The Safe City

This imaginative scheme of work explores themes of society, its structure, and the
responsibility of individuals and groups within it. By the end of the scheme, depending
of course on your individual approach, students should be able to draw out the parallels
and discuss the advantages and disadvantages inherent in the systems we employ.
The driving idea is that we all have inalienable rights, but that these are balanced by our duty
to uphold those for everybody else. Students will have their chance to explore a broken society
and examine how they would want to rebuild and reshape its future potential.

While everything in the UK is still incredibly topsy-turvy and there can be a lot of uncertainty
about what the next week may hold, I have elected to write this as a slightly shorter scheme
than would be considered normal, but instead to include adaptations for distance learning to
allow for any ‘irregularities’ you may face.

Eagle-eyed readers may also spot themes relating to pandemic, isolation and the role of
society within this scheme. It is not my intention to write a sermon, but I felt it important to
have the option to lean on these ideas as and when you choose. I have therefore tried my best
to make the themes present but malleable. As such, a large portion of this plan is presented in
the form of questions, and nothing is written in stone.