Enrichment Exchange & Academy Clubs Offer

Enrichment Exchange

Enrichment Exchange is an integral part of our curriculum here at Harris Academy Falconwood. It aims to provide your children with an opportunity to explore new experiences and develop valuable skills beyond our standard classroom offer. Enrichment Exchange takes place every Monday from 3.15pm to 4.05pm and is a compulsory part of our school curriculum.

We believe this is an essential time for our students to learn new skills and develop interests beyond our formalised taught curriculum offers. Furthermore, students also have the opportunity to interact with different students who share their interests and helping to develop cooperation, tolerance and respect.

The table below outlines our themes for our current Enrichment Exchange schedule. Each year group engages a specific theme and has three different enrichments in this theme.

Year	Theme	Enrichment 1	Enrichment 2	Enrichment 3
Year 7	Building Character	Identity of Self: Who We Are?	Debating: Everyday Heroes and Villians	One Voice: The Power of Communication
Year 8	Serving Our Community	Force for Change: Philanthropy and Random Acts of Kindness	Campaign for Justice	Debating: How do we Best Serve Each Other, Our Community, Our World?
Year 9	Broadening our Horizons	Massive Events for Change: How Cultural and Historical Events Changed Everything	Model UN	Debating: Personal Views and Beliefs

 

As part of our Enrichment Exchange we have also organised a range of guest speakers to broaden students horizons. A sample of the speakers arranged for 2024-2025 can be found below:

Speaker	Corporation	Year
Dr. Guy Westwell	Peace Education: Debate: Weapons of Mass Destruction	7
Charlie Smith	Born Free Debate: Should Zoo’s Exist	9
Babs Dixon	Red Cross Empathy & Migration	8
Elizabeth Sparrow	WaterAid Importance of Water	8
Richard Miles	GreenPeace Climate Change	8

 

Academy Clubs Offer

The Academy Clubs Offer is an extension to learning which gives students opportunities to make accelerated progress and access to new, more challenging concepts or content.

At Key Stage Three, there is a varied range of activities on offer which broaden the learning experience of the wider curriculum.  At Key Stage Four, the enrichment sessions are used as part of our intervention programme to improve knowledge and understanding of subject specific information.   All of our enrichment sessions are very worthwhile and can help students to develop key attributes such as problem solving, creative thinking and using their initiative.

Timings:

Morning Sessions 7.30-8.25am Monday-Friday

Afternoon Sessions:

• 3.15 - 4.15pm Tuesday-Thursday
• 1.45 - 2.45pm Friday