Our wider curriculum offers the Bourne Scholar programme: a weekly lesson for Years 7-11 that encompasses a whole host of different strands featuring extra-curricular topics designed to enrich and enhance a Mossbourne student’s experience. At KS3, it is underpinned by the four pillars of Culture, Community, Character and Scholarship and students participate in a carefully structured programme that includes, but is not limited to, Philosophy, Climate Change, First Aid and Wellbeing, Ancient Civilizations and modes of storytelling, Hackney’s history, Charity and Advocacy.
As the students move into KS4, they are able to choose from a range of options that include Journalism, Dance, HIIT, Yoga, Film, Debating, Cooking and many more.
With a focus on oracy, presentation skills and teamwork, the Bourne Scholar programme gives our students a platform to grow in confidence, develop their extra-curricular interests and become explorative, inquisitive and passionate learners.
Aside from Bourne Scholar, many extra-curricular opportunities are available from chess to architecture, the Duke of Edinburgh Award to our Film Paradiso Foreign Film Club. Students can also participate in a number of sporting clubs and teams, competing at local and national levels, or just for fun.
Music is the academy’s specialism and the Performing Arts Learning Area offers a range of opportunities for students to express themselves creatively at both junior and senior levels. Each Learning Area also hosts an Enrichment Week dedicated to extra-curricular opportunities; these often include external speakers and a range of competitions and experiences for all year groups. Due to the wide variety of enrichment opportunities on offer, the curriculum experience at Mossbourne fosters students who are informed, curious, confident, empathetic, healthy and resilient.
The Enrichment Programme
For content and confident students
We provide Years 7, 8 and 9 students with a wealth of opportunities to feed their interests and curiosity through our comprehensive Enrichment Programme. This programme covers a truly diverse selection of topics and activities, which can be found here.
Each activity has a weekly session and usually culminates in an annual event that showcases the efforts of the students throughout the year.
To extend the opportunities we offer our students outside of the traditional curriculum, running alongside the diverse and comprehensive programme of lunch and after school clubs, the Year 7s and 8s choose two co-curricular clubs to enjoy through each year of KS3. These sit in their prep periods during the school day. Students can choose from a wide variety of options such as Japanese Culture, Rowing, Clay making, Dungeons and Dragons, beginners German, Yoga, Badminton, Musical Theatre Choir, Comedy clubs and many more. These allow students to participate in new opportunities and hopefully inspire future interests and hobbies.