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Dixons Cottingley Academy: afternoon session options
If you are attending Dixons Cottingley Academy on Friday 14 Feburary for our trust conference, your afternoon session options are:
To submit your afternoon session choice, please complete this form.
| Dixons Manningham Academy community garden | Spending time in green space or adding nature into your everyday life can benefit both your mental and physical wellbeing. We want our students at Dixons Manningham Academy to have a safe welcoming green space to enjoy outside. Come and spend the afternoon working with colleagues to help prepare a space our students can take pride in. Please note this activity will require travel to Dixons Manningham Primary Academy BD8 8HY for a 1.10pm start. |
| Dixons Manningham Academy library support | Budding bibliophile? Come and join us to organise, clean and maintain the library space at Dixons Manningham Primary Academy for our students, to give them a safe space where they can enjoy reading, connect with others and learn. Please note this activity will require travel to Dixons Manningham Primary Academy BD8 8HY for a 1.10pm start. |
| Community CPD: supporting civic responsibility | Dixons played a key role in founding Bradford Citizens, a Citizens UK alliance focused on giving a voice to young people in the city. The session will be an opportunity for colleagues to get to know more about the work of Citizens UK and complete some community organising training to support with our civic responsibility work. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 Cottingley 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 Cottingley 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. |