Learning for Life & Work (also know as LLW) is a fun and exciting subject.
In Year 8 Learning for Life & Work, students study three areas:
•Personal Development
•Employability
•Local & Global Citizenship
Personal Development
Within Personal Development you will study:
•Self-awareness: considering the importance of self confidence and self esteem to physical and emotional/mental health throughout life.
•Relationships: recognising and managing factors that may influence physical and emotional/ mental health throughout life.
•Personal health: forming and maintaining relationships to physical and emotional/mental health throughout life.
Employability
Within Employability you will study:
•Career management: the changing concept of career, lifelong learning and the development of skills for work.
•Work in the local and global economy: the changing nature of work and the impact of global interdependence.
•Enterprise and entrepreneurship: the need for creativity, enterprise and innovation.
Local and Global Citizenship
Within Local and Global Citizenship you will study:
•Diversity and Inclusion: considering diversity in societies and identifying the challenges and opportunities which diversity and inclusion present.
•Human Rights and Social Responsibility: understanding that a globally accepted values base exists that reflects the rights and responsibilities of individuals and groups in democratic society.
•Equality and Social Justice: understanding the need to safeguard individual and collective rights.
•Democracy and active participation: understanding how to participate in and influence democratic processes and to be aware of some key democratic institutions.
