Worked example · PE · Year 10
DCF: Citizenship → Health and well-being
A secure Year 10 response, annotated so you can see which success criterion each part meets. Use it as your answer guide: the clear verdicts are Screens 2 and 3 harmful, Screens 4 and 6 helpful, and Screens 1 and 5 mostly harmful as designed, though a pupil who argues “it depends” with a good reason is also right. The one thing every reply in Step 4 must do is tell the friend to talk to a trusted adult; a reply that promises to keep the secret has missed the point.
| Screen | What it counts or rewards | Looks, or does and feels? | Verdict and reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Opening the app every day. The streak rewards not missing a day, not how well you trained. | Neither directly — but it calls a rest day “lazy” and compares you with friends. | Harmful as designed. Rest is part of training, yet there is no rest-day button and one missed day wipes 42 days. The 9.47pm timing pushes a workout just before bed. |
| 2 | Time in the feed and buying the Premium plan. | Looks. “Flat stomach”, “summer body”, and a filter that reshapes your own photo. | Harmful. It promises a flat stomach from a core plan, but you cannot choose where you lose fat. Day 1 and Day 30 photos can differ through lighting and posture alone. |
| 3 | Staying under a calorie target. | Neither — it treats food as something to be paid back with exercise. | Harmful. It turns exercise into a punishment for eating. The target was set without asking the user’s age, so a teenager who is still growing could be given an adult’s number. |
| 4 | Your own improvement: time over the same route. | Does and feels: “legs stronger”, “breathing steadier”. | Helpful. It compares you only with yourself, and it builds in a rest day and explains why it matters. |
| 5 | Steps, ranked against the whole class. | Neither directly, but it publicly labels people “Slackers”. | Harmful as designed. Steps are not fitness, the chart ignores swimming, cycling and wheelchair pushes, and it shames named people in front of the group. |
| 6 | Your chosen goals: how you feel and what you can do. | Does and feels, by default. | Helpful. Calories, weight and comparison are off for under-18s, rest reminders are on, and every page points to a trusted adult. |
Jamal’s 18,332 steps: first, the app does not count swimming, cycling or wheelchair pushes, so Jamal could be swimming for a club four nights a week and the leaderboard would never know. Second, it only counts steps while the phone or tracker is being carried, so if Jamal leaves it in a bag during football, none of that shows up. Being bottom of this chart tells you about the chart, not about Jamal.
Each row separates what the app claims from what it actually rewards, sorts the message into looks versus does-and-feels, and backs the verdict with a fact from the box (rest, spot reduction, photos, steps). Evidences criteria 1, 2 and 3.
Screen 1: “42 days of moving more — that’s brilliant. Tomorrow’s a good day to rest, and your streak will still be here. Rest days count.”
Screen 3: “Logged: pizza. Enjoy it! Food is fuel for Saturday’s match.” — and I would delete the red bar and the “burn it off” button altogether.
Screen 5: “10G moved 2.1 million steps together this week! Your own total was 12% higher than last week. Did you swim or cycle? Add it here.” — each person sees only their own figure, never a ranking.
Each rewrite keeps the same data (the streak, the logged food, the step count) but removes guilt, shame and comparison with named people. The Screen 5 version fixes the missing activities too. Evidences criterion 4.
| Feature | On or off? | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Calorie target and food diary | OFF | A growing teenager’s needs change month to month; an automatic target turns food into a score. |
| Body weight tracking | OFF | Weight changes naturally as you grow and says nothing about fitness. |
| Before-and-after photo feed | OFF | Photos can be staged or edited, and the feed is only about appearance. |
| Leaderboard against friends | OFF | Public ranking shames people and ignores activities the app cannot count. |
| Daily streak counter | OFF | It punishes rest days. Could be allowed if it counted rest days as part of the streak. |
| Rest-day reminders | ON | Rest is part of training and helps prevent injury. |
| Progress compared with your own last month | ON | It shows real improvement in what your body can do, with no one else in the picture. |
Defaults are chosen with a reason tied to growth, rest or comparison, and the streak answer shows a way the feature could be made safe rather than just banning it. Evidences criteria 3 and 4.
“Thanks for telling me — I’m really glad you did. Those Day 30 photos can be changed just by lighting and how someone stands, so you are comparing yourself with something that might not even be real. Skipping lunch worries me, because your body needs food to train and to grow. I’m not going to keep this secret, but I’ll come with you to talk to Mrs Hughes, our Head of Year, today. You can also ring Meic on 080880 23456 if it’s easier to talk to someone you don’t know.”
Kind first, then one accurate fact about photos, then an honest refusal to keep a secret that could harm the friend, a named adult in school and a Welsh helpline. Five sentences. Evidences criteria 3 and 5.