Experience Guarantee and Enrichment Statement

At Calderstones, we value educating the whole child and see our curriculum stretching beyond just the traditional academic subjects. We see the value in providing as many culturally enriching experiences as possible for students to ensure that all students have access to a full and balanced educational experience.

• Full timetable of lunchtime and after-school clubs which have everything from ‘football stats club’ to ‘foreign cinema club’ included. The timetable is updated every term with new clubs and activities and is available from form tutors. For parents, it can be found here. Parents can also see a list of lunchtime and after-school clubs in the ‘clubs’ section on Edulink.
• Provided a number of opportunities for subject-based trips for example, this year in Geography, a group of Year 8s have enjoyed a day of seed planting, while the whole of Year 9 enjoyed our annual ‘stock market’ challenge courtesy of the Business and Enterprise Department. Subject-based trips may go out every year or may be offered on an ad-hoc basis depending on what opportunities arise. These trips may be aimed at whole year groups, single classes or cohorts of students, depending on the nature of the opportunity. Students and parents should keep a close eye on school communications for more details.
• Launched the ‘Calderstones Experience Guarantee see below for more details

Calderstones Experience Guarantee

Our most exciting extra-curricular initiative, first launched in the 2021/22 academic year is our ‘Calderstones Experience Guarantee’. Although we’re proud of our track record of offering a variety of extra-curricular experiences for students were also aware that many of these are ‘opt-in’ or by their nature only suitable for certain students/ cohorts. We believe that ALL students should have access to such experiences andwill be offered certain extra-curricular experiences as part of their time at Calderstones, as well as the opportunity to raise money for local charities, learning the importance of contributing to their own community.

Inclusivity is the most important feature of the Calderstones Experience Guarantee. We believe no student should fall through the cracks in this or any other element of their education regardless of any barriers that might stand in their way.

Students will have one experience per half term and will be allowed to reflect on that experience the following half term in PSHE time to fully consider what they have gained and how they have developed as a person.

A typical school year on the Guarantee would look like this:

Further information on the Guarantee can be found here.

If you’d like any further information on any of the above, please do not hesitate to get in touch with either Mr L Elwood (Experiental Education and Enrichment Co-ordinator) or Ms S York (Assistant Head Teacher).