Sacred Heart are committed to providing a purposeful and empowering curriculum that fully prepares learners for the next steps in their school career and the wider world. We want our children to aspire to achieve and believe that it is essential that they understand the world in which they live. Broadening our children’s horizons and giving them the belief that they are capable of achieving great things drives our curriculum. Our Personal Development Curriculum offer gives the children the knowledge and understanding they need make informed choices and to be a positive influence in the communities that they belong to.
In order to support our pupils to develop in every aspect, we have developed a comprehensive Personal Development Curriculum.
This is broken down into:
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- Relationship Education
- Sex Education
- Physical Health and Mental Well-Being
- Pupils’ Wider Safety
- Economic Understanding
- Understanding of Technology and Media
- Citizenship
- Development of Character
- Wider Opportunities for Personal Development
- British Values
- Inclusion and Equality of Opportunity
- Careers Information, Education, Advice and Guidance
- Protected Characteristics
Please follow our links for further information on our personal development:
Personal Development Gallery
Please see the images above of our experiences in 2024/2025.
Harvest donation to Open Hands, Diwali celebrations, Visitors from a local Mosque, Year 6 Kingswood residential, Dog’s Trust Workshops and Choir festival for all year groups.
To give our children additional experiences we also provide the children with opportunities for learning out on trips out of school. This year so far we have been on a residential with Year 6, visited Warning zone and also watched a production by St Pauls Secondary school.
There has been and continue to be a wealth of activities happening at Sacred Heart. For full details on all the goings on; please refer to the newsletters on the link below:
https://www.sacredheart.leicester.sch.uk/parents/newsletter/
Lunch time and After school clubs.
We provide a range of lunch time and after school clubs alongside friendship groups to encourage social skills and an encourage children’s love for reading, creativity and sports.
We want our learners to feel empowered with the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to manage life’s challenges and make the most of life’s opportunities. We aim to give our learners the knowledge and tools they need to understand how to take care of themselves, physically and mentally, and how they can stay safe and thrive in an ever changing world.
Social Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH)
Our goal is to teach children more about their emotions and to further develop their self-regulation skills. Self-regulation is an essential skill in life, and in all learning environments. The children will participate in activities and discussions designed to help them recognise when they are in each of the different Zones as well as learn how to use strategies to change or stay in the Zone they are in. Children will learn new vocabulary, skills in reading other people’s facial expressions, gain perspective about how others see and react to their behaviour, insight into events that trigger their behaviour, calming and alerting strategies, and problem solving skills. Zones of Regulation groups all the ways that children feel and behave into four “Zones”: