Personal Development
The aim of our Personal development curriculum is to develop healthy, happy children who are aware of: how to look after themselves, show respect for others, positively engage in wider society and thrive as individuals.
We will do so by delivering a curriculum & ethos that:
- Raises the profile of the British Values and embeds them into our pupils understanding of what it means to be a British Citizen.
- Develop our pupils holistically and allow them to build their positive character traits during their school career.
- Is progressive and focuses on the key areas of ; Safety. Health, Relationships, Responsibilities, All About Me and Enterprise.
- Develop a toolkit of strategies to promote good mental wellbeing starting in Nursery and continuing throughout school.
- Exposes children to topic specific vocabulary that will expand their knowledge and build progressively on their knowledge each year.
- Is agreed and approved by parents (where appropriate) in the community to ensure there is external support of the curriculum we deliver.
- Enables children to have the tools to stay safe both on and offline.
- Promotes healthy relationships and provides information to support pupils in identifying such relationships and what to do if not.
- Supports both the physical and mental wellbeing of our pupils to allow them to thrive.
- Develops their skills in managing their own self-image, self-esteem and mental wellbeing.
- Identifies bullying and discriminatory behaviour and gives pupils the tools to prevent this from happening.
- Promotes pupil leaderships and action based on identified priorities by the pupils and staff.
- Extends beyond the academic, vocational or technical and provides for pupils’ broader development.
- Provides high quality pastoral support to both children and families.
- Promotes active citizenship.
- Promotes active movement and playtimes within school.
Mental Health support for children up to 11
The below Padlet has a range of resources to support parents to talk to children about their mental health and wellbeing. This has been created by the Young Persons Mental Health Support Team in Rochdale and is updated and reviewed regularly.
