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Year 10

Curriculum Map

This curriculum map provides an overview of the construction journey students will experience throughout the academic year. It outlines the sequence of theoretical learning, trade-specific skill development, and hands-on practical tasks, alongside key assessment points designed to monitor and support student progress. The curriculum is carefully sequenced to build knowledge progressively, with each unit laying the groundwork for future learning. This ensures all students develop a secure understanding of the built environment, technical accuracy in trades such as joinery, plumbing, and decorating, and the ability to work safely and effectively within industry contexts.

Half Term Unit(s) of Work Key Assessments
Autumn 1 Unit 1 – 
  • Professional and managerial roles and responsibilities associated with the built environment sector.
  • Trades, employment and careers
  • Health and Safety
  • Risks for employees, employers and the public during construction and the built environment projects
  • Using personal protective equipment (PPE).
  • Following procedures and carrying out risk assessments
 Activities of those involved in CBE projects
Responsibilities of those involved in CBE projects
Outputs of those involved in realising CBE projects
Identify safety signs used by construction industry 
Identify fire extinguishers used in different situations
Interpret technical sources of information 
Plan sequence of work to meet requirements of sources 

Unit 3 – 

  • Interpreting technical sources of information
  • specifications
  • building regulations
  • drawings
  • design briefs.
  • Identifying resource requirements
  • Tools
  • Equipment
  • Personal protective equipment (PPE)
  • Materials based on characteristics, qualities, sustainability, and limitations
  • Writing and setting success criteria
  • levels of tolerance
  • timescales
  • quality.
 Identify resources required to complete construction tasks 
Set success criteria for completion of construction tasks 
Prepare for construction tasks 
Apply techniques in completion of construction tasks 
Apply H&S practices in completion of construction tasks 
Evaluate quality of construction tasks
Trades-role of a decorator, joiner, tiler, electrician
Autumn 2

Unit 1 - 

  • Types of building and structure
  • Infrastructure and civil engineering products
  • Building services engineering
  • Relevant legislation4 , including Health and Safety at Work Act and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) regulations
  • Working at height and in enclosed spaces
 Responsibilities of H&S legislation 
Describe role of the H&S Executive 
Identify hazards to H&S in different situations 
Potential effects of hazards in different situations
Explain the risk of harm in different situations 
Explain existing H&S control measures in different situations 
Recommend H&S control measures in different situations

Unit 3 - 

  • Planning and organising work
  • How work is sequenced, planned to meet deadlines and compliant with relevant health and safety practices
  • Removing and disposing of materials
  • Safe and environmentally responsible means of disposing or recycling of materials.
  • Calculating the materials required
    -volume
    -area
    -perimeter
    -time
    -ratio.
 Identify risks to security in construction in different situations 
Describe measures used to minimise risk to security
Prepare for construction tasks 
Apply techniques in completion of construction tasks 
Apply H&S practices in completion of construction tasks 
Evaluate quality of construction tasks
Mock exam- extending long answer responses
Trades-role of a decorator, joiner, tiler, electrician
Spring 1

Unit 1 - 

  • Technologies and materials
  • Main elements and components of low rise buildings
  • Main materials involved in constructing walls, installing building services, fitting roofs and finishing interiors
  • Renewable technologies and materials, including heat pumps, wind turbines and solar panels
 Interpret technical sources of information 
Plan sequence of work to meet requirements of sources 
Identify resources required to complete construction tasks 
Set success criteria for completion of construction tasks 
Prepare for construction tasks 

Unit 3

  • Working practices that promote health and safety
    -Ensuring the cleanliness and safety of work areas
    -Correct personal protective equipment
  • Prepare for construction tasks
    -The properties of common materials required to complete construction tasks
 Apply techniques in completion of construction tasks 
Apply H&S practices in completion of construction tasks 
Evaluate quality of construction tasks
Structures-internal 
Renewable energies-wind, solar, hydro.
Identification of buildings.
Spring 2

Unit 1

  • Building structures and forms
    -Cellular constructions
    -Rectangular frame constructions
    -Portal frame constructions
  • Heritage and traditional methods
  • Safely working with gas, water and electricity
 Interpret technical sources of information 
Plan sequence of work to meet requirements of sources 
Identify resources required to complete construction tasks 
Set success criteria for completion of construction tasks 
Prepare for construction tasks 
Apply techniques in completion of construction tasks 

Unit 3

  • Planning and organising work
    -How work is sequenced, planned to meet deadlines and compliant with relevant health and safety practices
  • Carrying out techniques
    -The processes involved in carrying out simple construction tasks.
 Apply H&S practices in completion of construction tasks 
Evaluate quality of construction tasks
Structures-external
Heritage trades
Role of a plumber
Summer 1

Unit 1 - 

  • The Built Environment life cycle
  • Raw material extraction
  • Operation and maintenance
  • Disposal, reuse or recycling
  • The environmental, financial, cultural and social benefits of sustainable construction methods
  • Pollution and the preservation of the natural environment and natural habitats
  • Sustainable materials used to create building frames, walls, roofs.
  • Waste disposal, re-use and recycling
  • Planning permission, brownfield sites and greenfield sites
 Calculate materials required to complete construction tasks
Interpret technical sources of information 
Plan sequence of work to meet requirements of sources 
Identify resources required to complete construction tasks 

Unit 3- 

  • Planning and organising work
    -How work is sequenced, planned to meet deadlines and compliant with relevant health and safety practices
  • Carrying out techniques
    -The processes involved in carrying out simple construction tasks.
 Set success criteria for completion of construction tasks
Prepare for construction tasks 
Apply techniques in completion of construction tasks
Apply H&S practices in completion of construction tasks
Evaluate quality of construction tasks
Summer 2
  • NEA released
  • NEA Preparation Introduction to assessed tasks
  • For each practical task pupils will complete the following activities:
    -Planning and organising work
    -Interpreting technical sources of information
    -Identifying resource requirements
    -Calculating the materials required
    -Writing and setting success criteria
    -Prepare for construction tasks
    -Carrying out techniques
    -Removing and disposing of materials
    -working practices that promote health and safety
    -Evaluating construction tasks
 NEA marking
Calculate materials required to complete construction tasks
Interpret technical sources of information 
Plan sequence of work to meet requirements of sources 
Identify resources required to complete construction tasks 
Set success criteria for completion of construction tasks
Prepare for construction tasks 
Apply techniques in completion of construction tasks
Apply H&S practices in completion of construction tasks
 Evaluate quality of construction tasks

 

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