Students will learn to navigate their transition and the newfound freedom they will have as high school students. The unit will explore the changes students will begin to see in themselves and their relationships.
Assessing Risks
Students will learn about themselves as they reach the milestone age of 13, and the inevitability that further freedom will include further risks. Sessions will develop understanding that caution must be taken and how some risks can be rewarding. Establishing a risk vs reward ideal to build on strong moral and ethical compasses.
Protecting Myself and Others
Students will be exploring the common issues that might impact them at year 7 and how they can protect themselves and others. These are based on health and technological impacts that could affect their mental wellbeing and personal safety.
Respect and Tolerance
Students will be learning about Fundamental British Values and building on Respect and Tolerance in Year 7. The topic establishes the importance of inclusion as morally correct and how inclusion is driven by the law.
Personal Development
- Year 9
Exploitation Protection
Students will learn about the meaning of exploitation and how it can impact them. It is deemed these topic areas are suitable at this point as previous PSHCE days have given opportunity to empathise with others and reflect on hard hitting topics. Exploitation in all its forms will be explored, how to recognise it and protect yourself and others.
Healthy Choices
Students will be extending their learning from year 7 from understanding substances and moving to how substances can be used to abuse your body. Comparing legal and illegal drugs and how addiction can impact themselves and others.
Personal Development
- Year 10
Personal Development
- Year 11
Financial
Responsibility and Aspirations
Students will be building on previous understanding of workplace and employability, students will now reflect on how to improve their career opportunities. They will explore financial decisions and risks.
External Influences and Informed Decisions
Students will be learning about making informed decisions to encourage them to recognise their freedom as young adults to make positive choices, this topic will build on previous learning and appreciate external factors that can influence their decisions and how to counteract this.
Sexual Relationships
Students will learn about a more mature and detailed approach to sexual health, sexual readiness and consent, and contraception. This topic will build on KS3 understanding to ensure students feel confident with choices they make.
Life Changes
Students will be learning about the changes they may face as they navigate their life post 16 including being a parent, finances and fertility. Looking beyond the fundamental learning across the PD curriculum so far to understand the life changes they will come to experience, how to deal with these and support others.
Personal Development Curriculum Plan
Subject/Year
Personal Development –
Spring Term
Year 7 Respect and Tolerance
Students will be learning about Fundamental British Values. The thread of respect and tolerance runs through this topic. It will aim to make students more aware that everyone is different and the importance of inclusivity to build and maintain healthy relationships.
Aspiring to Succeed
Students will learn to reflect on themselves as individual learners and how they work together as a team. Exploring the importance of online reputation and how they can begin to build a strong identity for their future.
Personal Development –
Year 8 Self-Care
Students will learn to gain more independence as they begin to become more responsible for their own health choices. The topic should aim to build on established basics from year 7 and equip students to feel empowered to make healthy choices.
Reaching Goals
Students will be learning about SMART goals and developing year 7 discussion of aspirations. Students will explore pathways and post 16 options. Students will also consider their digital footprints and how to give yourself the best life opportunities.
Personal Development –
Year 9 Intimate Relationships
Students will be learning to understand readiness for intimacy and a more specific look at consent in relation to sexual activity. Students will explore the idea of being ready for intimacy and taking necessary precautions when they are ready. Students will also explore how the media blurs relationship expectations.
Dealing with Setbacks
Students will be learning about resilience in the face of a setback. Building on freedom of choice and decision making in previous years, students will now begin to explore when choices don’t go their way and how best to deal with a negative setback. Aiming to allow students to be reflective, and build confidence and self-esteem.
Personal Development –
Year 10 Health Responsibility
Students will be developing knowledge of KS3; students will now build on the concept of growing up, self-care and making healthy choices for themselves. This topic should allow students to be confident to assess risks and threats to their health and wellbeing.
Being Myself
Students will be building on KS3 learning that enabled students to consider risks and make reasoned judgement to counteract risks. Considering their morals and values, students will now learn how to have confidence to question others and make personal decisions that benefit their health and wellbeing and support others.
Personal Development –
Year 11
Considering Others
Students will learn the importance of considering others in this topic. Personal development is about empowering young people to make good life choices for themselves but also to have the emotional resilience to support others. This topic should build on previous learning and help them to reflect on why it is legally and morally right to treat others with respect and support others with their health and wellbeing.
Relationships
Students will develop their previous learning on relationships. We end the personal development journey looking at relationships to empower themselves as their next transition approaches. Students will also explore online relationships, prejudices, sexual assault and victim blaming.
Personal Development Curriculum Plan
Subject/Year Summer Term
Personal Development –year7 The World We Live In
Consideration of the community we live in both locally and the global community and how students can have an impact. Focusing on the basics of right and wrong that underpin societal values.
Personal Development –Year 8 Relationship Compositions
Students will learn through exploration of diverse relationships and what makes a relationship unique. Learning about the law and discovering that there is no typical family construct whilst appreciating peers who may be young carers and the challenges they face.
Personal Development –Year 9 The World of Work
Students will learn more about themselves and their aspirations in this unit of work. Students have previously established their aspirations and ambitions and will now begin to determine what makes them employable with strong links to employability skills, the employment sector and employment laws.
Personal Development - Year 10 Avoiding Negative Relationships
Students will be consolidating KS3 understanding of respect and tolerance. With a focus on bullying, relationships and bereavement, this topic will enable students to develop understanding of what a good relationship looks like, what abuse looks like, in order to tackle challenges they might face, and support others.
Bespoke Learning
Throughout the year bespoke personal development opportunities are available to have an impact on emergent issues. Priority will be given to these issues and therefore the length of units 1-5 could potentially be longer to accommodate.
Bespoke Learning
Throughout the year bespoke personal development opportunities are available to have an impact on emergent issues. Priority will be given to these issues and therefore the length of units 1-5 could potentially be longer to accommodate.
Bespoke Learning
Throughout the year bespoke personal development opportunities are available to have an impact on emergent issues. Priority will be given to these issues and therefore the length of units 1-5 could potentially be longer to accommodate.
Bespoke Learning
Throughout the year bespoke personal development opportunities are available to have an impact on emergent issues. Priority will be given to these issues and therefore the length of units 1-5 could potentially be longer to accommodate.
Personal Development
- Year 11 Bespoke Learning
Throughout the year bespoke personal development opportunities are available to have an impact on emergent issues. Priority will be given to these issues and therefore the length of units 1-5 could potentially be longer to accommodate.
