Our Personal Development and Mutual Understanding (PDMU) guidance has two sections. The first invites you to explore the implementation of this Area of Learning in your school. The second provides suggested progression through 10 PDMU concepts to help address the statutory requirements from Foundation Stage 1 to Key Stage 2.

Throughout the guidance, we’ve included teaching and learning suggestions alongside references to resources that you may find useful (including our PDMU resource Living. Learning. Together.). We also highlight links between PDMU and other educational, health and curriculum programmes and strategies that have emerged in recent years.

This resource is an updated version of the guidance and progression grids that were first published to support the Northern Ireland Curriculum from 2007.