Co-curricular projects support the wider education and development of students at CLC. As legacy projects, they often focus on a particular area of interest to the donor. The examples below are two such projects which supported the areas of wellbeing and pastoral care, and our Engineering, Enterprise and Technology Department.
Thanks to a legacy gift from a former member of staff at CLC, we have been able to begin a subscription to this excellent Hub enabling free access for all CLC parents, students and staff. Moreover, students from other local schools, their families, and staff members have also benefited from access to the Wellbeing Hub.
At CLC, we are keenly aware of the need to promote, support and protect students’ wellbeing, knowing this goes hand-in-hand with academic progress. Our Wellbeing, PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic) and Enrichment Programme runs alongside the whole teaching and learning curriculum for all students. The programme encourages the girls to take active steps to protect and enhance both their physical and mental wellbeing and enable them to thrive not only within the College environment but also in the wider world.
The programme encourages students to be enterprising and supports them in considering their career choices, to benefit from learning experiences and to develop ways to achieve economic wellbeing. They are encouraged to reflect on and clarify their own values and attitudes and to begin to measure these against the complex and sometimes conflicting range of values they will encounter.
In 2022 we launched our collaboration with the Wellbeing Hub and Teentips, which has supported us to create an environment that helps everyone to understand and manage their own mental health and wellbeing. Teentips provides a wealth of outstanding, quality-assured resources for parents, children and all those looking after children and young people.
The Wellbeing Hub is an interactive online portal. Its benefits include:
Complete Parenting Teens and Parenting 2-12s audio and video courses.
New weekly resources – podcasts, articles, tips and more.
Monthly live Q&A with a child and adolescent psychotherapist.
Careers advice – articles and tips, as well as Inspiring Futures podcast series – insiders’ perspectives on different industries, roles and career paths.
Q&A library.
Self-Care – giving you access to the A to Z of wellbeing, Your Stories and Talking Points
Member offers.
Parenting one-to-ones (paid service).
Access to specialist help and support.
Monthly webinars from in-house and guest, expert-level speakers on a range of topics.
The project to build a Caterham kit car was made possible through the generosity of a legacy donor with a passion for classic cars. Organised by the EET Department, the project inspired a College community of mechanical engineering enthusiasts who came together in celebration once the car was complete. The girls acquired valuable engineering and technical skills during the build as well as learning the importance of teamwork and careful planning.
Legacy funds received with no restriction as to how they are spent, are often used for projects across the estate such as:
heritage restoration.
upgrades to teaching facilities.
introduction of green technology to help reduce our carbon footprint.
During the summer of 2023 the biology labs in the Science Wing were refurbished. The original specification was to upgrade the labs to achieve a better teaching and learning environment. At the beginning of the work some ceiling tiles had to be removed, which unexpectedly revealed an original vaulted ceiling. Although it had not been planned for, the opportunity was too good to be missed and eventually all the tiles were removed in the ceiling and a renovation completed that truly captures College’s heritage.
Our heritage-listed estate creates a unique and inspirational learning and working environment for pupils and staff alike, but it requires constant maintenance, renovation and upkeep. Specialist stonemasons remove and replace items of damaged stonework from areas such as the Music Block, rebuilding and replacing unstable elements. This painstaking work is ongoing and part of the upkeep of our historical spaces. Legacy gifts support the conservation of this unique educational heritage.
With a constantly evolving boarding provision, upgrades and enhancements to our existing boarding houses, senior and junior, are regular projects. Most recently in the summer of 2023, upgrades have taken place in Beale and Cambray where communal spaces have been renovated. At St Margaret’s, the replacement window project is now complete after several years’ work, and Eversleigh house for day girls has been redecorated inside and out.
