Psychology
Psychology Curriculum 3 I’s
Vision and Intent
At Maltings Academy the study of Psychology at KS4 provides young people with knowledge and skills to develop their understanding of theories and studies around human behaviour & the physiological processes that take place in our brain. Students develop critical thinking and evaluative skills, alongside data collection and analysis.
The Maltings Psychology curriculum will enable learners to:
Make psychology relevant, engaging and accessible to our students.
Foster skills of critical enquiry to enable pupils to question and evaluate studies and theories.
Build both knowledge and skills, understanding that the two are fundamentally entwined.
Expose pupils to a wide variety of experiences that ready them for the world beyond the classroom.
Subject Implementation
The Psychology curriculum is delivered through 3 lessons per week as an option subject with clear mapping of assessment points. Core knowledge and skills are mapped out to ensure students progress throughout each lesson. Our psychology curriculum follows Edexcel/Pearson specification due to the wider range of units covered, including optional units in criminal psychology & sleep and dreaming, which enables students to understand the relevance and importance of the subject.
The implementation of the Psychology curriculum includes:
A commitment to interleaving Psychology to build up knowledge through knowledge recall quizzes at the start of each lesson.
Clear links to literacy through extended writing, oracy (debates), and key terminology, which are embedded throughout each unit.
Making authentic links: seeing connectivity to all areas of learning including philosophy and ethics to develop critical thinking and evaluative skills.
Homework tasks planned and implemented for each unit to continue the development of students’ knowledge and understanding of the subject.
Subject Impact
Psychology at Maltings Academy will enable students to develop knowledge and skills in order to understand key concepts and theories around psychology and studies which have challenges and tested these theories. Psychology aims to develop students’ understanding of the brain and how this applies to real life.
A Maltings Academy Psychology student will:
have pride in their achievements and will always strive for more.
be able to think critically, explain and solve issues while having the ability to make informed arguments supported with evidence from studies and theories.
have the ability to communicate effectively.
demonstrate understanding of how psychology can be applied to real world scenarios.
demonstrate empathy without prejudice when studying different cultures, customs, political ideals and circumstances.
show resilience and a willingness to go beyond their comfort zone.
Psychology Journey Map
Psychology Learning Journey pdfPsychology Key Stage 4