Health Education And Planning Assessments - 1347 Words

Within certain themes within Health Education, planning assessments can be used to show understanding e.g. weekly food plans within the Physical Health content. Overall Health Education would be an excellent addition to work alongside PSHE and Citizenship, the making of a statutory health education would highly benefit its pupils in their personal development. The second subject to be added into the curriculum would be Multi-Media studies. This subject will reflect today’s society and teach skills that are needed due the growth of technology (Wise 2000; Bazalgette 2010). Multi-Media studies would involve aspects of other subjects such as I.C.T, music, business and technology, thus allowing for cross curricular work to take place (Howard,†¦show more content†¦This is because as discussed in the National Association for the Education of Young Children (2016), young children also want to use technology that older individuals use (National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2016). By providing Multi-Media as a subject it means younger children can seek and develop their own skills and creativity through the basic use of technology e.g. using basic computer programs/ learning how to take a photo on a camera. Furthermore while there is a current GCSE called Media Studies (AQA, 2016), it can only be studied within ye ar 9 onwards meaning pupils might not have learnt any skills within the previous years’ regarding media which could be a disadvantage for some. The GCSE is also time constricted as it has to be taught within just two years. Similar to that of the current I.C.T subject within the national curriculum, Multi-Media studies will allow for creativity (Department for Education, 2013), the amount of areas of study mean that pupils can thrive and creative within the subject. The National Advisory Committee on Creative and Cultural Education (1998:3) report states that â€Å"there is stronger emphasis on creative and cultural education†. The Multi-Media Studies subject would allow for creativity to be shown through numerous ways such as through graphic design, game design, filming, editing as well as broadcasting and photography. As a result of the content that will be within the program of study, pupils will