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Key Stage 3
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| Business Studies |
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| CDT |
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| Drama |
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| English |
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Key Stage 4
Key Stage 5
Extending educational opportunities
Extending Educational Opportunities includes all the courses and activities that we offer to our students outside the core and subject preferences pattern. We believe that we have a rich variety of resources and expertise to widen the curriculum for our students and at Glossopdale this has proven to be very popular. Students are asked to select the courses they are interested in and we will try to offer those courses that have been selected by the most students. Please look at the enclosed form and indicate which subjects you would like to study and we will endeavor to put on the courses that are the most popular.
This year we are running the following courses:
First Aid - St John’s Emergency Aid for the appointed person’s course. This is a six hour course lasting three weeks.
Law - This is a GCSE course which takes place two nights a week for two hours each session. If students achieve the required grade by Christmas they will be entered for the examination. The course includes:
- The legal system including criminal, crown and civil courts
- The legal profession
- Legal aid and advice
- Laws
- Acts of Parliament
- Criminal, employment and family laws
- Sentencing
- Inheritance
- Freedom rights
Students will be required to do an examination as well as a piece of coursework
We are hoping to take students to the law courts in Manchester.
Hairdressing - This is a vocational course in which students have the opportunity to look at the theory as well as the practical aspects of hairdressing as a career.
The course will enable you to gain:
- A knowledge of the hairdressing industry
- An understanding of the health and safety procedures in the workplace
- Knowledge of equipment and products.
- An ability to recognize the importance of good customer service
- An experience of practical tasks in the hairdressing environment
We have a room equipped with mirrors and washbasins and each student has a
‘head’ on which they can practice the different activities. At various stages students act as models for a particular process. We have also taken some students to a health and beauty exhibition in Manchester.
Spanish - For those students studying Spanish for the first time we are offering a practical language certificate which allows all students to gain accreditation.
The course will cover the following areas:
- Using basic phrases e.g. Hello, How are you?
- Gathering information on times, places and direction,
- Personal information
- Understanding signs
- Filling in forms, writing lists,
- Travel,
- Accommodation
- Food and Drink
- Shopping
For students choosing to take the course in September this course will continue but we will also offer a GCSE course to those students who have some knowledge of the language.
Students studying GCSE will be required to attend two two hour lessons each week, those studying for the certificate attend one two hour lesson.
Archaeology - This is a GCSE course. It consists of a written examination, a practical paper and a project.
Students studying archaeology will be required to attend two two hour sessions each week. There will be a compulsory fieldwork session in order to gain information for their coursework.
The course consists of a study of Roman Britain investigating:
- buildings
- clothing
- tools
- pottery
- burials and tombs
- religions
- defense
The practical paper requires the students to be able to detect sites, date pots, sites and artifacts, look at excavations and make deductions, and date various artifacts of any period in history. The course will be based in Arbor Low in Derbyshire.
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