Harpur Hill Primary School & Nursery

EMBARK Awards

We are part of the Embark family of schools, which includes a number of other schools across the Derbyshire area. Children across the Embark schools all have the opportunity to work towards gaining the Embark Award.

What is the Embark Award?

The Embark Award is part of the trust’s commitment to the wider offer for our children. It is made up of 100 activities which our children can complete by the age of eleven. It is based around Embark Trust’s 4 core beliefs of Family, Integrity, Teamwork and Success.

As our children will leave our Infant school at age seven or eight, they possibly won't have time to complete all of the 100 activities before they leave. Infant children can aim to achieve their Bronze, Silver and Gold awards, by completing the number of activities below:

Bronze Award – 30 activities
Silver Award – 50 activities
Gold Award – 70 activities.

The activities encourage family learning at home as well as school related activities. Evidence of an activity being completed can be in the form of eg a photograph, a certificate etc. which can be sent to us via class dojo.

Each child has their own folder in class, in which to keep their evidence and place stickers as activities are achieved. We aim to send activities out during each term. As your child completes an activity we ask that you send a picture via the portfolios section in Class Dojo, adding a comment so that we know it relates to the award.

We hope you will enjoy the different activities as much as your children and ourselves.

The 100 Challenges

These are the 100 challenges, split across the 4 core beliefs of the trust. We have highlighted the ones we feel are age appropriate to our children and would like our children, yourselves and school to work on. ENJOY!

Family

Help to cook a Family Meal
Send School a postcard
Make something with family (eg a model) and bring it/photo into school
Go on family visit and send a picture or write about it
Join local Library, attend with family and then read a book together
Write/e-mail to another member of the Embark Family at a different school
Play a game with another child from the Embark Family at a different school
Visit the theatre either with school or a Family member (YR2 pantomime visit)
Go for a walk in the countryside
Have a family picnic
Interview a family member about their job
Draw a Family tree and speak to a family member about the past
Visit a beach (could be a set-up one), build a sandcastle and take a picture
Build a den (with your family/family member) and take a photo
Attend a sporting event
Attend a visit with another school from the Embark Family
Grow something in your garden to enjoy (eg flowers) or eat (eg beans, carrots)
Visit another country and write a diary
Go to a place of worship with your family
Perform in a school show to the members of your family
Photograph a family pet and describe how you look after/care for it
Encourage all members of your family to write a comment on our school website or social media page
Climb a mountain as a team
Play a board game with your family
Play in the snow and build something e.g a snowman

Integrity

Raise at least £10 for a charity event
Take part in a charity event out of school
Organise a charity event/ run a stall
Lead an assembly on a worthwhile topic
Clean up the community/school grounds (litter pick, recycling)
Help improve an area of the school
Keep a recycling diary
Make an environmental poster
Help someone in need
Become a mini leader
Care for new child at school/become a buddy (reader) and model good choices
Take care of school equipment (class ‘monitor’ over a period of time)
Teach someone a new skill
Encourage Healthy Eating – create a poster
Promote good hygiene in school/home – create a poster for handwashing/sing handwashing song
Sing in an old people’s home
Make someone in our community smile, make a difference
Online Safety – promote and display appropriate us of IT equipment, report inappropriate use
Follow a nature trail
Hand something in of value that you have found
Write a positive comment on our school website
Help to build a memorial – eg. Remembrance poppies in school grounds
Random act of kindness – appear on our board
Promote British Values – democracy, tolerance and respect
Learn about someone else’s religion in your school or community

Teamwork

Participate in 3 school competitions in a year (virtual if necessary)
Take part in a school camp out
Solve a problem with a group of friends
Attend an after school club for at least 6 sessions
Belong to any team outside of school and show us evidence of this
Take part in an enterprise project in school
Represent the school as part of a team
Represent Embark as part of a team
Take part in a school performance to an audience as a team
Represent your class on the school council
Lead a team of children in school
Convince your teacher over the year that you are an effective team member
Teach another group of children a new skill
Contribute to a team at sports day
Be a Buddy Reader
Receive an award e.g sticker or certificate etc that recognises your team work or helping someone else
Take part in a team activity outside in the dark
Help someone in class who is struggling
Complete a team Project in class with children you don’t normally work with
Build a structure with a team in class
Cook a meal as a team/plan a menu
Learn how to give constructive feedback to a fellow pupil/team member
Show resilience as a team by working together to overcome a difficult situation.
Set yourself a stretch goal
Get a team to set up or scavenger/treasure hunt for children in the Embark family