personal development

Learn to live​

The Personal Development programme will enable all of our students to feel positive about who they are and to enjoy a healthy, safe, responsible lives. We want to prepare students for life outside of school; for students to be inspired by the issues of the community and world around them, to be increasingly aware and knowledgeable of those issues and to develop a passion to affect those issues positively. Students will have opportunities to learn about the possibilities for their future, to aspire to higher goals and to understand the pathways to get there.

 

Furthermore students will have opportunities to develop themselves; to develop social skills, personal skills and learn how to get the best out of the opportunities that they can create.

TERM YEAR 7 YEAR 8 YEAR 9 YEAR 10 YEAR 11

AUTUMN
  • Belonging to Byrchall; Transition and safety Transition to secondary school and personal safety in and outside school, including first aid 
  • Developing skills and aspirations Careers, teamwork and enterprise skills, and raising aspirations 
  • Safety and risk management: Alcohol and drugs
  • Careers and Aspirations: Option choices 
  • Safety and risk management: Healthy and unhealthy relationships, assertiveness, substance abuse and gang exploitation
  • Careers and aspirations: Dreams and aspirations
  • Health and wellbeing: Mental Health 
  • Careers and Aspirations: Presenting myself 
  • Building for the future: Exam preparation and relevant health issues 
  • Careers and Aspirations: preparation for life beyond Byrchall 
SPRING
  • Diversity, prejudice, and bullying
  • Health and puberty Healthy routines, influences on health, puberty, unwanted contact 
  • Diversity, relationships, friendship and conflict resolution
  • Body Image. Self-esteem and sexual health, FGM
  • Relationships, self-esteem, confidence and sexual development Spectrum Health
  • Mental health, wellbeing and global health issues
  • Types of relationship and sexual health 
  • Dealing with hate crime, homelessness and personal loss 
  • Personal values and assertive communication-in relation to sexual health 
  • GCSE exam preparation
SUMMER
  • Financial decision making Saving, borrowing, budgeting and making financial choices 
  • Building relationships Self-worth, romance and friendships (including online) and relationship boundaries
  • Digital literacy; online safety, media reliability and gambling 
  • Identity and relationships: Gender and sexual orientation 
  • Body image, peer pressure and issues facing young people 
  • Parenting, pregnancy and dealing with conflict in relationships
  • Financial matters and the law around gambling and young people 
  • Consent, dealing with relationship issues and personal wellbeing 
  • GCSE exam preparation

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