The 100 Challenges
These are the 100 challenges, split across the 4 core beliefs of the trust.
There is a downloadable copy at the bottom of the page should you need it.
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