During period 6 every Thursday afternoon, we offer our pupils opportunities that will enrich their education by building relationships through community involvement, volunteering and achieving success in areas other than curriculum subjects.

Each project has been linked to one of our school values: opportunity, health, resilience, responsibility, respect, relationships. Many of the activities offered are not available in any other North Devon school. Many are certificated, or competition-based, which will enhance future CVs and college/job applications. The variety of offers should provide something for everyone, whatever their interests.

Fundamentally, we want our pupils to become independent, resourceful, and responsible citizens of the future with broad experiences that enhance their GCSE achievements to give them the widest opportunity for future careers and life-long learning.

How to choose your activities

In the summer term, all pupils are sent a Microsoft Forms link to complete with their choices. This is sent to their school email account. Pupils joining us in Year 7 will have an email sent to the registered parent's email address. Pupils are strongly encouraged to choose a variety of activities, nine different activities in total. If a pupil opts for the same activity each term, it will count as 1 choice (unless it goes across 2 terms!) We suggest that you read through all the offers first before making your selections. Not all the offers are repeated across all terms, so please make your selections carefully.

Intervention will also happen during this time and some pupils will be selected by curriculum areas to receive additional help and support with individual subjects. This will take priority over a pupil's enrichment choices. All Year 11 pupils will be automatically allocated intervention in the summer term to help them to prepare for their GCSE examinations. Many Year 10 and 11 pupils will be allocated intervention in other terms. We also run literacy interventions for years 7–9 within E&I. All interventions are targeted based on analysis of where pupils have gaps in their knowledge.