their GCSE exams.

Create a supportive community:

Term 4: Careers

In this unit pupils will start preparing for the next steps after school including writing CV's and interviews.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:

Create a supportive community: