It is vitally important to broaden children’s’ horizons beyond the classroom: activities that extend children's learning through new experiences and opportunities develop children’s character and prepare them for the future, and their understanding of equality and diversity.
Extra-curricular clubs aim to increase opportunities for our children and provide further enhancement to the daily school curriculum. These activities contribute to the development of the children’s character by enabling them to show various personal skills including determination, teamwork and striving for excellence, as well as promoting our key characteristics of being respectful, resilient, honest, determined, confident, cooperative and ambitious. At Hindley Junior and Infant School, we pride ourselves on offering an extensive range of extra-curricular clubs and enrichment activities that run throughout the year to ALL children.
After school enrichment clubs.
Most extra-curricular clubs are run by school staff with some delivered by external providers. School staff enjoy spending time and building relationships with pupils in the various clubs they deliver. Pupils benefit from working and cooperating with different children and social skills improve. Pupils attending clubs develop in confidence and their sense of belonging within Hindley Junior and Infant School is strengthened. We celebrate attendance at our clubs with various awards during our celebration assemblies.
We involve our pupils in determining many of the clubs and enrichment opportunities on offer on a termly basis by listening to their ideas and views through the school council forum. Despite the current limitations due to COVID safety precautions, we are still managing to offer children a variety of afterschool clubs: the clubs are run in class bubbles. We currently have a range of clubs available to ALL children:
Cookery
Board game
Running
Football
Multi sports
Dodgeball
Music and performing
Individual/small group music lessons including drums, violins and piano
Choir
Dance
Art and Craft
Puppets and story-time
Times table Rock stars
Phonics booster
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