Health Studies

Course summary

This course is for anyone who has an interest in or wants to progress into a career in health or social care, including nursing, occupational therapy, paramedic, social work, and many, many more. It is also very useful for anyone with an interest in teaching. The course is very broad and covers a range of areas. Should you decide to study this course, you will study 8 different units in total over the 2 years. Although these units will feel like individual subjects, as you will study them alongside each other, they do all link into one another. What is particularly interesting about this course is that there is a range of assessments across the subjects, including exams, coursework, presentations, and interviews. We are aiming to not only prepare you for and supply you with transferable skills for higher education but also for the health and social care sector itself. Much of the content is learned through group work and class discussions. Students are then presented with learning aims and assessment criteria, which they will produce to coursework to meet the requirements of these aims. Each unit - exam, and coursework carries a score (which equates to grades), which are then totaled up at the conclusion of the course to provide 2 overall grades. The grading system is not like GCSE and BTEC qualifications instead uses pass, merit, distinction, and distinction*. We encourage students to take notes in class and to supplement these notes with a wider reading from relevant magazines and online articles. A minimum of 5 hours of additional work per unit is presumed to be carried out each week.