Principal's Message:

This week I would like to focus our newsletter on all of the wider opportunities that children have as part of the LPPA community, which are beyond the core curriculum. This is known as the wider personal development of the children.

According to Ofsted, personal development is how "the school's curriculum extends beyond the academic, technical or vocational; how the curriculum and the school's wider work support learners to develop their character; developing responsible, respectful and active citizens."

At LPPA we refer to the personal development of all pupils as the "golden thread" of everything we do and it is encapsulated in our strapline;

"Learning today, for life tomorrow"

Curriculum

We aim to deliver a curriculum that:

• Enhances community and celebrates diversity within our academy.

• Is inclusive, develops self-confidence and identifies that all children are unique.

• Encourages children to be self-motivated, independent, resilient and open-minded by developing inquiry based skills that allow them to make mistakes and learn from them.

• Promotes an equal value of physical and mental wellbeing and ensures children are prepared for life in modern Britain.

• Develops children’s knowledge of the world and the choice of careers available to them whilst challenging stereotypes.

Clubs

We provide an extensive menu of co-curricular clubs for our children. There is a total of 61 clubs run by academy staff and external providers throughout the academic year which we are very proud that we are able to offer!

You can find the clubs that are on offer below;

https://langleyparkprimaryacademy.org.uk/academy-life/clubs/

Assemblies

Assemblies are planned carefully relating to current affairs and topics of interest within the local and wider community. Assemblies are centred around a ‘Theme of the Fortnight’ which gives time for our community to link topics of interest, have informed discussions and plan how they are going to demonstrate their knowledge in a supportive way. We use "Picture News" to support the information delivered to the children as it is related to current global affairs. This is also discussed during our PSHE lessons taught in class. Our Celebration Assemblies on a Friday are certainly something which we are proud of at LPPA. We come together to celebrate all of our learner’s successes throughout the week, no matter how big or small these are!

Dog Mentoring at LPPA

Willow is our Dog Mentor at LPPA. She helps to promote children’s emotional wellbeing and resilience. Through the programme, our children build a unique bond with Willow which enables them to face whatever obstacles they may encounter as well as celebrating their individual successes at school.

Pupil Leadership

We have a variety of leadership roles that empower our children to have an impact on our school community.

• House Captains and Vice Captains

• School Council

• Diversity Champions

• Librarians

• Peer Mediators

• Digital Champions

• British Values Ambassadors

OPAL Lunchtimes

Our lunchtime provision, due to the way it is organised and implemented, promotes children's wider development through the zones we have on offer and the opportunity for children to interact and support with other children from a range of age groups.

Trips, experiences and events

All of the extra trips and experiences that we organise for the children not only supplement the skills and knowledge that is taught in our curriculum but it also builds the character and individuality of our children.

There are many, many other ways that the children's wider personal development is supported; some are very obvious and others are more subtle. Things like our Learner Profile Attributes, our expectations, our conversations and the general culture of the academy environment all feed in to developing children in this way.

I hope that you have found the above useful to understanding another aspect of life at LPPA!

Have a brilliant weekend.

Miss S Brading