Enrichment

Throughout the year we ensure that we provide the opportunity for our pupils to experience a variety of activities, events and experiences outside of the normal day-to-day timetable. 

After-school Clubs

Each term the children are offered a wide range of after-school clubs to further develop their interest and enjoyment in a choice of areas. Pupils can choose from a range of more physical, outdoor-based activities or artistic and academic, indoor-based activities.  These are some of the recent clubs which have been offer at the school, though they change termly with the seasons and pupil interest.

After-school clubs are run by members of staff from the primary and secondary schools, as well as specialist coaches and volunteer parents.

Class Trips & Educational Visits

Being placed right in the heart of London, we aim to provide a trip or educational visit for all classes at least once every half term. These visits will usually be linked to areas of learning the pupils are involved in during that term, but they may also be an opportunity for a trip that we feel is generally going to benefit our pupils' understanding and enjoyment of the world around them.

Below is a table of some of the places that pupils have visited in the last couple of years:

Year 6 recently worked with City University to create a news show. They created the script themselves and learnt about the process of making the news. The impressive results can be seen in the video below.

Residentials

We feel it is very important for our pupils to get the chance to experience time away from home and school for a few days, and in Years 5 & 6 they have the opportunity to go on a class residential in the rural settings of Sayers Croft, in Surrey, and Cardfields in Essex. These residentials not only give the children their first taste of staying somewhere for an extended period with their classmates, they also get to participate in many outdoor activities such as shelter building, pond dipping, high ropes, stream walks, archery and team building exercises. As well as this, they get to really appreciate the open space of the countryside, sharing the experience with their friends.

 

 

Musical Opportunities & Performances

We are very proud of our music at SMMA, and during the year we make sure the pupils are given the opportunities to demonstrate their amazing musical talents to others, as well as experience quality performance from other musicians. Examples of these occasions have been performing as part of the choir at Prom Praise at the Royal Albert Hall and Carol Singing at Highbury and Islington. These events are usually the culmination of various workshops, rehearsals and practice in school or at other locations. Although the pupils clearly enjoy these types of performance, their passion for music can also regularly be seen, every week, in our singing assemblies, music classes, choir practice and class assemblies.

Additionally, our pupils also have the advantage of being able to pay for individual music lessons, with specialist teachers from the secondary school. Such tuition has included guitar, drums, violin, trumpet, keyboard and piano. The pupils also get to show these musical talents in special assemblies to the rest of the school.

Nativity & Carol Concert                                                  

The Christmas period is important for the Primary and we celebrate with two special events: The KS1 Nativity and the KS2 Carol Concert. These are occasions when friends and family are invited to watch, with the Nativity being performed in the secondary hall, and the Carol Concert taking place in St. Mary Magdalene Church.

Shakespeare

One of our annual enrichment activities is the whole school Shakespeare drama classes which takes place during the Spring and Summer term. Years 1 and 2 explore a story related to their current English unit. Whilst Years 3 - 6 explore two Shakespeare plays through drama. Year 6 then perform a play in July as part of their leavers schedule. In 2023 the play was Macbeth and in 2024 it was Hamlet.