Personal Development

Article 29: Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full. It must encourage the child’s respect for human rights, as well as respect for their parents, their own and other cultures, and the environment.

Personal Development @ The Acorns

We want our pupils to be able to:

• Be confident and ready to try new things

• Be respectful to those around them, in school and in the wider community

• Know how to stay safe

• Be health-conscious, eat well and stay active, swim and compete in sports

• Perform or sing a simple piece of music, dance and drama and appreciate others’ work

• Design and make artistic and practical objects and appreciate others’ work, including work of celebrated artists and architects

• Learn with increasing independence and have ambition

• Show empathy and understanding of others in school, at home, in our town, our country and overseas

• Know what is happening in the wider world and express an opinion on current affairs

• Speak clearly and confidently using Standard English

• Read well, for pleasure, for study and for information

• Communicate in well-written, grammatically correct, accurately spelt sentences and paragraphs

• Use numbers confidently to solve problems when studying and in daily life

Find out more about how we support Personal Development by clicking on the sub tabs available.