Cultural Capital

The accumulation of knowledge, behaviours, and skills that a pupil can draw upon and which demonstrates their cultural awareness, knowledge and competence

Cultural Capital it is one of the key ingredients a pupil will draw upon to be successful in society, their career and the world of work. Cultural capital is having assets that give pupils the desire to aspire and achieve social mobility whatever their starting point.

We recognise that there are six key areas of development that are interrelated and contribute to building a pupils cultural capital:

Personal Development including Careers
Social Development including political and current awareness
Physical Development
Spiritual Development
Moral Development
Cultural Development

Whilst Cultural Capital is an integral part of our taught curriculum, we believe that, for our pupils to aspire and be successful academically and in the wider areas of their lives, they need to be given rich and varied targeted opportunities to develop their cultural capital. We build our pupils aspirations and provide them with a range of experiences to help them to raise their aspirations, achieve their goals and be the best they can be through: