Challenge Week 13th - 16th July 2020 - AGILE HARD WORKING - The Maplesden Noakes School
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Challenge Week
13th - 16th July 2020
AGILE
HARD WORKING EMPATHETIC
REALISING META-THINKING
CREATING LINKING
ANALYSING
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November 2019
Dear Parents/Guardians,
Challenge Week 2020
I am writing to you regarding our Challenge Week which will take place from 13th – 16th July 2020.
All students in Years 7, 8 and 9 will be involved, and this booklet gives parents and students an outline
and overview of each activity. Each activity has focused upon the characteristics which students need
to develop if they are to be high performers. The Values, Attitudes and Attributes (VAAs) and/or
Advanced Cognitive Performance Characteristics (ACPs) for each challenge are identified in the
booklet.
You will need to select your choice, using your Wisepay account, unless you are wishing to choose
one of the free activities, in which case you will need to complete the slip at the end of the booklet and
return to reception.
You will be able to secure a place for one of the paid for activities by paying the specified deposit, or
full amount, when activities go live on Tuesday 3rd December 2019 at 8am. Deposits and selection will
be available until Friday 13th December 2019. Places will be limited for each activity and activities will
be allocated on a first come, first served basis. We therefore recommend that you book early to avoid
disappointment as many of the activities filled up very quickly last year. If your first choice of activity
is full and no longer available, then please select another activity.
Should you not opt in for an activity by Friday 13th December 2019 then your son/daughter will be
allocated free on-site PE.
Please note that for all activities that cost £75 or less, we require the full payment. For activities which
cost more than £75 then the deposit will be outlined on the individual activities page on Wisepay. For
any activity which is free then please complete and return the reply slip at the back of the booklet and
return it to reception by Friday 13th December.
Deposits for trips are non-refundable unless another student can be found to take your son/daughter’s
place. Please also be aware that any activity which does not attract a viable number of students may be
subject to cancellation, in which case your deposit will be refunded and you will then need to choose
another activity.
Activities are subject to change depending on availability of venues once we know numbers for each
activity.
Finally, any student that accrues a poor behaviour record during this academic year (2019-2020) will
not be permitted to take part in any off-site activity and no refunds will be payable.
Your sincerely,
Moira Watts
Deputy Headteacher
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Challenge Week 2020
Contents: Page
1. Anime 4
2. Backwoods and Forwards 5
3. Mind your own Business 6
4. Cartoon Time 7
5. Cyclo-Splash Challenge Week 8
6. Animal Challenge Week 9
7. Days Out 10
8. Dance Week 11
9. Fishing Week 12
10. Raspberry Pi Challenge 13
11. Tabletop Gaming 14
12. Harry Potter Learning Week 15
13. Off Site PE 16
14. On Site PE 17
15. French Adventure 18
16. The News Reporter in Me 19
17. White Knuckles 20
18. Blitz and Pieces 21
19. Crime Solving 22
20. Outdoor Adventures 23
21. Free Activity Booking Form 24
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Exclusive to Year 7 and Year 8 students! Max. 30 students
Total Price: Free
Cost: Free Maximum number Sign up – NOW!
of students: 30
Be creative and enterprising and
Demonstrate values and attitudes
possibly resilient by creating
such as enquiring and being open
characters and producing a
minded whilst watching a range of
cartoon strip or short film.
Anime films.
Learn how to sketch Anime style.
This may require some practice.
Total Price: Free
Maximum number of students: 30
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Backwoods and Forwards
If you enjoy being outside and fancy yourself to be a bit of a Lara Croft, Bear Grylls or
Ray Mears; then come and join us!
You will be walking, fire lighting and cooking on campfires, bivouac (den) building, and
the chance to spend a night sleeping under the stars in the shelter you have built!
Monday
Local treasure hunt/quiz walk to
Allington Lock
Tuesday
Travel to a local country park by train and shank’s pony.
Walk and explore the park, stopping for lunch.
Wednesday
Take the train to Wateringbury and walk back along the river path.
Lunch at Teston Country Park.
Thursday
Hike to Tovil Scout HQ. Backwoods skills with evening BBQ and
outdoor games and campfire sing-a-long with Tovil Scouts followed by
a night sleeping under the stars.
Friday
B&F breakfast, tidy up camp site and walk back
Enquiring - develop your own
Practice – the new skills you will solutions to new problems.
gain. Open-minded - working with
Perseverance – keep going, using others and listening to their views,
a systematic approach incorporating them in the final plan.
Resilience – keep going even if Risk-taking - confidence in new
it doesn’t work first time activities and gaining new skills that
challenge you.
Creative and enterprising – being
Collaborative – working with others to creative and inventive with
learn and master new skills. available resources
Concern for society – citizenship and
sense of community with new people.
Confidence – in sharing your
skills and developing your
abilities.
The cost for the week is £25
(Including all travel and camp food for Thursday and Friday)
Maximum number of students: 12
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Mind your own Business
(Design, Make it, Market it & Sell it)
You will be signing up to learn how to design, develop, market and sell products for
a profit whilst having fun and learning new skills. You will be designing and making
a different marketable product each day. Products may vary.
Day 1:
Design & make your own
‘Café’ cupcakes & smoothies
Day 2:
Design & make your own monster/
Day of the Dead key ring in felt.
Day 3:
Design & make your own laser cut decoration/product for Christmas,
birthdays etc. with a view to marketing & selling it.
Day 4:
Celebrate your entrepreneurial skills with a trip to the cinema, film to be decided
nearer the time, and home-made popcorn on your final day.
Self-Regulation Precision Fluent thinking
Strategy Planning Flexible thinking
Big picture thinking
Collaborative Imagination
Concerned for society
Speed & Accuracy
Resilience
Enquiring
Creative and Enterprising
Risk –Taking
Total Price: £40
Includes all materials and the Cinema
Maximum number of students: 15
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!!!!
You will create with precision a MASSIVE ,
accurate, enlarged cartoon character
of your choice (seen outside T3) that
you will get to take home.
Your final piece will include original
stylised lettering and stencilling
completed using the laser cutter.
The cost of the week will include all
materials and a trip to the cinema to
see the latest animated film for
inspiration. Cost of week: £35
The week will be organised and run by Miss Booth.
Are you interested in
Art, Graphics, Design
& CARTOONS?
Total Price: £35
Maximum number of students: 10
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Cyclo-Splash Challenge Week
Activities include:
Olympic Park, London:
Velodrome track plus BMX
Bedgebury Pinetum:
Mountain Biking
Bewl Water:
Aqua Park inflatables plus mountain biking
Bettshanger:
Road and Mountain biking Risk-taking - Confidence in new
situations. Experiment to find the
best solution.
Perseverance - Keep going when the road
ahead is tough.
Resilience - Not giving up when facing an
uphill struggle. Collaborative - supporting each
other.
Confident - solving new
challenges
Cost for the week - £185
Deposit of £92.50 required
Includes bike, equipment hire and transport
Maximum number of students: 15
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Animal Challenge Week
Have you ever wanted to enquire what it’s like to be a monkey and swing from the
trees or swim in the ocean like a fish? How about taking a few risks and holding some
animals you wouldn’t normally hold? Maybe you’re concerned for society about the
extinction of animals and want to find out how you can help?
Well, now is your chance to find out through a variety of different days!
Monday Drusillas - Includes a talk on animal encounters
- Get to hold snakes, cockroaches and other animals
- A goody bag
(please note, students under 12 are not allowed in the
play areas but can go on the rides)
Tuesday Brighton aquarium AM: self guided tour around the aquarium and
lunch on the beach
PM: crazy golf (18 holes) and beach time
Wednesday Lion King A matinee show in London,
theatre show West End of Disney’s the Lion King.
at the West End Please note, this will be a later start and an evening return.
Thursday Chessington zoo You will be split into 2 groups. The first group will visit
and theme park plus Go Ape in the morning and Chessington in the afternoon
Go Ape and the second group will visit Chessington first and Go
Ape later in the day.
Please note this will be a longer day and will run to the
evening.
Please note, timings of the Animal Challenge Week will not be
normal school timings
Total Cost: £180
Deposit of £90 required
Maximum number of students: 50
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Days Out
Join us for 4 days of varied trips out around the South East with a selection of activities to suit
everyone and challenge you.
Please note that although activities have been outlined and arranged this could change slightly
for reasons out of our control. However, should this unlikely event arise then alternative activities
will be arranged. Days Out will also not necessarily be in the order stated below.
Port Lympne
Go on a Safari and see some of the animals at Kent’s well
known wild animal park. Set in 600 acres, and housing over
650 rare and endangered animals, Port Lympne offers a
treat for everyone.
Raft Building at Mote Park
Have fun working together to build a raft…and hope you don’t capsize!
Then have some time to unwind in the park with a picnic and some games.
Thorpe Park
Thrill seekers of all ages can experience a non-stop adrenaline rush at Thorpe Park, home to
some of Europe’s most exhilarating rides and attractions, with fun and thrills for everyone!
OPTION A:
Bedgebury Forest
Hack around on a mountain bike on the super fun and fast
mountain bike trail or take a more leisurely cycle around the
less demanding routes with your friends.
Option A (cycling) total cost approximately: £110
Deposit: £55
Maximum number of students: 45 Risk taking
Perseverance
The horse riding days challenge
OPTION B: students, with the fantastic support of
the riding school staff, to achieve what
(limited places – first is sometimes a huge obstacle, which in
come first served) this case has four legs!
Students learn to be open minded,
Horse Riding sensitive to the needs of others (people
The opportunity to and horses) and to work as a team. It
spend the day taking is an empowering experience building
part in a range of on the confidence that comes from risk
activities such as stable management, riding and taking and perseverance.
grooming at a local stables. By the end of a day learning about
how to care for and ride a horse, every
student, every year, comes away with
Option B (horse riding) total cost approximately: £130 the experience of starting from nothing
Deposit: £65 to achieving, what for some, are
Maximum number of students: 66 unimagined goals.
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Dance Week
Join Mr Kelly and his team for an energised week of Dance!
Monday morning Create your very own street dance battles.
Ever wanted to rival the Royal Family dance crew?
Now is your chance to prove you have the best
street dance moves at Maplesden!
afternoon Videostar music video creating around Maplesden.
Choose your favourite pop-star or group and create
your own version of their music videos.
Tuesday morning Unleash your inner musical fan. Sing and
dance your way through an exciting musical by
world-renowned artist, Michael Jackson.
afternoon Bring your own snacks and drink for an afternoon at
the dance movies. Carry on creating ideas for your street
dance battles ready for a showcase at the end of the week.
Wednesday Take part in a HUGE dance workshop with a world-renowned
dance company. Who knows… you may even be grabbed as
part of their crew?!
Thursday Reign supreme at Just Dance
Maplesdens’ Got Dance Talent- Showcase Performance of our
spectacular Dance Creations throughout the week.
Total Price for the Week: £20
Inclusive price of workshop on-site.
Pupils will need to provide their own
packed lunch and drinks for the week.
Maximum number of students: 40
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Fishing Week
The aim of the week is to experience 4 days fishing in the Maidstone area.
No previous experience is
required, however only limited
equipment can be borrowed so
a rod and basic ‘fishing tackle’
Possible schedule: is recommended.
Monk Lakes, Staplehurst
Grove Fisheries, Hadlow.
Total Price: £45
Includes price of day ticket
Maximum number of students: 8
Pupils will need to provide a packed
lunch and drink unless they are FSM.
Cafes available at venue. In order to
keep the cost to a minimum, staff will
transport students by car, but some
may need to be dropped off and
collected at the venue each day by
parents/carers.
Fishing is a mindful activity, that requires personal characteristics concentration,
organisation, strategy-planning, patience and skill. As a part of the school’s
drive towards High Performance Learning this activity develops VAAs such as
perseverance and practice.
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Raspberry Pi Challenge
Welcome all gaming geeks and computer nerds!
We have the opportunity to spend 4 days creating our own computer and gaming
console which you will then get to keep and take home to play with and build on
over the Summer holidays.
We will use our enquiring skills to show our intellectual ability to create our very
own gaming PCs. This creative task will test our perseverance and resilience and
result in a truly unique personal computer.
What is Raspberry Pi? It is a tiny computer that plugs
into your monitor/TV and keyboard. It allows you to
explore computing, coding and to learn how to program
in languages like Scratch and Python. The Raspberry Pi
has WiFi and Bluetooth capabilities. Steam provides you
with lots of totally free games to download and play.
The week will consist of:
Challenge
Monday Unboxing of your new Raspberry Pi 3 B model starter kit
and beginning the process of setting it up and starting to
create.
Tuesday Install an operating system which will enable you to run
games.
Wednesday Install Steam so that you can begin your gaming experience.
Thursday Final installations and time to have fun and play with your
new micro computer.
Total Price: £70
Includes your own Raspberry Pi to take home and play with
Maximum number of students: 30
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Tabletop Gaming
Events
Day 1 High Performance
Play board games and carry out research Learning
Day 2 Integrate HPL thinking into your board
Create your own board game using dice, gaming
cards, a foldable board and playing pieces
Day 3 Collaborative
Escape Room trip! Can you and your team Play board games with others and
escape the prison? conduct research
Day 4 Creative and Enterprising
Play each others games and then take Make your own board game to take
them home with you! home
Confidence
Face new challenges and team up
with new friends
Total Price: £40
Includes a trip and keeping your own board game!
Maximum number of students: 24
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HPL Learning Week
Meet on platform 9¾ and embark on a force filled and
magical week.
If you want to know about Hogwarts secret passages, play
Quidditch like Viktor Krum, escape from a magic school and
create a few fantastic memorabilia, THIS IS YOUR WEEK !!!!
We will ‘confringo’ our enemies, play Quidditch and generally have an ‘out of
this world’ time in a MAGICAL WORLD. Visit the sets of the Harry Potter mov-
ies, embark on the Hogwarts Express and enjoy a refreshing Butter Beer.
Originality
Analysing
Collaborative
Price includes:
Craft workshops
Quidditch game
Wand duels
Coach to Harry Potter World
Harry Potter World entry
Escape Room - mobile magic school
Owls and Birds of Prey
Total Price: £130
Archery
Deposit: £65
Maximum number of pupils: 25
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Off Site PE
Join the PE department for a week of fun!
Monday
Morning Swimming - Mote Park
Afternoon Orienteering - Mote Park
Tuesday
Morning Bowls - Buckland Road
Afternoon Pool/Snooker - Buckland Hill
Wednesday
Morning Watersports - Mote Park
Afternoon Games/Tournaments - Mote Park
Thursday
Morning Bowling - Lockmeadow
Afternoon Gravity - Lockmeadow
High Performance Learning
During this Challenge Week, students can expect to make significant improvements to the
following VAAs of HPL; collaborative work during teambuilding activities, confidence in abil-
ity, risk taking and enquiring through new activities they will experience and the importance
of resilience in order to be successful.
Please note – All sessions are subject to availability. Where a particular sport session is not
available, this could be replaced with a different sport session.
Students will be required to meet staff at the
venue/location every morning and will be
dismissed from the venue/location at the Total Price: £30
end of the day. Maximum number of students: 60
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On Site PE
Calling all sporting enthusiasts! Join Team PE for a week of different
sporting challenges. Sports such as rounders, cricket, tennis, football,
tag rugby, softball, kickrounders, basketball, netball, dodgeball etc will
be on offer. All students are expected to wear their Maplesden branded
kit for the week.
Monday to Thursday 9am - 2:20pm
Perseverance - keep Collaborative - working Creative and
going to solve a problem, in team to problem enterprising - finding
be patient waiting for solve new solutions to
results Confident - solving problems
Resilience - don’t give new challenges Open-minded - listen
up when things go and respond to other
wrong team members
Risk-taking - confidence
Total Price: Free in new situations.
Experiment to find the
best solution
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French Adventure
4 days in France!
· Travel by coach to our Hotel. Visit Boulogne sur Mer on the
Monday way
· Evening entertainment - quizzes, games and French food
tasting!
Tuesday · Rando-Rail/beach games/sand sailing
Wednesday · Opalaventure Tree Tops
Thursday · Travel by coach back to England. Stop for a visit in Le Touquet,
a seaside town on the way.
Have the opportunity to demonstrate the following
VAAs on this trip:
Risk-taking, open minded, confident,
perseverance and collaborative
Total Price: £400
Deposit of £100 required
Instalment plan
Meals included
Maximum number of students: 30
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The News Reporter in Me!
BREAKING
NEWS LIVE
Do you love hearing about the latest news?
Fancy becoming a Reporter or Journalist in the future?
Are you up for a creative challenge?
Join Miss Porter and Miss Kemp this Challenge Week.
Spend the 4 days competing to become the ultimate Young Reporter and
be in the running to WIN a Prize!!!
Your week will include:
• Planning and researching what makes an
effective Newspaper/News Report?
• Workshopping how to create the BEST News
Report.
• Creating and rehearsing your own News
Report.
• Being entered to win a Prize!
High Performance Learning
Enterprising/Collaborative/Enquiring/Perseverance.
Total Price: £20
Maximum number of students: 15
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White Knuckles Week
Come collaborate with Mr Davies, Miss Harman and their fearless team of teachers for
a White Knuckle week of extraordinary experiences!
If you love speeding down rides, being soaked in rapids & staring down heights and
frights, then this week is for you!
Monday: Thorpe Park
All day on the rides – some fast passes included!
Tuesday: Gravity & Bowling
Bounce & roll!
Wednesday: Alton Towers: Splash Landings
An afternoon in the water park and overnight stay at
Alton Towers’ hotel.
Thursday: Alton Towers: Theme Park
Early entry and all day in the park!
Total Price: £210
Deposit: £105
Maximum number of students: 90
Please note some activities are subject to change - depending on availability
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Blitz and Pieces
Come and join Mrs Eldered and Mrs Hayward for a fun packed week.
Monday Wednesday
Thursday
A trip to Blendini’s Tuesday Visit to Lidl to buy
in Maidstone to our ingredients. Cinema and
sample smoothies, In small groups Back to school for McDonald’s
looking at how a you will be food quizzes. Back for prizes
company designing your Millenium Park.
advertises its bespoke recipes Enjoy making
product. Then and the packaging and tasting your
back to school for your smoothies.
to create a product.
mood
board.
High Performance Learning
Values, Attributes and Attitudes
Total Price: £25
Maximum number of students: 20
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Crime Solving
Spend the week learning different crime scene analysis techniques
culminating in a crime solving exercise.
Examples of the techniques you will learn:
• Fingerprint analysis
• Footprint analysis
• Identification of unknown samples
• Preservation of crime scenes
• Processing of evidence
Enquiring – showing curiosity when
searching for evidence
Open-minded – remaining objective
when processing evidence
Risk-taking – confident in unfamiliar
contexts
Practice – practicing
the skills learnt
throughout the week
Resilience – working
systematically and Collaborative –
diligently working as a team to
evaluate evidence
Confident – application
of knowledge in ‘real-
life’ scenarios
Total Price: £3
Maximum number of students: 15
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Outdoor Adventures
Enjoy a range of traditional activities exploring the outdoors. You will have the
opportunity to be creative in problem solving and to work as a member of a team.
Activities for the week will include problem solving activities as well as trips to:
The river at Horton Kirby for: White Horse Woods for:
• Pooh sticks • Kite flying
• Duck races
• Pond dipping
• River games
The beach for:
• Crabbing
• Beach combing
• Sand castle building competition
Collaborative - working in a team to problem solve.
Concerned for Society - human impact on our environment
Confident - solving new challenges
Creative and enterprising - Finding new solutions to problems. Creative
use of available resources.
Open-minded - Listen and respond to other team members.
Risk-taking - Confidence in new situations. Experiment to find the best
solution
Perseverance - Keep going to solve a problem, be patient waiting
for results.
Resilience - Don’t give up when things go wrong.
Total Price: Free
Maximum number of students: 15
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Challenge Week Booking Form 2020
Please only return this form if you wish to book a free activity.
Name of Student: Form:
My son/daughter wishes to take the following activity
(please tick appropriate box)
On Site PE Anime Outdoor Adventure
Please return to reception no later than Friday 13th December 2019.
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