Visiting the local café for a snack, to sit and chat and watch the world go by is just one way that staff at Queensborough Community Nursery in Bayswater, west London approach ‘cultural capital’.
Cultural capital, as defined in the Ofsted framework, is the ‘essential knowledge that children need to prepare them for future success’. By developing this capital, the Government aims to increase the life chances of children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
For nurseries, this means broadening children’s experiences, developing their language so they can engage in these experiences and cultivating the dispositions needed to acquire cultural capital. At Queensborough, socialising with the community is an important part of achieving that, as is recognising children’s own cultural capital.
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