Enrichment
Our Enrichment Charter
At Tanbridge House School, we want every student to:
- Participate in a school club
- Learn a new skill
- Help raise money for our nominated charities
- Be captivated by live sport, music or theatre
- Talk to, and be inspired by, representatives from industry, commercial enterprises and further education
- Make links between subjects through participation in cross-curricular days
- Contribute and feel part of their school community through participation in student voice
- Demonstrate care and kindness towards others through peer mentoring, school prefects and links with primary schools
- Show resilience in taking on a new challenge
- Be inspired by external speakers
Clubs and Fixtures this term
We offer a large range of clubs and activities for our students including music lessons, Duke of Edinburgh, specific interest and homework clubs and much more. You can find full listings of extra-curricular activities, as well as upcoming sports fixtures below.
This area will show all documents uploaded to the /docs/EXTRA_CURRICULAR folder.
Documents in folders containing the word 'letter' or 'minute' are listed in the order they were uploaded, most recent upload at the top. Otherwise, documents are listed alphabetically.
Enrichment News
You can find all of our latest news/updates on our news pages and in our Tanbridge News newsletter. However, a selection of highlights from this term can be found below:
>> Students delve into Black History with 'Musical Truth' event
>>Students have a 'Wicked' time in the West End
>>Author visit inspires THS students
Duke Of Edinburgh
The Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme can be a life-changing experience! An opportunity to discover new interests and talents, have fun with friends and be a tool to develop essential skills for life and work. A recognised mark of achievement; respected by employers.
At Tanbridge House School we support students with both the Bronze and Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award schemes.
The Bronze Award is open to Year 9 students and the Silver Award is open to students in Year 10.
At the beginning of June each year we hold assemblies for Years 8 & 9 to let them know about the Bronze and Silver awards respectively. Letters with further details and how to apply will be handed out at the end of the assembly to those students who are interesting in participating.
Any young person can do their DofE – regardless of ability, gender, background or location. Achieving an Award isn’t a competition or about being first. It’s all about setting personal challenges and pushing personal boundaries.
There are 4 sections to each Award:
- Volunteering
- Skill
- Physical
- Expedition
Training for the Expedition section takes place once a week after school/Second break & Tutor time, from January to June where the following aspects are covered
- First Aid & Emergency Procedures
- Navigation & Route Planning
- Campcraft, Equipment and Hygiene
- Food and Cooking
- Countryside Code
- Observation recording and presentation
- Team Building
- Proficiency in mode of travel
The other sections are organised individually by the students with guidance from the school.
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The Bronze expeditions usually take place over the last weekend in April plus another weekend at the end of June. The Silver expeditions are usually from a Friday to Sunday with expeditions taking place in April/May and also at the beginning of July.
Through the DofE programme our students have fun, make friends, improve their self-esteem and build confidence. They gain essential skills and attributes for work and life such as resilience, problem-solving, team-working, communication and drive, enhancing CVs and university and job applications.
If you would like any further information about the Duke of Edinburgh Award, please contact the school or see dofe.org.
The THS Scholars Programme
Our goal at Tanbridge House School, is to support the growth of extraordinary students to become the very best that they can be.
We aim to give all students realistic and challenging opportunities to develop their skills of resilience, teamwork, communication, leadership, creativity and enquiry. ‘Background and current circumstance’ should not act as barrier to high performance and personal development.
The Scholars programme includes:
- Global Scholars. Students are our most holistically academic students. This represents approx. 10% of each year group based on prior data.
- Subject Scholars. Students who show a talent or ability of above average in a particular subject and those who demonstrate a deep passion or interest in a subject area. (approx. 50% of each year group.)
As part of the Scholars Programme we will:
- encourage our students to prepare to leave Tanbridge House School with real-life development opportunities associated with these skills, giving them the cutting edge against their future peers.
- help them to develop a multi-media e-portfolio that will act as comprehensive evidence of how they are developing these life skills and beginning the process of realising their future ambitions.
- celebrate the skills that will support them in life in a time of possible exponential change.
- celebrate this through a ‘Graduation’ Ceremony where students will receive either a 1st class, 2:1, or 2:2 award.
- recognise their evolution and celebrate their success within three pillars of foundational progress:
- Academic Excellence
- Personal Development
- Leadership
Within these three pillars, our own Tanbridge Essential Skills (TES) are:
- Teamwork
- Problem solving
- Research and review
- Creativity
- Communication and presentation
- Leadership
We truly believe that these competencies give students the extra ‘edge’ to compete in a sometimes challenging and competitive world. We highly value not only academic success at school, but also the development of these key competencies that will ensure success in an ever-changing modern world. In delivering a programme that recognises and celebrates these pillars and skills, we know that we will be shaping, not only rounded and thoughtful individuals, but leaders of the future who will be equipped for a world that will require knowledge that was not learnt in the classroom, but as part of a broader and more personalised curriculum.
The Brilliant Club Scholars Programme
In addition to the in-school Scholars Programme, motivated and high achieving students are invited to participate in an exciting and enriching externally run project: The Scholars Programme run by The Brilliant Club. The programme aims to promote and widen access to top universities for pupils in non-selective state schools.
The Scholars Programme places university PhD tutors in schools to give students an early experience of university-style learning. The PhD tutors deliver six hour-long, university-style tutorials to groups of six students, based around supra-curricular topics designed to stretch, challenge and motivate able students. The weekly tutorials take place on the school site during the normal school day. Students develop their research and writing skills during the project, and feedback from participants is always incredibly positive.
At the end of the programme, students complete a final assignment which will be marked and graded in the style of a university essay. The project also concludes with a trip to a high-ranking university and the full day’s programme will also include a graduation event.
What students say about the Scholars Programme run by the Brilliant Club:
“The Scholars Programme pushed me to learn about challenging areas of study (biomaterials and biocompatibility) we don’t cover in our GCSEs.”
“The Scholars Programme really pushed me to develop my writing and research.”
“The Scholars Programme was an enriching experience and I am now definitely going to aim to study at Oxford University.”
“The visit to Oxford University made the prospect of studying there one day seem far more real and I now have something to aim for.”
