health and social GCSE

• infancy

  0-2 years
• childhood

  3-12 years
• adolescence

  13-19 years
• adulthood

  20-64 years
• later adulthood

  65+ years
• physical development

  growth

  strength

  gross motor skills

  fine motor skills
• intellectual development

  speech

  knowledge
• emotional development

  controlling and understanding emotions
• social development

  how an individual interacts with those around them
• gross motor skills is

  large body movements

  e.g pushing pulling

  rolling crawling
• fine motor skills is

  small muscle movements

  e.g movement with eyes hands and fingers
• growth is an increase in

  size

  height

  mass
• percentile charts are used to

  measure growth like

  height

  weight

  body mass index (BMI)

  head circumference
• growth is supported by 


  sleep

  nutrition

  exercise
• what does the child development programme wales do

  records and analyses how children in wales are growing
• physical development of 


  teeth

  height

  weight

  hair growth

  gross/fine motor skills
• intellectual development of 


  language ( verbal/non verbal )

  reading

  writing
• emotional development of 


  bonding

  feelings

  e.g puberty
• social development of 


  friendships

  self image
• puberty starts in 


  adolescence
• menopause starts in


  adulthood
• centile charts are most important during 


  infancy and early childhood
• centile charts are included in the 


  personal child health record which is also known as the red book
• the personal child health record book is used to record standard health details like 


  height

  weight

  milestones e.g first words and first time walking
• SGS (schedule of growing skills) is an assessment used from

  birth-5 years
• SGS has 9 key areas of development which are

  passive posture

  active posture

  visual

  speech/language

  self care social

  locomotor

  manipulative

  hearing/language

  interactive social
• while the child “plays” a simple scoring system highlights developments like (SGS)


  where the children may have a delay
• newborn growing skills in development

  baby will focus on face
• one month growing skills in development 


  can smile

  hold head up for a few seconds

  eyes follow moving lights
• three months growing skills in development 


  can lift head

  eyes follow individuals

  kicks
• five months growing skills in development

  reaches out for objects/ holds them

  starts to make noises
• six months growing skills in development 


  moves objects from each hand

  eats solid foods

  able to lift head and chest supported by arms
• nine months growing skills in development

  sit without support

  teething

  responds to voices
• one year growing skills in development

  can crawl

  pull themselves up

  walk without support
• one year and six months growing skills in development

  walks well

  runs

  walks upstairs
• two years growing skills in development

  can put atleast 2 words together

  can kick a ball
• two and a half years growing skills in development

  locomotive skills improving

  climbs
• three-five years growing skills in development 


  can cut with scissors

  paint

  ride bikes

  can talk sentences

  can use a knife and fork
• five-ten years growing skills in development

  increase in height and mass

  learnt to read
• eleven-nineteen years growing skills in development

  growth spurt

  puberty

  mood swings

  may develop skin problems