Curriculum Enrichment

At Croft Junior School, we realise the importance of offering our learners an exciting, engaging and hands-on curriculum, so that children are eager to come to school every day to learn new knowledge and skills. We strive to bring our curriculum alive and make learning relevant and purposeful. We achieve this through the use of carefully chosen educational visits, workshops and topic related costume and role play days. Visitors are also invited into school to further enhance and enrich the curriculum and provide a ‘wow’ factor to learning experiences. Opportunities are also offered through our wide range of extra-curricular activities, which take place throughout the year. Here are some of the activities we offer our learners.

During the four years at Croft Junior School, all children will have the opportunity and be encouraged to experience a variety of events and learning. The range has been carefully worked on for all year groups, making the offer rich, varied and sustainable. Some of the opportunities are those that children would probably like every year, but this is unfortunately not viable where costs, timings and balancing the wide variety of opportunities need consideration. Our pledge does however mean that all children and parents know the programme on offer for all, organised and shared across the years so every child, not just a fortunate few, can benefit from them.

Forest School is a child-centred inspirational learning process, that offers opportunities for holistic growth through regular sessions. It is a long-term program that supports play, exploration and supported risk taking. It develops confidence and self-esteem through learner inspired, hands-on experiences in a natural setting. Forest School has a developmental ethos shared by thousands of trained practitioners around the world, who are constantly developing their learning styles and skills to support new and imaginative learners. Its roots reach back to the open-air culture, friluftsliv, or free air life, seen as a way of life in Scandinavia where Forest School began. It arrived in the UK in 1993 and has grown from strength to strength since then.