Fareham Academy’s Personal Development Learning (PDL) curriculum which includes Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE), Personal, Social, Health and Careers Education (PSHCE) embraces the challenges of supporting young people in order to lead a happy and successful adult life through enabling them to make informed decisions about their wellbeing, health and relationships. The curriculum equips students to make confident decisions when facing risks, challenges and complex situations, and to develop resilience skills including knowing when to seek help and where to access support. 

Our knowledge rich Personal Development curriculum has the aim of developing our students' individuality, ensuring they are informed and educated of facts and encouraging them to form their own conclusions based on their individual views and beliefs. Our PDL lessons are made up of class discussions that focus on student oracy, and the use of scenarios and case studies which aim to support student literacy. 

Our tutor time programme is differentiated between key stages which allows us to celebrate key date such as Black History Month and National Careers Week as a whole school community, whilst also ensuring students are provided with a contextualised programme that meets their different learning requirements and also forms links to their assembly and PDL lesson themes and topics.  

​We aim to provide our students with the information that they need to help them develop a variety of healthy and nurturing relationships. We explore what healthy relationships look like, including what makes a good friend and a successfully committed relationship. 

Our Relationships, Sex and Health Education curriculum is delivered during PDL lessons, tutor time activities, assemblies and RAK Days, teaching the laws surrounding relationships, and sex and health education themes and topics. 

Based on our three core values of Resilience, Aspiration and Kindness, RAK days allow us to go over above and beyond the statutory teachings of the National Curriculum and provide us the opportunities to outsource key teaching from industry experts; and engage the local community through guest speakers from support organisations and charities. The curriculum prepares students for opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life, while the Academy promotes the spiritual, moral, social, cultural, mental and physical development skills needed to be an active participating citizen. 

​Citizenship is taught within PDL lessons at Fareham Academy and prepares students to play a full and active role in modern society with a focus on community cohesion. Our programme incorporates opportunities for students to foster an awareness of democracy and government, exploring political and social issues, law and justice, managing money and making informed financial decisions. 

The Careers and Progression element of our PDL curriculum encourages students to explore careers and progression as part of our RAK day programme from Year 7 through to Year 11 as well as forming part of our Year 9 Scheme of Work.  

Throughout their time at Fareham Academy, students have multiple opportunities to learn from employers about work, employment and the skills that are valued in the workplace, through our collaboration with a number of Local and National organisations. We participate in a range of projects, including the hosting of a careers fair to support students to understand the breadth of Post 16 opportunities available to them; whether this be in their future education, apprenticeships and employment aspirations.  

At Fareham Academy we believe young people should leave school with the skills to make well informed and equipped decisions for themselves and about their own lives, whilst respecting the rights of others.