Cultural Capital at The Radcliffe School

Cultural capital is defined as the accumulation of knowledge, behaviours, and skills that a student can draw upon and which demonstrates their cultural awareness, knowledge and competence; it is one of the key ingredients a student will draw upon to be successful in society, their career and the world of work.

At The Radcliffe School we work to build our student aspirations and expose them to a range of experiences to help them achieve goals and become successful.

We recognise that for students to aspire and be successful academically and in the wider areas of their lives, they need to be given rich and sustained opportunities to develop their cultural capital. We do this in many ways, for example, through our curriculum, Get Involved - extra-curricular activities, LORIC Pixl Edge programme, trips and visits and careers activities.

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

  1. Personal Development

  2. Social Development, including political and current affairs awareness

  3. Physical Development

  4. Spiritual Development

  5. Moral Development

  6. Cultural development

Nothing can be more important for our children’s education than ensuring they are supported to be the best they can be within our ever changing, diverse society and to ensure all our students have an equal opportunity we plot our Cultural Capital provision on Year Group Journey Maps. 

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT 

Careers and Information, advice and guidance provision; 

LORIC; 

Employability skills,  

Tutor Time Curriculum; 

A2B; 

Transition support and induction; 

Get Involved Programme; 

Mental Health & well-being provision

Digital Learning Strategy 

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT 

MBVE curriculum; 

Tutor time curriculum; 

Charity work and House fundraising activities; 

Student Voice – Student Council; 

Culture Day 

Healthy Schools’ Accreditation; 

Access to counselling; 

House competitions; 

Digital Learning Strategy 

PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT 

Physical Education curriculum; 

Fierce Gym; 

Healthy Eating policies and catering provision; 

Anti-bullying and safeguarding policies and strategies; 

Get Involved / Extra-curricular provision; 

Activity-based residentials; 

Food preparation and nutrition curriculum; 

Duke of Ed Scheme

SPIRITUAL 

The Religious Education/Ethics and Philosophy Curriculum; 

Our collective acts of worship and reflection; 

Support for the expression of individual faiths; 

School-linking activities – locally, nationally and internationally; 

The Assembly programme;  

MORAL 

The Religious Education/Ethics and Philosophy Curriculum; 

Behaviour Management policies; (CLEAR)

Contributions to local, national and international charitable projects; 

Christian Workers Charitable Trust assemblies and outreach; 

Tutor time curriculum; 

CULTURAL 

Global Awareness programme

Get Involved / Extra-curricular

Access to the Arts; / music lessons

Access to the languages and cultures of other countries through the curriculum and trips and visits; 

Promotion of racial equality and community cohesion through the school’s ethos; 

Assembly programme; 

Tutor time curriculum; 

Culture Day

Digital Learning Strategy