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Personal Development at Carcroft School
Our school aims to:
- Provide high-quality pastoral support
- Provide a wide range of opportunities to nurture, develop and stretch pupils’ talents and interests. Pupils appreciate these and make good use of them
- Prepare pupils for life in modern Britain effectively, developing their understanding of the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, tolerance and respect
- Promote equality of opportunity and diversity effectively
- Provide pupils with meaningful opportunities to understand how to be responsible, respectful, active citizens who contribute positively to society
- Enhance pupils’ SMSC development
Carcroft School teaches personal development in a wide range of ways throughout the children’s school lives. For example:
School-wide policy and practice
- An inclusive environment
- Adults act as role models
- Behaviour Policy
Enrichment opportunities
- A good range of after-school and lunchtime clubs e.g., football, cooking, choir, XP outdoors, basketball, library club and TT Rockstar’s club.
- Guitar lessons
- Competitive sporting events (Football, basketball, dodgeball, Cricket)
- Sports day
- XP Outdoors
- Basic First Aid
- Y6 residential to Kingswood
- Crew Building Sessions (outdoor hikes, climbing, orienteering, team building)
- World Book Day
- Safer Internet Day
- Whole school Art projects
- Harvest Festival
- Curriculum visits and fieldwork
- Comic Relief and Children in Need
Community Meetings
- Online safety
- British values
- Diversity
- School values
- Celebration of pupil achievements
Opportunities to perform
- Music performance assemblies
- EYFS and KS1 Nativity performance
- KS2 Carol Concert
- Harvest performance
- Y6 End of year performance
- Present to wider audiences to celebrate Expeditionary Learning – including Celebrations of Learning and XP Climate Conference
Leadership roles for pupils
- Carcroft Change Makers – Pupil School Council
- Stewardship
Visitors to the school
- Local experts – PCSO, firefighters, farming
- XP Outdoors
- First Aid
- Specialist music teacher – guitars
- Curriculum visitors / experts
- School nurse
A comprehensive PSHE Curriculum
The school has a planned PSHE curriculum, built around recurring themes, designed to:
- Give pupils the knowledge and develop the self-esteem, confidence and self-awareness to make informed choices and decisions;
- Encourage and support the development of social skills and social awareness;
- Enable pupils to make sense of their own personal and social experiences;
- Promote responsible attitudes towards the maintenance of good physical and mental health, supported by a safe and healthy lifestyle;
- Enable effective interpersonal relationships and develop a caring attitude towards others;
- Encourage a caring attitude towards and responsibility for the environment;
- Help our pupils understand and manage their feelings, build resilience and be independent, curious problem solvers;
- Understand how society works and the laws, rights and responsibilities involved.