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Every year at St. Dunstan’s School, students enjoy five days of fun-filled enrichment in which they can choose from a range of trips and school based activities. Enrichment week takes place during the last week of term each year. It is a central part of our Character Education programme, as the week provides all of our students in Years 7-9 with the opportunity to develop and build skills, knowledge and competences that are underpinned by our 5 key Track values.
We commit to activities that enrich the curriculum and help to make learning relevant. These provide a different perspective and encourage openness to new and often challenging experiences. We seek to offer a comprehensive programme of activities that broadens student horizons and enhances cultural capital. During this week, our Year 10 students have Work Experience, providing them with the opportunity to gain an invaluable insight into the world of work. We believe that this is an essential part of their character journey, which sets them up for life beyond St Dunstan’s, enabling them to make better future choices so that they canachieve their ambitions.
Last Years Enrichment Week 2023 Description of each Activity
Students also have the oportunity to participate in the Duke of Edinburgh scheme and School Camp during this week.
Brean Leisure Trip
Visiting Brean will provide the opportunity for students to increase ambition as they learn about the leisure industry. Students will develop community through teamwork and by being kind to others. They will have the opportunity to be independent with time management and orientation, while in a controlled environment. Students will show how resilient they are by enjoying a variety of rides!
Cost: £24 (£18.75 for PP students)
Total places: 52 students
Trip Leader: Mrs Manning
Track Values
Bike Ride
Fancy an ambitious bike ride? From Amy’s Memorial Garden to Ham Wall Nature Reserve and Avalon Marshes Tea Rooms for a pit stop. Then to Westhay, Godney and back to school. The route builds resilience on a variety of terrain and students can be kind to each other. Students need to be confident cyclists, aware of the highway code, own a fully working bike and cycle helmet.
Cost: Free
Total places: 15 students
Trip Leader: Mrs Potter
Bristol Aquarium
Visiting the Aquarium in Bristol is an eye opening experience where students develop their thirst for knowledge and practice truth. They will learn about ecosystems and wonder at the exotic creatures. The day will start with viewing ‘Blue Planet’ before the Aquarium. Students will have the opportunity to reflect on their ambition for the planet and how humans can show kindness to other species.
Cost: £18 (£13.50 for PP students)
Total places: 45 students
Trip Leader: Mr Brown
Glastonbury Way Walk
Explore our local area from a different angle. The Glastonbury Way is a wonderful walk that takes in local points of interest from all around the Tor, a must for all students! A reasonably challenging walk taking the pace that suits the group stopping for a picnic lunch on the way. An opportunity to build resilience, community through teamwork and be kind to those with whom we are walking.
Total places: 50 students
Trip Leader: Mr Atkinson
Circus Skills
Would you like to learn some new skills? Each pupil will develop their ambition by learning 4-6 fun circus skills and devise a circus routine either individually or in small groups. These will be showcased in a performance at the end of the day hosted by your Circus Instructor. Students will need to be resilient in their approach and show kindness and encouragement to others throughout the day.
Cost: £13 (£9.75 for PP students)
Total places: 30 students
Trip Leader: Mrs Easterbrook
Sports day
Do you love Sports? Do you like playing with and competing against other people? Then this is the activity for you. We will be playing a number of different sports over the course of the week based on student choices. We will show our resilience and ambition for ourselves to play our best, focus on our community by playing fairly and show kindness to our teammates and fellow competitors.
Trip Leader: Mr Green
Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Plant
Students will experience a rare tour around Hinkley Point power plant. Not without its controversy as a form of energy, Hinkley is set to provide zero-carbon electricity for 6 million homes in the UK and is an incredible feat of engineering. In learning about the industry students will develop their thirst for knowledge and thereby practice truth. Exploring the career paths that exist in the energy sector students have the opportunity to reflect on their own ambition and those they have for the planet.
Cost: £10 (£7.50 for PP students)
Total places: 40 students
Trip Leader: Mr Conway
Abbey Trip
Our Creative Writing day at Glastonbury Abbey will be focussed around using sensory language to describe the sights and sounds of the abbey as we consider its rich and eventful past. We will have time to enjoy looking at the artefacts and consider the truth behind them in the museum. Taking some time to study the grounds you will be able to develop your resilience as you respond to your experiences in a range of creative ways. We will finish by publishing our work.
Trip Leader: Mrs Gregory
Royal Navy Fleet Air Museum
Take to the skies at the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Museum. With over ninety aircraft, 2 million records, and 30 thousand artefacts, the Museum is Europe's largest naval aviation museum. It is also home to the first British Concorde and the award-winning Aircraft Carrier Experience. In learning the history of aviation students will develop their thirst for knowledge and thereby practice truth. By exploring the career paths in the sector students will reflect on their own ambition.
Cost: £14.50 (£11 for PP students)
Total places: 49 students
Trip Leader: Mr Waterhouse
Bristol Wild Place Visit
The Wild Place is fun and provides outdoor adventure, play and learning. Meet amazing animals from across the world, from mischievous Madagascan lemurs to magnificent European brown bears. Every visit supports the charity’s conservation work. Student’s have the opportunity to develop their thirst for knowledge and practice truth as well as reflecting on their ambition for the planet.
Cost: £21 (£15.75 for PP students)
Trip Leader: Mrs Thomason
Drama Day
A great fun day playing drama games and working on performance activities in the ancient art of entertainment though drama. Students develop community and kindness as they work in groups, and develop their resilience and self-confidence by participating in the day’s events. At the end of the session there will be the opportunity to perform work that has been created during the the day.
Total places: 25 students
Trip Leader: Mrs Pulford
School Production Day
Ever dreamed of performing live on stage? Or being involved with what happens backstage? Students will explore the music and dance choreography needed for a school production. We will be resilient as we work through the day, develop our community and show kindness to each other as we work in a team, and spend time developing and rehearsing performance. Students will reflect on the possible careers that exist within this sector developing their own ambition.
Trip Leader: Mrs Hopton
Music Day
Ever wanted to be in your own band? Want to know what it is like? We will be resilient, develop our community and show kindness to each other as we create our own bands and spend time rehearsing for a performance in the afternoon. As students reflect on the possible careers that exist within this sector they can reflect on their own ambition.
Wise Up Outdoor Games
A Flagship experience, Wise Up is the UK's Leading Provider of team building and problem solving activity days. Qualified instructors bring all equipment needed for the popular Hub day, where students will work to solve up to 30 challenges. These will require students to grow resilience to overcome obstacles and develop community through teamwork and by being kind and to others. These challenges and activities will involve both teamwork and competition. One not to be missed!
Cost: £16 (£12 for PP students)
Total places: 75 students
Mindfulness activities
Come and spend a morning focusing on mindfulness activities helping you to develop awareness of ways in which you can be kind to yourself and others in order to build resilience and strategies to support good mental health. Activities in the afternoon will build on the skills learnt in the morning.
Total places: 10 students
Trip Leader: Mrs Robinson
Art Day
Focussing on our Track Values, Truth, Resilience, Ambition, Community and Kindness, students will create artwork that raises awarenessof key events, themes and services in school as well as celebrating our values. Using a variety of materials and a range of demonstrations of creative technique to inspire student’s own practice, creations will form permanent displays seen by all.
Trip Leader: Miss Hart
Please be aware that next years choices may change and prices may vary.