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A growing feature of our 21st century curriculum is the connection with the ‘real’ world, offering pupils the chance to engage with, and work alongside, real audiences for their work. Recently, this has included South Hereford Audi, The Hive in Worcester and The Malvern Hills Geo Centre. We welcome the chance to utilise the broad scope of opportunities that our parents and community can offer us for these real audiences. Perhaps your workplace or hobby could provide one of our classes with their next great client? These events provide opportunities to set challenging learning objectives, to widen children’s horizons and to help strengthen the essential bonds between children and adults. Please contact the school if you think that you might be able to help.
ASSEMBLIES & COMMUNITY EVENTS
ASSEMBLIES
We encourage the children to take an active part in daily acts of worship but, as a parent, you have the right to withdraw your child from any part of, or all, religious instruction including morning assemblies. Requests should be made to the Headteacher. Each Friday morning, the whole school will meet in the hall to celebrate individual achievements over the past week and highlight examples of pupils who are demonstrating the COPS school aims in their behaviour, school work or activities beyond the school. Each Monday morning the Headteacher will lead a Phase assembly which links into the school’s Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) curriculum. Three assemblies a term are taken by a local minister.
For some special assemblies we use venues other than the school hall. For Harvest we use the playground and for our Carol Service we ‘take over’ the cathedral.
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