Enrichment
At Ark Kings Academy, we aim to provide all our pupils access to a clearly defined and structured extended curriculum offer that has the potential to support their health, wellbeing, life skills, aspirations and enjoyment of school.
We aim to provide children with the broad range of experiences, coherent programmes of activities, skills and enrichment to be happy and fulfilled in school. Coupled with their academic knowledge, this will provide them with the agency to lead meaningful lives.
We do this through the following enrichment opportunities we offer our pupils.
Ark Connections
We are proud to offer the Ark Connections programme of 42 experiences that all children complete during their time in the primary phase. These experiences are shared across all children in the Ark Network and are enriching experiences that we feel all children should partake in before starting secondary school.
The experiences meet these core threads that support our aim of developing a strong sense of global citizenship within our pupils as well as offering them cultural capital for the future:
Environmental Awareness
Local and Global Community
Wellbeing and Personal Growth
Enterprise and Careers
Performance, Presentation and the Arts
Adventure, Challenge and Competition
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Autumn 1 |
Autumn 2 |
Spring 1 |
Spring 2 |
Summer 1 |
Summer 2 |
Reception Connections |
Build and Hide in a Den
Adventure, Challenge and Comp. |
Write and Post a letter (Santa)
Local and Global Community
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Retell a story to an audience
Performance, Presentation and the Arts |
Speak to local people who help us
Enterprise and Careers |
Mini Beast Hunt
Environment |
Dance in the rain
Wellbeing and PG |
Year 1 Connections |
Go on a seasonal walk (part 1)
Environment
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Visit a place of Worship
Local and Global Community |
Go Welly-wandering (jump in puddles etc)
Adventure, Challenge and Comp. |
Go on a seasonal walk (part 2)
Environment
Blow some bubbles and let your troubles blow away
Wellbeing and PG |
Create a piece of art for an exhibition
Performance, Presentation and the Arts |
Borrow a book from the library
Enterprise and Careers Encourage summer reading |
Year 2 Connections |
Visit a Castle
Local and Global Community
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Learn and perform a poem off by heart
Performance, Presentation and the Arts |
Make a compost bin
Environment
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Eat something you have grown
Wellbeing and PG
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Have a picnic in the wild
Adventure, Challenge and Comp. |
Create a Class Time Capsule
Enterprise and Careers
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Year 3 Connections |
Positive affirmation
Wellbeing
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Make a European Pen Pal
Local and Global Community |
Take part in a bake sale
Enterprise and Careers |
Explore a different physical environment
Adventure, Challenge and Comp. |
Visit a woodland area
Environment
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Retell a Greek myth
Performance, Presentation and the Arts |
Year 4 Connections |
Take part in a team building exercise
Adventure, Challenge and Comp. |
Highlight a local issue and raise awareness
Local and Global Community
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Express a viewpoint within a debate
Performance, Presentation and the Arts |
Go for a river walk
Environment |
Participate in an accessibility day
Wellbeing and PG |
Research a career that you have never heard of
Enterprise and Careers |
Year 5 Connections |
5 minutes of mindfulness every day for 10 days
Wellbeing and PG |
Invite an MP to discuss and debate the challenges of tackling local issues
Local and Global Community |
Experience a live performance
Performance, Presentation and the Arts |
Make a fire using a flint stone and toast a marshmallow
Adventure, Challenge and Comp.
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Have a paper-free school day
Environment
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Take part in a financial literacy scheme - £5
Enterprise and Careers |
Year 6 Connections |
Visit a University
Enterprise and Careers
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Organise a school based environmental awareness day
Environment |
Explore and discuss Children’s human rights and the lives of children around the world
Local and Global Community |
Explore Stress management
Wellbeing and PG
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Write and deliver a speech
Performance, Presentation and the Arts
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Go Orienteering
Adventure, Challenge and Comp.
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Educational Visits and Workshops
Over the course of the year, we take our pupils on off-site educational visits. These range from visits to the farm to local museums. We encourage all pupils to attend these visits, as not only are they highly engaging learning experiences for our pupils, but they also provide our children with vital cultural capital they need as they grow up.
In addition, we bring new experiences to children in school through workshops and in-school events. These workshops and events build on and enrich the learning pupils are doing in lessons.
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Autumn 1 |
Autumn 2 |
Spring 1 |
Spring 2 |
Summer 1 |
Summer 2 |
Nursery Visits and Workshops |
Parent Stay and Play workshop.
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Nursery have hall “sports” day. Cooking session.
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Animal Man Workshop
Local walk to see different types of homes.
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Storytelling Performance (World Book Day)
Visits from local firefighters, police and other professionals.
Visit to local shop. |
Trip to the farm.
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Parent and child challenge to build a den.
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Reception Visits and Workshops |
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Visit Ark Tindal Academy
Make chapatis |
Animal Man Workshop
Forest School |
Storytelling Performance (World Book Day)
Celebrate Holi Festival
Visit a Nature Centre |
Space Dome
Virtual Headsets |
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Year 1 Visits and Workshops |
Local area fieldwork |
Visit a church |
Animal Man Workshop |
Visit a Farm
Storytelling Performance (World Book Day) |
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Year 2 Visits and Workshops |
Visit Warwick Castle |
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Animal Man Workshop |
Storytelling Performance (World Book Day)
Visit a Hindu temple |
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Year 3 Visits and Workshops |
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Watch a pantomime at the theatre |
Storytelling Performance (World Book Day) |
Visit the Botanical Gardens |
Ancient Greek History Workshop
Visit a mosque |
Year 4 Visits and Workshops |
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Roman History Workshop |
Watch a pantomime at the theatre |
Storytelling Performance (World Book Day)
River fieldwork trip |
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Visit the Think Tank Museum |
Year 5 Visits and Workshops |
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Watch a pantomime at the theatre
Young Voices |
Storytelling Performance (World Book Day)
STEM Workshop (British Science Week) |
Visit a Buddhist temple |
Visit the Black Country Living Museum
Victorians History Workshop |
Year 6 Visits and Workshops |
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RSPCA Workshop |
Watch a pantomime at the theatre
World War 2 History Workshop
Visit a synagogue |
Storytelling Performance (World Book Day)
STEM Workshop (British Science Week) |
Local area fieldwork
Bowling trip |
Blackwell Adventure Activity Day |
Fundraising
One of our curriculum aims is to develop pupils' global citizenship. Pupils work towards this through their engagement with charities and good causes. Each year group is champion for a range of local, national and international charities where they lead on running events in school in order to raise money and awareness. Pupil leadership is an integral part of life at Kings - these charitable projects enable all of our pupils to take a lead in making positive contributions to society.
Here is an overview of the charities and good causes that pupils support across their time in the primary phase at Ark Kings:
Year Group |
Local Community Project |
Global Citizenship (UK based) |
Global Citizenship (worldwide) |
Nursery |
Community Planter Project (Summer 1)
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Christmas Toy Project (Autumn 2)
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WWF (Summer 2)
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Reception |
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Year 1 |
Care Home
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Harvest Food Bank (Autumn 1)
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Comic/Sport Relief (Spring 2)
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Year 2 |
Jeans for Genes (Autumn 1)
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Year 3 |
Heart of England Forest (ongoing)
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Save the Children (Autumn 2)
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Water Aid (Spring 2)
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Year 4 |
Shelter (Birmingham)
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Children in Need (Autumn 2)
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Year 5 |
Hospice
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Macmillan (Autumn 1)
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UNICEF (Summer 1)
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Year 6 |
Women’s Refuge
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British Legion (Autumn 2)
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Clubs
To further broaden your child's enrichment in school, we offer a range of before and after school clubs.
Our after-school clubs will be published on our school newsletters.
Photo Gallery
Year 6 Blackwell Residential
Geography Fieldwork
Geography Fieldwork
Viking History Workshop
Viking History Workshop
Viking History Workshop
Fun Time Theatre Performance
Young Voices Concert
Young Voices Concert
Inter-school Football Competition
Inter-school Football Competition