Learning Journey

Curriculum Intent

The aim of the Health and Social Care Curriculum at Aylesford is to equip students with specialist knowledge, understanding and skills for everyday use and to meet the needs of individuals across a range of health, social care and early years settings.

Health and Social Care as a subject has never been more important as it is now in modern society. Students will look at a range of different health, social care and child care settings, and activities will be both theoretical and practical.

The curriculum develops an understanding of the skills and qualities required to influence care and empowers students through encouraging independence and creativity; providing tasks that engage with the most taxing aspects of the National Curriculum (including Values of Care and the current legislation requirements) and the importance of softer skills such as communication to ensure individuals right to independence and dignity.

Health and Social Care 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.