Curriculum Enrichment

We place a strong emphasis on using our children's backgrounds, starting points, unique interests and needs to inform how we enrich the taught academic currculum. Curriculum enrichment at Ingleby Greenhow takes many forms, including our carefully curated curriculum strands (see curriculum overview), Forest School and outdoor learning, performance and creative arts, breakfast and after school clubs, trips, visits and involvement in local community and church events.

Curriculum enrichment is an integral part of our educatonal philosophy, and we recognise that sometimes it's the things around the edges - either planned for or incidental - that can often make the difference to a child's engagement in life and learning at school. Examples of curriculum enrichment last academic year included weekly drama sessions to build confidence and self-esteem, rediscovering our school pond, learning how to look after our chickens and ducks, developing our 'nurture room', a flower display in Kildale church, hosting a local craft fair, and developing connections with local art galleries.  

Entrepreneurship

Through our careers education we aim to open children's mindsets to various career paths and professions, and also hugely encourage entrepreneurship. We have some very enterprising young people at Ingleby Greenhow, and we enjoy supporting and championing their personal interests and achievements outside of school, as well as in.

Celebrating Archie's Entrepreneurship! Archie uses a 3d printer to design and make fidget toys. Here he is selling his fabulous goods at our school fayre.

This is our school stall, selling framed artwork and plants, all created and grown by the chidlren. This year we raised over £100 for school funds. The artwork was so popular we had to take extra orders and commisions! 

We are currently developing our vegetable garden and building an 'egg stand' to sell our free range eggs and homegrown plants to the village. 

Our Rural Community

Several of our families come from farming backgrounds, and wherever possible we make links to our rural community to support and celebrate farming life and what it means in our locality. 

Mrs Dawson brought in some baby lambs and explained all about the lambing season, it's impact on farmers and how to care for these extrordinarily cute creatures! The children thoroughly enjoyed feeding them with bottled milk, and its fair to say we have some budding young farmers in our midst.  

Our Year of Culture

Making connections to art and cultural organisations in our locality, is central to our programme of curriculum enrighment. To get our Year of Culture off to a flying start, we were excited to be able to work with artists from MIMA (Middlesbrough Institue of Modern Art) who are hosting the Turner Prize this year. After learning all about Turner and his life, children were challenged to bring his artworks to life through movement and sound. We were also asked to help develop an educational video to teach other school children how to create Turner inspired artwork.

Opening Our Doors

Our monthly Reading Cafes are always well-attended and enjoyed by our families.