Cultural Capital & SMSC

Brookside Cultural Capital and SMSC Overview 2024-2025

It is our intention to develop the SOCIAL, MORAL, SPIRITUAL and CULTURAL understanding of every pupil. Key and Special events have been planned to raise awareness for many meaningful events/causes that also provide the children with opportunities to think about how the community of Brookside Primary School can help others.

Cultural Capital is the accumulation of KNOWLEDGE, BEHAVIOURS, and SKILLS that a child can draw upon and which demonstrates their cultural awareness, knowledge and competence; it is one of the key ingredients a child will draw upon to be successful in society, their career and the world of work.

SPRING TERM
CONFIDENCE Try New Things
	DETERMINATION Work Hard & Concentrate	AMBITION Push Yourself	CREATIVITY Imagine	RESPECT Understand Others	RESILIENCE Don’t Give Up
Event		SMSC Value		Intent
Rights, Responsibilities and Rules Whole School Assemblies throughout the term		Social & Moral		To support distinguish between right and wrong To develop the children’s ability to make judgments about how to behave and to consider the actions of others in the school community as a whole
Good to be Green Treat Class and Individual Rewards for good behaviour and remaining ‘Green’		Social & Moral		To support distinguish between right and wrong To develop the children’s ability to make judgments about how to behave and to consider the actions of others in the school community as a whole
No Outsiders Lesson taught each half term through using picture books		Social & Moral		To raise awareness of the ‘Protected Characteristics’
Martin Luther King Day 20^th January 2025 Whole School Assembly		Social & Moral		To raise children’s awareness in race equality
Y6 Trip to Port Sunlight 9^th January 2025 Workshop at Port Sunlight linked to ‘A Census Study’		Social & Cultural		To give children the opportunity to develop and contextualise their learning of Census and changes in History

The Power to Drive 16^th January 2025 Y6 Class based workshop and activities		Social		To encourage the children to think about the importance of Science in our lives – whilst having fun
Y2 Trip to Lady Lever Art Gallery 21st & 22nd January 2025		Cultural		To give children the opportunity to develop and contextualise their learning of Painting & Mixed Media
Chinese New Year (29^th January 2025) Whole School Assembly		Cultural The Year of the Snake		To understand and accept diversity around the world
Children’s Mental Health Week (3^rd – 9^th February 2025) Whole School Assembly Class based activities linked to PSHR(S)E Curriculum		Social		To understand the importance of looking after our mental health using the 5 ways of wellbeing
Safer Internet Day ‘Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online’ 11^th February 2025 Class based activities linked to Computing Curriculum		Social & Moral		To reinforce the e-Safety message To ensure pupils are aware of the dangers online and how to respond to these
NSPCC – Speak Out, Stay Safe 12^th February 2025 Class based assemblies Y2, Y5 & Y6 workshops		Social & Moral		To help children understand abuse in all its forms To ensure that children know how to access support from a trusted adult or Childline, if they need to
Y4 Trip to Weaver Hall Museum 5^th February 2025 Museum Led activities		Social & Cultural		To give children the opportunity to develop and contextualise their learning of Anglo=Saxons
Y5 Class Assembly Friday 14^th February 2025 Whole School Assembly – Parents/Carers Welcome		Social		To celebrate children’s learning and achievements
Y5 Trip to Norton Priory Museum 3^rd March 2025 Museum Led activities		Cultural		To give children the opportunity to develop and contextualise their learning of Space
Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) Lent 4^th March 2025 Whole School Assembly Class based activities linked to RE Curriculum		Moral & Cultural		To understand that Easter is an important event in the Christian Calendar To promote tolerance to others
World Book Day 6^th March 2025 Activities linked to developing a love of reading – peer reading		Social, Moral & Cultural		To raise awareness of Literary books from the past and present To promote a Love of Reading
International Women’s Day 8th March 2025 Whole School Assembly Learning Log activities in some year groups		Moral		To raise awareness of the ‘Protected Characteristics’ (Gender Equality)
The Festival of Holi 14^th March 2025 Whole School Assembly		Spiritual & Cultural		To gain an understanding of different religious festivals and to learn how they are celebrated
Science Week 7^th – 16^th March 2025 Class based activities ‘Change & Adapt’ linked to Science Curriculum		Social		To encourage the children to think about the importance of Science in our lives – whilst having fun
Road to RIAT 13^th March 2025 Y5 Workshop and activities		Social		To encourage the children to think about the importance of STEM – whilst having fun To promote different work/career choices
St Patrick’s Day 17^th March 2025 Whole School Assembly		Social & Cultural		To raise awareness of why St Patrick’s Day is celebrated in Ireland
Red Nose Day 21^st March 2025 Wear something Red for a donation		Social and Moral		To raise awareness of child poverty and other factors effecting children in the UK and Europe
Y4 Class Assembly Friday 4^th April 2025 Whole School Assembly – Parents/Carers Welcome		Social		To celebrate children’s learning and achievements

SMSC & Cultural Capital 2024-2025

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SMSC & Cultural Capital 2024-2025

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