Active Learning

We believe that learning continues outside of the standard school day.  For this reason there are a range of additional activities that bring “active learning”.

After school clubs extend our school day from 3.45 to 5pm. The children often love to stay the extra time to enjoy a choice of activities which may include rifle shooting, ICT, lego, board games, cookery, art and sport club. Clubs are chosen as a chance to celebrate areas of strength for our children. At lunchtime there are occasionally other clubs that children may opt into if they wish; we are currently offering drumming, judo and guitar lessons.

Playtime is down-time and our play apparatus has been chosen to be slightly challenging for the sporty, active pupils but also easily accessible for less confident and dyspraxic children.

The Unicorn School loves to take children out on trips – read more about them here.

News

• Appreciation for The Unicorn's Fundraising Activities
  

  The Nomad Trust have posted several acknowledgements on their website blog for our excellent fund-raising activities.

• Shop and Drop - at Waitrose in Abingdon!
  

  Next month (February), The Unicorn School has been chosen by the Waitrose supermarket in Abingdon to be one of the 3 charities to benefit as part of their monthly Community Matters Scheme.

• Keira Knightley: 'Sometimes I just sit on the bathroom floor and burst into tears' - The Independent
  

  What's impressive about Knightley soldiering through that reading list is that she was dyslexic and still doesn't find it especially easy to read.