Excellence in Pupil Development Award

Develop pupil skills that last a lifetime

Put pupils’ personal development at the heart of your school.

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What’s in the Excellence in Pupil Development Award framework?

This award offers a structured framework to evaluate and enrich your pastoral curriculum. It supports you in developing pupils' personal attributes and attitudes, such as self-confidence, resilience and self-discipline. With a focus on involving local and national organisations, it helps you prepare pupils for life in modern Britain.

The Award benefits

  • Promote excellence

    Demonstrate commitment to pupil development with clear leadership, a dedicated team, a strategic action plan, and ongoing evaluation for lasting impact.
    Working towards the EPDA has really helped up to ensure that pupil personal development is encouraged and developed across the school. It is a priority area for us given the challenging context of the school.
    Headteacher
    Brentside Primary Academy

  • Support personal growth

    Implement a curriculum that supports pupils’ personal development, leadership skills, financial awareness, and responsibility.
    We are delighted to receive the EPDA in recognition of the outstanding work undertaken by the staff and students at Canons High School.
    David Bullock
    Canons High School

  • Strengthen provision

    Develop partnerships with experts, charities, and businesses to enrich the curriculum, promote resilience, boost aspirations, and shape pupils’ personal growth.
    We are delighted to receive this award as one of our commitments is to foster the development of students’ character, personal development, health and wellbeing preparing them to make a valuable contribution to society.
    Headteacher
    Ridgeway Academy

  • Positive behaviour

    Promote positive behaviour through clear, inclusive policies, support for wise choices, respect for others, and celebration of effort and attendance.
    The Excellence in Pupil Development Award has allowed us to reflect on our complete personal development offer for our students and evaluate its impact on pupil character, behaviour and attitudes.
    Headteacher
    GEMS International Private School Sharjah

  • Community partnerships

    Build strong local partnerships, keep families informed and involved and promote active participation in local community activities.
    It is such an important area of development for our pupils and recognises our staff’s commitment to developing pupils’ character, interpersonal skills and developing personal qualities through a wide range of experiences linked to our bespoke enrichment programme.
    Headteacher
    The Dales School

  • Professional development

    Ensure staff are equipped to support pupil wellbeing, deliver PSHE effectively, and evaluate impact on personal growth.
    The well-laid out objectives comprising the award ensured the school could easily focus on and evidence for all aspects of our practice relating to personalising and promoting excellent pupil development.
    Headteacher
    Garston Manor School
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Case study: Astrea Academy Dearne
From a senior team perspective it gave rise to a more cohesive approach to school improvement and strengthened any areas of overlap.
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School name
Astrea Academy Dearne
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Headteacher
Mrs J Wilson

We decided to undertake this award to further develop and strengthen our practice in this area of school improvement to ensure that we fulfil the potential and character of all our students not just from an academic stand point, but through a more in depth approach to the wider curriculum. We are passionate about working with and supporting the families and community that we serve.

Completing the award allowed us to take a thorough and diagnostic approach to firstly self-evaluating our starting points so that we could put together an achievable action plan. Through collating the…

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The award process

Steps to achieving an award
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Self-evaluation

Evaluate your current provision against each of the award Objectives and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

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Next step
Practical action planning

Work with the award framework to create and implement your school’s Action Plan

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Next step
Portfolio building

Work with the award framework to create and implement your school’s Action Plan

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Verification

Work with the award framework to create and implement your school’s Action Plan

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Accreditation

Work with the award framework to create and implement your school’s Action Plan

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Reassessment

Improvements seen during work on the award continue after verification and the school remains accredited for three years.

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Next step
Mark Jennett was excellent in leading our assessment which was thorough and included incredibly useful discussion on our next steps with signposting to useful resources.
Headteacher
Ridgeway Academy
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