The personal development curriculum is designed to help students gain the skills, knowledge and understanding they need to lead healthy, independent lives and to become informed, active and responsible citizens.

All of our students have a personal development lesson during an extended form time each week, delivered by their form tutors, which covers a different topic relevant to that term’s theme. The termly themes aim for all staff and students to focus on the same issues and ideas at the same time. This then promotes the theme school-wide and invokes conversations outside just the personal development lessons in form groups.

Students are encouraged to reflect on their experiences and to recognise how they are developing personally and addressing the social, moral and cultural issues that form an intrinsic part of growing up.

Our personal development curriculum fully supports and incorporates age-appropriate relationships and sex education (RSE), personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education and careers, as well as celebrations of various local and national events such as Anti-Bullying Week, Mental Health awareness events, Black History Month and charity fundraisers.

For further information as to how we are continuing to develop our provision, please read our PSHE statement on our policies page.

Leadership opportunities are integrated throughout our offerings, empowering students to take on roles that positively influence both their school environment and the broader community. At St. Paul’s Academy, we are dedicated to developing leaders who are not only academically successful but are also socially responsible and emotionally intelligent individuals.

Join us on this journey of self-discovery and personal growth, where each student is encouraged to realise their potential and make a meaningful impact.