Building Community Personal Development Day
Through participation in this off-timetable day, young people will understand what communities look like, challenges they can face and the importance of building inclusive and welcoming communities.
July 25, 2026 | All day
Virtual
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About this event:
Single Session
Our single professional learning sessions are designed to easily fit into your day. Typically one hour or less, these sessions explore timely and relevant topics including teaching strategies, current events, and more.
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The day will encourage young people to consider what communities look like, challenges they can face and the importance of building inclusive and welcoming communities.
The content in this personal development day is taken from a range of our resources, including our unit Standing Up for Democracy and our teacher guide Building a Classroom Community: Creating an Environment for Connection and Learning.
It is a chance for schools to invigorate their PSHE/Learning for Life and Work/Health and Well-being/Citizenship curriculums, while providing young people with additional enrichment and personal development opportunities. The content also helps schools fulfil a range of statutory and non-statutory obligations in relation to:
- Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025;
- Relationships and Sex Education 2025:
- Promoting Fundamental British Values as Part of SMSC;
- The Education Inspection Framework for September 2023;
- The OFSTED School Inspection Handbook for September 2025;
- The Spiritual, Moral, Cultural, Mental and Physical development (SMSC) of pupils.
We will send you the details to access and download all the materials after you have registered.
Young people taking part in Facing History’s personal development day will:
- Develop positive, healthy and nurturing relationships with your peers through the use of group work;
- Develop skills in speaking and listening, negotiation and compromise;
- Develop an understanding of what communities look like, challenges they can face and the importance of building inclusive and welcoming communities;
- Understand what othering and exclusion are and their impact;
- Develop the ability to communicate how to create a caring, reflective and inclusive school community.
Please note this personal development day is available for UK educators only.
Schools who choose to take part will receive:
- An assembly PowerPoint to launch the day.
- An outline of how to structure the day, with five planned sessions and accompanying PowerPoints, to use on the theme of Building Community.
- Follow up opportunities for your students, including:
- The chance to publish a selection of your students’ writing about the experience on our Ideas This Week webpage;
- Extension into an enrichment project;
- Attending Facing History Upstander events.
