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Year 10-11 Pathway
(Key stage 4)
The key stage 4 health sciences pathway allows students to commence, from year 10, an education directly aligned to a future career in the health sector. The key stage 4 curriculum provides a spectrum of experience, providing the foundation from which to further specialise in year 12 (key stage 5).
At key stage 4, all students nationally, are expected to study GCSE Maths, English, and Double Science, and also access PE and Life Skills as part of the curriculum. At the UTC instead of selecting further options from for example geography, history, languages, music, media, IT, the remainder of your study is focused on your chosen health sciences specialism.
The health sciences specialism includes four qualifications:
The course includes:
Human Lifespan Development
In this component you will understand how we grow and develop throughout our lives:
exploring how individuals develop physically, emotionally, socially and intellectually over time investigating how various factors, events and choices impact individuals’ growth and development discovering how people adapt to life events and cope with making changes.
Health and Social Care Services & Values
In this component you will understand how the health and social care sector works and the care values that lie at the core of it:
- learning which health and social care services are available
- identifying why people might need to use these services
- discovering who’s involved in providing these services
- exploring what might stop people from accessing the services they need
- looking at the care values the sector has to make sure people get the care and protection they need.
Health and Wellbeing
In this component you will understand how to improve someone’s health and wellbeing:
- learning what ‘being healthy’ means to different people
- exploring the different factors that might influence health and wellbeing
- identifying key health indicators and how to interpret them
- assessing an individual’s health using what they’ve learned
- creating a health and wellbeing improvement plan for that person, which includes targets and recommendations of support services available
- reflecting on the potential challenges the person may face when putting the plan into action.
The course includes:
Understanding and Exploring the Characteristics of Children’s Growth and Development
In this component you will understand and explore the characteristics of children’s growth and development:
- understanding the difference between growth and development
- exploring factors that affect growth and development
- illustrating how children grow and develop across the ages of birth to five years old.
Developing an understanding of how children learn through play
In this component you will develop an understanding of how children learn through play:
- exploring how children play
- understanding how play can be organised to promote learning
- demonstrating how children’s learning can be supported through play
Investigating how a child learns, develops and adapts through play
In this component you will understand how a child learns, develops and adapts through play:
- understanding how individual circumstances can impact on a child’s
learning and development
- exploring safe environments to support play, learning and development
- investigating how a child learns, develops and how to adapt activities to support the inclusion of all children in play for learning and development.
