Wider Opportunities
At Beckfoot Phoenix, we want to provide opportunities for learning to continue beyond our lessons. We run club and activities throughout the year led by pupil need and interest. Our clubs and activities give children the chance to practice what they have learnt in lessons, learn new skills, and make new friends.
In school clubs and activities
Our bases offer their students with lunch clubs that allow them to get involved in activities such as music, yoga and mindfulness. We also offer after school clubs in the summer months, these include bike club and gardening club.
Exciting activities run throughout the year at Beckfoot Phoenix, including whole school workshops, parades linked to religious festivals, World Book Dat, OBON Day, Children in Need and Comic Relief.
7th Keighley (PHOENIX) Cub Pack
At Beckfoot Phoenix, we are very proud to have our very own Cub Scout Pack for girls and boys aged 7-12. Our cubs meet every Monday 3-4 in school with leaders and helpers who work at the school with appropriate training to ensure that all of our Cubs are safe and have a great time.
Our cubs engage in the same activities all other Cubs do. They play games, engage in crafts, make friends, walk in parades, go camping, climb, canoe and more! Cubs will join with other cub packs in the district for events as they work towards their badges and enjoy their time scouting. If you would like your child to join the group, contact Helen Denton through the school office.
Trips
Trips and residentials form an essential part of our curriculum. We want to make our curriculum as ‘real’ as possible and often link our lessons to real-life learning.
Real-life learning often takes place in our community. When learning about religion, we take our students to local churches and mosques, we go shopping for our snack to practice using money, we use our communication skills by ordering in a café, we learn how to socialise and play by visiting the park and we develop road safety by practicing road safety in our local area and using public transport.
As part of our topics, we also travel further afield to extend our learning, past trips have included visits to Blackpool Zoo, the Royal Armouries in Leeds, and the seaside. Focus curriculum week shave also provided exciting opportunities for trips in our local community, ‘caring me’ week saw students visit our local residential care home to work and play with elderly residents, and ‘safe me’ week saw children visit our local Police Station.
Visitors
To ensure our curriculum is as motivating and exciting as possible, we have regular visitors in school to enrich students learning Previous visitors have included:
- During ‘Caring Me’ week, students had the opportunity to bathe babies in class
- The Fire Brigade came to visit students during ‘Safe Me’ week, as they sat in the fire engine, tried on helmets, turned on the sirens and used the hose
- Spiders, snakes and tortoises have come to school for children to hold
- At Harvest, students made hampers for the homeless, and the Salvation Army came into school to thank our students
- Guide Dogs have attended our school