PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Personal Development

At Cayton, we strive to prepare students for their future as responsible citizens, willing to make a positive contribution to society with an appreciation of diversity and a respect for British Values and equality. We provide a wide number of rich and varied experiences and opportunities through our curriculum to develop talents, interests and an individuals cultural capital.

We recognise that it is important that our students know how to keep themselves safe and how to care for both their mental and physical wellbeing whilst they also develop personal traits, and virtues that will motivate and guide our students to flourish in their community and in society, with confidence and resilience.

This focus on Personal Development and Character Education are all promoted through our bespoke curriculum with a focus on our six areas of awards: Courage, Achievement, Your Actions, Tolerance, Our World and Nurturing.

British Values

British Values information

Anchor 1

PSHE - Personal, Social and Health Education

PSHE Policy

Developing SMSC Policy

Appendix i

Appendix ii

Appendix iii

SRE - Sex and Relationships Education

SRE Policy

SRE Policy updated Dec 2023

SRE Parent Consultation

CCCCC - Cayton Cultural, Capital, Citizenship and Community Passport

At Cayton School, we want to provide every child with the curriculum opportunities beyond the academic, ensuring they have access to a wide, rich set of experiences. We have created a passport (CCCCC) where we provide cultural development experiences where children participate and respond positively to artistic, musical, sporting and cultural opportunities throughout their time at Cayton School. Please see some examples here....

CCCCC Passport

Forest Schools

At Cayton School, every child has access to Forest School each half term. We have a carefully designed forestry area that our pupils work in and tend to. They complete a range of activities such as identifying trees from leaves and features, artwork using natural resources and inspiration from their surroundings and den building including outdoor exploration.

Beach School

As we are fortunate enough to be a short distance from Cayton Bay, we established a beach school in the 2023/24 year. Activities to explore our local surroundings are included in the programme and similar to Forest School, it gives the children the opportunity to become immersed in their locality and appreciate its beauty.

Cookery Suite

In addition to our DT cookery lessons, we have extra sessions for all children to experience working in kitchens to make seasonal and healthy option foods. These are completed with Mrs Wilson are all children have access to this throughout the year. In the lessons, children learn about safety, hygiene and healthy choices when working in a kitchen.

Healthy Schools

At Cayton School, we have been awarded the Healthy Schools Silver Award. We are now working towards the Gold Award by the Summer of 2024.

We have successful provisions in 'Active Lives', this is ensuring pupils are physically active throughout the week. They take part in, at least 2 hours of PE, a daily mile and also have access to a range of extra-curricular sports.

Our 'Food Culture' has grown significantly, ensuring pupils have healthy and balanced lunches and morning snacks. Pupils also take part in termly cookery curriculum lessons and have the opportunity to attend our extra-curricular cookery club.

In Cayton School, PSHE and mental health and wellbeing initiatives run through the curriculum and are taught weekly, through assemblies and class based lessons. This ensures pupils understand key aspects of each area and feel confident to talk about their feelings.

Nurture Room

To support our commitment to well-being and mental health, we have a dedicated room that children and staff have access to where they have a quiet space to share thoughts, feelings and discuss emotions. It has been designed to support a range of conditions, needs and issues and the children know that they can use this as a safe space to talk openly. We also have a dedicated Pastoral Lead who helps to support all members of the school.

Cayton Awards

Cayton Awards are presented weekly in our celebratory assembly on Friday. The represent and award our core values at Cayton School:

Courage Achievement Your actions Tolerance Our world Nurturing

These qualities ensure that our children grow to become well-rounded citizens in the community.

Extra-Curricular Activities

A range of extra-curricular activities are on offer for pupils to allow them to shine in their own ways. Staff at Cayton School listen to the pupils and parents/carers when deciding what extra-curricular activities are offered.

Throughout the year, we offer a variety of lunch time and after school activities including football, golf, cricket, athletics, dance, colouring,

TT-Rockstars, crafting, recorders, choir, science and gardening.

Pupils also have the opportunity to represent the school in local sporting competitions such as cross country, as well as other team games.

School Orchestra and Music Mark

Our Year 5 class have the opportunity to be a part of the school orchestra through the NYCC music service. Every child is introduced to an instrument at the start of the year: trumpet, trombone, clarinet or saxophone. Throughout the year, there are multiple performances for a range of audiences and at various venues in and around Scarborough. In 2023, Cayton Primary School became a Music Mark School as a result of the work that is being done in the music curriculum throughout school.

Arts Mark

As a school, we have been working towards achieving our Artsmark status. We submitted our Statement of Commitment in February 2023 and have been focusing on improving our range of offer using the ACE framework. We are currently gathering data to submit our Statement of Impact in February 2025.

Assemblies

At Cayton, we have daily collective assemblies.
Monday - Hymn practice with Mrs Monaghan and Mr Taylor.

Tuesday - Personal Development with Mr Vasey linked to Jigsaw PSHE.

Wednesday - Picture News with staff members assembly looking at issues and stories in the current news.

Thursday - Mental Health and well-being/ Visitor assemblies.

Friday - Celebratory assembly for all.

Peat Rigg Residential

Each Autumn, Year 6 attend their 'Activity Week' which includes a hike along the Cleveland Way, biking along the Cinder Track, swimming and yoga. Then we spend 3 days at Peat Rigg on top of this! Whilst there, pupils are encouraged to try and push their limits, be resilient and above all, have fun during all of their activities.

Robin Hood's Bay Residential

Year 4 enjoy a one night residential visit to the Old School House in Robin Hoods Bay. Here they have a first experience that supports them in becoming more independent and helps them to build self esteem. Pupils thrive when hiking across the top of the beach on to the Cleveland Way, Scavenger hunting through the old town and completing beach actvities.