The toolkit has been created to enable schools in Northamptonshire
to respond to recent and planned changes in the curriculum
and qualifications for 11 to 19 year olds and to develop coherent
and effective processes and programmes that will prepare their
students for adult life in the 21st century. In particular
the toolkit is designed to help schools meet:
- the requirements and expectations of the Every Child
Matters agenda;
- the statutory requirements for careers education, citizenship,
sex and drugs education and work-related learning and enterprise;
- the Specialist Schools & Academies Trust’s expectations
for personalised learning.
It will also help schools prepare for QCA’s revisions
for the National Curriculum at key stages 3 and 4 from 2008
onwards. In particular it addresses the issues raised by QCA’s
new programmes of study for PSHE education.
The government plans to create an education system for the
21st century based upon the Every Child Matters agenda and
the creation of a new skills framework that includes personal,
learning and thinking skills in all subjects and functional
skills in English, mathematics and ICT. The new curriculum
for key stages 3 and 4 aims to equip young people with the
knowledge, skills and understanding to meet the opportunities,
responsibilities and experiences of adult life in this century.
QCA’s revised programmes of study for key stage 3 and
4 for 2008 onwards show how all subjects can contribute to
the development of personal, learning and thinking skills
and a curriculum that supports the five objectives of the
Every Child Matters agenda, namely one that ensures:
Young people will enjoy and achieve by:
- developing a positive sense of their own identity and
self-esteem;
- being able to enjoy life and be positive about its challenges;
- having a say in what and how they learn;
- learning to assess their skills, achievement and potential
to set personal goals;
- understanding that achievement is life-long and there
are different ways to succeed;
- aiming to achieve the best they are capable of.
Young people will stay safe by:
- understanding how to identify risks, minimise them and
deal with them in different situations;
- binge able to make safe choices;
- developing the confidence to take on new experiences
and ideas safely;
- identifying the dangers in new and different choices in
a changing technological world;
- developing skills such as assertiveness to resist unhelpful
pressure.
Young people will be healthy and understand:
- how to look after their physical, emotional and sexual
health;
- that they can and should make positive choices and take
sensible actions;
- that they can avoid harmful choices;
- the consequences that some decisions ,might have on their
health and that of others;
- how to deal with illness, in themselves and others.
Young people will make a positive contribution
by:
- understanding the multiple roles individuals play;
- developing the skills and strategies to be effective and
form good relationships in a variety of roles;
- knowing how to make a difference in a group, community
or society;
- knowing how to work effectively with other people;
- understanding the consequences of anti-social behaviour.
Young people will achieve economic well-being
by:
- understanding the qualities and skills needed for working
life;
- making creative and realistic plans for their transition
into, through and beyond the 14-19 phase of learning;
- handling uncertainty and respond positively to change;
- embracing and implement new ideas and new ways of doing
things;
- making reasonable risk/reward assessments and act upon
them in a variety of contexts, both personal and work-related;
- understanding about the global economy, the way business
works and that there are different kinds of business;
- managing their own money and be questioning and informed
consumers of financial services.
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