Enrichment

Education is more than just mastering English and maths - it's also about activities that extend children's learning through new experiences and opportunities. Activities like this are known as enrichment, and are an important part of your child’s education here at Charles Darwin, giving them new experiences, extending their learning, and making school life more fun.

Enrichment helps provide children with a rounded, culturally rich education through activities that enhance their learning. It gives children opportunities to try new and varied activities that may not strictly fit into the curriculum, but that develop character, resilience and motivation, and encourage them to pursue wider goals. It helps to teach life skills that benefit children beyond the classroom, and can develop an appreciation for cultural and community issues, teamwork and social responsibility.

Research by the Education Endowment Foundation has also found a link between enrichment and higher attainment in reading and maths.https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-evidence/teaching-learning-toolkit/aspiration-interventions

Enrichment in our school can be:

Lunchtime and after-school clubs like singing, computing, art or sport

Music lessons and opportunities to use musical talents, for example in choirs or music groups– both practising and performing

School plays, shows, assemblies and sports day

School trips and residential visits

Outdoor learning opportunities

Whole-school events like World Book Day and Science Week

Supporting charities through activities like dress up days or food bank collections

Bikeability

Visiting speakers, for example authors, local figures or parents who have skills or expertise to share (e.g. a firefighter or vet)

Local projects like lantern parades