Personal Development

Personal development is essential for achieving success and plays a crucial role in the growth of every child and young person. Our goal is to provide a personal development curriculum that is tailored, inclusive, and addresses the diverse needs of our students.

Our goal is to equip children with the skills to navigate life safely, happily, and healthily. In a constantly changing world, it is the responsibility of all school staff, in partnership with parents, to teach children transferable life skills. We educate children about the world around them, relationships, emotions, reproduction, and health, along with essential life skills.

Through this curriculum, we aim to:

• Consistently promote both British values and our school values.
• Foster responsible, respectful, and engaged citizens who can contribute and participate actively in public life as adults.
• Cultivate pupils’ understanding of the core British values of democracy, individual liberty, the rule of law, and mutual respect and tolerance, enabling them to become respectful adults who positively contribute to an increasingly complex society.
• Enhance pupils’ confidence, resilience, and knowledge to maintain their mental health.
• Foster pupils’ character, defined as a set of positive personal traits, dispositions, and virtues that drive their motivation and guide their behaviour, so they reflect wisely, learn eagerly, act with integrity, and collaborate with others.
• Encourage students to become healthy, independent, and responsible members of society, who are aware of their personal and social development, and give them the confidence to address various moral, social, and cultural issues as they grow up.
• Provide opportunities for pupils to learn about rights and responsibilities, appreciate what it means to be part of a diverse society, and prepare them to be global citizens now and in their future roles within a global community.
• Support pupils’ readiness for the next phase of education, ensuring they are equipped to transition successfully.
• Equip pupils to become socially and ‘online aware’ so they can recognise online and offline risks and understand how to manage these risks.

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