Psychology

The Psychology curriculum has been designed to enable our students to outline why people behave using different approaches to understand behaviour. Students will be able to make predictions about people’s behaviour and be able to apply knowledge to new case studies, to know and be able to replicate the scientific process, to write coherently in a scientific style and experience modelling the independent scientific process so that they are well prepared to work or study in the field. The Psychology curriculum is ambitious and designed to give all students, particularly disadvantaged students and including students with SEND, the knowledge and cultural capital they need to succeed in life, by engaging students with key behaviours they see and experience in their lives. It is planned around the following topics; Memory, Research Methods, Attachment, Social Influence, Psychopathology, Approaches, Issues and Debates, Biopsychology, Schizophrenia, Relationships and Forensic Psychology.  Each lesson has home learning set that is 1) preparation for the next lesson 2) revision on a previous topic 3) weekly essay preparation tasks. Every lesson has ‘fast five’ questions which are daily reviews of prior learning. At the end of each topic we have review lessons and end of unit assessments. Once we have taught the content for teach paper we have paper review and reteach weeks for areas that have been found to be trickier for students to grasp, and regular opportunities for students to study together and teach each other concepts.