Our Personal Development Program is designed to empower students with the skills, mindset, and confidence needed to thrive academically, socially, and personally. This initiative goes beyond traditional learning by focusing on character building, emotional intelligence, and lifelong success strategies.
Students can gain qualifications throughout their academic year from KS3 to KS4. The qualifications they can gain are AQA’s and OCNLR Level 1.
Build Self-Awareness: Help students understand their strengths, weaknesses, and values.
Develop Resilience: Equip learners with coping strategies for challenges and setbacks.
Enhance Communication Skills: Foster effective verbal and non-verbal communication.
Promote Leadership and Teamwork: Encourage collaboration and responsible decision-making.
Cultivate Growth Mind-set: Inspire continuous learning and adaptability.
Teenage Kicks supports pupils’ Spiritual Moral Social and Cultural development and suitably prepares pupils for life. The whole-school community works towards building a positive climate and ethos that enables pupils to grow and flourish, become confident individuals, and appreciate their own worth and that of others.
To support our learners’ spiritual development, we provide opportunities for pupils to learn about and respond to a variety of beliefs and values, whilst accommodating differences and respecting the integrity of individuals. Meanwhile, moral development is concerned with pupils’ ability to make judgements about how they should behave and act, and the reasons for such behaviour. Pupils are encouraged to understand the need for a common code and to follow it from conviction rather than because of sanctions or consequences.
As part of pupils’ social development, we promote a strong understanding of the rights and responsibilities of every individual who belongs to a community on either a local, national or global scale. Our school promotes cultural development by giving children opportunities to engage in a wide range of cultural activities. Learners gain an understanding of their own cultural traditions and practices, along with those of other cultural groups within society. We adopt the view that diversity makes the world a richer place, furthering tolerance and harmony between different cultural traditions.
We provide pupils with knowledge, skills and understanding to prepare them to play a full and active part in society. The PSHE curriculum we offer aims to foster pupils' keen awareness and understanding of a range of topics including democracy, government, and how laws are made and upheld.
Pupils will gain the skills and knowledge they need to explore political and social issues, debate their ideas and make reasoned arguments. Students further learn about what it means to become a responsible citizen, including money management, dangers online, positive relationships and sexual health for their journey into adult life. Students are able to achieve Acsentis Accreditations in equality and diversity in their final year of school.
Topics
Positive relationships
Online and Media
Healthy lifestyles
Puberty
Body image
Mental wellbeing
Drugs and alcohol
Knife crime
Reporting and recognising criminal behaviour
Our Relationship and Sex Education curriculum aims to provide pupils with the knowledge, understanding, attitudes, values and skills they need in order to maintain happy, healthy and loving relationships in the future. Pupils learn to recognise their own worth, collaborate with others, and become increasingly competent in their own decision making.
The RSE curriculum has three main elements: attitudes and values; personal and social skills; knowledge and understanding. Teenage Kicks will ensure that all of our teaching is sensitive and age-appropriate in approach and content. Moreover, our curriculum has been designed to reflect the diversity of our pupils’ backgrounds and family structures, ensuring every young person feels valued, supported, and prepared for adult life.
Topics
Different types of relationships including friendships, intimate relationships, family relationships, and dealing with strangers.
How to build healthy relationships, including self-respect and respect for others.
Boundaries and consent; how to manage conflict; how to recognise unhealthy relationships.
How relationships may affect health and wellbeing, including mental health.
Healthy relationships and safety online.
Factual knowledge around sex, sexual health, and sexuality.
Keeping safe, puberty, drugs, and alcohol education.
Emotional wellbeing, resilience, mental health.