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Learning Outside the Classroom
Meridian Trust’s Vision for Extending the Boundaries of Learning:
‘Meridian Trust provides a breadth of experience through the curriculum and beyond, including an entitlement for all students to educational visits and other activities that enhance and extend the curriculum, including providing a range of opportunities for spiritual, moral, social and cultural education that instils the values of the trust and society more widely…’
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Stamford Welland Academy fully embraces Meridian Trust vision of ‘Extending the Boundaries of Learning’ and ‘Learning outside the classroom’ and encourages, commits and promotes these values through participating in local, national and international trips and visits through bringing in speakers, visiting national museums and participating in many events. We also encourage outdoor lessons in many subject areas and participate in competitions within the trust, locally and nationally.
We are really excited that Stamford Welland Academy has recently gained the GOLD AWARD from the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom . This award recognises the work the school does to ensure that we extend the Boundaries of all learners.
We are thrilled to share that we have achieved the Gold Mark for Learning Outside the Classroom This is the highest grading possible for this award, and we are one of the 3 Meridian Trust secondary schools to achieve Gold!
The LOtC Mark is awarded by the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom, championing taking learning beyond the classroom.
Our staff are dedicated to Extending the Boundaries of Learning and passionate about providing practical experiences to prepare our students for the real world.
This award reflects SWA’s ethos perfectly and aligns very well with our ‘Character Education’ focus which we have begun this year.
Well done all!
Read the full press release here.
We continue to work with Council for Learning Outside the Classroom to ensure that we expand our offer to include many of the activities below.
As a member of Meridian Trust we also subscribe to the Trust wide PLEDGES programme and more information on this can be found here or by clicking the page entitled PLEDGES.
We have a very comprehensive after school/extra curricular/ session 6 set of activities and a list of these can be found by visiting the page Session 6.
We celebrate and publicise the trips visits and learning we do through social media and the newsletters.
We promote a number of challenges at different stages in our students’ lives and these include 41 things to do before you are 14
We also have a very comprehensive and offer to all students who are in receipt of Pupil Premium Funding to ensure we close the experiential gap and this can be found in the Meridian Trust PP charter here.
We have very strong links with local businesses who provide invaluable support and opportunities to enhance our broad and balanced curriculum. We are also always delighted to hear from new contacts, alumni or businesses who would be interested in working with us. Please contact Mrs Sam Swain via email on sswain@stamfordwellandacademy.org
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