The Ripley Academy School Experience
We aim to provide a variety of extra-curricular activities for students to develop their interests in a wide range of different areas.
Here is a taste of what we have to offer beyond the classroom at The Ripley Academy.
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English |
Trips to theatres in Derby and Nottingham. This year’s visits include “A Christmas Carol”, “Macbeth” and “Holes” |
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World Book Day Activities |
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Children in Need Activities |
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The Saga Writing Competition |
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LGBT History Month Activities |
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Storytelling Week |
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Holocaust Memorial Day |
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Abolition of Slavery Day |
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Synonym Stretchers Activities |
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Classical Reading Club |
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Maths |
Senior Maths Challenge |
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Junior Maths Challenge |
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EMET Team Maths Challenge |
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Intermediate Maths Challenge |
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Languages |
French trip to Paris |
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The Big International Issue: Developing students speaking and writing skills on global and current topics. |
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Keynote Speaker David Binns of Sanako’s talk on Languages in careers |
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International cinema club |
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Nottingham University GCSE Languages Day |
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Spanish trip to Barcelona region |
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Humanities |
Trips to Derby to two places of worship and Elvaston Castle |
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Trip to the Holocaust Centre |
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Science |
Attenborough Nature Reserve Trip |
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STEM Challenge - toxic popcorn |
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Women in Science & Engineering Workshop |
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Rolls Royce Pure flight Workshop |
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GCSE Science Live! visit |
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Big Bang Fair visit |
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STEM Competition; competing with other students from schools across the East Midlands |
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Derby Science Festival |
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Science Club |
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Computer Science |
STEM Coding club |
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Bebras Challenges (National computational thinking challenge) |
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Bletchley Park Trip |
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CyberFirst Girls Competition |
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DT & Art |
Italy Trip |
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London Trip |
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Good Food Show Visit |
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Visit to Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Shefffield Hallam University |
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Social Sciences |
World Mental Health Day Activities |
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PE |
Netball Club |
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Dodgeball Club |
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Badminton Club |
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Year 8 football lunch club |
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Year 9/10 Sports leaders assisting AVSSP with Junior school Athletics |
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Year 9/10 Sports leaders assisting with multi skills festivals |
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Year 9/10 Sports leaders assisting junior school sports days |
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Cross country events |
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Year 9/10 football fixtures |
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Year 11 football fixtures |
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Year 8 football tournament |
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Girls football tournament |
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Moorways athletics comp |
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Year 7 football tournament |
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Whole school sports day |
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Swimming Gala |
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Girls rounders tournaments |
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Loughborough University visit for KS5 and aspirational KS4 students |
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KS5 Sport students work experience in PE |