Health & Social Care

Faculty Leader - (Ms G Walsh)

Health and Social Care at Halewood Academy equips our students to discover the impact of positive and negative human development and to critically analyse how these factors affect our day to day lives. Health and social care enables students to explore areas that influence how we develop throughout life stages and in turn raise expectations of how we can live successful and healthy lives now and in our future.

We aim to do this by:

Enabling learners to access a wide range of case studies and content that are applied to the different components. The curriculum is interleaved in a manner that allows students the opportunity to strengthen their understanding of each topic whilst absorbing new knowledge.

Learners will study how people grow and develop over the course of their lives from infancy to old age, and the factors that may affect this, such as major life events like marriage or parenthood. Learners will analyse this impact from a positive and negative viewpoint, demonstrating empathy. They may apply this to a person of their choice. Learners will understand how people adapt to these changes and the local and national health and social care support that is available to them. Learners will also research health and social care services in their local community. They will look at how people access the local health and social care services provided and the support that is given in the local community. Learners will be given the opportunity to demonstrate and apply the key care values to scenarios. Learners will develop skills in measuring and interpreting data about someone’s physiological health to design a care plan that will allow them to analyse and improve their health and wellbeing.

What do we expect learners to get from studying Health and Social Care?

The success of the curriculum will be defined in the improved outcomes at P2S points for all learners alongside a development in their understanding of the world in which they participate in. It is essential that the learners are encouraged to be confident in their application of the care values, empowering them to achieve their full potential after their school life.