Personal Development

At Stapleford Abbotts, we believe that personal development education is as important as academic education. We strive to prepare our children for their future as responsible citizens, willing to make a positive contribution to society with an appreciation of diversity and a respect for British Values and equality.

We want all of our children, throughout their time at Stapleford Abbotts, to experience wider opportunities that go beyond the curriculum.  We have developed progressive, carefully considered, rich opportunities to develop our children's personal, social and moral development as well as life skills they can use to be successful in future life.

LIFELONG SUCCESS FOR ALL

Stapleford Abbotts provides children with a progressive curriculum that joins both the academic and non-academic, delivered through the discrete teaching of RSE, PSHE and RE, enhanced and enriched with wider opportunities across the school to promote our children's personal development, driven and underpinned by our four key learning behaviours of:

Resilience, Collaboration, Inquisitiveness and Independence

We recognise that it is important that our children know how to keep themselves safe and how to care for both their mental and physical wellbeing whilst they also develop personal traits, and virtues that will motivate and guide them to flourish in their community and in society, with confidence and resilience.

ZONES OF REGULATION

We use Zones of Regulation throughout the school to teach children how to recognise, understand and regulate their emotions. The Zones of Regulation organises feelings, states of alertness, and energy levels into four colored Zones – Blue, Green, Yellow, and Red. The simple, common language and visual structure of The Zones of Regulation helps make the complex skill of regulation more concrete for learners and those who support them.   As part of our Behaviour Curriculum, we explicitly teach a range of techniques to support regulation.

MIND IN WEST ESSEX

We work in partnership with Mind in West Essex, a mental health charity, to support children’s wellbeing and mental health. They deliver a variety of workshops to whole classes and small groups of children, including Brain Buddies in Key Stage 2 and Emotional Explorers in Key Stage 1, both of which focus on emotional regulation teaching children to recognise emotions and develop skills to tackle big feelings in their lives.  They also run a Friendship Group, for children in Year 2 upwards, that looks at how to start and maintain healthy, respectful relationships.

SAPA BEHAVIOUR CURRICULUM

Throughout their time at SAPA, children are given a wide range of opportunities to develop their collaboration skills, thorugh a wide range of pupil forums.

SAPA SCHOOL COUNCIL 

JUNIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM

SA@S - SAFEGUARDING AMABASSADORS AT SCHOOL

ATTENDANCE AGENTS

Through our well considered and progressive wider opportunity offer, we foster children's naturual inquisitivenss and thirst for learning as well as developing key life skills as the children progress through the school

FOREST SCHOOL

SAPA ENRICHMENT OPPORTUNITIES

SMSC at SAPA 

SAPA Clubs

SAPA VALUES LIFE SKILLS PROGRESSION - INDEPENDENCE