This week ReachOut! has seen grape squashing science lessons, Dragon’s Den style persuasive writing in English and the ‘human maths game’ to practice arithmetic.
The ReachOut! Summer Programme will run at The Petchey Academy throughout August offering local pupils from Hackney fun activities, sports and booster classes. Loyal attendees returning (some for the 5th year running!) were excited to find new additions to the timetable this year: drama and arts and crafts. The project aims to raise attainment in key subjects, boost confidence amongst the pupils and perhaps most importantly, to provide them with a constructive and fun way of spending the summer holiday.
Always a favourite, the ice-skating trip was a great success. Gloria, year 4 summed up her day; ‘[it was] fun and exciting, I made a new friend and we helped each other skate because it was a bit scary.’
The ReachOut! Summer Programme will run at The Petchey Academy throughout August offering local pupils from Hackney fun activities, sports and booster classes. Loyal attendees returning (some for the 5th year running!) were excited to find new additions to the timetable this year: drama and arts and crafts. The project aims to raise attainment in key subjects, boost confidence amongst the pupils and perhaps most importantly, to provide them with a constructive and fun way of spending the summer holiday.
Always a favourite, the ice-skating trip was a great success. Gloria, year 4 summed up her day; ‘[it was] fun and exciting, I made a new friend and we helped each other skate because it was a bit scary.’
The relevance of this programme was confirmed this week in the press with The Evening Standard reporting that one in four London primary school leavers ‘fails to reach the expected level in English and maths’. ReachOut!’s project goes ahead with these statistics in mind, the booster classes in core subjects are aiming to combine a more relaxed learning environment with the most relevant and up-to-date lesson plans.
Today we welcomed a visit from ReachOut!’s CEO. Following a tour, Xavier was pleased to see such ‘a lot of activity, everyone busy being positive and fruitful, and best of all having fun!’
We will be blogging every Friday throughout the project but for more regular updates, news and comments follow @ReachOutLondon and look out for the #reachoutsummerproject hash-tag.
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