Welcome to the Personal Development curriculum hub for Carshalton Boys Sports College. Below, you will find the complete Schemes of Work spanning Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, and the Sixth Form (Key Stage 5) for the 2026–2027 academic year. This text prefaces these documents on our school website to provide parents, carers, and inspectors with an overview of our strategic intent, sequential implementation, and robust assessment framework.

Curriculum Overview: Intent, Implementation & Impact

Personal Development Curriculum Map

At Carshalton Boys Sports College, Personal Development is not an add-on; it is foundational to our core values of Excellence, Character, and Aspiration. Our curriculum is designed to equip young men with the knowledge, resilience, and moral maturity required to navigate the modern world, achieve their potential, and successfully transition into independent adult life.

Intent: A Progressively Demanding Vision

Our Personal Development curriculum is intentionally scaffolded across a five-year secondary spiral, extending into a two-year Sixth Form curriculum. We start from a place of security in Year 7—focusing on transition, identity, and personal wellbeing—and steadily expand our students' horizons.

Key Stage 3 (Years 7–9): Transitions from establishing a secure sense of self to building emotional intelligence, understanding healthy relationships, and introducing financial and digital literacy. By Year 9, the focus shifts from factual recall to critical judgement, introducing advanced topics such as consent, county lines awareness, and targeted career planning.

Year 7

• Year 7 Subject Page
• Year 7 Vocabulary Tier 2 & 3

Year 7

• Year 8 Subject Page
• Year 8 Vocabulary Tier 2 & 3

Year 9

• Year 9 Subject Page
• Year 9 Vocabulary Tier 2 & 3

 

Key Stage 4 (Years 10–11): Integrates statutory PSHE with elements of Computing, Religious Education, and Citizenship. We explore the neuroscience of wellbeing, advanced Relationship and Sex Education (RSE), and exam performance science to protect and empower students during key terminal examinations.

Year 10

• Year 10 Subject Page
• Year 10 Vocabulary Tier 2 & 3

Year 11

• Year 11 Subject Page
• Year 11 Vocabulary Tier 2 & 3

 

Sixth Form (Years 12–13): Elevates prior learning to adult complexity. It focusses on real-world readiness, including workplace rights, independent healthcare navigation, financial literacy (tax, payslips, tenancies), and securing ambitious post-18 destinations.

Year 12

• Year 12 Subject Page
• Year 12 Vocabulary Tier 2 & 3

Year 13

• Year 13 Subject Page
• Year 13 Vocabulary Tier 2 & 3

 

Implementation: The Spiral Journey

The delivery of our curriculum explicitly responds to age-appropriate developmental milestones. Key concepts—such as consent, digital literacy, financial education, and mental health—are systematically revisited with increasing nuance:

• Healthy Relationships: Progresses from Year 7 friendship skills to Year 8 coercive control dynamics, Year 9–10 enthusiastic consent, and ultimately Year 11–13 adult intimacy, safety, and preventing Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG).
• Financial Literacy: Scales from Year 7 money basics to Year 8 banking, Year 9 scams and financial potholes, Year 10 independence budgeting, and Key Stage 5 adult tax, pensions, and housing literacy.
• Digital Maturity: Evolves from basic fake-news spotting into deep dives regarding algorithmic bias, AI literacy, data privacy, and managing adult digital reputations.

 

Statutory requirements are comprehensively met, bolstered by specialist-led provisions such as the RSE Drop-Down Day in Year 10 and partnerships with platforms like Unifrog and Springpod in the Sixth Form.