BTEC Tech Award HSC Component 1 Birth to Infancy 2024-2025

BTEC Tech Award Level 1/2 Health and Social Care Component 1 - a complete teaching package to pick-up and run with. This covers what is need in the life stage Birth to Infancy (0-2 years)

If you are following my SoW 2024-2025 this is Week 2 is the delivery of all aspects covering growth and development in the first life stage, birth to infancy 0-2 years.

The pace has to be reasonably fast to get the content delivered, you may want to get the physical and intellectual completed in one lesson and then the emotional and social in the second lesson, it’s entirely up to you.

All the spec content is included in one presentation with 49 slides which have animation so text is delivered in chunks. These cover the expected key characteristics in each of the PIES classifications. This will allow the lesson to finish on a slide that suits you, however, to keep up with the SoW the whole of the below will need to be delivered in one week.

Physical: rapid physical growth of weight and height, development of gross and fine motor skills, following the same pattern of growth and development but at different rates
Intellectual: rapid development of language and thinking skills such as memory/recall
Emotional: attachments are formed, emotional wellbeing is based on bonding/attachment, security and contentment
Social: strong dependence on adults/carers, socialisation through family, engage in solitary play

Along the way there are Pause-Points to encourage engagement, but the presentation is adaptable to suit you teaching style. Optional video’s are on certain slides, depending how you are getting on for time.

In order for students to build up their own work to refer to when they sit the PSA Tasks, they will need to have notes which cover all the spec and be able to understand the relevance of these when writing up their Task 1, which is 1.5 hours long (next page). Throughout the presentation there is reference to the criteria as it’s a combination of knowing the key characteristics in a life stage and then also knowing the sequence and changes through the life stage eg. a 6-month-old compared to an 18-month-old. For visual learners these are demonstrated as steps, and these are coloured for each of the PIES.

In order for them to bring the notes together there is a homework task which you may want them to be starting as you go along and to be finished at home. There is a Level 1 homework task and a Level 2 homework tasks which you will need to decide who gets which one. Perhaps if this is started in the lesson you will be able to look at their target grade and their ability demonstrated in front of you, to make that decision. Homework sheets are on Word and can be adapted.

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