Personal Development Curriculum

Personal Development Curriculum

At Mossbourne Fobbing Academy, our Personal Development curriculum is designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to navigate the challenges of their formative years while fostering open-minded, responsible, and engaged global citizens. Our programme ensures that students are fully prepared for life in modern Britain by enabling them to make informed decisions about their well-being, relationships, and personal development.

Our curriculum provides students with the necessary tools to manage their academic, personal, and social lives in a positive and responsible manner. Through high-quality teaching and a structured, developmental programme, students will gain the skills needed to maintain their health, safety, and well-being while preparing for further education, employment, and adult life.

Our Personal Development Curriculum is designed to encompass a vast array of themes, each contributing to the holistic growth and development of our students. These themes include:

• An extensive careers programme and support for students so they are ready for the next stages of their education/training.
• The opportunity to attend a range of extracurricular activities, including 100% uptake in Key Stage Three.
• An exciting enrichment curriculum including the Duke of Edinburgh Award and Combined Cadets Force and many clubs such as rock climbing, coding club, art, gardening and many others.
• A comprehensive assembly programme covering British Values, cultural days, and other important topics throughout the year.
• A wide range of educational visits, such as museums, universities and trips abroad.
• A Personal, Social, Health and Economic education & Relationships (PSHE), Sex and Health education (RSE)
• A range of student leadership opportunities including head students and student voice (Student Council).

We also actively promote and develop students' understanding and appreciation for the five core British values (tolerance, rule of law, democracy, individual liberty and mutual respect).

At Mossbourne Fobbing Academy we believe in the holistic development of our pupils, offering pupils more opportunities that will lead to more choices in the future.

Our Enrichment Curriculum goes beyond the National Curriculum. It offers unique learning experiences which provide students with enriched cultural capital. By offering a varied and diverse set of experiences, we help to prepare students for the culturally diverse nature of the society in which we live. 

As a school we are working towards achieving an award for Excellent in Personal Development. This award offers a structure framework to evaluate and enrich our pastoral curriculum. It supports in development pupils personal attributes and attitudes, such as self-confidence, resilience and self-discipline. With a focus on involving local and national organisations, it helps schools prepare pupils for life in modern Britain.

The framework for this award is as follows;

• Curriculum – Plan so that knowledge and skills for personal development are embedded into the whole-school curriculum
• Behaviour – Set high expectations for pupil behaviour and conduct, including punctuality and attendance
• Responsible citizens – Promote positive attitudes from pupils towards their own learning, towards each other, and towards the wider community.
• Local partnerships – Engage with local groups and parents to deliver enrichment activities that develop pupils’ confidence, responsibility and leadership skills.
• External organisations – Actively enlist the support of national and international agencies to help raise pupils’ aspirations for their future.
• Professional development – Commit to high-quality, ongoing staff CPD so that all staff can build and support pupils’ personal development.

At Mossbourne Fobbing Academy, we are dedicated to ensuring our students develop into confident, informed, and responsible young adults, equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for lifelong success.

Useful Website Links;

Below are a number of useful website links to support conversations about these subjects at home;

• Drug, Alcohol, Smoking - https://www.talktofrank.com/ 
• Puberty, RSE -   https://learn.brook.org.uk/ 
• Mental Health -   https://www.childline.org.uk/ 
• Rights and Responsibility -   https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize 
• First Aid  - https://www.sja.org.uk/ 
• Healthy Lifestyle - https://www.gov.uk/government
• RSE - https://www.brook.org.uk
• Common Questions - https://www.gov.uk/government/news/relationships-education-relationships-and-sex-education-rse-and-health-education-faqs