School Health Webpage

This project idea will develop a knowledge and understanding of health in its widest context.  By applying this knowledge, young people will work together on the task of designing a new webpage to provide other learners and parents about current health issues that affect our society.

This project idea will develop a knowledge and understanding of health in its widest context.  By applying this knowledge, young people will work together on the task of designing a new webpage to provide other learners and parents about current health issues that affect our society.

Broad Outcomes of learning

• Enterprising skills improved by developing creativity, confidence, self awareness, positive attitude; increasing motivation to learning; taking responsibility and making decisions; consideration of others through group work and discussion; raising achievement and fostering ambition
• Developed employability skills: Communication, planning, organisation, time management, researching, co-operating, contributing, sourcing, negotiating, analysing, reporting, presenting, and marketing.
• Confidence of working independently from teacher-led lessons demonstrated by pupils taking ownership of task
• Pupils take responsibility for their learning through making decisions about what will be included on the site
• Learners have developed 4 capacities of CfE

Relevance to curriculum

• Supports CfE Health and Wellbeing
• Relevance of how curriculum topic on health is relevant to work and life and how this subject knowledge is put into practice in a real situation by creating a website to benefit learners, parents and others in the local community