Walton Support and Enrichment

1. Walton Support and Enrichment Year 11-12 Induction

2. Why do we Offer Walton Support and Enrichment? • Opportunity to enhance their UCAS application or C.V. • Excellent experience in a wide variety of settings • Gain leadership and organisation skills

3. What’s the Difference Between Walton Support and Enrichment? • Enrichment happens on a Wednesday afternoon P5-6. It can be in or out of school. They MIGHT need to organise a different time with an outside organisation. • Enrichment could be • Young Enterprise • Sports Leader • Work Experience hospital, school, pharmacy, law firm, engineering company, charity shop etc • Volunteering – could be in the community or in school Weds 5&6 and Thurs 1&2 • Creative writing group

4. Walton Support is organised by the student with a teacher at a mutually convenient time • It happens at school.

5. What is Walton Support and what can you do?

6. Walton Support • Helping / Organising with clubs and activities • Year 7 mentors / peer mentors • Helping students on a one to one basis in core subject areas • Supporting teachers with particular classes and activities • Break-time supervision

7. Walton Support • “Give back” to the school community • Must be undertaken in school • In addition to Enrichment • Equivalent of 1X 50 minute period every week • Role model • Positive involvement with the House System • Counts towards the AQA Bacc 100 hours

8. Lots of other Possibilities • Dance club – help prepare for Expressions • Help in Student Support • Help with drama clubs and / or lunchtime supervision of Y7 in the drama studio • Maintain and update classroom displays by helping the Art technician • Help out in any subject at all • Maths department always have plenty of vacancies – see Mrs Hanson • Science Clubs • Become a part of the senior students team

9. Enrichment • Contributes directly to the AQA Bacc Qualification – Minimum 100 hours needed in total • It can be done in or out of school. Not necessarily on Wednesday. • Students negotiate their own arrangements - work experience placements must be approved before you start work

10. Work Experience • Out of school placements must be approved • Letter from home needed • Confirmation that the organisation is willing to accept you. • Forms with employer contact details etc. must be returned for approval

11. Volunteering • McMillan Coffee morning – 12 hours • Supporting Katharine House – 6-8 hours • Listen to young readers in one of the feeder primary schools • Students needed to help regularly in the step centre • Arrange extra lesson support / clubs and activity work in school • Support the work of the sixth form Committee – Big events

12. Sports Leader & Young Enterprise • Valued by admissions tutors • Sports Leader -organising events in feeder primaries • Young Enterprise - find out about running a real company • Take part in a local trade fair • Prepare business plans, trade fairs accounts and company reports • Present to business professionals • Give you the edge to make your application stand out

13. The AQA Baccalaureate Overarching qualification with three main strands in addition to • 3 full A Level subjects and 1 AS in a 4th subject • EPQ – Extended Project Qualification • Enrichment Diary

14. Extended Project • Students choose an area of interest in their subject, but not on the teaching specification • Must investigate a question that they formulate • Either produce a 5,000 word document • Or make a product supported with 1,000 word explanation • Invite small audience for their presentation

15. Enrichment Diary • Activities done in Walton Support and Enrichment can contribute to the strands of the Baccalaureate Enrichment diary. On line diary where they log all of their extra activities

16. Accreditation • Pass • Merit • Distinction • Result is dependent on overall A level grades