PDL - Personal Development (RE, PSHE, Citizenship)
About the PDL Department
The PDL Programme of study promotes the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils. The aim is to prepare pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.
PDL provides pupils with the skills, confidence and ability to make the right choices and encourages them to stay safe and be healthy.
In PDL lessons, pupils study three subjects:
- Citizenship - Autumn Term
- RE - Spring Term
- PSHE - Summer Term
Parents and guardians can contact Miss Smith if you have any areas of concern regarding the Personal Development Learning (PDL) Curriculum.
PDL Department Staff
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Mrs C Pettican |
Head of Department | |
| Mr N Stoten | PDL Teacher | |
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Mrs C Line | PDL Teacher |
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Mrs Foster |
PDL Teacher |
Key Stage 3 - PDL
Year 7
PSHE Curriculum
Relationships - Friendships, family, building positive relationships, peer pressure
Health & Wellbeing - Puberty and relationships, rumours and bullying, health and safety, importance of exercise, effects of alcohol, smoking
Living in the wider world - personal safety, racism and bullying, employment, managing my money
RE Curriculum
Who is Jesus? - How do I see the world? Types of belief, belief in Jesus, why is Jesus a saviour for Christians? What is the cost of agape?
What the Buddha taught - Can Buddha's teaching help us understand suffering? What is the value of the concept of samsara? How useful is the concept of sila? What is meditation?
Citizenship
Democracy - What is a citizen? Good and bad citizens, how is Britain governed?
Diversity - Diversity in Britain
Rights and responisbilities - The UN and the rights of the child
Finance - How to manage your money, managing risk
Year 8
PSHE Curriculum
Health & Wellbeing - habits for a lifetime (healthy eating), positive body image (including information on self-harm), keeping safe on the roads, online safety
Relationships - family, dealing with death, child beauty pageants, smoking, drugs, relationships, contraception and STIs
Living in the wider world - gender identity, discrimination, money (including social and moral issues)
RE Curriculum
Does God exist? - How do we know things? Numinous experience, mystical experience, does the conscience prove the existence of God?
One billion people follow Islam, so what does it mean to be a Muslim? - What does it mean to be a Muslim? Tawheed, does umma make Islam threatening of a global force for good? Does Allah demand too much?
Citizenship
Democracy - Being a citizen of the UK, how the government works, people and parliment, should we have a queen?
Diversity - Diversity in Britain
Rights and responisbilities - UK rights
Finance - managing money, employment
Year 9
PSHE Curriculum
Relationships - marriage, seperation and divorce, what is consent? Consent and the law, the right to withdraw consent, sexual and other violence
Health & Wellbeing - eating disorders, medicine, first aid, over the counter medicines
Living in the wider world - gambling and risk, the labour market, getting a job, managing my money
RE Curriculum
Gandhi, the man, his vision - an inspirational individual? - why was justice important to Gandhi? The Amritsar massacre, satyagraha, Gandhi's vision, 'non-violence is more powerful than all the weapons of mass destruction in the world' do you agree?
Jewish identity - What is the significance of the covenant between God and Abraham? Is circumcision important for Jews today? Passover, the Torah, is Israel the Homeland of Judaism?
Citizenship
Democracy - What is a citezen? The end of the union flag?
Diversity - Diversity in Britain
Rights and responisbilities - Do I lead a life of a typical young person? Is it ever ok to take away human rights?
Finance - Do you have a plan for your life? Finance, employment, careers