The Embark Award

The Embark Award is part of the trust’s commitment to the wider offer for our children. It comprises of 100 activities for children to complete during their entire time within their primary school years and it is based around the trust’s 4 core beliefs of Family, Integrity, Teamwork and Success.

These activities encourage family learning at home as well as numerous activities that will be provided within school. If your child completes any of the activities on the attached lists at home, please record this on Class Dojo with photos or any other evidence and when we review the challenges achieved periodically with the children, they will be able to mark them off in their own individual record.

Teachers have made a separate Class Dojo folder for any Embark Award posts to go into.

Children will work towards their Bronze Award – 40 activities, Silver Award – 60 Activities and then finally their Gold Award – 90 Activities.

The children will start their folders in Year 1 and they will move up to the Junior School to continue completing the activities in them.

The aim at Chaucer Infants is for the children to reach the Bronze Award by completing 40 activities.

To have a look at some examples of the things children are doing please click the link below.

Embark Award Achievements Powerpoint

The Activities

Family

Cook a Family Meal
Send School a postcard from holiday
Make something with family and bring into school
Go on family visit and send a picture or write it up
Join local Library, attend with family and then read a book together.
Write/e-mail to another member of the Embark Family at a different school.
Play a game with another child from the Embark Family at a different school.
Visit theatre either with school or a Family member.
Take a walk in the countryside.
Have a family picnic.
Interview a family member about their job.
Draw a Family tree and speak to a family member about the past.
Visit the beach, build a sandcastle and take a picture.
Build a den and take a photo of your family inside.
Attend a sporting event.
Attend a visit with another school from the Embark Family.
Grow something to enjoy or eat in your garden.
Visit another country and write a diary.
Go to a place of worship with your family.
Perform at a school show to the members of your family.
Photograph a family pet and describe how you look after/care for it after a week.
Encourage all members of your family to write a comment on our school website or social media page
Climb a mountain as a team
Play a board game/teach your family a game
Play in the snow and build something e.g a snowman

Integrity

Raise at least £10 for a charity event
Take part in a charity event out of school
Organise a charity event/ run a stall
Lead an assembly on a worthwhile topic
Clean up the community
Help improve an area of the school
Keep a recycling diary
Make an environmental poster
Help someone in need
Become a mini leader
Care for new child at school/become a buddy and model good choices
Take care of school equipment/be a successful classroom monitor over term
Teach someone a new skill
Encourage Healthy Eating – diary/poster/research
Promote good hygiene in school/home – poster
Sing in an old people’s home
Make someone in our community smile, make a difference
Online Safety – promote and display appropriate us of IT equipment, report inappropriate use
Follow or create a nature trail
Hand something in of value that you have found
Write a positive comment on our school website
Build a memorial – eg. National Memorial Aboretum
Random act of kindness – appear on our board
Promote British Values – democracy, tolerance and respect
Learn about someone else’s religion in your school or community

Teamwork

Participate in 3 school competitions in a year
Take part in a school camp out
Solve a problem with a group of friends
Attend an after school club for at least 6 sessions
Belong to any team outside of school and show us evidence of this
Take part in an enterprise project in school
Represent the school as part of a team
Represent Embark as part of a team
Take part in a school performance to an audience as a team
Represent your class on the school council
Lead a team of children in school
Convince your teacher over the year that you are an effective team member
Teach another group of children a new skill
Contribute to a team at sports day
Lead peer reading with a group of younger children
Receive an award e.g sticker or certificate etc that recognises your team work or helping someone else
Take part in a team activity outside in the dark
Supporting a fellow member in class who is struggling
Complete a team Project in class with children you don’t normally work with
Build a structure with a team in class
Cook a meal as a team/plan a menu
Learn how to give constructive feedback to a fellow pupil/team member
Show resilience as a team by working together to overcome a difficult situation.
Set yourself a stretch goal
Get a team to set up or scavenger/treasure hunt for children in the Embark family

Success

Learn a musical instrument and perform it to others
Complete a reading challenge
Times Tables – award for improvement
Spellings – award for improvement
Complete a school bike ride over 10 miles
Perform a lead role in a school play
Achieve 25 metres swimming
Write a book/article for the website/school newspaper/song
Appear in the media for something successful or win a competition
Have a conversation in a different language
Piece of artwork displayed in a gallery
Raise over £50 for charity
Take part in a triathlon
Attend a school residential
Solve a complex problem
100% attendance
Receive the head teachers award in assembly
Receive individual praise from a member of the community
Write and read a prayer in assembly
Bring in an individual award that you have achieved outside of school
Produce a new invention/idea that makes a difference
Conduct a science experiment and tell us about it
Deliver a powerpoint presentation
Develop one of the following: coding for a new programme, new recipe
Complete work experience and record your aspirations for the future