The Aspire Award
The Aspire Programme aims to empower students to pursue their dreams and passions. It involves students in year 7 being supported to complete carefully considered activities to develop the three guiding principles of self worth, engagement and purpose and meet their aspirations.
With the support of their academic mentor, students will choose an activity to complete either inside or outside school. There are a huge range to choose from, for example, reading to a younger sibling, leading a football coaching session or . They will plan the activity in Academic Mentoring, complete the activity inside or outside of school and reflect on what they have accomplished the following week. There are three awards which can be earned, each with 10 challenges.
The aim of these challenges is for them to be completed independently (although some will require some adult support) and outside of the school day where possible. We will be making sure pupils have plenty of opportunities to work towards the school based challenges. The last two challenges in each award are designed to encourage the pupils to think about what each guiding principle means to them, and create challenges for themselves to complete. The challenges do not need to be completed in order and pupils can be completing challenges for different awards at the same time.