In this unit students will explore how they build for their future by establishing priorities, looking at paid employment, vocation and fulfilment, life goals and exploring the job market.
The quality of being suitable for paid work.
Changes to the population and the work force which have created changes in the demand for different types of jobs.
A note given to an employee when they have been paid, detailing the amount of pay given, and the tax and insurance deducted.
An aim or purpose.
Relating to the life, welfare, and relationships of human beings in a community.
Relating to the personal or private parts of someone's life.
This unit helps to prepare students for their future personal lives.
Students will be better equipped to support others with issues raised by the unit through out their lives.
In this unit students will build on their knowledge and understanding of relationships and families by exploring long term relationships and marriage, forced marriage and honour-based violence, pregnancy, abortion and miscarriage, parenthood and parenting skills, adoption and parenting.
Permission for something to happen or agreement to do something.
The limit of what someone considers to be acceptable behaviour.
The way two or more people are connected, or the way they behave towards each other.
The system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
To become someone's husband or wife.
Group of people made up of parents and children and sometimes other relations or carers.
A marriage which family members or guardians enforce by making the couple feel as though they have no alternative or by actively threatening them.
A marriage which family members or guardians may help 'arrange' by finding suitable partners and matching them together. This is consented to by the couple, although sometimes coercion or persuasion methods are used.
The condition of someone's mind and whether or not they are suffering from any mental illness.
Permission for something to happen or agreement to do something.
The state of being a parent and the responsibilities involved.
The idea that a family must maintain a particular standing in a community.
The act of using a person's feelings of kindness, sympathy, or duty in order to persuade them to do something or feel something.
This unit enables students to be more socially and politically aware and will enable them to be more aware of their consumption of media.
Students to understand UK and world rights and how they can be used to protect citizens.
In this unit students explore how to develop independence with health whilst developing knowledge and understanding of cosmetic and aesthetic body alterations, blood, organ and stem cell donations, personal time and care, coping with difficult circumstances and understanding the NHS.
The practice or principles of keeping yourself and your environment clean in order to maintain health and prevent disease.
A strong feeling deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.
The process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes more advanced.
A chemical substance produced in the body that controls and regulates the activity of certain cells or organs. Many hormones are secreted by special glands, such as thyroid hormone produced by the thyroid gland.
How someone feels about themselves i.e. positively or negatively.
The health and well-being of the brain.
The action of making a person or animal immune to infection, typically by inoculation.
Treatment with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease.
Cosmetic surgery is where a person chooses to have an operation, or invasive medical procedure, to change their physical appearance for cosmetic rather than medical reasons.
This unit will equip students with the knowledge to make safe and healthy decisions throughout their adult lives.
Students will be able to identify positive choices surrounding sexual health, as well as understanding how negative and/or negligent choices can affect others in their community.
In this unit students will reflect on their mock 1 and mock 2 exams; they will focus on getting organised for their public exams, plan revision, study different revision techniques a
Study of work you have done, in order to prepare for an exam.
Essentially a calendar, but instead of holidays and birthdays, it contains topics and subjects you need to revise on specific days.
To be able to determine the order for dealing with (a series of items or tasks) according to their relative importance.
A formal test of a person's knowledge or proficiency in a subject or skill.
The state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy.
Students to be taught independence in study.
Students to understand how their decisions related to study and revision can have an impact on their own and others future.
In this unit, students will receive practical tips and tricks from all core subjects, with relevance to their upcoming GCSEs. These lessons will provide help with subject-specific ways to revise, highlighting best practice and topics which will be included in their upcoming exam.
A state of mental or emotional strain resulting from difficult or demanding circumstances.
A state of being free from tension and anxiety.
The idea of having control over how we best use our time, making decisions in advance to use our time most effectively.
Creating revision materials, testing ourselves, making mind maps, doing practice papers - actively learning and relearning.
Watching documentaries, reading without testing, listening to someone speak about a subject.
Having the ability and determination to stick to the goals we set ourselves, even in the face of temptation not to.
Focusing on your mind for a period of time, in silence or with the aid of chanting, for religious or spiritual purposes or as a method of relaxation.
In this unit, students will support as they start preparing for their GCSE exams.
Students to understand how their decisions related to study and revision can have an impact on their own and others future.