KS4
Child Development GCSE
Term 1/2 - Year 10
The family and the Community
Family structures in the UK
The child outside the family unit
Community Provision
Safety Students making notes, answering questions and working through resource tasks
Term 3/4 - Year 10
Parenthood & pregnancy
Pre-conceptual care
Reproduction
Family planning
Pregnancy
Preparation for the birth
Post-natal care
Students making notes, answering questions and working through resource tasks
Term 4/5 - Year 10
Nutrition & Health
Nutrition
Conditions for development
Response to infection
Students making notes, answering questions and working through resource tasks
Term 5/6 - Year 10
Physical Development
New-born baby
Stages of development
Conditions for development
Students making notes, answering questions and working through resource tasks
Term 1/2 - Year 11
Intellectual, Social and Emotional development
Conditions for intellectual development
Stages of intellectual development
Communication
Learning through play
Social development
Emotional development
Students making notes, answering questions and working through the individual task
Term 3/4 - Year 11
Improving coursework requirements - 50%
Exam preparation - specimen papers and questions Use of exemplar materials to raise own individual levels of work
Students answering questions and use of specimen answers
Term 5/6 - Year 11
Exam techniques, preparation
Revision - 50% Answering exam questions
Both in class and for homework
Key Skills
Research skills
Information processing skills
ICT skills
Evaluation techniques
Investigative techniques
Observational techniques
Equipment
Textbook for the course
G.C.S.E. Home Economics for OCR - Child Development.
By Jean Marshall. & Sue Stuart.
Pub: Heinemann 2001.
Useful reference Textbook
Child Development & Care ( 5th Edition)
By Pamela Minett.
Pub: Hodder Arnold 2005.
Homework tasks e.g. answering questions, Resource tasks, investigations, focus practical tasks and individual task
Assessments
Tests and questions relating to topics covered throughout course
Resource tasks
Year 10 Summer exam
Completion of individual task
Two mock examinations
Examination preparation / guidance through questions and careful planning
Ways in which parents can help
Support with resource tasks and individual task
Outside speakers / visitors and videos
Lunchtime / after School coursework support sessions
tudents have the opportunity to stay behind after School to complete coursework requirements
RSS Feeds
Revitalised OPHMS
We are delighted to now be able to provide our parents / carers access to the Online Personal Health Management System (OPHMS).
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