Personal Development

 Subject

Current Opportunity

British Values

• Increased pupil voice through our JLT (junior leadership team) made up of pupils who have responsibilities such as school counselors, diversity leaders, Eco leaders, reading leaders, Digi leaders and language leaders. This provides the opportunity for young people to develop knowledge, skills and understanding to play a full and active part in society. Every year, children apply for these roles and a voting process selects the candidate.

• School councillors work and visit the Sandwell council houses

• school promotes the other values eg democracy, responsibility, organisation and self -confidence through a number of channels - from the voting system for the school council, to understanding about elections, assemblies and work within lessons eg Junior Leadership Team and their voice around school.

• Assemblies include all British Values within their content.

• Visits from the Local MP Sarah Coombes

Spiritual

• Worry boxes

• School mentor - 1:1 Mentoring support with TS. Trained mentors covering all areas of mental health.  

• Expression of me week

• Support has made an immediate impact on the emotional well-being of selected pupils. Mentoring support has also had a positive impact on behaviour of some selected pupils. Support has resulted in children taking part in activities more consistently. 

Moral

• Youbeyou - program aims to change the way society thinks, acts and feels around gender stereotypes. 
   

• School values (Honesty, respect, equality and teamwork)

• Ferndale food bank'

• Supporting of charitable events

• Harvest festival – food bank donations

• Show Racism the Red Card competition

• CoJo character education sessions- enrichment opportunities using Command Joe resources 

• Empowering children to believe that they matter, irrespective of their race, class or gender.  Improved self-awareness and ideas for teaching and learning 

• School marks – School games mark, Arts mark Gold Award, Music Mark, Well-being charter mark, Youth Sports Trust, Nourish the workplace, Gold Equalities award, Health for life, youbeyou, ADHD friendly school, Primary Scie3nce Quality Mark, NQT induction Quality Mark, Sandwell against bullying charter mark, PE quality mark distinction, United against bullying and the National read-aloud challenge.

Social

• Curriculum characters - Pupils are able to see themselves reflected in the school displays - curriculum subject characters also reflect the diversity of pupils in school. These characters appear during all lessons, linked to a range of subject areas.

• Healthy mind Happy me curriculum, youbeyou and our PSHE curriculum

• Picture news

• Ferndale 50, Stunning starts, marvellous middles and fabulous finishes - to enhance our curriculum, bring in parents and keep our learning alive 

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• Rewind (anti racism drama work)

• DECCA (drugs and alcohol workshop)

• Prevent workshop

• ASB from police

• Agencies work with the children to develop their sense of self, right and wrong and to consider other people and their experiences and how they impact on their decision making.

• Children wrote letters to the local MP, who visited school to support the parking problems

• LUV workshops – Empower girls in year 6. A program for year 6 girls to give them a platform to develop, grow and be the best that they can possibly be.  Focused work on self-esteem to empower, educate and elevate.

• WBA weekly SEND coaches - West Bromwich Albion coaches brought in to work alongside SEND children in school providing a range of active activities.  

• Extra-curricular activities - After school clubs, Girls and boys football team, Science club, Tutoring and specialist musicians 

• SHAPE sessions

• Parent shows and experiences

• Competitions, including sports and spellings.

• West Bromwich North games

• Talent shows

Cultural

• Expression of me day and proud to be me days

• Events are celebrated - Religious Festivals, Black History Month (but all year round), Autism Day, Downs-syndrome day (pupil wear odd socks), Children in Need, Comic Relief, Christmas Jumper Day (Save the Children), Sports Relief, Mental Health Week, Remembrance Day

• EAL - Flash Academy Software for working with community languages is available to all pupils in the school including our own interventions and barriers to learning

• Map of where our children are from around the world

• Residentials, trips and experiences for our children including visitors

Diversity

• Diversity leaders from within our JLT

• Halo code

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• Equality award 2022, 2025

• Diversity festival

Well-being

• ‘Sow and grow’ - this is where the community work with parents and children on gardening and using food homegrown in healthy eating. This programme gave the parents an opportunity to visit the school and work in school with their children. Supporting families in need of the support. Creating partnerships and supporting relationships.  This course offers parents/carers the opportunity to work with their children to develop the knowledge and skills to grow their own fruit and vegetables at school and at home.  It provides the opportunity to enjoy learning together through a range of gardening activities.  

• Parent support advisor – play and stay sessions with parents

• Mentors and a family support worker.

• Ferndale Spoke and Family hub – baby groups, stay and play, health visitor visits, transition events, ADHD groups, chatty crafts, cost of living workshops, menopause events, CHOICES, Sow and grow, Conversation café, Barnardo’s Fridays, Oral health, Boxercise, family fit and food and mindfulness groups.

Equality

• Equality is core to the school’s ethos and values and communicated to all in the school community

• School values – respect, equality, teamwork and honesty

• Single equality policy

• Home school agreement

• School drivers – inspiration, inclusion and aspiration

• Bringing characters to life programme – breaking stereotypes – (Paralympian Paul Shaw has visited, an author with cerebral palsy, a female goalkeeper that identifies with the BAME and LGBT community and a female scientist)

• Alison Cope who talks about knife crime

• Achieving the Gold Equality Award for the second time

Curriculum

• Healthy minds happy me Sandwell curriculum, supplemented with our own objectives linked to the RSE national curriculum and supported by youbeyou.

• Ferndale 50 - Stunning starts, marvellous middles and fabulous finishes to enhance our curriculum, bring in parents and keep our learning alive 

• Trips linked to curriculum content

• Curriculum visitors (Roman and Stone Age days)

• Trips to places of worship and speakers from places of worship.

• Guest Speakers – ‘challenging stereotypes’  - 'Bringing our characters to life and breaking stereotypes' programme of speakers- Paralympian, disabled author, female goalie, England rugby player and a diabetic university worker. 

• Careers days and weeks

• New and exciting experiences for the children, developing cultural capital.

• Books used with the children including Ruby’s worry, colour monster, growing food and proudest blue.

• Author visits and Author talks online.

• TLAC teaching and learning to support meta-cognition.

• Pride day

•  Ensuring the curriculum and opportunities reflect the diverse community we serve Has enabled parents to have a voice and impact on the future visions and ideas for the school and has enabled staff to have a voice and impact on the future visions and ideas for the school. 

Health

• Nurse and dentist visits

• Food curriculum

• PE curriculum

• Daily mile - Sports clubs for every year group - 470 out of 540 children have accessed a lunch or after school club which is 87%. 139 out of 173 children who are PP have accessed an after-school club which is 81% of PP children.

• Puberty talks

• NSPCC Pants talks

• Mentors

• Chicks and butterflies growth in Early Years

• Health for Life

• Environmental plans

Economic

• Money sense activities

• Year 6 – budget planning

• Maths’s curriculum – working with money

• Enterprise activities

• School fayres

• Career talks

ICT

• Explore moral issues around the around the use of digital technology - For example, copyright and plagiarism.

• E-Safety assembly and related lessons

• CEOP button- present as part of our safety lessons and on our website.