Year 7 Personal Development : Building strong foundations

Welcome to the Year 7 Personal Development platform. Here, you'll discover a wealth of resources designed to engage and inspire your pupils, fostering crucial life skills and character attributes from the very beginning of their secondary school journey with us at Lift Unity City.

On this page, you'll find essential resources focusing on:

  • Personal Development journals: Encouraging self-reflection and goal setting
  • Ultimate Team challenges: Building collaboration and problem-solving skills
  • Adulting for Beginners - Life Skills level 1: Introducing practical life competencies
  • Character Education: Fostering positive values and attributes

 

The role of the Personal Development Coach

A Personal Development Coach is a dedicated mentor who empowers students to overcome barriers to learning, build emotional resilience, and develop crucial life skills. Unlike traditional subject teachers, they focus entirely on holistic growth, supporting students in goal-setting, mental wellbeing, and personal responsibility. 

As a PD Coach at Lift Unity City, your role is to:

  • Set the standard - raise the bar - a consistent start to each day
  • Be a proactive presence - the first port of call for pastoral support for the students in your PD Group
  • Know your students - understand their needs and advocate for their support needs both academically and pastorally
  • Be your PD Group's biggest cheerleader - inspire, motivate and empower your students to try new things, fully experience school life and achieve their potential

Upcoming events and opportunities for Year 7 

Announcements sharing opportunities for students in Year 7 to get involved in - from Enrichment Extras to competitions, experiences, trips, visits and more...

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Lesson Delivery Tracker

Our lesson delivery tracker is an educational management tool used by our Personal Development Coaches to log, monitor, and assess how the PD curriculum is being taught. It ensures that planned lessons are actually completed, progress is maintained, and our students achieve the best possible outcomes.

Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance (QA) in Personal Development lessons is the continuous process of evaluating, reviewing, and improving teaching, learning, and assessment methods. It ensures that lessons are fair, consistently meet specific educational standards, and genuinely help learners develop the personal, social, and functional life skills they need.

How QA Works in Personal Development

Quality assurance operates as a proactive, supportive cycle rather than just an end-of-course test. It relies on a few key actions: 

  • Lesson Observations: Leaders or peers observe lessons to evaluate if the content is engaging, accurate, and properly adapted to the students' needs.
  • Learner Feedback: Gathering input from students to understand the impact the lesson had on their confidence, wellbeing, and personal perspectives. 
  • Standardisation: Ensuring that multiple teachers or assessors are applying the same criteria and delivering a consistent experience across the school.
  • Review and Evaluate: Looking at curriculum plans and student progress over time to identify gaps and update the lesson framework.

Why It Is Important?

Personal Development lessons deal with highly subjective, personal topics rather than just academic testing. QA is vital to drive continuous improvement by identifying what methods work best so we can enhance future lessons.

Engaging year 7 pupils with dynamic content

Our Year 7 content is crafted to be visually exciting, interactive, practical, and challenging, ensuring pupils remain engaged and enthusiastic about their personal growth. We believe learning should be an adventure, and our resources reflect this philosophy. Engaging resources are critical because they transform learning from passive listening into active participation. This shift improves information retention, caters to diverse learning styles, and fosters a lifelong love for learning. 

The impact of successful year 7 Personal Development 

When Year 7 Personal Development thrives, pupils fully engage in the programme, taking significant steps to develop their character, skills, and attributes. They gain a deeper understanding of how these lessons positively impact their learning across the curriculum and in life beyond school. Let's work together to nurture well-rounded, confident individuals.

Year 7 Personal Development (PD) lessons profoundly impact students by equipping them with the practical and emotional tools needed to navigate the transition to secondary school. They build resilience, foster healthy friendships, and prepare adolescents for the physical and emotional changes of puberty.

Measuring impact

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External partnerships and specialist providers

"I recently attended Lift Unity City to deliver Cleveland Fire Brigade’s Spring Campaign to Year 7 pupils over two separate mornings. The sessions were organised and I was made to feel very welcome from the moment I arrived.

Both mornings ran very smoothly, with each group of pupils fully engaged throughout the sessions. The pupils and staff were excellent. There were no behavioural issues, and the students gained valuable knowledge about fire safety, as well as the risks and consequences of deliberate fire setting.

Overall, the event was a great success."

- David Bell - Cleveland Fire Brigade 2026

 

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