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Personal Development
Personal Development is at the heart of our Rights Respecting school curriculum learning journey. It develops, promotes and enables a range of skills that allow our children to be really effective life-long learners.
Together, our school community learn about UNICEF children’s rights, putting them into practice every day. Children’s rights are promoted and realised, adults and children work towards this goal together.
We support every child to acquire the knowledge, understanding and skills they need to manage their emotions, feelings and to learn to communication these effectively through an ethos and culture of inclusion and mutual respect.
As part of a whole-school approach, PD education develops the qualities and attributes children need to thrive as individuals, family members and members of society. The benefits to pupils of such an approach are numerous as PD prepares them to manage many of the most critical opportunities, challenges and responsibilities they will face growing up in such rapidly changing and challenging times.
It also helps pupils to connect and apply the knowledge and understanding they learn in all subjects to practical, real-life situations while helping them to feel safe and secure enough to fulfil their academic potential.
Our whole school approach promotes effective relationships between all members of the school community. The promotion of pupils’ personal and social development underpins other learning. PD education contributes to assists children and young people to build:
- their personal identities;
- confidence;
- self-esteem;
- understanding of their own decision-making.
Developing self-understanding, empathy and the ability to work with others helps our pupils to enjoy healthy and productive relationships in all aspects of their lives. Our talented team adapt and responding to the approach that enables each individual to be successful.
Skills Children Learn:
Always in an age appropriate way, we help the children shape and manage their lives, now and in the future, and help them to learn every day essential, life skills, including:
- The development of self-understanding, empathy and healthy, productive relationships;
- Relationships Education;
- Eating healthily;
- Keeping safe on the road;
- How to stay safe on the internet;
- The promotion of good mental health
Visits
Visits
Throughout the school year, we are fortunate to have various visitors to help bring our PD curriculum to life, including visits from:
- The Police
- The Fire Service
- A dental health advisor
- Road safety experts
- Kent Magistrates Service
Project Salus
Salus
Salus offers a huge range of innovative services and evidence based training programmes to improve the lives of children.
Children, young people and families also help to govern the services they deliver in school. Through strong pupil voice and participation, Salus are able to ensure that they offer the most effective service to improve well-being and engagement.
Please take a look at their website to find out more.
Celebrating Success
We aim for all our pupils to have a positive attitude to learning and to be proud of their achievements both in school and out of school. Every Thursday we have a whole school Celebration Assembly that is extremely popular with both the children and teachers. The Celebration Assembly gives us all a chance to share the fantastic learning that goes on in our classrooms and to celebrate individual achievements.
Each week we celebrate:
Achievement Award: A child from each class receives praise and a certificate to recognise their achievement and effort over the week.
Rights Respecting Award: One child from each class receives praise and a certificate to recognise their Rights Respecting behaviour and their commitment to the Rights Respecting Schools initiative.
We also hold a termly celebration assembly when we invite parents into school to celebrate children being awarded a certificate for the following areas:
- Connect Award: One child from each class receives praise and a certificate to recognise their contribution to aspects of Personal Development and upholding the convention of children's rights.
- Empower Award: One child from each class receives praise and a certificate to recognise their academic achievements or overcoming challenges.
- Inspire Award: One child from each class received praise and a certificate to recognise their developing passions and contributions to class.
- Governor Award (as voted for by our Local School Board)