The KS5 Curriculum

In the first year, students’ study Education with Theory & Methods and Family & Households. For Education, they will learn about different types of education, apply educational theory and investigate educational achievement according to class, gender and ethnicity. In the study of Family & Households, they will learn about different theories of the family and analyse family diversity, marriage, divorce, cohabitation, childhood, power and control and investigate the effects of globalisation on the family unit.

In the second year, students’ study Crime & Deviance and Beliefs in Society. In studying Beliefs in Society, they will examine the relationship between social change and social stability, religious beliefs, practices and organisations. Alongside this topic they will study Crime & Deviance, which looks at the causes of crime and social distribution according to class, gender and ethnicity.

Subject Overviews

Year 12

Year 13