Extended Curriculum
To broaden our children's learning experience, we invite a wide range of engaging visitors to our school and take our children on a host of exciting trips and visits. In addition, we take part in a range of projects and initiatives, and enter our children in local competitions. All of these activities and events enable our children to learn from first hand experience about the wonderful and diverse world we live in; they promote a sense of awe and wonder and help our children to find their interests and talents, and develop ambition.
One of our recent highlights, was to be able to bring an international dimension to our school. For the first time, some of our Year 4 pupils joined with children and staff from Caddington and Slip End Village Schools on a trip to Grundschule, Eitorf in Germany. The children spent 3 days joining their German friends in lessons and exploring the local town. It really was a trip of a lifetime!
Transition is another important aspect of preparing our pupils for the future. Trips, competitions and engagement with local schools and pre-schools, help our children to form friendships with other local children, meet possible future teachers and takes some of the fear of change away.
Recently, the school carried out a Curriculum Survey with parents and an Experiences Questionnaire with pupils to find out which experiences the school could offer to best meet the needs of our pupils. New trips to London to see the sites and trips on public transport have already been introduced as a direct result of our questionnaire outcomes.
Below, is a list of some of our most recent experiences:
Projects
NEW* The 'HELLO' Project with The Schools of Tomorrow Fellowship - Developing Communication Skills in the Early Years
NEW* The CHILL (Children's Health in London and Luton) Project - Investigating Air Pollution in our area and the effect it has on our children's health
NEW* Reading Fluency Project - Year 6 project with CBC
Trips and Visits
Whipsnade Zoo - Year 1
NEW* Affinity Water - Year 2
NEW* Kew Gardens - Year 3
Queen's Park Faith Tour - Years 3 and 4
Hazard Alley - Years 3 and 4
NEW* Grundschule, Eitorf in Germany - Year 4
Stockwood Park - Year 4
NEW* London Site Seeing - Public Transport - Year 4
NEW* London Eye - Public Transport - Year 5
Rock UK - Year 6
NEW* The PAD End of Year Showcase - Years 4, 5 and 6
NEW* Cinema Visit - Years 2, 3, 4 and 5
Competitions
NEW* Times Tables Challenge - Using the Flurrish App, local schools competed to find the times tables champions
Dunstable in Bloom - WINNERS- 'Best School for Imaginative Planting'
Bedfordshire Police - WINNER (Year 2) 'Bling a Bauble'
Visitors
NEW* ZULU Nation - Whle School
Robin Hood Pantomime - Whole School
NEW* Circus Skills - EYFS
NEW* Great Fire of London History Day - Year 2
NEW* Farm Visit - Year 1
Dunstable Fire Service - Year 2
NEW* Bedfordshire Police - Junior Police Squad - Year 5
Sustrans - Bikeability and Scooterbility - Whole School