Personal Development

Personal, Social, Emotional Development (PSED) is at the foundation of what we do at Landewednack. Our vision is that children leave Landewednack school with confidence, compassion and a range of life experiences to draw from, so that they are prepared to thrive in a modern world. Our curriculum has been designed to give children a thorough understanding of the world and addresses important themes of culture, conflict, communication and conservation. This is enriched with a wealth of opportunities for children to develop personally, socially and emotionally throughout their learning journey at Landewednack. This can include trips to new place; opportunities to meet and interact with a diverse range of people; opportunities to perform; residential trips; leadership opportunities and opportunities to learn about their local community. 

 

Examples of Personal Social Development Opportunities throughout the school

  • Our whole school Harvest Festival takes place in our local chapel and offers children the chance to perform for their families and raise money and donations for the local foodbank.
  • Every week, “Open the Book” come to perform a bible story for the children, including giving children a chance to perform with them and engage in collective worship and singing. 
  • Children are involved in fundraising throughout the year, such as non uniform days for Genes for Jeans, Children in Need and Red Nose Day, sponsored reading for Read for Good, and fun runs for charities and to raise money for the school. 
 
 
  • Children have the chance to read with Sarah and Lily, the school’s reading dog, and parent volunteers.
  • Our school council helps children learn about democracy and representing others. 
  • Children are kept up to date with world news in our weekly assemblies, and our First News subscription.
  • Children have swimming lessons each year.
  • Children go on local trips each year, such as to the Marconi Centre, Helston Museum, Feadon Farm, Tregullas Farm, Poltesco and Orienteering. 
  • Children have the opportunity to compete in a range of sports and sporting competitions such as cross country, multi-sports, football, basketball, dance, sports day, gymnastics, sailing and swimming. 
  • Children have “experience days” in their writing units to develop their vocabulary and knowledge of what they will write about. For example, tasting ice cream to describe dream potions in the BFG, winter senses, sensing plants, positive and negative spells. Rebecca, from the seal sanctuary visited to teach the children more about seals, trip to the woods to write a recount. 
  • Children have the opportunity to learn poems by heart to perform. 
  • We have links with the local farm, lifeboat station, church, nursing home and chapel, children become familiar with their local environment and community. 
 Examples of PSED in the Early Years:
  • Children in the Early Years have their first chances to perform by singing a class song in the Harvest festival and Christmas production.
  • Children go on trips to our local farms to learn about the world around them and develop their road safety skills. Children can interact with animals such as goats, lambs, tadpoles and pondlife. 
  • Visitors are invited into school, such as a “mystery reader” each week, volunteers to read with the children, and animals such as ducks and dogs for children to meet and interact with. This allows children to develop their confidence in interacting with a wide range of people and animals. 
  • Children take part in Wild Tribe every week, where they learn a wide range of skills such as fire safety, cutting and crafting skills, cooking skills, and plant identification skills. 

Examples of PSED in the Early Years:

  • Children in the Early Years have their first chances to perform by singing a class song in the Harvest festival and Christmas production.

        

  • Children go on trips to our local farms to learn about the world around them and develop their road safety skills. Children can interact with animals such as goats, lambs, tadpoles and pondlife. 

  • Visitors are invited into school, such as a “mystery reader” each week, volunteers to read with the children, and animals such as ducks and dogs for children to meet and interact with. This allows children to develop their confidence in interacting with a wide range of people and animals. 

  • Children take part in Wild Tribe every week, where they learn a wide range of skills such as fire safety, cutting and crafting skills, cooking skills, and plant identification skills.

Examples of PSED in Key Stage 2 

  • Our Junior Carols service is held at our local church, all children are given the chance to sing carols together and all children have lines to speak.

  • Children in Year 5 and 6 go on a residential camp each year, examples of previous trips include Bristol- we aim for our children to visit a city in the UK during their time at Landewednack.  
  • They have also stayed on an ‘off the grid’ camp where they learnt about sustainability and energy conservation. 
  • Children in Year 5 and 6 learn to sail each year. Our children go surfing; they learn about beach safety and how to look after our environment and marine life.  We have a close relationship with the local lifeboat crew 
  • All Key Stage 2 children have a chance to perform in our Summer Production.
  • Children in Key Stage 2 have monitor roles in their classroom. In Year 6 children become “prefects” and have leadership roles such as distributing and looking after sports equipment, returning books in the library, supervising corridors and walkways. 
  • Children take part in interschool competitions, such as basketball competitions. 
  • Our upper key stage two children have had ‘young leader’ training and take responsibility for creating games and activities for our younger children
  • Years 5 and 6 are currently working towards the Trinity College Arts Award ‘Discover’ with visits from the Minack Theatre Arts Team.
  • Our children take part in ‘Songfest’ each year and perform at a local theatre with children from other schools
  • Children learn to take part in country dancing, and perform in the village at the summer solstice celebration. 
  • Attend a literary festival where they get to meet authors and attend workshops. 
  • Road safety sessions and ASB with our local police team
  • Children have the opportunity to perform song fest. 
  • Year 5s and 6s take part in "Bikeability", where they learn to cycle safely on roads.