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Curriculum

Personal & Character Development

Subject aim

The aim of the Personal Development and Character curriculum is to enable students to become effective members of society, able to take advantage of future opportunities, contribute to their community as an active citizen, and navigate a changing world guided by strong moral principles.

To achieve this, we equip students with the knowledge and understanding of the real world, developing the whole person so that students have the personal attributes to sit alongside their academic knowledge. This involves equipping them with the knowledge and competencies to remain safe and healthy, to understand the employment opportunities which exist and how to take advantage of these, to interact with people from diverse backgrounds with respect and tolerance, to form and sustain healthy and committed relationships, and to develop a strong moral compass which guides them in their decisions.

Our curriculum is built around six key themes, the components of which are carefully sequenced and built upon over the five/seven year learning journey, toward a vision of excellence and expertise. These key themes are:

Key theme 1 – Developing my character and values.

Key theme 2 – Treating others with respect and compassion.

Key theme 3 – Being healthy.

Key theme 4 – Being safe.

Key theme 5 – Being a global citizen.

Key theme 6 – Being successful in life.

This ensures that our curriculum covers all statutory and non-statutory aspects of Relationships and Sex Education (RSE); Citizenship; PSHE; SMSC (Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural development); CEIAG (Careers education and guidance); British values; and Personal Finance. No one key theme is studied in isolation, as the themes interweave amongst each other, allowing for greater understanding about concepts and ideas.

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Curriculum coverage:

Personal and character development is delivered through a discrete programme in PD lessons across all key stages. It is also supported within subject specific disciplines, the planned assembly programme, our period 6 enrichment and reading programme, 1:1 career support, and drop-down experiences with external experts delivering programmes e.g. WYAS Restart a Heart Day, Emergency Services Day and Anne Frank Ambassador Exhibition. This is carefully mapped and sequenced to ensure coherence, coverage and compliance with statutory requirements.
The PD curriculum is spiralled to ensure that appropriate knowledge is acquired at the right developmental stages for each student at Temple Moor. This allows students to explore key concepts from past years and continually build on them, which is of increasing importance because of the dynamic and diverse Britain we live in today.
The personal development curriculum is designed with built-in flexibility. Incorporating student voice and emerging local trends ensures the curriculum remains responsive and inclusive, supporting personal growth in a way that reflects the interests and priorities of our community.
An overview of the curriculum is shown below:

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Each unit is planned to evoke curiosity in all students‘ minds, providing opportunity to explore different viewpoints, including their own, on different social issues which are relevant to life in 21st century society. Dialogue and informed discussion sit at the heart of each lesson. Each lesson is also underpinned with cumulative and iterative low stakes testing, intelligently designed to improve knowledge retention as well as identifying misconceptions and lost knowledge to inform the next steps in teaching.

Personal Development Curriculum Statement 


Contact details to find out more about our curriculum

Contact details about the PD and character curriculum:

Mr Turner (Assistant Principal for Personal Development) turnerp@tmhs.rklt.co.uk

Mr Cook (KS3 Programme Leader for Personal Development) cookd@tmhs.rklt.co.uk

Mr Hunt (KS4 Programme Leader for Personal Development) huntm@tmhs.rklt.co.uk

Phase Leaders

Y7 – Mr Sutton (Y6/7 transition Phase leader) suttonm@tmhs.rklt.co.uk

Y8/9 – Miss Matthews (KS3 Phase leader) matthewsh@tmhs.rklt.co.uk

Y10/11 – Miss French (KS4 Phase leader) frenchr@tmhs.rklt.co.uk

Y12/13 – Miss Newman (KS5 Phase leader) newmang@tmhs.rklt.co.uk

Temple Moor High School & Sixth Form is part of Red Kite Learning Trust, a charitable company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales with company number 7523507, registered office address: Red Kite Office, Pannal Ash Road, Harrogate, HG2 9PH

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