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.
Details of our current offer can be found at the bottom of the page.
Timings:
Morning Sessions 7.30-8.25am Monday-Friday
Afternoon Sessions:
- 3.15 - 4.15pm Tuesday-Thursday
- 1.45 - 2.45pm Friday
KS3 Offer 2024-2025
PE Offer
|
Day of the Week |
Offer |
Year Group or Key Stage Offered |
Morning or Afternoon |
Room or Area of Offer |
|
Tuesday |
Football |
Year 7 and 8 |
Morning |
Astro |
|
Tuesday |
Netball |
KS3 |
Afternoon |
Sports hall |
|
Wednesday |
Fitness |
KS3 Boys |
Afternoon |
Fitness Suite |
|
Wednesday |
Fitness |
KS3 Girls |
Morning |
Fitness Suite |
|
Wednesday |
Basketball |
KS3 |
Morning |
Sports Hall |
|
Wednesday |
Cricket |
KS3 |
Afternoon |
Astro |
|
Thursday |
Football Training |
Year 9 |
Morning |
Astro |
Core Subjects Offer
|
Day of the Week |
Department |
Offer |
Year Group or Key Stage Offered |
Morning or Afternoon |
Room or Area of Offer |
|
Tuesday |
English |
Learning to Love Poetry |
KS3 |
Afternoon WEEK B Only |
120 |
|
Tuesday |
English |
Debate Club |
KS3 |
WEEK B Only |
128 |
|
Tuesday |
English |
Bedrock Catchup Club |
KS3 |
Afternoon |
133 |
|
Tuesday |
Maths |
Axiom Maths |
Year 7 (Invite Only) |
Afternoon |
215 |
|
Tuesday |
Science |
Science Educake Homework Help |
KS3 |
Afternoon |
228 |
|
Tuesday |
Science |
Science Stem Club |
KS3 |
Afternoon |
209 |
|
Wednesday |
Maths |
Chess and Board Games Club |
KS3 |
Afternoon |
217 |
|
Friday |
Maths |
Maths Booster |
Year 7 (Invite Only) |
Afternoon |
223 |
|
Friday |
Maths |
Sparks Homework Help |
KS3 |
Afternoon |
228/229 |
Expressions, Humanities and MFL Offer
|
Day of the week |
Department |
Offer |
Year Group or Key Stage Offered |
Morning or Afternoon |
Room or Area of Offer |
|
Tuesday |
MFL |
Spelling Bee (Italian) |
KS3 |
Morning |
117 |
|
Tuesday |
MFL |
Spelling Bee (Spanish) |
KS3 |
Afternoon |
114 |
|
Tuesday |
Food Tech |
Cooking Club |
Year 8 (Invite Only) |
Afternoon |
105 |
|
Tuesday |
DT |
Phone Holder Project |
Year 8 (Invite Only) |
Afternoon |
103 |
|
Tuesday |
Music |
Jazz Band |
KS3 (Invite Only) |
Morning |
130 |
|
Tuesday |
History |
HAF History Association |
KS3 |
Afternoon |
109 |
|
Wednesday |
MFL |
Homework Catchup for Italian and Spanish |
KS3 |
Afternoon |
133 and 134 |
|
Wednesday |
Music |
Orchestra |
KS3 |
Morning |
130 |
|
Thursday |
Music |
Jazz Band |
KS3 (Invite Only) |
Morning |
130 |
|
Friday |
Music |
Orchestra |
KS3 |
Morning |
130 |
KS4 Offer 2024-2025
KS4 Offer
|
Day of the week |
Subject |
Offer |
Year Group or Key Stage Offered |
Morning or Afternoon |
Room or Area of Offer |
|
Tuesday |
PE |
Fitness |
KS4 Boys |
Afternoon |
Fitness suite |
|
Tuesday |
PE |
Trampolining and Gymnastics |
KS4 Girls |
Afternoon |
Sports hall |
|
Wednesday |
PE |
Fitness |
KS4 Girls |
Morning |
Fitness suite |
|
Wednesday |
PE |
Football |
KS4 Girls |
Afternoon |
Astro |
|
Friday |
PE |
Basketball |
KS4 and KS5 |
Morning |
Sports hall |
|
Wednesday |
English |
Poetry Mornings |
KS4 |
Morning WEEK B Only |
122 |
|
Friday |
English |
Homework Help |
KS4 |
Morning WEEK A Only |
125 |
|
Wednesday Thursday |
Maths |
Maths Paper Society |
KS4 |
Wed. Morning Thur. Afternoon |
222 |
|
Tuesday |
Science |
Science Booster |
KS4 (Year 10) |
Afternoon |
211 |
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Bexley Police Cadets
Bexley Police Cadets at Harris Academy Falconwood
Harris Academy Falconwood have a partnership with the Bexley Volunteer Police Cadets. They meet at HAF on Thursdays, and are always looking for new recruits to join their ranks. The Volunteer Police Cadets provide an opportunity to learn new skills, build new friendships, help in the local community, and provides excellent experiences to put on CVs and University and Apprenticeship applications.
There are two groups that meet weekly during term time:
Junior cadets (10 to 13) – Thursdays 5:30-7:00 PM at Harris Academy Falconwood
Senior cadets (13 to 18) – Thursdays 7:30-9:30 PM at Harris Academy Falconwood
Why should your child become a police cadet?
- Make new friends: Become part of our policing family and build friendships that will last a lifetime.
- Learn new skills: Build confidence, teamwork and leadership abilities.
- Become a community champion: Help the community by taking part in policing operations and crime prevention initiatives.
- Enhance CVs and applications: Whether applying for college, university or going straight into work, the cadets provide unique experiences to talk about in interviews.
- Learn something new about a policing topic or community issue in an interactive way
- Keep fit: Take part in sports sessions to build teamwork and leadership
All of this is taught by experienced cadet leaders, many of whom are serving police officers.
What else do they get up to?
- Cadets are given the opportunity to volunteer to assist policing operations, crime prevention initiatives and helping at large scale events such as the London Marathon.
- Camps and inter-borough competitions:
- Annual Cadet Competition at Gravesend where cadets take part in Policing Scenarios at our public order training centre
- First aid competitions
- Thriftwood and Avon Tyrell which involve fun team games and tasks.
How to apply
If any of this is of interest, please go to https://vpc.police.uk/ for more information.
