Health & Social Care

(GCSE)

Paignton Community & Sports College is one of the few schools nationally selected to offer this qualification because of our previous experience in successfully developing vocational education.
The course would be of interest and benefit to all students but is a particularly good grounding for anyone interested in a career involving working with people in the areas of caring, health and fitness, social care and children.
The GCSE could lead to further courses at Intermediate or Advanced Level which are available in the 6th form at Paignton and at local colleges.
The Award is a double award and is equivalent to 2 GCSE's Grades A*-G
The work undertaken involves a wide range of activities including group work, role play, individual research & discussion as well as formal teaching, visits and work experience.

Assessment

A portfolio of evidence - continually assessed
based on units of work:

• Unit One – coursework ‘Services in Torbay’
• Unit Two: ‘A Health Plan’
• Unit Three: Examination ‘Personnel Development’

Head of Health and Social Care: Susan Harper

Psychology

(GCSE)
Psychology is the study of human behaviour. This course gives you an opportunity to develop an understanding of why people do the things they do.

- Why do we help other people sometimes and not others?
- How do children learn to understand the world around them?
- Why do we forget things?
- Who was Freud?
- Why do adolescents like to dress up?

Topics to include:

Social Psychology:
Environment and Behaviour
Behavioural Psychology:
Phobias
Aggression
Developmental Psychology:
Attachment
Cognitive Development
Attitudes of Prejudice:
Individual Differentiation
Aspects of Morals
Cognitive Psychology:
Memory
Perception
Bio-psychology:
Stress
Sex Gender

Assessment: The OCR GCSE is assessed in two ways:
Two written exams - 1 hour 15 minutes - each worth 40% of final grade
Coursework - worth 20% of final grade
The piece of coursework allows you to choose an area that really interests you and to carry out a study or an investigation. Examples:

• Are girls more moral than boys?
• Does watching TV make you aggressive?
• How can students improve their memory?

Who should study Psychology and why?

• Anyone who is interested in human behaviour. Studying Psychology gives you insight into yours and other people's behaviour.
• Psychology is fun and it makes you think.
• It is useful in most careers from nursing to advertising and the law.
• It gives a firm grounding in many of the skills needed for success in the Sixth form.

If you require further information on this subject, please ask.

Head of Psychology: Dr K Fordyce

Sociology

(GCSE)
Sociology is about

• how people live
• what makes society work
• why people behave as they do
• how social groups such as family, youth groups and schools affect us.

ASSESSMENT
The course is assessed in two ways:
Written exams at the end of the course - 80%
Coursework - one assignment during the last year - 20%

COURSEWORK
You will use textbooks and be expected to research using books, newspapers, T.V. and other media for essays and coursework. Your coursework will be a piece of Sociological research.

Homework is important and will be:

• learning for tests
• conducting surveys
• writing essays
• watching television programmes about social issues
• reviewing social issues covered in the media

Topics covered :

• What is sociology
• The family
• Education
• Social Class or keeping up appearances
• Migration and movement
• Crime and deviance
• Work, leisure and unemployment
• Poverty and the welfare state
• Power and politics

Why should I study Sociology?

• It can help you understand your own life better
• Sociology is most useful for anyone thinking of going into journalism, or any caring profession or the police, or law, or teaching
• It is accepted for nurse training and is one of the GCSE's that is seen as most useful for nurse training
• It gives you an understanding of what is going on in the world, why things are the way they are.

Sociology 'A' level is available in the 6th form at Paignton and at other local colleges. It can contribute to an Art or Science based degree.

Head of Sociology: Mrs S Preston

HEAD OF HEALTH & SOCIAL SCIENCES FACULTY: Ms D Appleby