Landywood Primary School

Year 2

Essential learning Experiences

As part of our Creative Curriculum at Landywood children learn through termly or half termly topics. These topics have been carefully selected and planned by our teachers to ensure they engage the children in learning and maximise opportunities available to us as part of these topics, we also plan ‘Essential Learning Experiences’Experiences’. 

These may be day trips out of school, visitors that come into our school or school based events.  We have carefully designed our ELE programme to ensure that each year group has a balance of visits and visitors to provide the children with a variety of learning opportunities.  ELE’s can provide an exciting launch to a topic or an opportunity for children to draw a conclusion and apply their previous learning.

We will ensure that at least three ELE’s are organised for each class throughout the year In response to parents’ feedback, we have arranged a number of different payment plans to assist families with cost Please see the next page for details This page will show what is planned for your child’s class this academic year We hope you will agree children will get lots of benefits from the experiences that are planned for them to help maximise their learning.

Payments are flexible.

We are pleased to be able to tell you that this year, we have been successful in planning a number of different ELE’s across school.

To make it easier for all families we will continue to ask for an annual payment. As you will appreciate, some visits are more expensive than others. Given the rising fuel costs, the coach hire costs have significantly increased. We will therefore have to increase the annual cost to £42 to cover the three visits/visitors from September to July. This covers the entrance costs, travel costs, insurance and any other related costs. Parents can choose to pay all of the £42 in September, or can pay it weekly over the course of the year using our new electronic payment system.

The exciting Essential Learning Experiences we have organised this year will be costing the school over £10,000, but we have been able to keep the costs low for you thanks to a subsidy from school and a subsidy from our wonderful PTFA.

Different ways to pay

• Weekly - £1.05

• Monthly - £4.20 (10 months)

• Termly - £14

• In full - £42

If your preferred method of payment is weekly or monthly you will need to bring the cash to the letterbox in the office in a labelled envelope. If you prefer to pay termly or in full, you will need to pay using the Parent Pay system.

ELE Mini First Aid Training

March 2024

"Kate was really nice and knowledgeable. She taught us all about bleeds, bumps and how to use plasters and cold compresses.”

"We all learnt how to call 999 in an emergency and what to say to the operator. We all now need to learn our postcodes, just in case!"

ELE Black Country Living Museum

June 2023

"We saw so many different things from the past and the actors played their characters really well, I believed I was in the past with them!”

"We all had to go to an olden days school lesson which was very strict because of the teacher but it was still fun!"

Dodford Residential

June/July 2023

"Dodford was an amazing experience because I have never done anything like it before!"

"Feeding the animals was a 10/10 activity because I have never fed so many different animals before!"