Sixth Form Enrichment Studies

Introduction
There should be more to the sixth form experience than studying for exams. At KEVI HGS we believe that all students should have the opportunity to access a wide range of activities designed to enrich the academic curriculum, develop new skills and interests as well as just to have fun! The enrichment studies programme offers a diverse selection of activities including both timetabled and non-timetabled general courses.
Sticking to the university model, on three days of each week we have an enrichment session for all students. The courses range from sport and mixed martial arts to volunteering, mentoring and extended project qualification. Some of our students play team sports such as football and basketball and compete at regional tournaments.
The enrichment opportunities help to develop the students’ leadership qualities, independence, life-long skills such as team work and generally offer them something else other than A-level studies to do.
Most of the courses on offer run from just after OCT half-term-to-December then run again from January-till-Easter and finally from Easter until mid-June. This means that students can potentially do three different courses and broaden their horizon more than ever before. This gives our students the chance to do many activities during their time with us, which gives them much to talk about in their UCAS application.
Benefits
- You will have the opportunity to arrange for and complete the necessary work experience to help you get into a good university to study the course you like and help you get a good job.
- Understand the route into medicine and dentistry and what you need to do to improve your chances of studying them at a good university.
- Make friends, socialise with existing friends and meet new people.
- Gain a nationally recognised qualification (select courses) with UCAS points to help you get into university.
- Learn new skills that you can talk about in your university and, later on, job applications.
Courses
Start & Finish Dates
Autumn term: From (1st week after Oct Half-term) 4th November 2019 – to – 19th December 2019 (7 weeks)
Spring term: From (1st week after Christmas) 8th January 2020 – to – 2nd April 2020 (12 weeks)
Summer term: From (1st week after Christmas) 20th April 2020 – to – 18th June 2020 (8 weeks)
Course | Length of course | Teacher | Room |
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1. Personal Finance | Autumn only | Mr Coulthard | 14 |
2. Government & Politics | Spring, Summer | Mr Coulthard | 14 |
3. Exercise classes | Autumn, Spring Summer | Ms May | Common room |
4. Fencing | Autumn, Spring Summer | Mr Ahmed | Offsite |
5. Martial Arts - Karate | Autumn, Spring Summer | Mr Ahmed | Offsite |
6. STEP / PAT / UKCAT / BMAT / LNAT | Autumn, Spring Summer | Mr Bennett | S8 |
7. Reading Ambassadors Programme (RAP) | Starts in Autumn and lasts the whole year. | Mr Dubay | Room 1 |
8. ECDL | Starts in Autumn and lasts the whole year. | Mr King, Mr Hawkins | C1 / C2 |
9. SPORT | Autumn, Spring Summer | Mr Campbell, Mr Conway, Mr Gallagher | Sports Hall / Fields |
10. ART | Starts in Autumn and lasts the whole year. | Ms Vaughan | Room 33 |
11. Philosophy & Ethics | Autumn, Spring Summer | Mrs Donoghue | Room 15 |
12. Mandarin - Chinese | Autumn, Spring Summer | Mrs Fiess | Room 24 |
13. French for Business | Starts in Autumn and lasts the whole year. | Ms Blochard | Room 22 |
14. Public Speaking & Presentation Skills | Autumn, Spring Summer | Mr Venables | M3 |
15. Volunteering | Autumn, Spring Summer | Mr Ahmed | SF4 |
16. Electronics (engineering) | Autumn, Spring Summer | Mr Miah | D4 |
17. EPQ lite (Extended Project Qualification) | Starts in Autumn and lasts the whole year. | Mrs Harvey | Room 23 |
18. Foodwise - cooking | Autumn, Spring Summer | Ms Hill | D7 |
19. LEGACY | Starts in Autumn and lasts the whole year. | Mr Ahmed | SF4 |
Course Options Booklet
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Legacy
Project Relief (2018-2019)
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Team Utopia (2018-2019)
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Project Reform (2017-2018)
Project Switch (2017-2018)
For further information please view our Enrichment Studies Booklet above or email questions using the enquiry contact form with the message subject of FAO: Enrichment Studies.
More photos from the enrichment courses can be found on the gallery section of the website.