Classrooms in CompaniesThese innovative centres offer programmes tailored to the curriculum for the Foundation Stage and the National Curriculum. The key is active partnership between teachers and businesses, facilitated by Wigan EBP, to raise attainment through purposeful learning opportunities.
Each Curriculum Centre:
- Offers a unique learning experience
- Embraces a range of learning styles
- Promotes opportunities for schools to use the world of work to enhance curriculum delivery
- Promote skills of creativity, enterprise and employability
- Provides purposeful opportunities for writing
- Promotes strategies which support schools to improve the quality of work-related learning
- Provides professional development opportunities
- Supports the outcomes of Every Child Matters
Classes typically visit a centre for a full day. A tour of the site is followed by workshops led by employees of the host company in collaboration with seconded teachers.