Activities

Activities – Friday 18 July – Monday 22nd July 2025

“Learning by doing theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.”
Tony Hsieh

Welcome to our first Curriculum Enhancement Week!

During the last few days of the academic year, Open Academy will be holding its first enhancement week where we arrange a variety of activities and opportunities dreamt up by the staff.

The aim of curriculum enhancement week is about improving students’ understanding, skills, values, personal and social development and can act as a vehicle to develop our students’ capacity which motivates them to learn more. This is not only about what they learn, but most importantly, how and where they learn. It also broadens the student experience by expanding their cultural capital, whilst learning more about themselves and one another. It is an opportunity for students to develop new and existing bonds with staff and other students; to increase their self-esteem and sense of adventure by trying something new; and having the prospect of testing out their own character traits and virtues.