Year 10 Society and Ethics
Society and Ethics Year 10 Curriculum Overview
What is the Year 10 Society and Ethics curriculum aiming to achieve? | ||
What do we want our Year 10 students to be like? | How are we building on prior learning? | How can parents/carers support their child’s learning? |
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How are we organising the Year 10 Society and Ethics curriculum? | ||||||
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Topics
| Drugs and Alcohol | Religious Studies and Ethics | The Workplace and Work Experience | Relationships
| Relationships
| Rights and Responsibilities
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Threshold Concepts
| Understanding of the law and facts surrounding substance misuse | Understanding the relationship between experience, belief, practise and values and how they affect people’s lives. | An understanding of behaviours and safety in the workplace
| Recognise the features of healthy and unhealthy relationships including revisiting consent Understand how to keep healthy Understand that online content can lead to distorted views of healthy relationships | An understanding that humans have rights That rights often come with responsibility
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Skills
| Researching skills Discussion in balanced fashion | Comparing and explaining own beliefs to that of faith/ non faith groups Evaluation and debating skills | Researching skills Self-awareness | Empathy Listening, sensitivity and balanced discussion skills
| Awareness of the wider world issues; active concern Challenging viewpoints | |
Enrichment within the curriculum | All of the society and Ethics aspects (RSHE, Citizenship, RS and Careers) are augmented using the tutor programme, additional sessions and assemblies. Careers and futures speakers and discussions are regular features of tutor times and assemblies. RS activities are part of the tutor programme. Additional sessions on personal finance are included in Year 10. | |||||
Cross curricular links
| The Society and Ethics curriculum has links with many other subjects such as:
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Extra-curricular opportunities | Year 10 are encouraged to undertake the bronze Duke of Edinburgh scheme to foster independence, decision making skills and active citizenship. Year 10 will normally undertake work experience in order to understand the protocols of the workplace. | |||||
What are the intended outcomes of the Year 10 Society and Ethics curriculum? | ||||||
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Opportunities to show progress (Assessments) | Assessment is through self-reflection ad extensive discussion. Students are encouraged to gauge their knowledge and skills prior to the unit of work and again at the end. Discussion of the contents and outcomes of the unit allow students to feel confident in their knowledge and develop the skills to question and explore further. | |||||
Impact on personal development (SMSC) | RSHE is essential to personal development. It allows age appropriate discussion in a safe environment to explore ideas and garner information. Students will look at scenarios and risks and be able to understand consequences in a controlled way. By Year 10 students are ready for more detailed discussion surrounding sexual relationships and harmful behaviours both on and offline and external influences. | |||||
Preparation for the next stage of education | The RSHE, citizenship and careers curriculum builds in complexity as students move through the school and become more aware of issues outside the bubble of education. It is planned to allow age-appropriate discussion and exploration of relationships, health, sex and online safety; becoming more in-depth as they mature and develop. | |||||