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Every Child Matters
- Enjoy and achieve
- Community Participation
KS1-KS2
Ages 5-11
Foundation
Stage
ages 3-5
Extended
Schools
/Study
Support
Learning through the
National Curriculum
Learning and play in
school grounds / local
visits
Extended.
Schools and
study
support
Residential
trips abroad/
UK
‘School
Journey’
KS2
Offer of things to
do/places to go
Age 1119
Learning through NC
and post 16
Youth Matters
Other activities for
teenagers not school
initiated
Every Child Matters
• The five outcomes for every child are:
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Be safe
Be healthy
Enjoy and achieve through learning
Contribute to the community
Achieve economic well being
• Education outside the Classroom contributes to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th
outcomes, through encouraging an active lifestyle, enriching and
broadening learning experiences, encouraging volunteering
• It also contributes indirectly to the first, by helping develop
independence and the ability to make wise choices; and to the fifth,
by promoting higher self esteem, self confidence and a positive
approach to learning
• New Children’s Trusts involving schools in local partnerships.
Foundation stage ages 3-5
Developing Knowledge & Understanding of the world; Creative
Development
• Activities based on first hand experience that encourage exploring,
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observation, problem solving, prediction critical thinking, decision making
and discussion
An environment with a wide range of activities indoors and outdoors that
stimulate children’s interest and curiosity; and that children can respond to
using a wide range of senses
Examples include:
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Finding caterpillars and drawing them
See photographs of features in the local area and look out for them on walks
Looking at road signs and asking what they mean
Talking about different sizes & shapes of buildings on the way to the shops
Dancing through leaves on a windy day
Watching ladybirds outside, making wings from red paper and pretending to be a
ladybird
– Looking for clues at the local museum and finding out about different costumes
Key Stages 1 & 2
Ages 5-11
• National Curriculum – using the world outside the classroom as a resource
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for learning
Examples include:
– Exploring the natural and built environment through field work in school
grounds and the local area (e.g. parks, woodland, coasts, streetscapes,
places of worship) – geography, science, history, RE
– Understanding where food comes from through visits to farms and
allotments; growing fruit, herbs & vegetables in the school grounds –
geography, citizenship, food technology
– Understanding art and culture from around the world through paintings
& artefacts at museums/galleries – art & design, design & technology,
creativity, global citizenship
Extended Schools & Study Support
– all Key Stages
• Extended schools commitment –
• Study support links activities outside school hours to
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achievement, for example Playing for Success, using
football to raise standards in literacy and numeracy
Many schools offer a variety of clubs after school – either
directly linked to the curriculum (e.g. science, music,
drama, gymnastics); special interest (e.g. cooking,
gardening, archaeology)
For older pupils, many also participate in community
volunteering, sporting competitions and award schemes
such as Duke of Edinburgh
Key Stages 1 & 2
The School Journey
• Traditionally pupils at the end of year 6 spend
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several days on a residential experience
86% of primaries offer this to their pupils
according to DfES survey of 900 schools in 2004
Most popular are outdoor activities – building
teamwork, self esteem and problem solving
skills, as well as promoting independence
Youth Matters
• Improved outcomes - being healthy, staying safe, enjoying and
achieving, making a positive contribution, and achieving economic
well-being - for all young people – but with a particular focus on
young people who are disadvantaged.
• We want young people to have:
• more things to do and places to go in their local area – and more choice
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and influence over what is available;
more opportunities to volunteer and to make a contribution to their local
community, building on the work of the Russell Commission;
better information, advice and guidance about issues that matter to them,
delivered in the way they want to receive it;
better support when they need extra help to deal with problems.
• National standards for the activities that should be available for
young people including sport, organised activities, and
volunteering.
• Children’s Trusts drawing together activity – directory of local
activity
Key Stages 3 & 4; post 16
Ages 11-19
• Learning through the National Curriculum, for
example:
– Geography and science field study
– Art & Design/Design & technology visits to museums,
galleries, industrial sites
– Music/Drama visits to concerts & theatres
– History/RE visits to heritage sites/places of worship
– Sporting competitions & festivals; outdoor &
adventurous activity as part of PE/sport
Residential visits – UK & Abroad
• 99% of secondary schools offer residential visits
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to their pupils; generally they offer a wider
range of more frequent opportunities than
primary schools – averaging 5 a year
Outdoor education was again the most popular
More than half also offer study trips, cultural
visits abroad & in the UK, foreign language
exchanges and sports tours in the UK & abroad