Youth Activities
(Complementary Education)
Extracurricular Activities to solidify foundations and brighten futures.
Our latest Children and Youth Activities Projects
Why Come To Us?
Diversity: Our young people come from 30+ countries
Richness: Our programmes include over 20 types of activities from arts to IT to outings
Tailored: Our provision takes into account age, circumstances, heritage and community.
Flexibity: Delivery locations are distributed across Manchester for your convenience
Scalability: Constantly growing our provision for our diverse and growing youth with strong partners.
Our Youth Activities Provision
Our African and African Caribbean-led consortium’s organisations cater for 0 to 5 years old children across Greater Manchester. Highway Hope (covers Longsight, Levenshulme and Stockport), Grace Incorporation Faith Trust (G.I.F.T.) Academy, Nurturing Foundations (North) and MEaP Twilight Academy (online).
Our extracurricular Youth Activities
Working with our extensive network of community partners, we provide extra-curricular activities that include IT (e.g., the coding club at Highway Hope), creativity and arts (e.g., the music school at Nurturing Foundations and Highway Hope), History, Geography, Religious Education, Design Technology, Cultural and Heritage-related Education, Sports and Physical Education (PE), Dance (e.g., hip-hop at Elevate Young Minds’ Dance Studios), and Personal Social Health Emotional (PSHE).
Our children also take part in essay and international spelling bee competitions, residential trips (Y5/Y6), outside speaker visits, themed days, food nutrition sessions, educational visits enabled by our strong links with local high schools, universities, charity events, school enterprise, the theatre, enrichment activities and many, many more.
Early Years 0-5 years old
Our Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculm delivers all the key requirements expected by any parents or the commisionnier. Our EYFS provision follows the Reggio Emilia approach to child-centred learning, that promotes the natural curiosity of the child as the main driver for learning. We carefully integrate the following areas of learning in as organic and child-centred way as possible:
Understanding the world
Understanding the world is the foundation for our primary curriculum, as we believe that embedding the principles of ‘global citizenship’ is fundamental to a balanced, nurturing and responsible education.
- Talk about events in their own lives and that of their family
- Know about similarities and differences between communities
- Talk about similarities and differences between objects
- Make observations of plants and animals
- Recognise that technology is used in homes and schools
Physical development
Our children take part in many different activities related to physical development including Physical Education (PE) such as dace or team sports.
- Developing control and coordination of movement
- Handling equipment and tools, including for writing
- Learning about healthy diet and exercise
- Managing their own hygiene and personal needs
Personal, Social and Emotional development
- Building confidence to choose activities and discuss ideas
- Build awareness of needing help, and confidence to ask
- Confidence to speak in a group of familiar peers
- Working as part of a group, following rules where appropriate
- Forming positive relationships with peers and adults
- Playing co-operatively, taking turns
Literacy
- Use phonics to decode straightforward words
- Read simple sentences
- Discuss what has been read
- Use phonics knowledge to write simple words and sentences
Mathematics
- Count reliably with numbers up to 20
- Use counting on and number knowledge for simple addition
- Begin to recognise and describe simple patterns
- Use everyday language to talk about size, position, time , etc.
- Use mathematical language to describe shapes and objects
Expressive Arts and Design
including Art, Music and Design Technology such as cookery/food nutrition
- Experiment with songs, music and dance
- Use a range of artistic materials, tools and techniques
- Work imaginatively to create new works
- Represent ideas through art, music, role-play, dance and stories
Communication and language
- Listening attentively, including while completing tasks
- Listening to stories and responding to prompts and ideas
- Following instructions to carry out activities
- Expression of ideas, including real-life and fictional ideas
- Using past, present and future forms of language
Primary Curriculum and much more...
Our children also cover the wider curriculum subjects known as Foundation Subjects. The subjects not already mentioned include:
• Computing
• History
• Geography
• Design Technology including cookery/food nutrition
• Religious (RE) and Cultural Education
• Personal Social Health Emotional (PSHE)
• Additional
Our children take part in many different activities; sports, essay and international spelling bee competitions, outside speaker visits, themed days, food nutrition sessions, our strong links with local high schools, universities, charity events, school enterprise, visits to the theatre, educational based visits, enrichment activities and many, many more.