Personal Development at Palm Bay
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Every Minute Matters at Palm Bay. We tenaciously support our children to develop into healthy, independent, confident and articulate young people, well prepared for the next stage in their education. Pupils leave Palm Bay as creative individuals who possess a strong social conscience and moral compass.
Personal Development is woven into all aspects of school life. We pride ourselves on providing an environment for all pupils to thrive and mature into well-informed, globally-minded young people.
Everything we do at Palm Bay is centred on developing our set of core values. Throughout their “Palm Bay Journey” our children develop core values which underpin life at Palm Bay. Our core values help steer how we behave, grow, learn and treat each other - known to all children as The Palm Bay Way. They are embedded into all aspects of school life at Palm Bay.
Alongside these Palm Bay core values are our school rules: Be Ready, Be Respectful and Be Safe.
This motto ensures that there is a simple and common understanding of how everyone should be treated and behave.
Pupil Voice and Peer Leadership
At Palm Bay we create meaningful roles for pupils to allow them to develop leadership skills and learn the importance of responsibility. We are committed to listening to all of our pupils and empowering them to feel part of and able to positively influence our whole school community.
The current leadership roles at Palm Bay are:
- Smart School Council (all pupils)
- Active Play Leaders
- PE Leaders
- House Captains
- Digital Leaders
- Young Arts Leaders (YALS)
- Eco Team
- Reading Ambassadors
Smart School Council
A school council where every pupil’s voice should be involved.
- We run simple, easy class meetings
- We put all of our pupils in the driving seat
- Communication Team
- All of our pupils help create change
- Group of pupils who create change
- Democracy in Action
- This might be creating a club, campaign or activity to create change
PHSE at Palm Bay
Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural development is about everything we do at Palm Bay. We help and support all pupils to build their own personal values, have positive relationships with others and become responsible young citizens in society.
SMSC development supports pupils to be kind, thoughtful and caring and to be able to live alongside people with different beliefs, cultures and lifestyles. Our provision for pupils’ Spiritual, Moral, Social, Cultural and Emotional development (SMSC), builds on our values of our education. An important part of SMSC is to support our pupils to engage with British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and respect for different faiths and beliefs. We want our pupils to be reflective about their own beliefs, but also show interest and respect for the beliefs and faiths of others. We encourage pupils to reflect, not just on their own behaviour and the choices they make, but also on the skills needed to remain calm and focused on their learning. Focusing on personal insight, values, meaning and purpose - beliefs that help provide perspective on life may be rooted in a religion, but equally may not. Creativity and imagination is important at Palm Bay, as is a sense of fascination, awe and wonder.