Extended Day/Year Learning Opportunities

Extended Learning is an important part of school life, contributing to student progress and attainment. It plays a key role in extending the knowledge, understanding and skills that are developed in school and provides opportunities for students to consolidate, enrich and extend their learning.

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Aims of Extended Learning in the Elmira City School District:

  • To help all students make progress;
  • To allow practice and consolidation of the learning done in class;
  • To extend learning from the lesson;
  • To embed key subject content in long term memory, e.g. the learning of vocabulary, spellings etc.;
  • To reinforce, practice and develop mastery of key skills;
  • To engage in wider reading and research in preparation for future learning;
  • To allow students to gain and practice the skills and knowledge that they will be required to reproduce in assessment situations such as examinations;
  • To give students dedicated time to reflect upon learning, correct mistakes and act on feedback to make improvements;
  • To develop study skills such as independence, self-discipline, time management and working to deadlines;
  • To encourage students to take pride in their learning