The William Pike Challenge (WPC) is on offer to our Year 7 & 8 students fort he second year running. Over the course of a year students embark on adventures, complete 20 hours of community service and learn a new skill or hobby for 20 hours.

Students learn skills needed to cope with the unexpected

Develop strengths in students they don’t know they have
We need to step outside of the classroom to really develop skills such as leadership, responsibility, creativity, social skills and community involvement.

Develop passion projects to build focus and commitment
Learning to work out what is important to a young person is a big step. Giving them the framework to make choices and decisions, then develop and implement actions to bring their projects to fruition provides an essential foundation for later in life.

Build better relationships
Many students who complete the William Pike Challenge find their relationships with fellow students, teachers and even parents improve because they learn different approaches than with what they grew up with or are used to currently.

Challenges that can’t be achieved inside the classroom
With the William Pike Challenge, students are challenged in ways that simply can’t be achieved inside the classroom. It’s strength lies in taking students outside their comfort zone to solve problems or deal with situations they never expected, but at same time they have fun doing it!

Check out some more photos from the past two weekends!

This weekend most of us will be at St Martin's New World shaking the bucket to raise funds for the Cholmondeley Street Appeal. Sunday we will be at the school Working Bee! See you there!