Personal Development

Subject Staff

Name	Role	Contact
Mrs R Pearson	Head of Department	Contact
Mr G Clark	Teacher of Life	Contact
Miss M Timperley	Teacher of Life	Contact
Mrs R Stephenson	Teacher of Life	Contact
Mrs S Ainsworth	Teacher of Life	Contact
Mrs S Barlow-Houghton	Teacher of Life	Contact
Mr R Kay	Teacher of Life	Contact
Mr J Birdsall	Teacher of Life	Contact
Mrs R Spence	Teacher of Life	Contact
Mrs A Nuega	Teacher of Life	Contact
Miss J Parsons	Teacher of Life	Contact
Miss R Holmes	Teacher of Life	Contact
Mrs V Crossman	Teacher of Life	Contact
Miss E Morel	Teacher of Life	Contact

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Intent: 

Personal Development

At Central Lancaster High School our goal is to equip all pupils with the relevant skills they need for life outside the classroom. In our curriculum we endeavour to build personal resilience and through honest, open and relevant schemes of learning, we aim to empower our pupils to make informed, thoughtful and well considered choices when presented with the many challenges young people face in the modern age.

Based on the PSHE Association guidance we have planned a curriculum which focuses on the themes of Health and Wellbeing, Sex and Relationships and Living in the Wider World. This curriculum is regularly reviewed based on feedback from pupils, parent voice, the year 6 transition process and an annual report from Lancashire County Council based on the year 9 Health Needs Questionnaire. This regular feedback ensures our curriculum is meeting the needs of pupils in our school.

This curriculum is delivered through timetabled Life lessons, planned personal development activities in tutor time, assemblies and across the wider curriculum. Our provision is further enhanced by external visitors, including the fire service, police and further and higher education providers. The delivery of our personal development curriculum will take into account the age, ability, readiness and cultural backgrounds of children to ensure that all can fully access the personal development provision. Personal Development education helps to reduce or remove barriers to learning such as bullying, low self-esteem and unhealthy or risky behaviours.

As a result of the personal development programme of learning pupils will:

• know and understand how to keep themselves and others safe
• have the necessary skills to succeed in the wider world
• be confident to form and maintain positive relationships
• be tolerant and respectful of beliefs and lifestyles
• be physically, emotionally and socially healthy.

Additionally, we are proud to teach an LGBT* inclusive personal development curriculum and cover many issues aimed at supporting our LGBT* students, parents and local community.
 

KS3 overview of Life Schemes of Learning:

At KS3 pupils have 1 lesson per fortnight of Life. This subject combines key aspects of PSHE and Citizenship.  

The detailed overview documents refer to specified content from the PSHE Association. To view this document in full, click here. 

	Term 1 Topics	Term 2 Topics	Term 3 Topics	Detailed Overview	Curriculum Roadmap
Year 7	Living in the wider world: You and Your Community	Sex and Relationships: You and Your Body (Puberty and self-care)	Health: You and Your Health	View Document	View Document
Year 8	Healthy Relationships (SRE)	Healthy Lifestyles and self-care (Health)	Rights and Responsibilities (LWW)	View Document	View Document
Year 9	Sex and Relationships: Sexual Health	Health: Risky Behaviour	Living in the Wider World: Government and Democracy	View Document	View Document

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Key Stage 4 Life Schemes of Learning

At KS4 pupils have 2 lessons per fortnight of Life. This subject combines key aspects of PSHE, Citizenship, and Religious Education.  

The teaching order of these topics may vary depending on timetabling. 

The detailed overview documents refer to specified content from the PSHE Association. To view this document in full, click here. 

	Half Term 1	Half term 2	Half term 3	Half term 4	Half term 5	Half term 6	Detailed Overview	Curriculum Roadmap
Year 10	Money Management Child Exploitation			Healthy Lifestyles Sex and Relationships			View Document	View Document
Year 11	Active Citizenship Mental Health		Human Rights Physical Health		Preparing for next steps		View Document	View Document

 

Tutor time curriculum

At KS3 pupils have dedicated personal development tutor time each week, covering topics of personal development and careers. This is supplemented by weekly assemblies delivered by staff or by appropriate external visitors.

Tutor time Personal Development sessions

Year group	PD Topic	Careers sessions
7	Rights and Responsibilities	Changes, what have you achieved? who can help? what influences me? Roles that I think are successful, what are you like? Skills for life, how do you learn? This is me, what is work? Using the careers library, changes in the world of work, how creative are you? Reviewing learning, setting targets.
8	Finance	Your beliefs, are school and work different? What do you want from work? Job families, can anyone predict the future? Being assertive, who does the job? Are you sure that’s true? Budgeting, how do you make decisions, writing an action plan, reviewing my learning, looking ahead, reviewing learning, student evaluation.
9	Finance	Plan your year, my network, personal qualities, personal qualities and jobs, Skills, skills and jobs, using reliable information, qualifications, choosing options, skills for life and work, why should it be you? Learning styles, being enterprising, reviewing learning., working today, Eastern delights.
10	Revision Techniques	Exploring possibilities, work experience introduction, work and lifestyle, world of work- legal limits, rights at work, responsibilities at work, application skills- CV, covering latter, thinking ahead, work experience launch, developing a sales pitch, different qualifications, reviewing learning, looking ahead.
11	Revision Techniques	Year planning, tracking progress, your skills and interests, what are you like?  different qualifications, which way do you go? The changing job market, Money matters, choices now and later, writing a CV, writing a covering letter, preparing for an interview, where have you got to so far?

 

Assembly schedule

Week commencing	Week No.	Assembly theme	British Value references	3 C’s
02.09.24	1 WK A	Introduction assemblies/ Safeguarding inc. online	Rule of Law	Commitment
09.09.24	2 WK B	Reading		Creativity
16.09.24	3 WK A	International Day of Peace (21st September 2024)	Tolerance and Mutual Respect	Community
23.09.24	4 WK B	European Languages Day (26th September 2024)	Tolerance and Mutual Respect	Commitment
30.09.24	5 WK A	Organ Donation Week		Community
07.10.24	6 WK B	World Mental Health Day (10th October 2024)	Tolerance and Mutual Respect	Community
14.10.24 Year 11 Mock Exam Assembly	7 WK A	Black History Month	Tolerance and Mutual Respect	Community
28.10.24	8 WK B	Welcome back – standards reminder	Rule of Law	Commitment
04.11.24	9 WK A	Remembrance	Tolerance and Mutual Respect	Community
11.11.24	10 WK B	Anti-bullying week	Tolerance and Mutual Respect	Community
18.11.24	11 WK A	Road Safety Week Friendship Leon’s friendship day	Rule of Law	Community
25.11.24	12 WK B	Disability History month (16th November – 16th December)	Tolerance and Mutual Respect	Community
02.12.24	13 WK A	Foodbank Assembly	Tolerance and Mutual Respect	Community
09.12.24	14 WK B	Human Rights Day (10th December 2024)	Tolerance and Mutual Respect	Community
16.12.24	15 WK A	Celebration and Rewards		ALL
06.01.25	16 WK B	Behaviour reset and safeguarding	Rule of Law	Commitment Community
13.06.25	17 WK A	World Religions Day (19th January 2025)	Tolerance and Mutual Respect	Community
20.01.25	18 WK B	International Day for Education		Commitment
27.01.25	19 WK A	Holocaust Memorial Day	Tolerance and Mutual Respect	Community
03.02.25	20 WK B	National Heart Month CLASSROOM REVIVR SESSIONS
10.02.25	21 WK A	National Apprenticeship Week		Commitment
24.02.25	22 WK B	Welcome Back World Book Day
03.03.25	23 WK A	National Careers Week	Individual Liberty	Commitment
10.03.25	24 WK B	Science Week		Creativity
17.03.25	25 WK A	World Maths Day (23rd March 2025)		Commitment
24.03.25	26 WK B	Women’s History Month	Tolerance and Mutual Respect	Community
31.03.25 Year 10 Mock Assembly	27 WK A	Celebration Assembly		ALL
21.04.25	28 WK B	Earth Day		Community
28.04.25   Year 11 Exam Assembly	29 WK A	Local/Community History Month		Community
05.05.25	30 WK B	Skin Cancer Awareness Month
12.05.25	31 WK A	Mental Health Awareness week	Tolerance and Mutual Respect	Community
19.05.25	32 WK B	Tell a Story Month		Creativity
02.06.25	33 WK A	Welcome back D-Day Virtual for form time	Rule of Law	Commitment
09.06.25	34 WK B	PRIDE	Individual Liberty	Community
16.06.25	35 WK A	World Oceans Month		Community
23.06.25	36 WK B	Duke of Edinburgh Assembly – Year 8 pupils
30.06.25	37 WK A	Visiting assemblies for water safety
07.05.25	38 WK B	September readiness		Community
14.07.25	39 WK A	Celebration/End of Year		ALL

 

 

Week commencing	Theme	Week commencing	Theme
4.9.23	Introduction to school and safeguarding	19.2.24	Welcome back
11.9.23	Reading	26.2.24	World book day
18.9.23	International Day of Peace	4.3.24	National careers week
25.9.23	European Languages Day	11.3.24	Science week
2.10.23	Black History Month	18.3.24	World maths day
9.10.23	World Mental health day	25.3.24	Rewards and celebration
16.10.23	Rewards and celebration	15.4.24	Welcome back – safeguarding
30.10.23	Welcome back- standards	22.4.24	Earth Day
6.11.23	Remembrance	29.4.24	Local/community history month
13.11.23	Anti- Bullying week	6.5.24	Mental health awareness week
20.11.23	Road Safety week, Friendship Day	13.5.24	Fairtrade day
27.11.23	Human Rights Day	20.5.24	Rewards and celebration
4.11.23	Foodbank	3.6.24	Welcome back- standards
11.12.23	Disability history month	10.6.24	PRIDE
18.12.23	Rewards and celebration	17.6.24	First aid
8.1.24	Behaviour and safeguarding	24.6.24	Assemblies held for year 6 pupils as part of transition week
15.1.24	World religions day	1.7.24	Safeguarding reminders
22.1.24	Holocaust Memorial Day	8.7.24	Malala Day
29.1.24	Storytelling week	15.7.24	Rewards and celebration
5.2.24	Rewards and celebration

 

Additional materials to support study:

Resource	Link
Newsround – current events	https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround
Brooke – Health, Sex and Relationship resources and advice	https://www.brook.org.uk/pshe-curriculum/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwm9yJBhDTARIsABKIcGav4NF4MN_ADq-eq3C01pXI49K-85pLGGknutxKLpAzUDGXFarkc08aAqwxEALw_wcBm
Frank  - Drug and Addiction Resources	https://www.talktofrank.com