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Year 8 Personal Development Scheme
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Months |
Topics/Units |
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September |
Transition to St Dominic’s
Rights and Responsibilities (values and expectations within a moral framework)
Class motto (drawn by each pupil to reflect her perception of her class group)
Managing Changes (pupil reflection and evaluation) |
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October |
Health and the Whole person (evaluating their personal strengths, limitations and interests and recognising areas for development)
Feelings and Emotions (individual reflection ,think, pair and share, group work, class discussion and circle time) |
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November |
Talk from nurse / hygiene (about the basics of personal hygiene in changing bodies) |
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December |
Mananging Influences and Making Decisions (Self-evaluation, good learning and teaching, concept of peer pressure)
Hampers |
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January |
Pupil Forum
Self Concept (setting targets to identify hopes and aspirations for the future) |
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February |
Fund raising for Trocaire
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March |
Relationships (circle time) |
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April |
Year 8. Pupils began writing their personal statements for their Pupil Progress Folders. |
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May |
Revision Techniques
Pupil Progress Folders |
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June |
Review of Year/ Moving on |
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Year 9 Personal Development Scheme
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Months |
Topics/Units |
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September |
Election of Captain and Vice Captain.
Aspects of health: emotional, spiritual, cognitive, physical and social. |
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October |
PSNI poster competition (Laws and dangers surrounding firework)
Health appraisal (Year 14 prefects delivering follow up) |
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November |
Expressing emotion (brainstorming positive emotions and feelings)
Progress file (recognising, recording and providing evidence of achievements.) |
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December |
Year 13 pupils speaking to year 9’s about Aids in Third World countries |
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January |
Lesson on Barack Obama on his election to the Presidency of the USA
Progress File (assessing ability to problem solve, make decisions and be creative) |
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February |
“What’s it to do with me?” (responsibilities in their daily lives and things they are not responsible for)
Trocaire fundraising with prefects |
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March |
Willpower (what strengthens and what weakens their will power and how to improve it) |
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April |
Self Concept:
Who influences me the most?
How do others see me?
Year 13 presentation on First Aid. |
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May |
The body and its functions.
Alcohol and its effects (discussing the various myths surrounding alcohol)
Address by the PSNI on dangers of alcohol.
Smoking quiz (dangers of smoking) |
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June |
Progress Files – records of achievement |
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Year 10 Personal Development Scheme
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Months |
Topics/Units |
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September |
Administration
Health and the Whole Person
Five Alive:
How Healthy Am I? |
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October |
Feelings and Emotions:
Expressing Feelings Appropriately
Taboos About Expressing Feelings
Developing Coping Strategies
Careers Talk
Personalised Learning Journals
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November/December |
SHAHRP Programme
( School Health and Alcohol Harm Reduction Project)
Target Setting
Revision Techniques
Christmas Hampers
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January |
Managing Influences and Making Decisions:
Personal Responsibility and Self Management
Delaying Gratification and Learning To Wait
Willpower |
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February |
Self Concept:
Who I Want To Be vs Who I Am
How Others Help Me Arrive at Self
Self-Confidence and What Improves It
Session on Your Turn Programme ( Pupils who took part on this programme last year spoke to the classes before they made their applications this year with the aim of informing them about this programme) |
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March |
Careers Talk
Body Image and Eating Disorders
“What I Can Sort Out”(A session on school rules devised by a tutor)
The Inner Me ( This session encouraged pupils to share self-statements and opinions which are accepted by others in the group and so fosters a sense of identity.) |
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April |
Kids Can Be Depressed Too (promoting good mental health, pupils were given the opportunity to produce a poster illustrating simple steps to reduce stress.) |
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May |
Talk by Trudy Taylor from the P.S.N.I.
( underage drinking and anti-social behaviour)
My Personal Growth Goals
Getting On With Brothers And Sisters |
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June |
Work on Achievements and Experiences |
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Year 11 Personal Development Scheme
- Ice-breaker Games
- Health and the Whole Person
- Managing Feelings
- Personal Responsibility and Self Management
- Managing Change in Adolescence
- Learning about Learning
- Relationships
- Sexuality and Drugs Awareness
- Preparation and presentaion of assemblies
- Christmas hampers
- fundraising for Trocaire
- e-Progress Files
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Year 12 Personal Development Scheme
Relationships
- Types
- Characteristics
- Expectations
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Health |
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Academic Targets for June |
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Drugs and Alcohol |
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Love and Relationships |
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Personal Statements |
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Personal Statements |
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Financial Responsibility |
| Financial Responsibility: Budgeting, internet shopping, credit and debit cards, consumer rights and advice, debt and borrowing. |
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Financial Responsibility |
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Discussion Perparation |
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Discrussion Coursework - Assessed Worth 10% of GCS |
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Study Skills - Student Sharing of Ideas |
Year 13 Personal Development Scheme 2009
Year 13 pupils were involved in mentoring and working with younger pupils during pastoral care time
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Months |
Topics/Units |
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September |
Careers - Work Experience Preparation.
Administration - Organizing assembly positions and arrangements.
How we treat the vulnerable. - (Poem written by an old woman in hospital).
Careers
Coursework and Plagiarism |
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October |
Sense of self,
Outlook on life
Relationships and managing emotions
Talk from the Chest, Heart and Stroke Association
Launch of the shoebox Appeal. |
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November |
Charity work:
The ShoeboxAppeal
Hampers - preparation |
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December |
Hampers
Homeless people in our city
Follow up on Work Experience arrangements |
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January |
Modules
Modules
Interview Skills - presenting yourself properly |
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February |
How I use the internet - time spent on Facebook?
University research - short power point presentations to include universities in Dublin, Scotland and England |
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March |
Work Experience Preparation
Work Experience
Work Experience follow up
Debt and managing on a budget, preparation for student life |
| April |
Drug Use and Abuse
Personal Qualities
Tips for resolving conflict |
| May |
Managing stress
How to sit an exam |
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Year 14 Personal Development Scheme 200
Visiting Speakers
- Solicitor
- Invest N.I.
- Engineer - to speak about the “Spirit of Belfast” to be constructed in Corn market.
- Use of make up and suitable dress for specific occasions
- Women’s Aid
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| First term |
UCAS References
Progress interviews
Personal statements
Updating my C.V. – to include lists of achievements and experiences
Shoe box appeal and organization of Christmas hampers
Talk to the year group about the Spirit of Enniskiller
Application study leave |
| Second term |
Modules
Student interviews
Monitoring of progress
Analysis of results in March and advice and support for students
Target setting for modules in May and June.
Student loans and student finance
Issues about living away from home next year |
| Third term |
Monitoring progress
Revision and study
End of term prayer service
Presentation for end of school years and trip down memory lane |
