Visits, Visitors and Enrichment Activities
At New End we seek to offer enrichment opportunities for all children.
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We seek to be inclusive in our provision of enrichment activities within the classroom and in the information we offer to parents regarding opportunities beyond it.
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To enrich classroom learning, we try wherever possible to plan opportunities for visits and visitors. Enrichment experiences over the 2024-2025 academic year have included all year groups having workshops led by the Crick Institute in school with children in Year 5 attending the Institute for the day: Year 6 trips to the Junior Citizen Programme and Grant Museum; Year 5 Shakespeare Workshop and then performing as part of The Shakespeare in School Project: Year 5 trips to The National Gallery, Greenwich Royal Observatory and Kew Gardens; Year 4 trips to the Heath Ecology Centre: Year 3 trip to the Thames foreshore for a mud larking experience; Year 2 visits to Camley Street Nature Park to study the environment and St Pauls Cathedral as part of their study of the Great Fire of London; Year 1 local walks as part of their geographical and historical study of the local area; Reception visit to Waterstones; and Nursery trips to the theatre and Kentish Town City Farm. Children in Years 3, 4 and 5 also visited the cinema as part of National Film Week.
Visitors this year included ten parents who spoke to Year 6 about their different careers; a Year 5 and 6 workshop on safe use of mobile phones; and geography and history workshops in Years 2, 3 and 4.
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Class enrichment activities also include the involvement of every Year 5 child in The Shakespeare in Schools project each year; Every child in Year 4 learning the recorder for the year; and the provision of a weekly chess lesson for every Year 2 and Year 3 child. We have recently started a Forest School experience for children in Reception and Year 1.
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Developing children’s leadership skills is also an area we seek to enrich. Children in Key Stage 2 are all encourage to stand as a school councillor to represent their class. Year 6 children are all encouraged to stand as a House Captain or Vice-Captain. At the end of Year 5, children can apply to take on the role of a New End Ambassador when they move to Year Six. The school also has children across KS2 acting as Maths Ambassadors, Digital Ambassadors, Music Ambassadors and Eco Ambassadors. Children across the school also act as Reading Ambassadors.
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We offer children the opportunity to participate in sporting enrichment activities as part of Camden Schools Sports Association. This includes opportunities to play in football and netball tournaments as well as gala days in cross country, athletics and swimming.
New End participates in enrichment activities provided by the local authority and beyond. For example, the school has participated in inter-school mathematics competitions run by Explore Learning, inter-school chess tournaments run by Chess in Schools and art competitions run by Hampstead Art School.
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Beyond the school day New End also enables children to access specific clubs to develop their skills. Clubs include cooking, board games, art and craft, coding, football, multi-sports and chess.
