Year 10 Society and Ethics

Society and Ethics Year 10 Curriculum Overview

What is the Year 10 Society and Ethics curriculum aiming to achieve?
What do we want our Year 10 students to be like?	How are we building on prior learning?	How can parents/carers support their child’s learning?
Informed Make safe decisions Critical thinkers Inclusive Self-aware Thinking of the future	KS3 RSHE learning on healthy relationships, sexual health, online safety and making safe decisions KS3 Careers learning on personal skills and qualities, job research, employability KS3 learning on active citizenship, being part of a society KS3 RS learning on world religions and viewpoints	Discuss your child’s online behaviour Have open discussions about relationship values Discuss your child’s ideas for the future. Tell them about your job and skills and introduce them to others. Help your child find a suitable work experience placement Encourage your child to take part in extracurricular activities in and outside of school to broaden skills

How are we organising the Year 10 Society and Ethics curriculum?
	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Topics	Drugs and Alcohol	Religious Studies and Ethics	The Workplace and Work Experience	Relationships	Relationships	Rights and Responsibilities
Threshold Concepts	Understanding of the law and facts surrounding substance misuse	Understanding the relationship between experience, belief, practise and values and how they affect people’s lives.	An understanding of behaviours and safety in the workplace	Recognise the features of healthy and unhealthy relationships including revisiting consent Understand how to keep healthy Understand that online content can lead to distorted views of healthy relationships		An understanding that humans have rights That rights often come with responsibility
Skills	Researching skills Discussion in balanced fashion	Comparing and explaining own beliefs to that of faith/ non faith groups Evaluation and debating skills	Researching skills Self-awareness	Empathy Listening, sensitivity and balanced discussion skills		Awareness of the wider world issues; active concern Challenging viewpoints
Enrichment within the curriculum	All of the society and Ethics aspects (RSHE, Citizenship, RS and Careers) are augmented using the tutor programme, additional sessions and assemblies. Careers and futures speakers and discussions are regular features of tutor times and assemblies. RS activities are part of the tutor programme. Additional sessions on personal finance are included in Year 10.
Cross curricular links	The Society and Ethics curriculum has links with many other subjects such as: RS (world religions and cultural viewpoints, human rights Science (contraception and health)
Extra-curricular opportunities	Year 10 are encouraged to undertake the bronze Duke of Edinburgh scheme to foster independence, decision making skills and active citizenship. Year 10 will normally undertake work experience in order to understand the protocols of the workplace.

What are the intended outcomes of the Year 10 Society and Ethics curriculum?
	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Opportunities to show progress (Assessments)	Assessment is through self-reflection ad extensive discussion. Students are encouraged to gauge their knowledge and skills prior to the unit of work and again at the end. Discussion of the contents and outcomes of the unit allow students to feel confident in their knowledge and develop the skills to question and explore further.
Impact on personal development (SMSC)	RSHE is essential to personal development. It allows age appropriate discussion in a safe environment to explore ideas and garner information. Students will look at scenarios and risks and be able to understand consequences in a controlled way. By Year 10 students are ready for more detailed discussion surrounding sexual relationships and harmful behaviours both on and offline and external influences.
Preparation for the next stage of education	The RSHE, citizenship and careers curriculum builds in complexity as students move through the school and become more aware of issues outside the bubble of education. It is planned to allow age-appropriate discussion and exploration of relationships, health, sex and online safety; becoming more in-depth as they mature and develop.