Activities Week and Year 7 Pledge Week
Activities Week
Activities Week at Windsor is a unique and positive time for all students involved. It offers a valuable educational experience not able to be delivered during a traditional school week.
Through an unbeatable range of activities and trips students are engaged, inspired and challenged through their curriculum preferences, hobbies or interests. Students really enjoy the week as a reward for hard work and commitment to their studies throughout the year.
They return with increased self-confidence, greater motivation to learn new skills, better communication skills, new friendships and a sense of pride and achievement. Although the activities offered are outside of the normal curriculum, this week is an integral part of the school calendar and there is an expectation that every student will participate and attend regularly.
Year 7 Pledge Week
In the last week of the summer term, we hold our Year 7 Pledge Week.
We have considered the students' voice and requests for activities that they would like to participate and engage in and have put together a programme which will allow students to gain new skills, experience new environments and importantly have fun with their peer group in a non-traditional curriculum environment. The aim of this week is to develop personal qualities and characteristics: confidence, leadership, organisation, taking responsibility, co-operation and resilience in a non-traditional classroom setting.
Although the activities offered are outside of the normal curriculum, this week is an integral part of the school calendar and there is an expectation that every student will participate and attend regularly.
Year 10 students can do work experience during activities week (13th - 17th July 2026). Work experience can help you to build your confidence, improve social and communication skills and help you to make choices about your future career. By doing work experience you can also:
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· Improve your professional skills |
· Add it to your CV |
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· Explore different careers |
· Gain valuable knowledge and information |
If you are a Year 10 student and would like to do Work Experience during Activities Week then please read below:
Work experience gives you the chance to learn about the world of work and helps you to develop your personal potential. We know it can be one of the most transformational experiences young people have during their education.
If you would like to do work experience during activities week, please put this on your activities week choices form. You then need to look for and secure a placement. Please speak to family, friends and people around you - it might be that someone you know can take you on for work experience.
The responsibility of sourcing and contacting the placement yourselves plays a vital role in developing your sense of independence as well as practising the skill of finding employment. Once you have found and agreed a placement please log onto Unifrog with your school email address (reset your password if necessary). Once logged in, find the grey ‘placements’ tile to complete your initial work experience form – this adds the work experience as a placement on Unifrog. Attached is a guide on how to add a placement onto Unifrog.
The deadline to sign up for activities in activities week is next Friday - 5th December. And the deadline for requesting approval for work experience placements is Friday 20th February 2026.
Good luck in finding your placements and please remember that placement details must be entered onto Unifrog.