Personal development is threaded throughout the curriculum and life at Elms Farm Primary School. It offers the children the key knowledge and skills for them to make a positive impact on their lives and on their community. The aim of the Elms Farm curriculum is to develop ambitious pupils who acquire attributes such as self-confidence, risk-management, team-working and critical thinking.

The staff at Elms Farm are committed to providing an ambitious and purposeful curriculum that prepares learners for their next steps in their school career and the wider world. We aim to broaden our pupils’ horizons and give them self-belief and high aspirations to set goals for themselves.

Throughout their lives, children and young people are currently faced with an increasingly complex world where they have to manage the risks both online and offline. This presents them with lots of exciting opportunities, but these also come with challenges that they need to learn to manage. At Elms Farm pupils learn how to keep themselves safe and live a healthy lifestyle and how to manage their academic and social lives in a positive way. Our e-safety, PSHE and RSHE curriculum supports our pupils to develop positive relationships both in and out of school, resilience, self-confidence and gives them the knowledge in order to live a healthy lifestyle including looking after their own mental health.

In addition to our curriculum, we have developed the ‘Elms Farm Passport’ which encourages our pupils to engage in a wide variety of personal developmental activities at school and at home.