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Health and Social Care is a valuable and useful qualification that introduces students to specialist knowledge and skills needed to work in various care settings including; midwifery, physiotherapy, nursing, social care, prison and social work, child care and teaching.

Underpinning the qualification is a focus on core values and communicating with individuals so as to maintain their dignity and sense of being valued and thus, through the various units studied allows students to learn about real life work and jobs and to gain valuable experience in this area of study.

This course allows students to take a much more creative approach, studying the subject from a vocational perspective. The majority of the course is completed through controlled assessment, with only

This course takes an analytical approach to the subject matter, with students preparing for two examinations (Components 1 & 2 – 70% of overall grade) and completing controlled assessment (Component 3 – 30% of overall grade) at the end of Year 10

BTEC Firsts in Business can help you take your first steps towards a career in the business world. You’ll learn essential skills such as business enterprise, project management, selling and promoting a brand, and financial awareness, from planning to making a profit.

This course improves students’ knowledge of the digital environment and their confidence with IT. They learn about pre-production and production materials and develop practical skills by planning and creating a variety of different digital graphics and documents.

The aims and objectives of this qualification are to enable students to:

• Understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, decomposition, logic, algorithms, and data representation.
• Analyse problems in computational terms through practical experience of solving such problems, including designing, writing and debugging programs.
• Think creatively, innovatively, analytically, logically and critically.
• Understand the components that make up digital systems and how they communicate with one another and with other systems.
• Understand the impact of digital technology on the individual and on wider society apply mathematical skills relevant to computer science.