Music

• Wind Band
• String Group
• String Quartet
• Choir
• Steel pans
• Brass group
• Jazz band
• Orchestra
• Guitar group
• Grade V theory classes

PSHE

Outside speakers on a range of issues including:

• Perspectives (relationships)
• Debbie Logan (Cancer)
• Suffolk Live Well (Operation Smoke Screen)
• Flexi day this summer about having a safe night out (guest speakers including the police, an ex-user, school nurse etc.)

Science

• Colchester Zoo visit
• Visit to Sizewell Nuclear Power Station
• Year 8 Gifted & Talented Chemistry competition
• Year 9 Gifted & Talented Physics Competition
• Y7 Forensics Day
• Workshops run by Institute of Physics  for pupils
• Venue for Science Learning centre courses
• Spectroscopy in a suitcase – visiting lecturer
• Revision sessions in holidays

Technology

• Design Competition in conjunction with several local businesses

KS4 Media Studies

• Coursework/classwork 'drop-in' centre every Wednesday afternoon. This allows students to get one-to-one teacher support and/or help from the Media Studies Student Leaders

ICT

• Robotics Club

Drama

• School production – including opportunities for pupils to learn how to use the sound and lighting equipment
• Theatre visits
• Touring theatre company workshops

Business Studies and Economics

• Economics revision conferences
• Business Studies holiday & after school revision sessions
• Business enterprise hub challenge

Travel & Tourism

• Tourism student-organised trips

Maths

• Senior (Year 12 and 13) Maths Challenge
• Intermediate (Year 9, 10, and 11) Maths Challenge
• Junior (Year 7 and 8) Maths Challenge
• Senior Maths Team Challenge (Year 12 & 13)
• Year 10 Team Maths Challenge
• Year 8 & 9 Teams Maths Challenge
• National Cipher challenge run by Southampton University - open to all students from Year 9 onwards

 Psychology

• Colchester Zoo Trip for Year 13s
• AQA student conference in London for Years 12/13
• Field trip to town centre to conduct Psychological research

Art

• Year 9 – work with the History dept. on Remembrance Day
• Visits to The Tate and Tate Modern
• Visit to the Summer exhibition at the Royal Academy
• Visit to the National Portrait Gallery
• Visits to the town and dockland area with Year 12
• Rosehill Art day
• Art Club on Wednesday 2pm
• Years 10 &11 “Extra Art”
• This Year we worked with the Rotary Club with a Peace conference –making cranes

History

• Great War Memorial Service
• Hampton Court Palace Visit
• Battlefields Residential Trip
• Belgium World War One trip
• Dora Love Holocaust
• Great War Memorial Service

Health & Social Care/Child Development

Cache activities

• Ongoing Early Years Sector placements weekly, for Years 11-13.
• Colchester Zoo planning & organising a trip for children.
• Links with and visits to local Children’s Centres and Montessori school.

HSC activities

• Visits and workshop from professionals working in Health, Social Care and Early Years Sectors.
• Ongoing link with all related work Experience settings related to HSC, as linked to Controlled Assessment.
• Visit to, and involvement with, Children’s Hospice on a regular basis
• Working in partnership with Chatterbox Children’s Centre both CACHE & HSC

English

• Theatre visits
• Spelling Bee
• National Poetry Day
• Book Mastermind
• Poetry by Heart
• Youth Speaks
• Young Writers
• Poetry Live

Sociology

• Sociology of Crime conference’ each year
• We host police teams covering hate crime, forced marriage, domestic violence and trafficking. They work with students on the nature of crime and criminal policy, usually in the summer term.

RE

• Islam GCSE for Muslim students

Spanish

• A revision session with Senior Examiner for Years 10 and 11
• KS3 and Year 10 take part in “Have Your Say Competition” regional competition for Languages
• KS3 Theatre Company (Onatti) visits school, this year the play was “En el campamento”
• Senior Examiner session for Year 12/13
• Spanish Exchange involving KS3/4/5

French

• French Exchange
• Have Your Say Competition
• Franco/Spanglovision with primaries
• Workshops with chief examiners
• French visiting theatre companies/workshops