Welcoming Local Primary School Children for our Primary Enrichment Workshops – July 2025
Trinity Term has seen a huge number of primary school children take part in our Primary Enrichment workshops and experiences, which encourage children to develop new skills and gain hands-on experience across various curriculum subjects.
The perfect way for children to learn and develop, our programme strengthens and broadens not only children’s learning and knowledge, but supports teachers in the delivery of key factors on the primary curriculum. Our workshops complement and support what teachers already deliver in school and are free of charge. Transport can also be provided and our workshops can also be hosted in schools, to ensure maximum opportunity and participation.
From Robotics and Inventions, Maths Workshops, Crime Scene Investigation, Computational Thinking and Drama Workshops, to Music and Design, Geography Field Studies, as well as playing with LEGO at our LEGO Fun Day, and shows such as A Journey into Space and Kitchen Chemistry, our workshops are tailored to suit age/year groups, offering an engaging and dynamic mix of topics and skills accordingly. This has been proven to boost interest and learning in STEAM subjects, and with over 25 different workshops covering a variety of different subjects and activities there really is something for everyone, every child, every primary school.
Taking children out of their classrooms and own school also allows them to experience and become confident in new environments; another aspect of growth and development that is just as important as learning.
Our entire School community is involved in supporting the programme and the workshops; from teachers sharing their experience, passion and enthusiasm and taking their own time to plan and contribute to the workshops, to students chaperoning, participating and contributing; in turn supports development of their confidence, leadership and teamwork skills.
Since our last Primary Enrichment roundup in April, the School has been brimming with children attending for various workshops. We’ve shared details of some of those workshops below, as a taste of what you can expect from Primary Enrichment at Woodbridge School.
Multiskills Tournament
A multiskills festival for children in Year 1, our tournament saw over 200 children from different primary schools around the area in School, where they were invited to attend and participate in a variety of different sporting activities, helping develop coordination. Organised and run by our own Sports Leader students, this is always a popular event in our programme, which encourages children to try something new, take themselves out of their comfort zones and really enjoy learning and developing new sports skills. It was incredible to see the children having so much fun, and a great opportunity for them to meet new people and experience new challenges and achievements.
Maths Workshop
Our Maths workshop visited children from Years 5 and 6 at Birchwood, and then Nacton Primary schools recently, a lively session that combines some fantastic mathematical games with some super puzzles! From flying planes, hopping across lily pads and making mind-bending shapes, children had the chance to learn, explore and develop new skills, working to achieve prizes individually and as teams. A great opportunity to learn more Maths as well as about the importance of working collaboratively – while having lots of fun.
Combined Cadet Force
A superb opportunity for children to develop powers of leadership by means of training that promotes responsibility, self-reliance, resourcefulness, endurance, perseverance and a sense of service, our Combined Cadet Force workshop saw children from Melton and Eyke primary schools taking part. With a variety of outdoors activities, led by our qualified instructors, they spent time taking instruction and practicing on our confidence course, with some paintball target shooting at the end of the workshop.
Geography Field Studies
Melton and Easton primary schools attended our Geography Field Studies workshops, where Year 5 and 6 children got to ask questions about their world before gathering information and data then learning to present it visually to help them find answers. Introducing children to setting a good question and hypothesis, they also learned how to use basic equipment to measure variables accurately, as well as drawing up findings and making conclusions using computers. Our mini-Geographers had a great day, it was a super opportunity to encourage curiosity and analytical skills.
Murder Mystery (English)
Children from Waldringfield and St Jonh’s primary schools took part in our workshop, where they created a file of evidence before laying a trail of clues to help others solve a murder mystery. Taking roles and writing in a wide range of text styles, from police crime scene notes, newspaper cuttings and bank final demands, to love letters, diary entries and forged notes – it was the perfect way to read, learn and understand more about English language and text. By the end of the workshop children were able to work through the evidence to solve another group’s crime – budding detectives in the making!
Drama Workshop – Macbeth
Grundisburgh primary school children attended our Drama Workshop, focusing on Macbeth, where they had the chance to take part in a range of games and exercises to explore Shakespear’s test in an active way. Exploring the language as well as central themes of Macbeth, it was an interesting and informative workshop, as well as lots of fun, with plenty of movement and expression encouraged and seen.
Robotics and Inventions
Our Prep School children came into School for our Robotics and Inventions workshop, a session during which they got to use robotics kits to address a design problem. They built their own contraptions according to the brief they were given, and conducted a test run ahead of working to improve or modify their invention, adapting for best performance. Integrating their knowledge of physics concepts involving forces, they also looked at and learned about materials and electricity within design, all essential parts of their STEM skills development and learning.
Kitchen Chemistry
Year 5 and 6 children from St Mary’s CofE, Kyson, St Mary’s Catholic primary schools came along to our wonderful Kitchen Chemistry show, for an engaging and exciting science show delivered on stage by Professor Stephen Ashworth from UEA. Using readily available materials, he demonstrated the principles of chemistry, including ions, detergents, batteries, conductivity, oxidations and reduction. An exploration of chemicals and chemical processes that are all around us, it was a mind-boggling but super interesting and informative workshop which had the children captivated from start to finish.
LEGO Workshop
An ever-popular workshop, children from Langer and Worlingworth primary schools came in for our LEGO workshop, supported by the Brickologists. Chidlren from Years 3 to 6 had the opportunity to not only play and build with LEGO, but were challenged and inspired to create and build a motorised car. Becoming engineers for the day, they also built windmills, robots as well as vehicles, inspired to explore using their imagination, creativity and ingenuity – all using LEGO!
With 43 different workshops/events delivered this academic year, and 19 primary schools engaged, our Primary Enrichment Programme continues to develop and evolve, in the hands of Ambra Caretta, Head of Primary Enrichment, who was recently Highly Commended in the 2025 Pearson National Teaching Awards for the programme which she introduced and oversees. She shared,
“We’re thrilled that so many schools and children continue to participate in our programme, this year we’ve also introduced transportation which has been of real benefit and meant so many more schools can take part – and we offer lunch for some workshops too, that’s always a huge hit as you can imagine!”
She continued,
“We’re extremely grateful to all the schools, teachers, children, our own staff and children for supporting the programme and we look forward to a fun-packed Primary Enrichment programme of activities beginning again in September 2025.”
