Cultural Capital
What is Cultural Capital?
The Ofsted inspection guidance for early years settings defines cultural capital as ‘the essential knowledge that children need to prepare them for their future success’, and further states: ‘It is the role of the setting to help children experience the awe and wonder of the world in which they live, through the seven areas of learning.’ (Section 187).
What will you see at Woodfield?
By introducing cultural capital, it is hoped that children from all backgrounds receive the best possible start in life, irrespective of their home life or challenges. Each child arrives at their school or setting with many experiences, ideas, and pre-conceived knowledge based on what they have been taught and experienced so far.
At Woodfield, our strong understanding of our community helps us understand our children’s daily lives and experiences. We carefully plan opportunities and experiences into our curriculum to build their cultural capital. These might be small enhancements in provision, or larger experiences such as visitors or trips out.
Brierfield Library visits
As part of our pre school curriculum, we visit Brierfield library every month.
Festivals and celebrations
We embrace all festivals and celebrations at Woodfield, to help our children develop a knowledge of the faiths and religions around them. For Christmas this year we all celebrated by exploring a "christmas dinner" and crackers!
Nursery at Fundaland
We are so lucky to have this fantastic space on our doorstep. Nursery visit Fundaland soft play once a term. Fundaland provides us with a space to work on our gross motor skills and those key characteristics of effective learning.
Animal experiences
To bring our learning around our core text owl babies to life, we had a visit from some nocturnal creatures!
People who help us
Sometimes the unplanned experiences are the best. This week, we looked out of the window to see a fire engine! We all quickly ran outside to say hello and the fire fighters showed us what they were doing and let us explore the engine!
Little Zoo visit
The little zoo came into school this morning, to bring the story of the Gruffalo and its setting the deep dark wood to life for our children.