We are thrilled to welcome our primary school partners to our first session of Primary Ambitions, our Lower Sixth-led primary school-focused enrichment programme, onsite today.
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 practicing delivering their materials and are now ready to get off to a flying start. They can’t wait to meet the new cohort of pupils.
We are offering 18 different options this year including some new additions, eg an Introduction to DJ’ing, Power Poetry and Maths Ninjas. These are in addition to all of the old favourites including Clay Creatures, Comedy & Masks drama sessions, Filmmaking and Robotics.
Primary Ambitions runs for 20 weeks from now through to the end of June. Each week 285 primary school pupils, all from schools with a high percentage of children qualifying for free school meals, will attend. We will provide 1425 pupil enrichment hours per module; and 5700 enrichment hours across the year. We have 14 partner schools participating from our local area.
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 enrichment sessions at Park House School, part of the Beyond Autism group; befriending the elderly at Regenerate Rise; and facilitating book clubs at Langford and St Mary’s primaries.
Lisa Irwin (Head of Community Partnerships and Outreach)