Cultural Diversity
The Year 8 Cultural Diversity unit is based around the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s resources on Creating a Fairer Britain. Students learn that actions have consequences and explore choices and action that can be taken to try and make things better. Lessons will develop empathy and consider the impact of our actions on other people’s feelings. Students will explore the different sides to identity and establish the shared and unique characteristics of the class. They will explore the history and benefits of the UK’s diversity and appreciate the nature of prejudice and stereotypes, challenging negative stereotypes through role-play and identifying prejudice in the news. Students will explore and define different types of discrimination before analysing examples of discrimination. They will have the opportunity to compare inequalities of the past to society today, discuss what equality means become equality experts by taking part in a class quiz about the Equality Act 2010. Through an interactive marketplace activity, students will discover that human rights belong to everybody and that every human right is needed for human beings to live and grow. They will explore how our attitudes and opinions are influenced, and review news headlines and articles to discover how the media can sensationalise facts and also get information wrong. Finally students will promote and help to protect equality and human rights for everyone by creating a visual display of talking heads in school or pledging to take some form of action that will create a positive difference to the community.
Mr Scott
Community work
Students will be learning about the ways in which citizens work together to improve their communities. They will also be looking at the roles played by a range of public institutions and voluntary groups in society. There will also be the opportunities for students to participate in a hands on activity to support the local community.
Mrs Cringle
Finance
In the Finance section of Lifelong Learning students will follow the Qualification of an Award in Personal Finance. This consists of two units, one on the0 Principles of Money and the second on Money Management. The Principles of Money looks at what money is, why we use it, the history of the emergence of a monetary system and how it has evolved in the UK. The Money Management section looks at how we use money, how we look after our money, how we make money and how we use insurance and the banks in our modern society.
Miss Todd
Nutrition
Students in year 8, which take part in the nutrition lifelong learning, will learn about the importance of a healthy balanced diet. Students will look at the effects of a poor diet and how this can be improved. In pairs they will develop food preparation skills during a practical lesson once a week, creating five main meal dishes. During the theory lessons they will look at their own diets and lifestyle, consider ways to improve their health and well-being and record any changes they notice.
Miss Naughton
Self esteem
These workshops are designed to build on body confidence (not just simply raise awareness). Workshops are all about learning to challenge or resist the pressures we face to match appearance ideals and how we can focus on other qualities that help us all make the most of our lives. The ideal is that pupils become Body confidence champions by the end of the unit of study. This means that they are able to look after each other, they value the whole person, they respect themselves and others, they support individuality and are good role models. This unit of study is support by Dove resources who campaign for body confidence.
Miss Price
Thinking skills
Thinking Skills are mental processes used to do things like: solve problems, make decisions, ask questions, construct plans, evaluate ideas, organise information and create objects. Each week pupils will start the lesson with a real-life problem to try and solve. A real-life solution will be provided once they have explored the issue. Throughout the course the different challenges will encourage them to develop a specific ‘learning habit’. A learning habit is a specific skill that they can develop in all their work. If they master a skill they can make better progress in everything they do!
Mrs Walker
Managing Conflict
Drama and role-play are great ways of exploring emotions and relationships, and that’s just what students will be doing in these lessons. Students will be introduced to a variety of Drama Skills and Techniques which will then be used to explore their feelings and emotions and improve their ability to resolve conflict and cope with peer pressure.
Mrs Dean Arshadi