Please note that we are currently in the process of updating our Personal Development curriculum area. Throughout the 2025/2026 academic year, we are launching three full Personal Development days in replace of single drop-down sessions each half term.
Autumn Personal Development Day – Friday 24 October 2025
The Autumn Personal Development Day was designed to motivate students across all year groups to succeed with ambition and purpose. The day focused on developing essential life skills, raising aspirations, and strengthening character through a series of themed activities tailored to each year group:
- Year 7: Discover and Create
Students took part in a careers and enterprise challenge, encouraging creativity, teamwork, and innovation through real-world problem solving. Activities promoted leadership, organisation, communication, and self-efficacy. - Year 8: Thrive & Connect
The focus was on wellbeing, including physical and mental health, self-care, and relationships. Sessions built self-awareness, resilience, empathy, and positive routines for proactive wellbeing. - Year 9: Serve & Lead
Students explored community awareness, social responsibility, empathy, and leadership. Activities centred on community impact, respect, inclusion, and advocacy. - Year 10: Aspire & Prepare
A careers-focused day helped students develop employability, interview skills, and ambition, with real-world insights and guidance for post-16 pathways. Sessions included career planning, goal setting, and financial capability. - Year 11: Perform & Progress
The day was motivational, focusing on exam mindset, revision strategies, goal setting, and next-step planning. Students worked on resilience, independence, and managing pressure, with support for future transitions.
Each year group’s programme was aligned with the Prenton Pledge (LORIC), Learning for Life (LfL), and the Gatsby Benchmarks, ensuring a holistic approach to personal development, careers, and wellbeing.
Staff played a key role in supporting and supervising activities, ensuring a safe and engaging environment for all students. The day also included special sessions, assemblies, and opportunities for reflection and evaluation.
Spring Personal Development Day 2 – Thursday 5 February 2026
Future Ready: Exploring Pathways, Possibilities and Purpose
Personal Development Day 2 was designed to help students look ahead with confidence. Centred on the theme “Future Ready: Exploring Pathways, Possibilities and Purpose”, the day brought together careers education, Learning for Life (LfL) and our LORIC values, ensuring students were supported academically, socially and personally as they plan for life beyond school.
Across the day, students engaged in a rich programme of career-linked learning, employer-informed activities and PSHE-focused sessions. Through a whole-school Careers Fair and Careers in the Curriculum lessons, students explored how their subjects connected directly to future pathways, employment opportunities and further study. Alongside this, targeted personal development sessions supported students to reflect on wellbeing, decision-making, relationships and life skills that underpin long-term success.
Careers in the Curriculum – Year 7 to Year 10 Students
Every subject delivered a real-world, career-linked learning experience, which allowed students to step into authentic professional roles. From forensic scientists and lawyers to graphic designers, stockbrokers and language intelligence analysts, students completed scenario-based tasks that mirrored workplace challenges. These experiences helped them understand how curriculum knowledge is applied in professional contexts and built confidence in their own skills and aspirations.
Developing the Prenton Pledge (LORIC)
Throughout the day, students actively developed the LORIC attributes:
- Leadership – made informed choices, led team decisions and advocated for ideas in professional scenarios
- Organisation – planned tasks, managed information, structured presentations and met deadlines
- Resilience – solved problems through challenge, unfamiliar situations and complex decision-making
- Initiative – engaged proactively with employers, designed solutions and applied creative and analytical thinking
- Communication – collaborated effectively, presented ideas, created professional documents and reflected on learning
Learning for Life Focus
Personal Development Day 2 strengthened students’ understanding of life beyond the classroom by focusing on:
- Careers & Aspirations – explored a wide range of roles and pathways across all subject areas
- Economic Wellbeing – experienced employer-style tasks such as recruitment processes, workplace problem-solving and financial simulations
- Living in the Wider World – developed awareness of workplace expectations, transferable skills and employability
- Self-Efficacy & Confidence – built belief through hands-on learning, decision-making and exposure to real opportunities
Ready, Calm and Confident – Year 11 Students
Students also took part in a rotating programme of sessions focused on wellbeing, confidence and performance, including sleep, self-belief, planning next steps and made the most of our digital careers platform, Unifrog. These sessions were designed to ensure students felt supported, informed and prepared to take ownership of their futures.
Personal Development Day 2 was fully aligned with the Gatsby Benchmarks, statutory PSHE guidance, and Prenton High School’s commitment to preparing students to be confident, capable and future-ready young people.
