Cultural Opportunities (Entitlement)
The school council has been working with their classes on what the school offers as 'cultural opportunities'.
This was quite a difficult idea to understand at first, so we came up with an explanation for all councillors to use with their classes:
- Opportunities to learn through activities which are different to normal classroom/school learning sessions, e.g. trips.
- Opportunities to take part in activities which develop children’s skills, talents and what is important to them, such as Swavesey’s Got Talent.
- Opportunities to learn about other people’s traditions, religions and what is special to them.
- Opportunities which help us grow and develop in all ways beyond ‘classroom learning’, such as playtimes.
We talked to our classes and came up with lists of what we think the school offers us already and a list of what we would like in the future. This is part of the work the whole school is doing to think about how we can learn and develop in more ways.
Here are just some of our ideas:
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Things we do |
Things we would like to do |
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Sports Day RE week Science week Number Day Santa Visit Christmas Lunch Special visitors to talk to us Bikeability Year 6 residential Golden Mile Swavesey’s Got Talent Gardening club Helping with the chickens World Book Day quiz School Council Pantomime Dress Up Days SVC exchange student activity afternoon |
Have a school mascot Bench ball club Food from around the world day Cooking club Choir/Singing club (go back to having one) Camping night School Dog Sponsored walk Children being able to teach children Earth Day Assembly singing to include more modern songs More special days
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The school adults, governors and parents/carers will all be able to come up with their ideas too, to help create our list of opportunities for children to experience during their time at our school.