1. Walton Support and Enrichment
Year Induction

2. Why do we Offer Walton Support and Enrichment?
Opportunity to enhance their UCAS application or C.V.
Excellent experience in a wide variety of settings
Gain leadership and organisation skills

3. What’s the Difference Between Walton Support and Enrichment?
Enrichment happens on a Wednesday afternoon P5-6. It can be in or out of school. They MIGHT need to organise a different time with an outside organisation.
Enrichment could be
Young Enterprise
Sports Leader
Work Experience hospital, school, pharmacy, law firm, engineering company, charity shop etc
Volunteering – could be in the community or in school Weds 5&6 and Thurs 1&2
Creative writing group

4. Walton Support is organised by the student with a teacher at a mutually convenient time
It happens at school.

5. What is Walton Support and what can you do?
Activity / Task
Number of Students
Special
Requirements
Contact
Support specific students in Food Tech
1 for any Key stage 3 group
A good general knowledge of food processes
Mrs Green or Mrs Stevens or Miss Perks
Help a year 7-11 tutor in registration
1 for any Y8-11 Group
2 Year 7
Get along with people. Reliable
Sign planners
See the relevant tutor
Support for students in ICT
Able to use ICT proficiently
Mr Salter
Organise an inter-tutor house sports competition 5
Good Knowledge of the rules of popular sports
Mr Valentine
Help with a Football / Rugby team
Available during match fixtures and team practice
Mr Williams

6. Walton Support Helping / Organising with clubs and activities
Year 7 mentors / peer mentors
Helping students on a one to one basis in core subject areas
Supporting teachers with particular classes and activities
Break-time supervision

7. Walton Support “Give back” to the school community
Must be undertaken in school
In addition to Enrichment
Equivalent of 1X 50 minute period every week
Role model
Positive involvement with the House System
Counts towards the AQA Bacc 100 hours

8. Lots of other Possibilities
Dance club – help prepare for Expressions
Help in Student Support
Help with drama clubs and / or lunchtime supervision of Y7 in the drama studio
Maintain and update classroom displays by helping the Art technician
Help out in any subject at all
Maths department always have plenty of vacancies – see Mrs Hanson
Science Clubs
Become a part of the senior students team

9. Enrichment
Contributes directly to the AQA Bacc Qualification – Minimum 100 hours needed in total
It can be done in or out of school. Not necessarily on Wednesday.
Students negotiate their own arrangements - work experience placements must be approved before you start work

10. Work Experience Out of school placements must be approved
Letter from home needed
Confirmation that the organisation is willing to accept you.
Forms with employer contact details etc. must be returned for approval

11. Volunteering McMillan Coffee morning – 12 hours
Supporting Katharine House – 6-8 hours
Listen to young readers in one of the feeder primary schools
Students needed to help regularly in the step centre
Arrange extra lesson support / clubs and activity work in school
Support the work of the sixth form Committee – Big events

12. Sports Leader & Young Enterprise
Valued by admissions tutors
Sports Leader -organising events in feeder primaries
Young Enterprise - find out about running a real company
Take part in a local trade fair
Prepare business plans, trade fairs accounts and company reports
Present to business professionals
Give you the edge to make your application stand out

13. The AQA Baccalaureate
Overarching qualification with three main strands in addition to
3 full A Level subjects and 1 AS in a 4th subject
EPQ – Extended Project Qualification
Enrichment Diary

14. Extended Project
Students choose an area of interest in their subject, but not on the teaching specification
Must investigate a question that they formulate
Either produce a 5,000 word document
Or make a product supported with 1,000 word explanation
Invite small audience for their presentation

15. Enrichment Diary Activities done in Walton Support and
Enrichment can contribute to the strands of the Baccalaureate Enrichment diary.
On line diary where they log all of their extra activities

16. Accreditation Pass Merit Distinction
Result is dependent on overall A level grades