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Year 7

Intent

Building on their Key Stage 2 experience, students are reintroduced to the key themes that underpin PD, exploring each through examples that are both age appropriate and relevant to their own lives. Thus, they develop the core knowledge, understanding and emotional literacy required to participate actively, positively, safely and responsibly in today’s society. Lessons promote discussion and debate, thereby supporting student oracy and literacy.

Learning Journey

Skill Development

Students will develop the following skills;

a) Self-esteem – Students will have the opportunity to reflect on themselves and learn content in a safe and loving environment, hearing from other people and improving the opinion they have of themselves.

b) Resilience – Students will tackle tricky topics that require tenacity and open mindedness, this helps them to build up resilience to real life situations and learning.

c) Advocacy - Students will learn how to advocate for themselves, learn how to express their views and understand how to help other’s express their views.

Year 8

Intent

Revisiting the core PD themes across Year 8, students now begin to consider more challenging and complex issues within each unit of study. In doing so, they experience open and honest dialogue on big questions and engage positively in this. They become increasing articulate, confident and enabled to express and challenge different perspectives and demonstrate a growing appreciation of the diversity of opinion on key issues.

Learning Journey

Skill Development

Students will develop the following skills;

a) Responsibility – Students have opportunities to develop their understanding of responsibility, uncover where they can take more responsibility for themselves and also others.

b) Independence - Students have a plethora of opportunities to develop a sense of independence through making informed and personal discussions.

c) Empathy – Students will be presented with a multitude of different circumstances and scenarios in which they have to imagine what it would feel like to be in that situation.

Year 9

Intent

Building on their Year 7 and 8 PD experience and the themes and concepts they have studied, our Year 9 students now are challenged to consider, and then reach independent and thoughtful judgements on, a range of more complex contemporary issues. They draw on their knowledge of the whole curriculum to demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of a wide range of perspectives and experiences. They feel increasingly empowered to engage responsibly in conversation and debate outside of the classroom setting.

Learning Journey

Skill Development

Students will develop the following skills;

a) Personal and social skills – Students have the opportunities to understand how to care for themselves and others and will look at how to interact positively with other people.

b) Identifying misleading content – Students will tackle misconceptions and myths in order to be safer online and in society.

c) Compassion -Students will have opportunities to be kind and friendly towards others, learning about how other people in society feel and are treated.