Cultural Capital
Developing Cultural Capital
Cultural capital is defined as the accumulation of knowledge, behaviours, and skills that a pupil can draw upon and which demonstrates their cultural awareness, knowledge and competence; it is one of the key ingredients a pupil will draw upon to be successful in society, their career and the world of work. At Sandwich Technology School we work to build our pupil aspirations and expose them to a range of experiences to helps them achieve goals and become successful.
We recognise that for pupils to aspire and be successful academically and in the wider areas of their lives, they need to be given rich and varied opportunities to develop their cultural capital. We do this in many ways, for example, through our curriculum, cultural capital days, extra-curricular activities, trips and visits and careers activities.
At Sandwich Technology School pupils follow a Cultural Capital Journey which spans 5 year of rich and diverse opportunities, this is planned and continually evolved to ensure pupils are exposed to a range of high and popular culture, alongside enrichment based opportunities.
We recognise that there are six key areas of development that are interrelated and contribute to building a pupil’s cultural capital:
- Personal Development
- Social Development, including political, current affairs awareness and debate
- Physical development
- Spiritual development
- Moral development
- Cultural development
We strongly believe that there can be 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 that ensures everyone has an equal opportunity to live, learn, and achieve.
