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Dixons Brooklands Academy: afternoon session options
If you are attending Dixons Brooklands Academy on Friday 14 Feburary for our trust conference, your afternoon session options are:
To submit your afternoon session choice, please complete this form.
| Giving the community a voice: building better relationships | Working with our Citizens UK organiser, this session will focus on training and planning to run a listening campaign through the Parent Teacher Association, to engage and build relationships with Dixons Brooklands Academy parents. Listening to what is important to our families can be the basis of building stronger relationships and generating new ideas and energy. This session will set us up with key next steps. |
| 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. |
| 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 Brooklands 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 Brooklands 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. |
| Wythenshawe Community Housing Group: understanding our community. | WCHG is Manchester's largest housing provider, housing over 29,000 people. This session will enable us to understand our families better and build links with an important civic actor. There will be a talk on the amazing work the housing group does to support our families living in their housing, a tour of the centre followed by an optional litterpick. Please note that this will require travel to 8 Poundswick Lane, Wythenshawe, M22 9TA for a 1.10pm start. |
| Create a sculpture | In honour of Manchester's vibrant and rich public art scene, this session will invite you to find joy by creating your own small scale sculpture. You will explore composition, shape and scale to take on the challenge of creating something unique to you. |
| Grow from grounding: coming back to the present | Suitable for everyone, this session will teach you how to bring yourself back to the present moment when you feel stresed or overwhelmed. The session will focus on grounding through breathwork and the Emotional Freedom Technique. This is a simple evidence-based way to elevate your mindest, reduce stress and find joy. There will be movement to music to help you unwind and stretch. Relax your mind and body in this grounding session. |
| Say hola to learning a new language | There are numerous benefits of learning a langauge that go beyond work and travel. Learning a new language reportedly makes the brain grow, can influence decicion making, boost creativity, bolster your attention span and improve your memory. We can't think of better reasons to come and say 'hola' in this conversational Spanish lesson for beginners. |