Module Information
Course Delivery
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Bibliographic exercise 900 Words | 30% |
| Semester Assessment | Portfolio 2100 Words | 70% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Bibliographic exercise 900 Words | 30% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Portfolio 2100 Words | 70% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
Critically understand the different facets of health and well-being
Understand and evaluate the main factors that impact upon the health and wellbeing of children
Understand and evaluate roles and identities of individuals and groups, and how social and political factors contribute to the health and wellbeing of children.
Brief description
This module critically examines positive and negative factors that influence the health and wellbeing of young children. Key issues relating to healthy diet, physical activity, poverty and healthy relationships will be explored. An emphasis on multi agency working and evolving policy and legislation will be evaluated in relation to individual families, communities, and wider society.
Content
Health
Wellbeing
Relationships
Belonging
Rights of children
Positive behaviour
Policies and procedures to ensure positive health and wellbeing
Practices to promote health and wellbeing (including own health and wellbeing)
Weeks 9 and 10 – students will be undertaking placements for a different module. Where students are not on placement, they will be involved in employability workshops and events.
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | Occasional descriptive statistics in lectures and sources. |
| Communication | Communication techniques are a vital element throughout lectures and seminars. Spoken communication throughout seminar activities. Written communication throughout written assessments. |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | Feedback from the written assignment and personal reflection during seminar tasks |
| Information Technology | Written assignments will be word-processed and students will be using ICT to research |
| Personal Development and Career planning | Students will be encouraged to reflect upon and evaluate their skills |
| Problem solving | An essential element in the process of critical assessment |
| Research skills | Research is required for the main assessments and will be for the seminar tasks. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Students will be challenged and encouraged to develop a range of professional skills |
| Subject Specific Skills | Employability skills – tasks and activities undertaken throughout the module and acknowledged in the employability sessions in teaching weeks 9 and 10/students on placement during teaching weeks 9 and 10. |
| Team work | Team work, in form of key professional behaviors and interdisciplinary working procedures, will be an important skill that will be developed throughout |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 4