Within Personal Development, lessons explore personal issues, relationships, and aspirations. Students cover key issues facing them and the lessons at The Crypt School stress the importance of discussing topics such as physical and mental wellbeing, consent, relationships, and sexual orientation. An equally important focus for our students is their academic life: how to use study skills productively – whilst understanding how to deal with the pressures these can bring. The Crypt School also focuses on the students’ pathways towards the working world; and this enables every student to reflect on potential careers, the skills required and the routes towards achieving their goals. Our aim is to allow students to feel safe and to feel informed. We encourage all to work productively and creatively, to build strong and positive relationships with others, and to contribute to their community. Our goal is to enable our students to flourish by gaining better control over their lives and resilience whilst helping them value themselves as individuals in a pluralistic society.
The Crypt School also focuses on the students’ pathways towards the working world; and this enables every student to reflect on potential careers, the skills required and the routes towards achieving their goals. Content ranges from opening the discussion about what ‘careers’ are in Year 7 to the application for degrees and apprenticeships at sixth form level. The Personal Development lessons also examines our students’ positions as citizens in a societal context, including the local, national, and global community. Our aim is to allow students to feel safe when asking difficult questions and to feel informed when considering their viewpoints.
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