Enrichment and Extracurricular Activities

We are committed to the broadest educational offering, and that means looking beyond the National Curriculum. A very successful enrichment programme that draws upon a wide range of skills is offered through school trips, visiting specialists and themed days and weeks. The programme is planned and modified throughout the year. Each class from Years 1 - 6 completes a local trip and a journey with a coach.

 

Year group	Local	Coach
Foundation	Library Visit
Year 1	Local Walk	Colchester Zoo
Year 2	Moot Hall	Hanningfield Reservoir
Year 3	Theatre Workshop	Sutton Hoo
Year 4	Stone Age Workshop	Colchester Castle
Year 5	Essex Food & Farm Show	British Museum
Year 6	Museum of Power	Residential

 

We have formed relationships with small organisations around Maldon and incorporate activities with them into our curriculum. These include:

• Maldon in Bloom – competition, growing, recycling and eco - friendly
• The Rotary Club - Remembrance Sunday Parade – attendance at the parade and selling remembrance products
• Open the Book – local church group weekly visits into school
• Blackwater Schools – Pupil sports tournaments, staff training, shared moderation
• Maldon District Council – visits to the Moot Hall, visits to the Council Chambers
• Young Carers – half termly meetings with an outreach worker in school
• Residential Care Home – visits by the school choir, children to sing, share stories and spend time together

Each year group will take part in a variety of workshops throughout the academic year. These will link to their topic work or to a whole school theme. We invite specialists from a range of institutions e.g. E-safety workshops; local historians; rescue services; bikeability; healthcare; school nurse; sports clubs; authors; etc.

Themed days and weeks

We also have themed weeks throughout the year. Themed days are also incorporated into curriculum. These may be designed to fit with national initiatives e.g. Internet Safety Day. Twice a year, we replace the home learning timetable with a whole school Mastery challenge.

Term	Theme
Autumn	Citizens Week Harvest Festival Children in Need Santa Day Mastery Homework
Spring	Art and DT week Book week Comic Relief Safer Internet Day
Summer	Water Safety Week Sports’ Days Open Evening Mastery Homework Summer Fun Day

 

Mastery homework is planned twice a year. The teaching staff decide on a topic to promote research skills, knowledge and the ability to present your findings to an audience. This final presentation is assessed on aspects of speaking and listening by the class teachers. Past themes have included: time, money, poetry, favourite books, films through the decades and science.

Extra-curricular activities and specialist teachers

At Wentworth we are able to offer extra curriculum expertise through the deployment of our specialist teachers. Children have opportunities to participate in lessons in the following areas throughout the week:

• Swimming
• Sports
• Music

Sports/PE

At Wentworth we employ a specialist sports’ coach to enhance the range of sports and competitions/ tournaments that are offered to pupils. This includes both within school teaching time and after school clubs.

A range of age-appropriate sports clubs are offered after school for Key Stage 1 and 2 pupils. These change seasonally and are open to all pupils. Specific clubs are operated for pupils who are inactive in sports or reluctant sports people and target disadvantaged pupils. Clubs are adapted so all pupils can participate.

Extra-Curricular clubs typically offered at Wentworth:

These could include:

• Netball
• Young Carers
• Girls active club
• Boys active club
• Tournament practice
• Basketball
• Dodgeball
• Rounders
• Athletics
• Tennis
• Run for fun
• Tag Rugby
• Football
• Zumba
• Archery  -  external provider
• Badminton - external provider
• Tag Rugby - external provider
• Football - external provider
• Karate - external provider
• Happy Healthy Minds
• Relax Kids
• Mandarin Club

Music

We encourage all pupils to enjoy music with our singing assemblies and music lessons where all pupils learn to play keyboards, xylophones and percussion instruments and to sing. We also encourage our children to join our music groups and perform in external competitions and festivals. Some of our pupils take external music exams. Opportunities currently on offer are:

• Choir
• Orchestra
• Recorder
• Peripatetic music lessons in guitar, piano, keyboard and flute.
• KS1 Nativity
• Year 6 Production
• Year 3 Christingle
• Summer Music concert
• iRock

Eco Ambassadors

Our Eco-Ambassadors are responsible for arranging a variety of activities for pupils of all ages. These range from planting blubs and other plants, saving energy, recycling and energy saving campaigns. We have achieved the silver level Green Flag for three years running.