PEP (Personal Enrichment Programme)

This programme, we believe, is unique to the Academy. No other school in Banbury is providing for its students such a range of high quality learning experiences as part of the main curriculum.

PEP aims to provide a wide range of experiences for our students offering opportunities to develop new skills, insights, interests and talents, while providing space for undiscovered potential to be unlocked and lives enriched.

How the PEP programme works:

• Each Thursday afternoon during Period 4 all Academy students  have a PEP session.
• Each PEP module lasts for about six weeks.
• Every six weeks students will change their PEP activity (over the year students will do five different activities).

Why are we doing PEP
• To develop wider skills for personal growth and in preparation for life in the world today.
• To develop new ways of learning.
• To challenge, excite and stimulate.
• To raise aspirations and to raise achievement.

PEP Categories
All of our activities fall into 3 categories: Healthy Life, Creative Life and Broadening Life.
Examples of activities on offer:
Golf, Boxing, Horse Riding, Fishing, Cheer Leading, Printing Workshop, Academy Newsletter, Academy Garden, Bowling,Ready, Steady, Cook! Digital Photography, Holiday Languages, Chess Challenge, Crime Scene Investigation (CSI), Comic Strip Design, Introduction to First Aid, Messy Games, Table Tennis, Board Games, Urban Street Art, DJ Skills.