Cultural Capital

Cultural capital is the essential knowledge that children need to prepare them for their future success. It is about giving the children the best possible start to their education. It is the accumulation of knowledge, behaviours, and skills that a child can draw upon. It is one of the key ingredients a child will draw upon to be successful and it promotes social mobility. It helps children achieve goals and become successful without necessarily having wealth.

Cultural capital is about enabling children to aspire and achieve, whatever their starting point. We recognise that for children to aspire and be successful, they need to be given rich and sustained opportunities to develop their cultural capital.

Therefore, cultural capital is realised through all aspects of our curriculum by exposing our children to a large variety of subject areas and arts; promoting character-building qualities that lead to creating well-rounded, global citizens, and to ensure that our children are on the journey to achieve recognised and meaningful qualifications that will open up doors to paths in later life.

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