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Our Year 10 Personal Development offer:

RSHE

• Families
• Relationships
• Keeping safe & happy
• Intimate relationships
• Online & media

SMSC

• Subject areas deliver a range of opportunities for our students to develop awareness of these ideas
• In Religious Education we explore a range of ethical issues such as abortion, genetic engineering and racism

In assemblies we will be looking at a range of ideas such as

• Safer internet day
• LGBTQ+ History month
• Holocaust Memorial Day
• Religious festivals in March – Christian and Hindu
• World poetry day – disability
• Victims of slavery
• Malaria
• Christian religious festivals
• Volunteering week
• PRIDE month
• International friendship week

British Values

The four fundamental British values (listed below) are woven into our Personal Development and key to preparing our students for Modern Britain

• Respecting the rule of law
• Democracy
• Individual liberty
• Tolerance and respect of different religions and beliefs

Citizenship

We look at the following ideas

• How can citizens hold Parliament to account?
• What is regional governance?
• What are the different national and regional identities in the UK?
• What are the different religious and ethnic identities in the UK?
• Human rights
• How can we improve society?

Development of Character

• Our responsibility foundations are woven into our Personal Development Curriculum
• All aspects of what we learn are linked to our responsibility foundations
• Year groups track and record their character development linked to our responsibility foundations

Economic understanding

• Plans for the future
• Different tax bands and NI bands
• Budgeting for life
• Different types of housing
• Student finances
• How can public money be raised and spent?

Wider opportunities

• Sports clubs
• Duke of Edinburgh

Student leadership

• Sports captains
• Sports leaders
• Year group forums

Well-being and mental health

We focus on the following:

• Connect
• Keep learning
• Mindfulness
• Keep active and take notice