Enrichment at Harper Bell SDA School: Broadening Horizons Beyond the Classroom
At [School Name], we believe that education extends far beyond textbooks and exams. Our Enrichment Programme for 2025/2026 is designed to inspire curiosity, creativity, and confidence in every child, while strengthening the curriculum we offer.
Why Enrichment Matters
Enrichment activities provide opportunities for pupils to:
- Explore new interests and discover talents in drama, sports, and creative arts.
- Connect learning to real-world experiences, making subjects more meaningful.
- Develop essential life skills such as teamwork, resilience, and communication.
- Celebrate diversity and culture, fostering respect and inclusion.
These experiences complement our academic curriculum, ensuring pupils leave us not only with knowledge but with the skills and character to thrive.
Highlights of Our Enrichment Calendar
- Drama with The Rep : Professional workshops that build confidence and creativity. Each class will have a term of dedicated lessons to support the Spoken Language section of the National Curriculum but to benefit our pupils beyond this to communicate well; boost confidence and self-esteem; build social skills; learn about empathy and emotional intelligence; as well as critical thinking.
- Sports Coaching & Tournaments: Lunchtime sessions and competitive events to promote health and teamwork. We work with Super Star Sports to ensure our lunchtimes are activity driven with a diverse range of sports activities offered.
- Community Engagement: Intergenerational learning projects with care homes and charity events like Jeans for Genes and Children in Need.
- Creative Arts & Storytelling: From Reception storytelling sessions to whole-school Christmas performances.
- Focus Weeks: Focused on a wider range of topics chosen to meet the needs of or pupils, we look at physical and mental health, anti-bullying, road safety awareness and much more.
- Trips & Experiences: Our pupils thoroughly enjoy our trips and visits. In the summer term, classes visited a wide range of places to support their curriculum learning. Our youngest pupils went to the Adventure Farm in Burton-upon-Trent, with Y3 and 4 taking their science and geography studies to the Botanical Gardens and the Butterfly Farm - just a few examples! This term, we have visits to St Martin’s Church, Wonderland, and swimming lessons for pupils in Year 6 to gain that essential confidence about .
Meet the Author Programme
We are proud to attend live sessions with authors from many different backgrounds, who inspire a love of reading and writing. Across the year, we will have met:
- Alex Wharton - 1st October (Years 5 & 6)
- Abiola Bello - 26th November (Years 3 & 4)
- Maisie Chan – 26th February (Years 5 & 6)
- Chante Timothy – 18th March (Years 3 & 4)
- Iqbal Hussain – 6th May (Years 5 & 6)
- Eric Huang – 24th June (Years 3 & 4)
These sessions allow pupils to engage with professional writers, ask questions, and understand the creative process behind storytelling.
Building a Rich Curriculum
Our enrichment activities are carefully planned to extend classroom learning:
- Drama links to English and Performing Arts.
- Author visits deepen literacy and creative writing skills.
- Sports and health weeks reinforce PE and PSHE objectives.
- Community projects connect to citizenship and social responsibility.
By weaving enrichment into our curriculum, we ensure every child experiences a broad, balanced, and exciting education.