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Dixons Allerton Academy: afternoon session options
If you are attending Dixons Allerton Academy on Friday 14 Feburary for our trust conference, your afternoon session options are:
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| The power of a community hub: Dixons Allerton Academy all-together | The Dixons Allerton Academy community hub needs to work for the communtiy it will serve. Do you have an excellent understanding of our students, their families and the challenges they face? We want to get your thoughts on what the communty hub will offer. We want to explore the following questions: 1. what will we call the community hub 2. what will we offer? 3. who can we partner with? |
| Dixons Kings Academy community garden project | Spending time in green spaces can benefit both your mental and physical wellbeing. We want our students and families to have a safe, welcoming space where they come together. There is lots of important work to be done including: creating a wheelchair accessible path, constructing flowerbeds, making a trellis, building a gate, rotavating the ground, building a shed and creating a pond! You’ll be doing something meaningful that will make a real difference – whilst potentially becoming immersed, taking your mind elsewhere and experiencing personal fulfilment. |
| The Al Mustafa shared partnership | The Al Mustafa Centre is one of Bradford's leading Islamic centres, providing an Islamic education for many Dixons students after school. The centre also conducts significant charitable activities. Our visit will involve an introduction to the centre, a tour, participating in or watching Friday prayers, and talking with staff about shared interests. |
| Inspiring joy and confidence in learning: a parent-school partnership approach | Caroline Hudson is an Oracy, English and Maths specialist with over 30 years' experience as a primary school teacher and senior leader. Join her to hear about a simple but effective approach to working with parents that focuses on their unique needs. Caroline is an expert at building strong, genuine relationships that help families build their confidence and skills so that they can experience the joy of learning. Explore the reasons that parents and caregivers find it challenging to support their child's learning and the interventions that can be put in place for parents to empower them to become active partners in both their own and their child's development - fostering trust, ambition, stronger family connections and joyful learning. Please note this will require travel to Dixons Allerton Academy BD8 0HD for a 1.10pm start. |
| Bundles of joy | A new arrival should be a time of joy, excitement and love. For many of our families the cost of an additional child can take away from the positive experience. We will be assemling care packages for new and expectant mothers whose children attend our academies, to strengthen our networks and show support to those who need it the most. |
| Born in Bradford: what the data tells us | Born in Bradford is the world's largest cohort study. It looks at thousands of young people across Bradford. The insights it has uncovered have had far-reaching implications for research and public policy. Dixons schools participate in Born in Bradford research, and this session will share the most recent findings on the health and wellbeing of young people in the city. |
| The joy of reading: the big Dixons book swap | Reading can help you relax and unwind, broaden your understanding of the world - take you to different places, challenge you to think about different issues but most importantly bring joy to your everyday life. Books bring people together, through sharing your thoughts and interpretations on a book, you’ll find yourself learning a lot about others, broadening your perspectives and getting to know your colleagues. Come together on 14 February to swap a book with a colleague (don't worry you'll get it back) and share the joy of reading. |
| Happy Healthy You | Meet the founder of award winning Happy Healthy You, and hear about how she has inspired families to take control of their own personal well-being and make it an enduring habit, by providing them with the tools and techniques to do so. This session will also focus on your own wellbeing - focusing on desk yoga and techniques you can use yourself to be joyful in the workplace and beyond. |
| Active Allerton: sweat to help others get clean | Dixons Allerton Academy is developing a community hub for our families. As better hygiene leads to better health, confidence and overall growth, we want to offer access to free hygiene products for our students, so they can maximise their learning opportunities. Come along to the table tennis and badminton competition at Dixons Allerton Academy, bring along a voluntary donation (shower gel/soap/deodorant/toothpaste) and spend time with colleagues getting active for a good cause. |
| School in the community: walking tour | Our academies exist in a distinctive social context, which has a direct impact on what happens in them. We have the opportunity to form a bridge between schools and the communities that we serve but to do this, we need a strong understanding of our catchment areas. This walking tour of the areas surrounding Dixons Allerton will look at the rich breadth of diversity amongst the community, the unique historical context that shapes our present and what works well in this area to support our families and students. Sign up to this session to be more informed and be a constituent of the community we serve. |
| School in the community: classroom discovery session | Our academies exist in a distinctive social context, which has a direct impact on what happens in them. We have the opportunity to form a bridge between schools and the communities that we serve but to do this, we need a strong understanding of our catchment areas. This discovery session of the local areas surrounding Dixons Allerton Academy will look at the rich breadth of diversity amongst the community, the unique historical context that shapes our present and what works well in this area to support our families and students. Sign up to this session to be more informed and be a constituent of the community we serve. |
| Love Letter to Bradford | Award-winning playwright, screen writer and actor, Kamal Kaan, studied A Levels at Dixons City Academy, and Architecture at the University of Cambridge before completing an MA in TV Film Writing. He has written for BBC radio programmes, amongst other projects, and still works and lives in Bradford. Kamal will share reflections on growing up, studying and living as a Bengali Bradfordian and how his community has influenced his work. Kamal's conversation 'A Love Letter to Bradford' will be live streamed throughout our academies for those who would like to hear his story. If you would like to attend it person, please travel to Dixons City Academy for a 1.10pm start. |