Embark Federation

We are proud to be part of the Embark Federation, a family of schools across Derbyshire.

We work closely with our Embark family to ensure our school is at the heart of the community and to live our values of Family, Integrity, Teamwork and Success.

We also have a core purpose to enable everyone to be able to 'Love Learning, Love Life'. 

To find out more about the Embark Federation please click the below link.

Or you can contact the federation by writing to:
Office 10-11,
Derwent Business Centre
Derby
DE1 2BU

Phone: 01332 477722

Members of the wider Embark Family who you may meet at school 

The Embark Award

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

These activities encourage family learning at home and many will be completed in school within our wider curriculum.

If your child completes any of the activities (see below), please record this on Class Dojo with photos or any other evidence. They will then be added to individual Embark Award folders.

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

1. Cook a family meal

2. Send school a postcard from holiday

3. Make something with family and bring into school

4. Go on family visit and send a picture or write it up

5. Join local library, attend with family and then read a book together

6. Write / email to another member of the Embark family at a different school

7. Play a game with another child from the Embark family at a different school

8. Visit theatre either with school or a family member

9. Take a walk in the countryside

10. Have a family picnic

11. Interview a family member about their job

12. Draw a family tree and speak to a family member about the past

13. Visit the beach, build a sandcastle and take a picture

14. Build a den and take a photo of your family inside

15. Attend a sporting event

16. Attend a visit with another school from the Embark family

17. Grow something to enjoy or eat in your garden

18. Visit another country and write a diary

19. Go to a place of worship with your family

20. Perform at a school show to the members of your family

21. Photograph a family pet and describe how you look after / care for it after a week

22. Encourage all members of your family to write a comment on our school website or social media page

23. Climb a mountain as a team

24. Play a board game / teach your family a game

25. Play in the snow and build something, e.g. a snowman

1. Raise at least £10 for a charity event

2. Take part in a charity event out of school 

3. Organise a charity event / run a stall

4. Lead an assembly on a worthwhile topic

5. Clean up the community

6. Help improve an area of the school

7. Keep a recycling diary

8. Make an environmental poster

9. Help someone in need

10. Become a mini leader

11. Care for new child at school / become a buddy and model good choices

12. Take care of school equipment / be a successful classroom monitor over term

13. Teach someone a new skill

14. Encourage healthy eating - diary / poster / research 

15. Promote good hygiene in school / home - poster 

16. Sing in an old people's home

17. Make someone in our community smile, make a difference

18. Online safety - promote and display appropriate use of IT equipment, report inappropriate use

19. Follow or create a nature trail

20. Hand something in of value that you have found

21. Write a positive comment on our school website

22. Build a memorial - e.g. National Memorial Aboretum

23. Random act of kindness - appear on our board

24. Promote British Values - democracy, tolerance, and respect

25. Learn about someone else's religion in your school or community

1. Participate in 3 school competitions in a year

2. Take part in a school camp out

3. Solve a problem with a group of friends

4. Attend an after school club for at least 6 sessions

5. Belong to any team outside of school and show us evidence of this

6. Take part in an enteprise project in school

7. Represent the school as part of a team

8. Represent Embark as part of a team

9. Take part in a school performance to and audience as a team

10. Represent your class on the school council

11. Lead a team of children in school

12. Convince your teacher over the year that you are an effective team member

13. Teach another group of children a new skill

14. Contribute to a team at sports day

15. Lead peer reading with a group of younger children

16. Receive an award e.g. sticker or certificate etc that recognises your team work or helping someone else

17. Take part in a team activity outside in the dark

18. Supporting a fellow member in class who is struggling

19. Complete a team project in class with children you don't normally work with

20. Build a structure with a team in class

21. Cook a meal as a team / plan a menu

22. Learn how to give constructive feedback to a fellow pupil / team member

23. Show resilience as a team by working together to overcome a difficult situation

24. Set yourself a stretch goal

25. Get a team to set up a scavenger / treasure hunt for children in the Embark family

1. Learn a musical instrument and perform it to others

2. Complete a reading challenge

3. Times tables - award for improvement

4. Spellings - award for improvement

5. Complete a school bike ride over 10 miles

6. Perform a lead role in a school play

7. Achieve 25 metres swimming

8. Write a book / article for the website / school newspaper / song

9. Appear in the media for something successful or win a competition

10. Have a conversation in a different language

11. Piece of artwork displayed in a gallery

12. Raise over £50 for charity

13. Take part in a triathlon

14. Attend a school residential

15. Solve a complex problem

16. 100% attendance

17. Receive the head teachers award in assembly

18. Receive individual praise from a member of the community

19. Write and read a prayer in assembly

20. Bring in an individual award that you have achieved outside of school

21. Produce a new invention / idea that makes a difference

22. Conduct a science experiment and tell us about it

23. Deliver a powerpoint presentation

24. Develop one of the following: coding for a new programme, new recipe

25. Complete work experience and record your aspirations for the future

Throughout the academic year we take part in a variety of planned activities with Embark; World Book Day events, dance festival and sporting events.