Over the coming months, our academy will undertake a new challenge. It will have a significant impact on our students, parents, staff and wider community. We have made the decision to give the whole of Friday afternoons over to scouting, specifically Beavers and Cubs.
"How and why?" you ask. "The curriculum is full enough, surely you can't afford to take more time out? What about Ofsted?" These are questions in our minds, but we have a very clear case for this decision and how it will significantly benefit everyone involved with it.
Our context is challenging. We are a coastal primary school of around 600 students that serves a deprived area. Some families are now into second and third generation without long-term employment. Industry has declined and the area is contained by a pincer movement from the River Humber, the North Sea and miles and miles of fields. Around 75 per cent of students are eligible for "Ever6" free school meals, less than one per cent of the school is known to have a first language other than English, and only two per cent are from ethnic minorities.
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