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Section 3e - The Curriculum
Cultural Development
Cultural Development
Cultural development relates to the students recognising and celebrating their own culture and
broadening their aspirations and horizons, whilst maintaining the balance between the two so as not to
enforce stereotypes. It is also to do with valuing and celebrating the diversity of beliefs, other systems of
social values and aesthetic experiences.
Aims of Cultural Development
The students will be able to:
understand and respect their own culture;
understand, respect and celebrate the diversity of other cultures and recognize any similarities
to their own;
view aspects of culture with open minds;
The promotion of Cultural Development is assimilated through the ethos of the School and will be the
responsibility of all members of staff. There are many opportunities for this to happen within the
curricular and extra-curricular provision. Some of the ways in which this occurs are outlined below.
planned units within all subject areas of the curriculum, where appropriate;
opportunities in Music, Drama and Art;
the PSHCE programme, e.g. visiting speakers and theatre companies;
interaction with the local community;
educational visits, e.g. concerts, theatres, museums;
educational residential visits, e.g. retreats, Geography fieldwork, History trips;
sporting fixtures with other schools;
exploring other cultures through Music, MFL, Art, Drama, Food Technology and Dance;
extra-curricular clubs and societies;
boarding trips, visits and events;
Section 3f - Cultural Development