PD Curriculum Resources

Recent Update: for a project for secondary students to investigate police malpractice at the recent G20 protests, download the structuring powerpoint here (all necessary links and details are in the powerpoint.)

Personal Development Curriculum

The personal development curriculum might roughly be said to broadly incorporate the following:

Citizenship
PSHE
Careers
Enterprise
WRL
Learning to learn

It also links strongly (and should lead activity in) pastoral provision. PDC provision takes different forms in different schools and often different provision across key stages. The PDC is increasing in prominence, with strong mention and significant focus in, for example, the following current threads or themes:

Curriculum 08 (top line 3 themes for example)
2020 aims
increasing dominance in all CYPS provision of ECM
pedagogical developments like BLP, active learning
SEAL

Our PDC consultant, Michael Drennan, has been working with Gloucestershire and Worcestershire schools and other bodies using the Cambridgeshire programme to enhance, develop and share best practice in these areas. The following documents may be useful to those who are receiving this support:

summary documents
- simplified framework boxes
- exemplar year-round distribution of units, with example of assessment time slots indicated
simple single-lesson assessment materials
- sample test of year 7 to fit the grid above (with teacher answers)
- sample test of year 8 to fit the grid above (student paper without teacher answers)
samples of lesson planning material
- sample 7 Happiness & Harmony unit
  - lesson 1 (with circle lesson 2 guidance notes) and both starter resource and main resource for lesson 1
  - lesson 3 and associated resource
- sample 9 14-19 lesson sequence
  - lesson 2 & 3 powerpoint (lesson 1 is circle discussion)
  - IT-completion worksheet for lesson 2 and lesson 3 (these are document templates and need to be re-saved as such onto a network, so that they open as new files with these layout for students using them - please email if help required) (note that lesson 3 requires you to souce and use prospectuses for 16+ courses at any local institution)

You may also want to see some of our resources available at The Ethos Project’s two relevant pages:

You will need to email to receive a password to these two sets of resources. Email strategicdirector@theethosproject.co.uk

Colleagues wishing to join a developing e-confederation writing and sharing these resources should also email Michael at the above address. We are actively seeking a group of 6-8 schools to share their resources for Michael's simplified model of the Cambridgeshire framework. Participation will make available a wide range of other resources like the above (specifially keyed in to Cambridge) - the sample on this page is just a limited taster. Please email if you have any interest in participating (you need not be an IT whizz!)