Enrichment and Raising Aspirations at Queen Elizabeth’s Girls’ School, Pupil Premium

As a school we believe that enrichment activities and wider experiences beyond the curriculum are an important part of the all-round educational experience and so we invest part of the pupil premium funding in enrichment activities for the students across the year groups.

We have funded the following enrichment and aspirational activities:

Enrichment opportunities
Elevate – Revision Workshops	Years 10 and 11 Two sessions ‘Ace your exams' and ‘Memory and Mnemonics’
Free Music Tuition	Years 8 and 9 Delivered by a peripatetic music teacher on a one to one basis weekly
Rock Challenge	All Years A dance competition which promotes healthy life choices. Students take part in performing, make up, and set designing and building.
Shakespeare Workshop	Year 9 One day event to help get to grips with understanding Shakespeare
White Water Writers	KS3 White Water Writers is a literacy project that enables groups of up to ten writers to write and publish their own novel within five days facilitated by university students.
Raising Aspirations
The Girls Network	Year 9 A mentoring programme that matches students with a professional female mentor in order to inspire them and help them to succeed
Careers Interviews	Years 9, 10 and 11 Throughout the Year
University Visits	Throughout the Year
PiXL Conferences – Getting into the top universities	Years 10/11 and Years 8/9
Educational Visits
Warner Brothers Studio	Script Writing KS3 Students took part in a script writing and film making course at the Warner Bros Studio
Geography Field Trip	Year 10 Students visit Epping Forest to carry out their research
Boulogne	Year 7
Rock Ur Teens Conference	Year 9 Encouraging students to create a global community of teens in order to inspire change in the world.
Residential Trips
History Battlefields Trip	Year 9
Ski Trip	Years 10 and 11