Today's universities and employers seek well-rounded individuals who have explored a range of experiences to develop their skills and character. To this end, Waseley Hills offers an extensive range of extracurricular and enrichment opportunities for students to add to their package in a way that suits them.

Students are encouraged to participate in a range of opportunities that build skills and provide valuable lessons for life. All students are encouraged to choose one enrichment option to complete within their independent study periods. Some students choose to participate in more than one opportunity if their workload allows. In addition, students are expected to complete relevant and valuable work experience in Year 12, typically for a week towards the end of the year, in order to prepare them for working life.

 

What Enrichment is Available?

Bronze Programme

All students are expected to complete one of the options below alongside their 3 subjects:

• Extended Project Qualification
• Duke of Edinburgh Award
• IDEA Award
• Student Leadership
• Open Learn Courses
• Young Enterprise

Other Enrichment Opportunities Available to Students:

• UK Mathematics Trust challenges
• Team building trips and activities
• Visits to national museums and galleries
• Geography and History field trips
• Trips to Universities and workplaces
• Workshops with visitors and guest speakers
• 5 days work experience in Year 12

 

Charity Work                                                                                                                                
In the wider community, Waseley Sixth Formers are renowned for their generosity and civic pride. The annual ‘Pensioners’ Tea Party’ is a popular Christmas event with students and local residents alike, and the charitable deeds of individual students and the Sixth Form as a whole speak volumes for the selfless, generous attitude on which we pride ourselves.

In 2023 our Sixth Form Charity Committee Leaders organised and led our Charity Week to raise money for Birmingham Children’s Hospital. These student leaders challenged and supported student councils and leadership teams from all 13 schools, ranging from Early Years to Sixth Form, within the trust across the West Midlands, to work together to plan imaginative activities to raise money for our chosen charity.

Students developed fantastic leadership behaviours as well as a great deal of maturity when considering the implications and limitations of their concepts and ideas and developed a fantastic sense of ownership in their chosen events.

Together, students from across our trust schools have now raised over £10,000 for Birmingham Children’s Hospital. All schools hosted an array of events to raise this money including charity wristband and homemade bracelet sales, discos, whole school carnivals and fairs, cake sales, guess the number of sweets in a jar and even gunge the teacher!

The Sixth Form charity committee leaders were invited to present the donation cheque to the hospital and tour the areas that will benefit from the amazing donation. The monies raised will be used to fund a project to update the play and distraction offerings within the Surgical Day Unit.

Our Charity Committee leaders and members will continue to develop this work each year with different charities chosen by the students themselves.