Cultural capital is the accumulation 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 learner will draw upon to be successful in society, their career and the world of work. The enrichment opportunities we provide at Annecy look to build up this cultural capital, which in turn will promote social mobility and success in society and in life.
We recognise that for children to aspire and be successful academically, and in the wider areas of their lives, they need to be given rich and sustained opportunities to develop their cultural capital.
Big Band
Big Band is an exciting and unique enrichment opportunity, combining high quality instrumental tuition with high quality class music instruction. Children learn to play a brass and woodwind instrument as a band with instrumental specialists teaching them.
The Big Band provides an opportunity for schools and music services as well as class teachers and instrumental tutors to work together to provide a rich musical experience for whole classes of children. It has been carefully designed to fulfil the Government’s Pledge to offer every child the chance to learn an instrument, integrates the aims of the National Singing Programme and incorporates changes to the national curriculum.
The positive benefits for the children, teachers, schools and music services are incalculable and well documented.
At the end of the year most pupils will have performed in at least three public concerts with success, and produced a portfolio of work which they have compiled during the year. They will also be able to demonstrate a good set-up and some basic playing skills on their instruments, and some skill at reading music notation.
This is one of the enrichment opportunities that we offer to our learners. We want them to be educated, well-rounded citizens who have been introduced to the best that has been thought and said and help them to engender an appreciation of human creativity and achievement.
We are delighted to be only the second school in East Sussex to offer this provision to 60 of our pupils!
NB: This has been put on hold due to reducing the number of visitors to the school. We aim to start this again next term.
Wild Beach
Reconnecting learners and their marine environment is at the heart of our Wild Beach ethos. Living so close to the sea is the perfect space to learn with easy access.
At Annecy Catholic Primary School, we recognise the vital importance of promoting and understanding of the natural world and see the Wild Beach programme as an ideal medium for delivery.
We would like to thank the Sussex Wildlife Trust for their continued support in enabling us to deliver this inspirational educational opportunity.
Forest School
At Forest School all participants are viewed as:
LESS CO2 has worked by engaging learners and the wider school community to integrate sustainability into our school culture. With workshops on buildings, behaviour change and incorporating clean energy into the curriculum, LESS CO2 reduces energy consumption, lowers bills and educates the next generation on the importance of sustainability.
The LESS CO2 programme focused on ways to integrate energy and carbon savings, making our school more sustainable through simple behavioural changes and retrofits.
Lyfta is a digital platform where teachers and learners can access immersive storyworlds and curriculum-based lesson and assembly plans. Lyfta's theme-based learning experiences are ideal for teaching English, PSHE, Global Citizenship and Art, as well as fostering values and skills such as empathy, self-direction and critical thinking - skills which we think are integral to developing the future leaders of our society.
Lyfta's storyworlds are interactive 360-degree environments that learners can explore. They are real places featuring real people whom learners can get to know and understand through powerful short documentary films, virtual reality experiences, rich media articles and infographics.
The Awra Amba Experience - children take a trip to a fascinating community in Ethiopia that lives according to democratic and egalitarian principles.
Dinnertime 360 - Families from different cultural backgrounds open their homes to dinner guests, share their meal recipes, and tell their inspiring life stories.
Secrets of the Opera - A visually stunning 360-degree experience invites children to discover the backstage spaces and people behind the shows at the Finnish Opera and Ballet.
Sustainable Development Goals
What are they? Why are they so important?
UNESCO - Futures of Education 2050
Annecy are delighted to be part of a roundtable group in partnership with UNESCO working on their Futures of Education initiative. We were lucky enough to present the video below to 22 of the most amazing, distinguised education thought-leaders from around the world.