Cultural Capital is defined as the essential knowledge that children need to prepare them for their future success.
At The Cathedral School, we strongly believe that Cultural Capital provides key ingredients which a child can draw upon to be successful in society, their career and in future employment. We endeavour to provide all children with the education, skills and knowledge to enable this. We are part of the 'Start Small;Dream Big' project and Miss Galloghly runs a weekly Careers' Club for children to attend.
In the summer term we will host a Careers' Event where a range of careers are show cased and the pupils have opportunities to ask questions.
Every child has a 15 Experiences Passport, which is stamped and records the visits and experiences that they have had across their time at the school. At the end of Year 6 the children will be given their passport as a record and memory of their time with us. Many children are on their second passports.
Experiences are varied and include the Widening Horizons programme for Year 5, which explores the world of work and Inspire Me visits across all year groups, facilitated by Babcock. Both these are funded and organised by Millfields Inspired.
Other visits include The Box, The Houses of Parliament, The Theatre Royal, Plymouth Central Library, Market Hall and The National Aquarium. Children have also enjoyed taking part in a dance workshop, World Book Day, celebrating Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee and the King's coronation. They have watched chicks hatch and been involved with British Art Show 9. Years 3 & 4 and 5 & 6 have been on residentials and there has even been a sleepover in school to raise money for a homeless charity. Pupils have the opportunity to take part in the Junior 10 Torrs and we have a team taking part this June.
We will continue to provide as many varied experiences as we can in the coming years.