We were thrilled to welcome our primary school partners to the first module of Primary Ambitions, our Lower Sixth-led primary school-focused enrichment programme, onsite on Friday.
Our Lower Sixth pupils have been planning and preparing their sessions including presentations, activities, worksheets and games with the support of their Primary Ambitions supervisors for the past two months. They have been practising delivering their materials and they got off to a flying start. Feedback from partner school staff and pupils was fantastic – the primary pupils loved their sessions.
We are offering 16 different options this year including DJ’ing, Power Poetry, Clay Creatures, Drama skills, Filmmaking and Robotics.
Primary Ambitions runs for 20 weeks from now through to the end of June. Each week 255 primary school pupils, all from schools with a high percentage of children qualifying for free school meals, attend.
In addition to the onsite Primary Ambitions activities, we have a number of offsite ones too involving local community organisations and our partner schools. These include running PE, Art and reading sessions at St Mary’s RC, Langford, Griffin, Falconbrook and St George’s CE primaries as well as enrichment sessions at Park House School, part of the Beyond Autism group; and befriending the elderly at Signature Wandsworth.
Mrs Lisa Irwin (Head of Community Partnerships and Outreach)