 6th Form : Extra Curricular Activities
PDP Personal Development Programme
Each Wednesday afternoon we offer a range of activities designed to be relaxation from academic study. These usually include: performance, debating, ecological work, cooking "Wicked Food" , football, community service, keeping fit and a whole range more.
Annually:
The Sixth Form Pantomime.
Show in a Week: "Wizard of Oz" 2006, "Guys and Dolls" 2005, "Anything Goes" 2004, "Grease" 2003, "Forbidden Planet" 2002.
Charity Week: dressing up and organising the raising of about £3,500 a year.
Debating competition organised by the Central Science Laboratories: we have won this every year. In 2004 the final was between Huntington A and Huntington B teams.
Sixth Form Foreign Residential Trips
Below you will find examples of trips that we have run for members of the Sixth Form over the last six years.
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Residential Trips |
Non-residential Trips |
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- Beijing
- Prague and Berlin
- The Swiss and French alps
- Geography fieldwork in Liverpool and Manchester
- Art trips to St Ives, Paris, Amsterdam
- Skiing in Austria
- St Petersburg and Moscow
- French exchanges with our partner school in Rennes
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- Work experience in Germany for students studying German
- Eurodisney
- Crakow and Prague
- Biology fieldwork at Skegness
- Theatre Studies fieldwork in London
- Study Visit to Paris for students studying French
- Government and Politics trip to Washington DC
The White House, Washington DC
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- Numerous theatre visits to York, Harrogate, Leeds and Wakefield
- Day revision courses at various venues throughout the North of England
- A one day Psychology course at Chester Zoo
- A Business Studies visit to Cadbury World, Birmingham
- Travel and Tourism research in Scarborough
- Visits to local places of work as part of Health and Social Care, Business Studies and Science courses
- Christmas Science Lecture, Liverpool University
- Harrogate Careers Fair |
Chances to Serve Others:
Paired Reading: 72 students (two mornings each per week)
Reading Challenge:
In Class Support in Learning Support Groups: 36 students (two hours each per week)
Homework Club: 2 students
Electronic Library (reading intervention computer scheme): 3 students
Other extra curricular we offer are Lexia, a spelling intervention computer scheme, cued spelling and handwriting Club
Reading Challenge is a scheme to boost confidence and competence in reading for an identified group of Year 8 students. Year 12 students are trained as mentors and meet their partner in Year 8 for weekly targetted coaching sessions. This takes place in the library during a morning registration period. The scheme is co-ordinated by Mrs Gail Naish, Head of English.
Competition Record:
- David Proctor was the winner of Young Scientist of the Year 2003. It was organised by the University of Hull, open to all 16 - 17 year-olds in Yorkshire and the Humber.
Prize: all expenses paid trip to space camp in USA.
- Brendan Flanagan, Jacob McGuinn, Luke Dale and Kim Trinder were winners of Hostage to Fortune Quiz 2004 organised by University of Hull, open to pupils in Yorkshire and the Humber.
Prize: all expenses trip to New York at Easter 2004.
Young Enterprise:
- 2001 - 2002: Platypus winners of York Area Board
- 2002 - 2003: Laberenth Enterprises winners of York Area Board Corporate Governance Award
- 2004 - 2005: MI Enterprise.
- 2006: WOW Winners of York Area Finals
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