Year 10 Child Development Revision

Key Information


Length of Exam: 1.5 hours
The child development examination accounts 40% of your final grade. To help you obtain a grade worthy of your knowledge I have written this guidance to suggest ways to revise. The paper is non-tiered therefore you all will be taking the same exam.
To help you to feel confident it is important to start your revision as early as possible, use your time constructively during the holidays (as boring as it may seem).



Areas of Key Revision

  1. Families - the role of the family, different family structures, why children may be put in local authority care, reasons why children maybe fostered or adopted. How family structures have changed over the years.
  2. Nutrition - Breast and bottle-feeding - the advantages and disadvantages, the stages of weaning. Development of teeth, the type of equipment that would be required if bottle feeding a baby a balanced diet, essential nutrients, relationship to diet and illness, different food labels and their meaning, breast and bottle feeding, correct hygiene and storage procedures for handling food.
  3. The newborn baby and its characteristics. - skin and eye colour, vernix and lanugo, new born reflexes , how to prevent SIDS, hygiene routines and the benefits of bathing a baby, clothing including safety considerations.
  4. Physical Growth and Development - Fine and gross motor skills - definitions, factors that can affect growth and development (environment, genes, health,) stages of development and toys, games and activities to help a child's physical development.
  5. Intellectual development - Cognitive - mind, memory concepts, imagination. Different types and stages of play, including the different toys for the different ages of children.
  6. Emotional and social development - definitions of emotional and social development, why children may feel insecure, how a parent may help them overcome insecurities, how children develop social relationships and the importance within a society.
  7. Safety - why children have accidents, how to prevent accidents -equipment, supervision, safety in the home and outside, types of safety restraints for children and safety symbols and their meanings.
  8. Response to infection - how to identify when a child is unwell and the different care that they would receive, the immunisation programme for UK. Common childhood ailments.
  9. Nutrition - the nutrition value and the differences of breast and bottle feeding, nutrition, weaning stages, macro and micro nutrients, healthy eating guidelines, food intolerances and allergies, diet related illnesses, food preparation.

Resources

This guidance includes:

  • A copy of the syllabus with topics covered throughout the three years.
  • Suggestions on different ways you could revise.
  • Examples of key words and their meanings.
  • An explanation of the structure of the examination.
  • An example of how to approach the extended questions with guidance on how to interpret what is required.
  • Past questions relating to topics.

Remember it is important to use the OCR textbook to support your revision as each topic has a section describing different ways of revising and useful examiners tips explaining what and how to answer questions.

The OCR website has past papers and mark schemes to help you practice your examination technique:

Home Economics: Child Development B013 - you can find the link under Subject - Health and Social Care - link GCSE past papers. (not easy to find)

Link to the OCR Child Development Site 

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