Wider Opportunities

Enrichment Activities

At St Andrew's Church of England Primary School, we want to provide the children with a range of opportunities. This comes in different forms at our school. We have a range of after sporting after school clubs and at lunchtimes we offer other clubs such as table tennis and choir.

As a school, we are looking at other opportunities we wish to provide for our children over the course of their time at St Andrew's so we can develop their cultural capital.

What is Cultural Capital?

Cultural capital is the gathering of knowledge, behaviours, and skills that a child can draw upon and which demonstrates their cultural awareness, knowledge and competence; it is one of the key ingredients a child will draw upon to be successful in society, their career and the world of work.

Cultural capital gives a child power. It helps them achieve goals, become successful, and rise up the social ladder without necessarily having wealth or financial capital. Cultural capital is having assets that give children the desire to aspire and achieve social mobility whatever their starting point.

Our main vision for our children is for them to become life-long learners and global citizens that aspire to achieve great accomplishments in their life by having a desire and belief in their ability. Gradually widening children’s experiences as they progress through school is an important step in providing rich and engaging learning across the curriculum. We plan carefully for children to have progressively richer experiences in reception and beyond. These include trips to the local park, shops and visits to places of worship,sports and music venues just to name a few.