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Enrichment Week

What is Enrichment Week?
While a large proportion of students’ time is spent on ensuring their academic success,
we also believe in helping students develop their characters; find out more about their
interests and passions; and invest in their social, moral and cultural life-skills.
The activities the College offers in Enrichment Week, including Sports, Arts, Music, and
community development and work experience, are perfectly placed to support this.
They can help improve students’ future employability, boost self-confidence, develop
leadership skills, instil self-motivation, overcome fears and help them succeed in
society. They are also a fantastic way to increase students’ enjoyment of College life,
creating an inclusive spirit and helping build life-long memories and friendships.
What happens?
During Enrichment Week the normal College timetable is collapsed and students are
offered a range of alternative learning experiences and activities outside of the usual
curriculum. Activities across the Year Groups range from work experience, creative
writing workshops, football sessions, cinema trips and caving to surfing, cheerleading,
dance trips to London, and outdoor educational trips to the Ardeche.
When is it?
Monday, 1 July to Friday, 5 July 2019. For further information please visit the College
website:
https://www.ivybridge.devon.sch.uk/enrichmentweek2019

6 News Head of Department: Heather Lilley

PARENT Journalism Discovery Day
FORUM
Sixth Form Media Studies students attend a Journalism
5.30pm – 6.30pm Discover Day at Plymouth Marjon University on Thursday,
• 25 June 2019 24 January. The day gave the students an opportunity to
experience what studying Journalism would be like at the
PARENTMEET university, and beyond that to working in the industry.
The day started with a presentation by noted Guardian
5.00pm – 6.00pm journalist Matt Baker. Matt then set the students on a task
• 14 May 2019 to take a prominent current news topic and create and
produce an audio visual news story and publish it on the
For further information and university’s student website,
to book a place on the All the students entered into the spirit of the day and
next meeting please visit produced relevant news stories using software and
the College website equipment that they had not used before, picking up
new skills along the way.

Achievements for Mia at
Erme Valley

On Monday, 26 February, Mia in Year 7, received her
Grade 1 Certificates in both Horse Care and Horse
Riding. Mia has been attending the Erme Valley
Riding School since the middle of January and she
completed her riding test on Albert. She will now be
working towards her Level 2 qualification.
Paula Lomas, who teaches Mia to ride, is very pleased

with her progress and
extremely proud with
how well she is doing,
as is Peggy Douglas
who runs the RDA.
Paula said, “Mia
works well in the
Happy Hoof Club
with the others riders
and loves looking
after Albert.”

The College Echo - Spring 2019 - www.ivybridge.devon.sch.uk