This masterclass will break down the various elements of personal development and outline the corresponding Ofsted expectations. It will also provide clear guidance on how to best evidence your personal development programme during Ofsted meetings.
This course will firstly talk through key elements of personal development, including PSHE, RSHE, fundamental British values, citizenship, cultural capital, careers education and key safeguarding themes as outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education. We will look at what each area consists of and what Ofsted view to be best practice, with case study examples to emphasise key points and drawing upon key guidance such as the Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) Statutory Guidance, Ofsted Education Inspection Framework (EIF), Careers Guidance and Access for Education and Training Providers (Statutory Guidance), Promoting Fundamental British Values (part of SMSC guidance) and Character Education Framework Guidance (2019).
Across all these elements, delegates will explore the importance of personalisation and coherence when both creating and evidencing their personal development cohort, ensuring you are linking this area with wider attendance, behaviour, safeguarding and local/national key data.
Following this, we will then go on to examine how to best celebrate your personal development programme in a way that clearly states what you did, the reasons why (linking to data and personalisation) and what the impact has been across your school.
KEY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This masterclass will enable you to:
Define the key components of personal development.
Interpret the expectations set out in statutory guidance.
Identify key safeguarding themes and explain how these underpin an effective personal development programme.
Identify how to integrate personal development with wider school priorities.
Understand how to embed fundamental British Values across the wider school curriculum and ethos.
Understand Ofsted’s criteria for evaluating personal development.
Apply a coherent and personalised approach to designing and evidencing your school’s personal development offer, aligned with local/national context and school data.
Plan how to effectively celebrate and communicate your personal development provision across all stakeholders.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
School staff that could be involved during an ofsted Personal Development meeting, including: Personal Development SLT, PSHE leads, PSHE teachers, Career leads, Desgnated Safeguarding Leads, Citizenship leads, Citizenship teachers, Pastoral managers, Enrichment/extra-curriculur leads and any members of school governance or wider SLT who wish to understand this area and how it is inspected in more detail.
FACILITATOR
Kelly Allchin ia a personal development consultant with over 20 years’ experience in education. As a previous senior leader for personal development, her background is in PSHE and citizenship education, which has allowed her to support schools in strengthening their personal development offer through tailored consultancy, training, and resources. She has worked with leading Citizenship and PSHE organisations, including being a consultant advisory teacher for the Association for Citizenship Teaching (ACT). Kelly is also the author of ‘100 Ideas for Student Personal Development’, which shares lots of the initiatives she developed as a Personal Development lead during her time at school. She is currently the Education and CPD lead for Pol-Ed, a West Yorkshire Police initiative, bringing high-quality PSHE resources and CPD to schools.
