Personal Development

KS3 Personal Development Programme

Citizenship at King James the 1st Academy is delivered in two aspects; dedicated delivery within PHSE timetabled lessons from years 7 to 9, as well as an allocated Period 6 Enrichment session. This programme is designed to complement the wider enrichment opportunities offered across the academy.

For information on our PHSE curriculum, please click here

 

Cohort

Autumn Term 1

Autumn Term 2

Spring Term 1

Spring Term 2

Summer Term 1

Spring Term 3

Year 7

United Nations Development Goals

1: No Poverty

United Nations Development Goals

2: No Hunger

United Nations Development Goals

3: Health & Well-being

United Nations Development Goals

6: Clean water & Sanitation

United Nations Development Goals

4: Quality Education

United Nations Development Goals

7: Affordable & Clean Energy

Year 8

United Nations Development Goals

5: Gender Equality

United Nations Development Goals

10: Reduced Inequality

 

United Nations Development Goals

16: Peace & Justice, Strong Institutions

United Nations Development Goals

8: Decent work and economic growth

 

United Nations Development Goals

9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

United Nations Development Goals

11: Sustainable cities & communities

 

Year 9

United Nations Development Goals

12: Responsible Consumption

United Nations Development Goals

14: Life Below water

United Nations Development Goals

15: Life on Land

United Nations Development Goals

17: Partnerships to achieve goals

United Nations Development Goals

13: Climate Action

 

United Nations Development Goals

13: Climate Action

 

The Period 6 Citizenship Programme provides our students with a fluent and acute awareness of issues that affect the world and them as citizens within. By using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals our curriculum provides students with the opportunities to engage with global issues, synthesise their responsibilities towards these. Through timely and relevant News sources, our students will be able to consider their impact upon the world and evaluate their ability to enforce change and make a difference. Our curriculum aims to support our students’ development of skills to make informed, respectful, and coherent decisions that will give them the capacity to navigate issues as young adults in the world. The curriculum will support the wider academy approach to the delivery of SMSC, from their engagement with cultural issues around the globe, underpinned by the Fundamental British Values. Through respectful exploration of issues in the modern world, by the end of Key Stage 3, the aim of this curriculum is to support the development of the attitudes of students who are of socially and culturally aware young adults, with the ability to actively participate and thrive within society.

 

Ks4 Personal Development Programme

At Key Stage 4 our year 10 students follow a Personal Development Programme which consists of; Careers, Citizenship, Core R.E., PHSE and RSE.

Building upon our work at KS3, we continue to contribute to the overall academy commitment of supporting our students to be active global citizens who realise their potential and their impact on the local, wider and global communities.

 

Careers Education

For information regarding our Careers programme, please click here.

 

Citizenship

Within the KS4 Citizenship curriculum we aim to cultivate the independent research and independent learning skills of our students, whilst exploring what it means to be both a positive local and global citizen. Through our programme our students will gain the knowledge, understanding and skills that they will require to make a positive contribution to their communities, and understand their rights, roles and responsibilities as they enter they embark on their journeys beyond Key stage 4. This programme will aim to develop the independence of our students, requiring them to govern their own learning in order to meet their own needs. This allows for guided flexibility in their learning with a sense responsibility and ownership. Behaviours and expectations of students will be of the same high standard expected in all lessons in order to achieve positive outcomes.

 

Core Religious Education

The core R.E. programme at King James Academy is an exciting, yet demanding exploration and investigation in to a range of religious and secular world views, building upon the demand and rigour of their studies at Key Stage 3. As our students foster their understanding of the world around them, this curriculum will enable them to explore a range of religious and secular ideas by incorporating Philosophical, Theological, Sociological and Ethical enquiry. As such, the Core R.E. programme will help our students to continue their journey as well-rounded young adults who are equipped with the skills to think critically, and to analyse and evaluate a range of viewpoints rooted in themes of the fundamental British Values. The programme has been designed following the statutory guidance the Durham Locally Agreed Syllabus guidance (DLEAS). Whilst our students who follow the Core R.E. programme do not receive a qualification, their studies are concurrent to those of their peers who have taken GCSE RS as an option.

We are excited that our programme includes our annual interfaith conference, in which our students are able to connect to a wider-world that will broaden their horizons. The ability to meet, and debate with a range of faith members and world-views will aim to open their minds beyond the views of their locality and social media.

 

Personal, Social, Health & Economic (PHSE)

The PSHE programme at King James 1st Academy gives pupils the knowledge, skills, and attributes they need to keep themselves healthy and safe and to prepare them for life and work in modern Britain.

Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education is a school subject through which pupils acquire the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to manage their lives, now and in the future. These skills and attributes help pupils to stay healthy, safe and prepare them for life and work in modern Britain. To embrace the challenges of creating a happy and successful adult life, pupils need knowledge that will enable them to make informed decisions about their wellbeing, health and relationships and to build their self-efficacy. PSHE helps our pupils to achieve their academic potential, and leave school equipped with skills they will need throughout later life. From making responsible decisions about alcohol to succeeding in their first job, PSHE education helps pupils to manage many of the most critical opportunities, challenges and responsibilities they will face growing up.

Pupils can also put this knowledge into practice as they develop the capacity to make sound decisions when facing risks, challenges and complex contexts. Everyone faces difficult situations in their lives. These subjects can support young people to develop resilience, to know how and when to ask for help, and to know where to access support.  

 

RSE

For information regarding our RSE programme, please click here.

 

 Personal Development Overview

Cohort

Autumn Term 1

Autumn Term 2

Spring Term 1

Spring Term 2

Summer Term 1

Summer Term 2

Year 10

Citizenship:

 

Is Democracy dead?

 

Afternoon Finance Task:

The Treasury.

 

Careers Education

Core R.E.

Core R.E.

PHSE

Relationship & Sex Education