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Personal Development
At BVGA, Personal Development aims to develop healthy, informed and open-minded students, ready for the next stage of their lives. It achieves this by preparing students for the wider world, supporting their wellbeing, empowering them with knowledge and skills and by developing powerful and respectful voices. We seek to develop confident future citizens.
The Personal Development programme at BVGA consists of two areas which are closely connected:
- The Personal Development curriculum which is delivered by form tutors in tutor time twice a week in Key Stages 3 and 4. This is supplemented by one Wider Vue session per week which includes a range of content linked to Personal Development, including Votes For Schools. The thematic and spiral nature of the Personal Development curriculum enables students to build on their learning within, and across, year groups.The curriculum is shaped around six key spiral themes (Keeping Safe, Wellbeing and Health, Relationships, Careers and Finance, Understanding the Law, Citizenship). Support is provided by external agencies ie. Step 2 who deliver some sensitive aspects of content. Provision is shaped by student learning needs and there is specialist support for students in the Nurture Group and Thrive cohorts. In order to ensure inclusivity and access, strategies are implemented to support learning such as the use of booklets with summaries of key content, signposting information and glossaries of key words. Staff adapt delivery informed by Stretch and Challenge plans. At Key Stage 5, students undertake a Personal Development programme which includes focus days themed around Relationships, Sex and Health Education, Keeping Safe and Careers and Finance delivered by external specialists and key BVGA staff. Click on the Personal Development heading above and scroll down to find out more about the Personal Development curriculum.
- Wider Personal Development which includes assemblies, character education, student leadership, Enrichment and Careers Education Information and Guidance (CEIAG).
The inter-connectedness of the elements of Personal Development is demonstrated in a number of ways, for example:
- CEIAG is supported by the Careers and Finance element of the Personal Development curriculum in tutor time
- The assembly programme promotes topics linked to Personal Development curriculum themes such as Wellbeing and Health, Keeping Safe and Understanding the Law.
- Student leaders work on topics related to the themes of the Personal Development curriculum, for example Student Wellbeing Ambassadors and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Ambassadors, which further enhance the student experience, and they undertake educational visits and projects as enrichment, for example BCB Radio broadcasts, the Relationships Reset project which challenges sexual harassment and Bradford Citizens anti-racism and mental health projects. These initiatives involve making links and connections with other schools, within BDAT and beyond.
- Enrichment activities and student leadership build character and support the BVGA competencies and attributes, for example the Year 7 Team Building and Careers Days.
- The delivery of Personal Development connects with that of other subject areas within the school to ensure strong coverage of themes such as British Values, Protected Characteristics, Relationships, Sex and Health Education and Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural education.
In addition, Personal Development aspects such as British Values Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural education and Protected Characteristics are delivered within curriculum areas across the academy. The Enrichment team support and/ or lead educational visits undertaken within curriculum areas. The Personal Development curriculum also plays a leading role in the delivery of Relationships, Sex and Health Education.
The common elements across all these strands is ‘Developing healthy, informed and open-minded citizens prepared for the next stage of their lives.'
Please click below for a summary of how the Personal Development spiral themes are covered in the Personal Development Curriculum.
Please click below for information about how the Personal Development Curriculum interlinks with content from other subject areas in our delivery of British Values, Protected Characteristics, Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Education and Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE).
