Life skills development
All Sixth Form students have additional timetabled enrichment every week. A wide range of enrichment and leadership opportunities is available, helping students develop crucial life skills and rise to personal challenges, preparing them for the wider world beyond Rookwood.
A range of options
Students can expect a carousel of Sixth Form-only enrichment which include some of the following.
Culture Club | Community | Lifeskills | Extension | Sport | Personal Challenge |
Theatre visits | Volunteering subject specific | Mortgages & Tax | First Aid | Climbing/ Social tree climbing | Silver/Gold DOE |
Gallery Visits | Work Experience in Departments | Consumer Rights - e.g. phone contracts | Maths Challenge | Archery | EPQ |
Museums | Volunteering in wider community | Flights & Holiday Planning | Astronomy | Canoeing | Couch to 5K |
City | Mentoring lower school pupils | LiFE - Lessons in Financial Education | School Magazine | Gym | Cookery Masterclass |
Famous Houses | Lesson support (subject based) | Food for life weekly shop 7 day basket | Young Entreprise | Badminton, tennis, Table Tennis | Combined Cadet Force |
National Trust | ECA support | Basic banking and saving | Tenner Challenge | Boule | Choir |
Photography | Union/Council | Fencing | Instrumental Lessons | ||
Drawing | Falconry | Dance | |||
Music/Band | Engineering Challenge | Martial Arts/ Self Defence | |||
Spanish | Mountain Biking | ||||
Eco Warriors | Yoga | ||||
Debating society | HIIT | ||||
Trampolining |