Our vision of 'Life in all its fullness... growing healthy minds and hearts together' runs through everything that we do to enrich our children's learning and experiences at school and beyond.  Here at Baslow St. Anne's we pride ourselves on our enrichment, alongside our well-planned academic curriculum; this includes our wonderful opportunities for:

 - Forest School for every year group at Chatsworth and the sports forest school area

 - Enterprise, enabling children to work on 'The Big 13 Enterprise Skills', developing life skills such as: financial literacy, ethical thinking, collaboration, team work, communication, business and profit and more. The children have the opportunity to organise events such as: Reception/KS1 organised our Children in Need this year and raised a staggering £3000! Key Stage 2 organised our Christmas Enterprise Market and Year 6 completed their Fiver Challenge, raising money for Ashgate Hospice, which was democratically voted for by the children.

 - We offer many musical opportunities being a Music Lead School, including: peripatetic teaching in: woodwind, piano, strings (cello and violin), voice and singing and drums. We also have a school band and hold a summer musical evening to give the children an opportunity to perform. Alongside these wonderful opportunities, we take part in Young Voices each year singing at Sheffield Arena alongside 5000 children, we take part in a Halle Orchestra experience and participate in Wider Opportunities with Year 4 learning a musical instrument together as a year group for the year (this year it is the violin). Miss Grant also runs a music theory club before school alongside choir, which half of the school are part of, singing before school starts on a Friday morning.

 - We hold numerous sporting events across the year, taking part in cluster school tournaments at various venues across our local cluster. These include: scootering, skateboarding, bikeability, balanceability, netball, football, tag rugby, cross-country (competing at County level), rounders, athletics, swimming. Our children are very passionate too, being part of their sporting house team either in: Chatsworth, Hardwick, Bolsover or Haddon. Over the year they work together as teams collecting house points and compete at our annual sports day held at Baslow Sports Field. A cup is presented each week to the house that has earned the most house points, encouraging working together as a team and being the best that they can be.

We have a girls' and boys' football club after school and expertise comes into school to support teaching in sporting areas, e.g.netball.

- We run various exciting clubs over the school year to enrich the learning and experience of the children at St. Anne's, including: art, gardening, mental wellbeing, choir, girls' and boys' football, debating, coding, STEM R/KS1 + KS2, drama, Mental Wellbeing, maths, recorder, band. The older children are encouraged to lead and run their own clubs too, which have included: sports and games, colouring and mindfulness, fidget club and more!

 - We elect a School Council, ECO Council and Enterprise Ambassadors to lead on projects throughout the year which have included raising funds for Toilet Twinning Project, whole school litter picking, singing for the elderly, delivering presents to the community at Christmas for our Christmas Advent Giving calendar, decorating our tree at Bakewell Church as part of the Christmas Tree Festival.

Promoting Fundamental British Values.

In accordance with The Department for Education, we aim to actively promote British values in schools to ensure young people leave school prepared for life in modern Britain. Pupils are encouraged to regard people of all faiths, races and cultures with respect and tolerance and understand that while different people may hold different views about what is "right" and "wrong", all people living in England are subject to its law.

The Key Values are:

• democracy
• rule of law
• individual liberty
• mutual respect
• tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs

We follow the Derbyshire Agreed Syllabus for RE supported by NATRE scheme and resource (although as a school we would highly encourage all of our children to take part in our rich and diverse curriculum for RE, parents can withdraw their child from some or all RE, in discussion with the Headteacher). 

Planning 2025-26