Our ambition 

At Hadfield Infant School, we want our children to experience more than the academic curriculum. Our enrichment offer provides children with opportunities to experience the wider world, discover new interests, develop talents, contribute to their community and build skills and the confidence they need for the future. 

Across Reception, Year 1 and Year 2, every child will have opportunities to experience 

1. Civic engagement 

2. Arts and Culture 

3. Nature, outdoors and adventure 

4. Sport and Physical activity 

5. Wider life and future skills 

Civic Engagement 

'I belong to a community; I can contribute to it and I can make a difference.' 

Our school offer 

• Intergenerational visits to local care homes 
• Local councillors visiting the school to support local issues 
• Visiting our school and local library 
• Visiting local places of worship 
• Foodbank collections 
• Kindness elves - Supporting the local community 
• Creating Christmas hampers for the community 
• Voting stations 
• Creating Christmas cards for the elderly 
• Raising funds and collecting food for a local cat rescue 
• Heritage trail 
• Community carboot sale 

Arts and culture 

By the time children leave Hadfield Infant School, they will have experienced live music, live theatre, visual arts, dance and creative making. 

Our school offers the following 

• Music festivals including colour run
• Live orchestras
• Theatre/Pantomine trips 
• Visiting arts 
• Local murals 
• World Book day - around the World 
• Visiting local book shops 
• Visiting our local library 
• Dance club 
• Music junction 
• Art integrated into the curriculum 
• Meeting real life reindeer 
• Live musical experiences 
• Gong/sound bath 
• African drumming 
• Learning to play the Ukulele 
• Art club 
• Visit to an art gallery 

 

Nature, outdoors and adventure 

Our current offer 

• Forest School along the Longendale trail with Peak District Ambassadors 
• Gardening 
• Helping and supporting local gardeners 
• Big Spring clean 
• Outdoor learning 
• Balance bikes 
• Bike-ability 
• Nature experiences 
• Inflatable planetarium 
• Reindeer and other animals coming into school 
• Outdoor curriculum experiences 
• Climate protectors 
• Litter picking post community bonfire

Sport and physical activity 

Our current offer 

• Links with Manchester United Foundation 
• Sports leaders 
• Coaching 
• Mascot experience including walking out with players at a football match 
• Balance bikes 
• Play factor 
• Dance 
• Yoga 
• Mental health and wellbeing activities 
• Inter school competitions 
• Darts and Maths 
• Learning how to ride a pony 

Wider life and future skills 

Our current offer 

• Cooking 
• Pizza Making 
• Basic first aid for children 
• Gardening 
• Shopping with money 
• Yoga 
• Abbie loves science - practical and exciting live science experiments 
• Visiting local community - a cafe, a fish and chip shop, local churches, libraries 
• Day in the life of a vet 
• Day in the life of a carpenter 
• Day in the life of a train advisor 
• Build and ride a hovercraft 

What will a child experience at Hadfield Infant School that they may not experience at home? 

• Sit beside a live orchestra 
• Go to the theatre and see a live production 
• Meet reindeer 
• Walk onto a professional football pitch 
• Work with a professional artist 
• Explore a woodland with a peak district ambassador 
• Learn to make a pizza in a pizzeria 
• Learn basic first aid 
• Experience live music 
• Experience animal therapy 
• Learn to ride a bike 
• Learn a dance 
• Practise Yoga 
• Enjoy a sound bath 
• Build a shelter 
• Do something kind for the community 
• Build and ride a hovercraft as a team 

We have deliberately designed a progressive enrichment curriculum. Every child experiences all five domains during their time at Hadfield Infant School, with increasing opportunities to participate, make choices, contribute and develop independence. We monitor children's experiences to ensure that enrichment is equitable and that no child misses out because of circumstance.