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ENRICH AND ENJOY
For many students a subject can come alive through class trips and workshops. We look at how EBC students learn beyond the classroom
T ake a walk around EBC during the school’ s working week and you will usually find teachers at their whiteboards and students working hard at their desks. Every now and then, however, the door will open on to an abandoned classroom – a clue that the lesson for today is taking place somewhere other than the classroom
“ Sometimes you can really bring a subject alive through a well-timed trip or a workshop held at school,” explains Ms Abogunrin, a senior teacher at the college. She cites examples from her own subject, History, such as the annual Year 7 trip to Bodiam Castle, as being big favourites for staff and students alike.
In the autumn term, Year 7 students study Shakespeare during their English lessons, and a timely workshop by the Orange Tree Theatre Company can help lift the Bard’ s plays out of the text book. The Science Department takes Year 7 boys to the Science Museum and organises a number of other curriculum-based trips such as a biology trip to Wandsworth Common where students use transects( one metre square areas) to measure the type of vegetation.
The Maths departments organises Puzzle Days for students in Years 7 & 8 to get students thinking about Maths creatively.
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Skills and experience gained outside the classroom are as important as academic grades
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Students in Year 9 and upwards also take part in a number of Enterprise Days to hone their business skills. Some opportunities are offered that do not have a direct link to the curriculum such as the annual BBC News School Reporting Day. This year the group were lucky enough to interview Sadiq Khan, our local MP and an ex-pupil of the college, and to visit the Houses of Parliament.
There are also a number of residential trips away from the college on offer including trips to PGL centres for Year 7 & 8 in the summer term and a camping trip for boys in Year 9. This year the Year 7 team took a group of the Foundation learners to Jamie’ s Farm in Wiltshire where the boys had the chance to help out with the animals and experience life on a working farm. The PE department organised a ski trip to Le Corbiere in the French Alps and are currently planning the same trip for February 2014.
This year the Geography department took 35 boys from Years 9, 10 & 11 to Italy to look at volcanoes and other geographical features.
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