Active Citizenship

Active Citizenship embeds Social Action in every year of a child’s life in the school in a meaningful way.

This video gives a snapshot of the Lapage Active Citizenship project which involves engaging every pupil to play an active role in improving others’ lives through Social Action and raising awareness about issues that affect people in their community and beyond.  It shows students from early years right through to Key Stage 2 who are given a broad range of experiences such as growing their own fruit and vegetables with our neighbour Dixons Marchbank School, spending time learning and playing with students at Delius Special School, visiting Silverlea retirement home and raising funds and awareness for Childline with buns that they have made in school. Older students are involved in running a Fareshare food stall to avoid food waste and all 90 Year 4 pupils take part in the Bradford Schools Linking Programme supported by The Linking Network -a year long class to class link with three other schools so that pupils  enjoy working and socialising with children from very different communities in rural areas of the district.

‘Our Active Citizenship project equips our pupils with the skills they need to be thoughtful, caring, and active citizens in school and in wider society.’

With thanks to The Linking Network team, Ashley Karrell, Panoptical and Pears Foundation for their support producing this video. The video was funded by the #iwill foundation.