Enrichment at Chapter House

Extra-curricular activities are a vital ingredient in developing confidence, leadership and teamwork skills in children and add to the enjoyment of their time at school. Chapter House offers a wide variety of activities as part of the 'My School Experience' initiative. This promotes active participation, encourages children to try new activities and often sparks a lifelong interest for our pupils.

Guest speakers and visitors enhance the stimulating in-house programme of learning, and educational visits that are designed to capture their imagination are provided for every child in each year group.

In addition, Chapter House children can participate in residential enrichment visits, including city excursions and ski trips. These trips help to stimulate their broader interest in the world around them and allow them to learn and excel beyond the classroom.

Our Enrichment Categories

At Queen Ethelburga’s Collegiate we pride ourselves on the breadth of the Co-Curricular provision we offer to students to enrich their experience beyond the classroom. This provision runs alongside the academic curriculum to facilitate the holistic development of our students and their involvement in the Collegiate community.

This year in Chapter House we are offering students our broadest range of free activities to date. The activities are divided into four enrichment categories; Community & Teamwork, Creativity, Health & Exercise and Leadership, which are colour-coded below.

Our Enrichment Categories

Category	Description
Community & Teamwork	CONTRIBUTE to the school community, organising fundraising for charity, volunteering for conservation and community work. E.g. regularly representing the school or competitive house, helping at open days as an Ambassador, attending Boarding/Food/School Council Meetings, being a Buddy etc.
Creativity	EXPRESS creativity through artistic design, performance, higher order thinking e.g. STEM, Drama, Debating, Gymnastics, Dance and related Colours etc.
Health & Exercise	PARTICIPATE in weekly activities beneficial to physical, social and mental well-being, showing dedication and improvement. E.g. the gym, swim, team games, meditation, yoga, THRIVE, achieving sports colours etc.
Leadership	LEAD others so they follow your example E.g. Mentoring a new student, motivating and inspiring the team you captain, player of the match if it relates to you influencing others, chairing a committee/council, being a prep buddy, debating and gaining support for your opinion, helping someone to improve or change their actions/behaviour etc.

Co-curricular Activities

Key Stage 1 and EYFS Clubs (EYFS - 2)
Key Stage 2 Clubs (Y3-5)

Key Stage 1 and EYFS Clubs (EYFS - 2)

Key Stage 1 Clubs

Mindful Moments club FS/KS1 - The purpose of this club is to encourage mindfulness. Mindfulness provides children with simple, practical tools to focus their minds, calm down and reflect on a situation when they need to make a choice. Benefits of mindfulness include improved concentration, lowered stress and anxiety, increased positive moods and improved emotional regulation skills. The children will take part in lots of child friendly activities such as guided meditation, simple massage and different breathing techniques.

Ballet Club - Come and learn ballet moves whilst having fun and expressing yourself through music to movement.

KS1 Choir - Come and sing for fun with friends. Enjoy singing familiar songs and learning some new ones too.

Key Stage 2 Clubs (Y3-5)

Key Stage 2 Clubs

KS2 Choir - A fun singing ensemble that learns a variety of songs, rehearsing towards a number of exciting performances during the term and year.

Photography club - Key Stage 2 children are invited to join photography club. We will be looking at photographs taken by professional photographs and using the iPads to take pictures and explore different aspects of the site. We will be focusing a different aspect each week including looking at objects from unusual angles, candid shots, architectural, seeking out lines, the most interesting framing within the shot, emotions, texture

Puzzle Club – If you enjoy logic problem solving, word and number puzzles, come to Puzzle Club!

Art Club – An opportunity to explore your creativity and imagination while exploring a variety of different media and learning new skills. ‘Every child is an artist’ Pablo Picasso.

Origami Club – Come to origami Club to learn skills and get creative in the art of paper folding.

Running Club- Develop fitness, running for fun with friends. Come and have a go no matter how much running you have done.

All of the other sporting clubs are run by QE staff and coaches, unless otherwise stated.

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Key Stage 1 and EYFS Clubs (EYFS - 2)

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