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Our Vision
At Brierley, we provide a broad and balanced education providing many enrichment opportunities that go beyond the needs of the National Curriculum. We believe in fostering the needs of the whole child to leave school with the necessary skills and knowledge to succeed. We know the importance of developing a love of learning to enable the child to thrive, feel confident, empowered, gain leadership skills, team building skills and social skills. Our enriched curriculum provides many opportunities across the whole school inclusive of all children. Below, you will find information of how our Curriculum Enrichment Offer is broken down into different groups.
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Experiential Learning | |
Why we offer this
| We create an enhanced curriculum by providing experiential learning interwoven and planned throughout the subjects, in all year groups and across the Academic Year. Teachers carefully adapt these opportunities to ensure ALL children from all disadvantaged groups relevant to our context are included. We believe it is fundamental for children to have these opportunities to create a drive for learning and be inspired with future aspirations beyond Brierley. |
What we offer | Across all core and non-core curriculum subjects, Teachers plan experiential learning opportunities throughout units of work. These include; Science experiments, Arts and crafts, outdoor learning, role-play, provision and environment changes, hooks, themed days and activities, food tasting, drama plays and Forest Schools. |
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Trips | |
Why we offer this
| Similar to experiential learning, organised trips help to enhance our curriculum, bringing subjects to life and enabling hands on experiences for our children. They allow the children to see the world outside of their lived area creating new experiences that they have never done before. During the trips, our children develop personal skills including their self-esteem and confidence, relationships with peers and Teachers, Team-work skills and meaningful learning that becomes memorable. We widely encourage families to join in with these Trips making memories both for the children and with them. Our children see other Professionals in their working life, and they become inspired to want to do these jobs in the future. |
What we offer
| Every Term across the Academic Year, every child inclusive of their needs and abilities have an opportunity to go on a school trip with their peers and Teaching staff. Our trips are often linked to current learning as well as skills beyond the National Curriculum. Here are a few examples of what we offer: White Post Farm, Yorkshire Wildlife Park, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Blue John’s Cave, Cadbury’s World, Sundown, Butterfly Railway, Sherwood Forest, Palace Theatre, local churches, mosque and Mandir, Police Headquarters, Cresswell Crags, the library, Royal Albert Hall, War Memorial, Nottingham Theatre and the local area. |
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Residentials | |
Why we offer this
| We believe wholeheartedly in the importance of new experiences outside of the lived area. Residentials offer new experiences, new places and learning beyond the National Curriculum that are key to creating positive well-being in our children. Through these experiences, children show their best selfs, build relationships with both peers and staff as well as developing life skills. Our residentials contribte to our core values enabling children to foster a resilient mindset and integrity through team bulding activities, social skills and confidence building. |
What we offer
| From Year 4 to Year 6, every Brierley child experiences a residential with their classmates. Year 4 – The Adventure Mill, Sutton-In-Ashfield Year 5 – Walesby Year 6 – School Sleepover |
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Clubs | |
Why we offer this | Clubs offer a sense of belonging and provide our children with opportunities of personal growth, social development and experences beyond the National Curriculum. Many of our clubs have been chosen to meet the expressed interests and enjoyment from our children. We actively involve familes to join in with our clubs either supporting or running their own club. Recent data shows some children that previously had poorer attendance have improved this through the running of both morning and after school clubs. |
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Outside Organisations | |
Why we offer this | We have various connections with outside organisations who come into school to deliver interesting, fun and enriching experiences during the school day. Many of these experiences are used to hook children into new learning and develop a thirst to know more. Through drama, children engage with history much more than they would looking at secondary sources as they see history come to life before their very eyes. Through Techology, children can wander the planes of the Stone Age like a Nomad, exploring caves, ancient weapons and discover up close the marvellous extinct animals of our past. Many outside providers have professionals with jobs that our children can aspire to be in their future from chefs to the Police, children learn about more opportunities available to them. |
What we offer | Throughout the whole school, every child will experience something new during their time at Brierley. Here are a few examples of what we offer; RockSteady, Judo, Art lessons with local artist Jo Bell, the Mini Police Programme, ASPENs, Trunk Theatre, Bamboozle Theatre company, 1:1 Tapiola Piano lessons, VR experiences through History, Geography and Science, Paceball. |
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Pupil Leadership | |
Why we offer this | To build confidence and self-esteem in our children to allow them to to lead in identified areas across the school. It is important for our children to take ownership of various areas of the school and begin to implement ideas and change that will positively impact all within our community. There are a wide number of benefits of developing leadership in children including building confidence and self-esteem, social skills and team-work, the ability to problem solve, to take responsibility and to support the child into adulthood. |
What we offer | At Brierley, we provide opportunities for pupil leadership through Reading Ambassadors, Sports Leaders, LunchTime Leaders, Librarians, Class monitors, School Council and School Parliament. |
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