Extra Curricular Opportunities

At The William Allitt School we aim to ensure every student has the opportunity to access out of school hours activities relevant to their interests and abilities.

An enormous number of our students last year benefited from taking part in activities extra to those carried out in lesson time. The wide range of opportunities enables students to gain life skills and build character. 

Residential visits and trips are also an extremely important part of a student’s journey through school life. Friendships are forged and cultures experienced which often form the starting points of lifelong influences. The school runs many visits abroad for educational, social and recreational purposes including to Italy and Iceland supporting work in geography, to Spain for languages and to Berlin for history. Activity themed visits include a netball tour in the UK, a football tour to Germany and the Bushcraft Camp for Year 7. 

 

Duke of Edinburgh's Award

The William Allitt School is proud to be successfully running the Duke of Edinburgh's Award.

DofE gives you the chance to do something completely new and improve on things you’re already doing. It takes you out of your comfort zone and into a place where you will push yourself and have amazing new experiences. You will build confidence, resilience, skills for work and friendship groups. Importantly, you will have a brilliant time doing it. 

At the start of this academic year, we currently have 16 students finalising their silver award and our parents launch on the 16th October we hope to sign up many more bronze and silver students. 

Students are already out in our community working towards their volunteering section and many are trying new sports and skills. 

There are four units to complete, the expedition unit is pre-planned and already booked, but the other three below are only as limiting as your imagination.  Some ideas are below each heading.

 

PHYSICAL	VOLUNTEERING	NEW SKILLS
Football	Charity work	Learn to play the piano
Horse riding	Supporting at sports clubs	Learn to cook Chinese
Swimming	Brownies, cubs, scouts help	Origami course
Park runs	Reading at the library	Decorating
Martial Arts	Coffee and chat time at residential homes	Bike maintenance

 

Expeditions

The expedition unit consists of:

Bronze – 2 full days of walking and 1 night camping

Silver – 3 full days of walking and 2 nights camping

Overnight camping

Cooking your own food

For further information on how DofE can help you now and in the future, please visit: https://www.dofe.org/

Initial parent information letter 

Please do not hesitate to contact Mr Holmes or Mrs Copley for any information

dofe@williamallitt.derbyshire.sch.uk

01283 216404

Dates for 2019/2020

Training weekend

Friday 1^st May - Saturday 2^nd May (Both Bronze and Silver students). 

Practice expedition

Friday 15^th May – Saturday 16^th May  – Bronze students

Friday 5^th June – Sunday 7^th June – Silver students

Qualifying expedition

Friday 26^th June – Saturday 27^th June – Bronze students

Wednesday 8^th July –Friday 10^th July – Silver students

Voluntary Service Award

 

 

      

Extra Curricular Booklet