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Department Vision Statement
A level Psychology & Sociology, A Level Criminology and GCSE Sociology: within the Social Sciences our goal is to engage, challenge and encourage the intellectual interest of our students, enabling them to develop the skill to analyse and evaluate key issues within each subject and to critically assess the theories and research findings on which each of these disciplines is built. Underlying our planning and teaching is the desire to nurture, in our students, a resolve to be the best that they can be. Within the context of social science this means developing an appreciation of why people behave as they do so that in their own personal lives, and perhaps in their future studies and careers, they can employ this understanding to help themselves and others have healthy, successful and fulfilling futures.
Y10
Subject | Autumn Term | Spring Term | Summer Term |
Sociology | Key concepts, and cultural transmission Families Education | Families Education
| Families Education Research methods |
Home Learning: | Past Paper Questions, Revision activities, essential knowledge sheets, comprehension tasks | Past Paper Questions, Revision activities, essential knowledge sheets, comprehension tasks | Past Paper Questions, Revision activities, essential knowledge sheets, comprehension tasks |
Y11
Sociology | Crime and Deviance Social stratification | Crime and Deviance Social stratification and differentiation | Research methods and revision |
Home Learning: | Past Paper Questions, Revision activities, essential knowledge sheets, comprehension tasks | Past Paper Questions, Revision activities, essential knowledge sheets, comprehension tasks | Past Paper Questions, Revision activities, essential knowledge sheets, comprehension tasks |
Y12
Psychology | Research Methods Social Influence Attachment | Research Methods Memory Approaches | Psychopathology Approaches |
Home Learning: | Past Paper Questions, Essential knowledge sheets, research | Past Paper Questions, Essential knowledge sheets, research | Past Paper Questions, Essential knowledge sheets, research |
Sociology | Education Families | Education Families | Sociological methods Methods in Context |
Home Learning: | Past Paper Questions, flipped learning, essential knowledge sheets | Past Paper Questions, flipped learning, essential knowledge sheets | Past Paper Questions, flipped learning, essential knowledge sheets |
Criminology | Controlled Assessment – Changing awareness of crime and deviance | Exam preparation – Theories of criminality | Controlled Assessment - crime scene to courtroom |
Home Learning: | CA practise & preparation | Past Paper Questions | CA practise & preparation |
Y13
Psychology | BioPsychology Schizophrenia | Gender Forensic Psychology Research methods Issues & Debates | Issues & Debates Research Methods |
Home Learning: | Past Paper Questions, Revision activities, essential knowledge sheets, comprehension tasks | Past Paper Questions, Revision activities, essential knowledge sheets, comprehension tasks | Past Paper Questions, Revision activities, essential knowledge sheets, comprehension tasks |
Sociology | Beliefs in Society Crime and Deviance | Beliefs in Society Crimes and Deviance | Theory, methods & debates in Sociology |
Home Learning: | Past Paper Questions, flipped learning, essential knowledge sheets | Past Paper Questions, flipped learning, essential knowledge sheets | Past Paper Questions, flipped learning, essential knowledge sheets |
Criminology | Controlled Assessment – Crime Scene to Courtroom | Exam preparation- Crime and Punishment | Exam preparation- Crime and Punishment |
Home Learning: | CA Practise & preparation | Past Paper Questions | Past Paper Questions |