Personal Development 

The DPA community provides a positive, supportive and safe environment where students feel safe and listened to. Students build on their resilince and confidence through an aspirational curriculum that challenges them, providing the knowledge, skills and experiences to enable them to become contributing citizens in society. There is a climate of celebrating success, where positive relationships, modelling and high expectations support pupils to develop their self-belief and character. 
The personal development curriculum comprises of several discrete subjects and is part of our core offer to all pupils. It consists of PSHRE, Futures, Citizenship, Active Personal Development and Tutor Time Programme. Behaviour and resilience is taught through using members of the behaviour for learning team  who support students by providing timely interventions to enable them to reflect on their actions and support the social, emotional and mental well-being. 

The personal development offer comprises of these key components below, which are fundamental to everything we offer at Derby Pride Academy. 

    Personal Development Journey 

    Key documents

    Parents/Carers – Right to Withdraw from Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)

    Parents have a right to request to withdraw their child from sex education delivered as part of RSE in secondary schools which, unless there are exceptional circumstances, should be granted up to three terms before their child turns 16. At this point, if the child themselves wishes to receive sex education rather than be withdrawn, the school should make arrangements for this to happen in one of the three terms before the child turns 16 – the legal age of sexual consent.  Parents/carers will be asked at their induction meeting if they wish to withdraw their child from sex education and is so, they will need to sign the appropriate withdrawal form.  Parents/carers may also withdraw their child at any point during their child’s placement at the Academy by using the following form:- 

    There is no right to withdraw from Relationships Education at primary or secondary as we believe the contents of these subjects – such as family, friendship, safety (including online safety) – are important for all children to be taught. For more information, please see: