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N U R T U R I N G E X C E L L E N C E

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Enrichment activities are a substantial part of our College offer. The range of sporting, academic and creative opportunities available allows every student to build on existing skills and talents as well as develop new ones.

The social benefits of being involved and the variety of activities on offer help students to develop confidence, friendships and self-esteem and engaging with others in social and competitive sport reinforces the Howell’s ethos that a healthy body is as important as a healthy mind.

The full Enrichment programme is timetabled on Wednesday afternoons. The sporting opportunities are extended through a number of sports clubs and training sessions programmed as extra-curricular activities. All students choose one Enrichment activity for the term and change every half-term.

ARCHERY Coach: Lauren Hunter Beginners are welcome to join the group in the Sports Hall each week for an hour’s tuition.

BADMINTON Coach: Miss Jade Batchelor Beginners or experienced players are welcome to play badminton in the Sports Hall each week.

DRY SLOPE SKIING Coach: Mr Peter Cruickshank If you are planning to join the College Ski Trip in February half term, this package of lessons would be an excellent introduction to the sport as well as the possibility of being involved in the Schools’ Dry Slope Skiing Championships.

FIRST AID COURSE Coach: Mrs Anna Lewis You would need to commit to this certificated course for half a term. The group size will be limited to 6 - 8 students. The course will run four times throughout the year.

FITNESS TRAINING & RUNNING Coach: Mr Tom Biebrach Join Mr Biebrach in the Fitness Suite each week to develop your own training circuit.

FOOTBALL Coach: Mr Wally Carter (Left) Assistant Coach: Mr Steve Elmes (Right) Football for fitness will run every Wednesday afternoon. Training for those students who wish to be in the football team will take place on Monday after School. Team members will have the opportunity to take part in the Cardiff League and Under 18 Welsh Schools’ Cup competitions as well as local friendlies.

Sport… for Leisure, for Competition and for Life

Introduction to the Howell’s College Enrichment Programme

Jade Batchelor, Director of Sport

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HOCKEY Coach: Mr Geoff Roderick Training and matches are held on Tuesday after college at Leckwith Stadium. Team members will have the opportunity to take part in the GDST Hockey Rally in Northampton and the Cardiff and Vale Schools Tournament.

NETBALL Coach: Mrs Fay Shorney Training and matches will take place on Wednesday afternoons. You will have the opportunity to take part in the School and Vale Tournament and the GDST Netball Rally in Northampton.

ROWING Coach: Mr Tom Biebrach Rowing for beginners, intermediate and experienced rowers will be arranged at Llandaff Rowing club.

RUGBY Coach: Mr Matthew Sweeney Mr Sweeney has experience of coaching a Junior Blues Regional Team in 2010/11. He has led the Rugby at Howell’s for the past two seasons and has taken the team to the Urdd National 7s each year. He also arranged the inaugural Howell’s 7s competition last season in which the Home Side were runners up to Stanwell School. We intend repeating this successful event in October 2012. The players will train on a Wednesday afternoon as well as playing regular friendlies against local Cardiff teams.

SWIMMING Teacher: Mrs Fiona Mills Join Mrs Mills in the Swimming Pool on Wednesday to enjoy swimming for leisure.

YOGA Teacher: Catherine Kelleher Join Mrs Catherine Kelleher on Wednesday afternoons in BR3 to enjoy yoga.

ZUMBA / AEROBICS Teacher: Mrs Justine Davies Join Mrs Justine Davies in the Great Hall on Wednesday afternoons to enjoy Zumba for fun.

Additional Sports Opportunities

CARDIO TENNISBounce to the beat, with Cardio Tennis. This is a fun, sociable, high energy, group fitness activity that combines the best features of tennis with cardiovascular exercise. It is a tennis inspired workout played to up-tempo music for students of all abilities.

CROSS COUNTRY League races are held for both sexes in the Autumn Term.

SKI TRIP The will be a ski trip to Austria during Spring Half Term 2014.

GOLD DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S AWARD Preparation for this award takes place during curriculum time and includes expedition training in the Brecon Beacons during the Autumn Term. The practice expedition is held during summer term and the qualifying expedition will be held in the Summer holidays 2015.

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Extra-curricular Opportunities THE EXTENDED PROJECT Mrs Kate Jones The Extended Project is an opportunity for students to design and carry out a research project of their own choice with minimal teacher supervision. A successful project allows students to demonstrate that they are creative learners with the ability to research, think critically and evaluate evidence to an advanced level, independently. It also requires a very high level of communication skills through the production of a written report and an oral presentation of the project to a selected audience. It is very useful to students applying for highly competitive degree courses who need to make their university applications stand out from the crowd.

DEBATING Mrs Helen Davies In addition to being hugely enjoyable to both participants and spectators, Debating develops the valuable skills of lucid communication, formulating and substantiating a coherent argument and challenging opposing viewpoints. It is an excellent preparation for university and job interviews where you are required to ‘think on your feet’ and for many career paths, including Law and Politics. At Howell’s, we hold internal debates in a variety of formats, and participate in a range of national competitions, including the CEWC competition, Debating Matters and the Oxford and Cambridge Schools’ Competitions.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP Mrs Julie House Entrepreneurship can be defined by describing what entrepreneurs do. For example: “Entrepreneurs use personal initiative, and engage in calculated risk-taking, to create new business ventures by raising resources to apply innovative new ideas that solve problems, meet challenges, or satisfy the needs of a clearly defined market.”

Entrepreneurship is not restricted to business and profit: it may involve participation in an event which brings about a change to achieve some benefit. For instance last year’s Bust fashion show raised £4000 for Velindre hospital’s Leading Lights Campaign for specialist cancer care nurses. This charitable event resulted in the team participating in Global Entrepreneurship week and becoming finalists in a local Masterclass competition run by Careers Wales and Colorfoto.

For a long time it was thought that entrepreneurs were special, that they were just born with the ability and desire to go their own way, on their own. Over the past twenty years or so, we’ve discovered that entrepreneurs learn to do what they do and that they also learn, to a large extent, to be who they are. That’s why we say they are made not born. Many of the opportunities offered in the college help you to develop your entrepreneurial skills. http://www.mvp.cfee.org/en/aboutentrepreneurs.html

LANGUAGE CLASSES French, Italian (if there is demand) and German conversation lessons are available where spoken conversation with a native linguist allows you to develop fluency and confidence.

WORK EXPERIENCE A work placement is your opportunity to spend a period of time outside the classroom, learning about a particular job or area of work. During your placement, you’ll be able to find out what skills employers look for when they’re hiring someone to fill a job vacancy.

You will also get the chance to develop your self-confidence and communication skills. This will help you to work better with other people in further or higher education, as well as in your future career.

In Year 12, your work experience placement needs to be organised during school holidays as you cannot miss curriculum time from your studies. It is usual for this to involve working in a business or organisation full-time for one or two weeks, or spending one day per week in the workplace over a number of months. This latter choice may be particularly valuable if entering the voluntary sector as experience for Medicine courses. Consider care homes, charity shops, special schools which run literacy classes, mother & baby groups etc.

See: Mrs House in the Careers Room

‘WHIZZ BANG SCIENCE’ Join Mrs Churchman to prepare science experiments to take out to our feeder Junior Schools.

HOWELL’S RADIO Join Mr Hunter in preparing radio broadcasts and learning how to operate our own school radio.

HOWELL’S ROCK BAND & MUSICAL PERFORMANCE Come along if you are interested in forming a school rock band and/or would like to be involved in musical performance.

Extra-curricular Clubs FRESHERS’ FAIR At the Freshers’ Fair, students are introduced to the following opportunities: Choir, Jazz Group, Orchestra, Millennium Volunteering, Interact, Envision, Engineering, Welsh for the Workplace and Eco Club.

You can also join a society such as the Politics Society, Amnesty International or the Languages Club.

N U R T U R I N G E X C E L L E N C E

“ Enrichment activities are a

substantial part of our College

offer. The range of sporting,

academic and creative

opportunities available allow

every student to build on

existing skills and talents as

well as develop new ones.”

ENRICHMENT PROGRAMME2 0 1 3 - 2 0 1 4What can you do?