Personal Development & Enrichment
Our comprehensive Personal Development programme is designed to equip you with the skills, confidence, and resilience needed to thrive at university, in your career, and throughout your adult life.
PSHE is delivered through tutor periods and regular assemblies, with a focus on preparing you for life beyond school to enable you to successfully navigate the adult world. This includes financial literacy, careers and workplace readiness, mental health and well-being, physical health, relationships and consent and citizenship.
Every term, you will be able to choose an enrichment course. These are fully funded and our aim is to provide activities you enjoy and which broaden your interests and experiences. They range from first aid and archery to art appreciation, learning foreign languages, sign language and cookery.
In addition to your enrichment courses, there are dozens of other extra-curricular activities and events each week. To give you a sense of what is on offer, here are some of the most popular:
- Tennis, table tennis, squash, football, netball, rugby and basketball – played competitively and for fun, with some students achieving coaching qualifications
- Charity events at home and abroad
- Bands, orchestras and choirs
- Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme
- Debating
- Mentoring of younger Harris Academy students and helping to run clubs and events for them