Subjects > GCSE Health and Social Care
GCSE Health and Social Care is a double award scheme.
In this course you will learn about the health, social care and early years sectors and how personal development can affect our development and our health. We shall also be looking at a range of jobs in the care sector.
The course is made up of three units. These are:
- Health, Social Care and early years provision
You will study the health, social care and early years services provision. This means looking at the services available and how they are organised.
Type of Assessment: Portfolio
- Promoting health and wellbeing
You will be asked to think about the factors that affect health and well being and ways of supporting health improvements. You will be asked to use methods to measure an individuals health status.
Type of Assessment: Portfolio
- Understanding personal development and relationships
Gives you information about the different factors that can affect growth and development and about major life changes showing how people deal with them.
Type of Assessment: Externally tested
You may, as part of your course visit health, social care and early years services, or you may have visits from specialists in the care sector. Such visits will be very useful for coursework, but a mature and responsible attitude will be necessary. Classwork will be a mixture of worksheets, groupwork, videos, discussion work and activities.
You will collect the work for your assignments for Unit1 and Unit 2 in a portfolio. You will have this work marked and graded by your teacher and will have a chance to improve it before being seen by the examiner. It will be very important to hand work in on time.
For more information see Mrs Marshall