Personal Development

SMSC & Cultural Capital

Year 7
  • Debate – keep or kill the dragons

  • Moral decisions made about the value of life.

  • Building of a community (albeit imaginary) and joint decisions made about the dragons.

  • Building of a community (albeit imaginary) and joint decisions made about the dragons.

  • Crime and Punishment

  • Social attitudes to crime

  • Personification – giving inanimate objects a personality or a character.

  • Using a fable as a stimulus – looking at the moral of the story and how we learn the difference between right and wrong.

  • Team work aspect of physical theatre; understanding the trust and contact involved.

  • Discussion of theatre - musical shows theatre companies such as DV8 and Frantic Assembly.

  • Gaining and understanding of one’s self. Celebrating your uniqueness  

  • Understanding and tolerance of other people.

  • Tolerance of different attitudes in society Understanding different social classes in society.

  • Understanding different social classes in society.

  • Imaginary worlds; fantasy world. Exploring imaginary existences.

  • Exploration of the subject matter – young people that behave and do the right things will be rewarded.

  • Exploration of social class and the value of money – questioning why some children have more than others.

  • Relates to modern society issues of obesity and greed; importance of healthy eating.

  • Appreciation of performance and imaginary/fantasy worlds

  • Understanding of difficult themes and moral issues in performance

  • Applying subjective reasoning to performances.

  • Appreciation of theatre

Year 8
  • Could evoke discussion on ghosts, phantom objects, etc. imaginary scenarios

  • Discussion of secrets, rumours, gossip, etc.

  • Team work; exploration of how people interact and react to events; decision making

  • exposes genre of horror

  • Links to mercy, empathy.

  • Issue of homelessness and attitudes 

  • Issue of homelessness and attitudes

  • Stock Characters – giving a stereotype a meaning

  • Using a fable as a stimulus – looking at the moral of the story and how we learn the difference between right and wrong.

  • Team work aspect of physical theatre; understanding the trust and contact involved.

  • Discussion of development of movies as an art form.

  • Understanding historical impact and spiritual links to the tragedy  

  • Class system explored

  • Understanding of social status on board and implications that had.

  • Historical event explored.

  • Imaginary worlds; fantasy world. Exploring imaginary existences.

  • Exploration of the subject matter – young people that behave and do the right things will be rewarded.

  • Exploration of social class 

  • Exposure to British Literature

  • Appreciation of performance and imaginary/fantasy worlds

  • Understanding of difficult themes and moral issues in performance

  • Applying subjective reasoning to performances.

Year 9
  • Stock Characters – giving a stereotype a meaning

  • Social and Moral issues explored by texts

  • Exposure to British comedy script and fundamentals of performance

  • Links to mercy, empathy.

  • Issues of missing persons and social responsibility

  • Exploring social commentary on different groups.

  • Exploration of script and British Seaside resorts

  • Understanding social impact of event.  

  • Moral decisions about consequences for actions of the boys

  • Understanding of social status and challenging stereotypes

  • Real life cultural issues and divides explored

  • Implications of gun crime and justifications for it.

  • Gun debate

  • Appreciation of performance and imaginary/fantasy worlds

  • Understanding of difficult themes and moral issues in performance

  • Applying subjective reasoning to performances.

  • Appreciation of theatre

Year 10
  • Exploration of given theme and historical events/figures. Links to mercy, empathy, superstition.

  • Social and Moral issues explored by texts

  • Exposure to BB script and fundamentals of performance

  • BB Themes – giving child away, superstitions 

  • Cultural context of text explored (Liverpool)

  • Exploring social commentary on different groups.

  • Moral decisions about consequences for actions of the boys

  • Exploration of given theme and historical events/figures

  • Understanding of difficult themes and moral issues in performance

  • Social context of Comp. 2 (as devised by students)

  • Appreciation of theatre

Year 11

Linking Curriculum to Careers

Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11