Activities Week

Activities week will take place on 12 July to 16 July 2027

Welcome to the activities for summer of 2027. Activities week will take place this year during the last week of the summer term. We aim to end the academic year with a fun and exciting range of events designed to enable your child to:

Spend an extended period of time on an activity of their choice
Undertake a residential experience if they wish
Try something completely different
Progress further with existing skills
Work with students from different year groups
Develop the skills needed to be enterprising and utilise key skills in new situations

All students are expected to take part in an activity

The school is unable to authorise absence during activities week, unless there are exceptional circumstances.

We expect cost to be an important factor; activities that have a price associated with them are unable to run unless we can cover the full cost through your contributions. There is, as usual, a range of free and low cost activities to ensure that every child can take part during the week.

As your child picks their activity week choices, we do not at this stage look at friendship groups as from past experiences friendships change frequently between now and when activities week happen. Therefore, it is important that your child picks something they want to do rather than what current friendship groups want to do.

There will be a non-refundable deposit required by Friday 20 November 2026; this will be available to pay via ParentPay on Friday 6 November 2026. The deadline for full non-refundable payment for all activities is Monday 15 March 2027. Please make payments via ParentPay. If you need assistance with ParentPay, please contact the finance department on ext. 153/107 or finance@aylshamhigh.norfolk.sch.uk. Once the deposit is paid in full, we would encourage monthly payments through your ParentPay account, this will then spread the cost out over the payment period.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ACTIVITIES WEEK CHOICES

As I am sure you can appreciate, matching every student to their favourite choice of activities will never be possible, as many activities have a maximum group size and cannot be exceeded for safety reasons. The first Google form submission of submitted choices will be the one that will be used, so any duplicated submissions will be void.

Whilst we understand that your child may have a preference, their 2 selected activities are considered equally. Any stated preference will not be taken into account, so please ensure your child is happy to take part in either of their chosen activities.

Please make sure you read this handbook and then use the QR code on the back of the booklet to access the Google Form to complete your choices. Select two activity choices for your child. We will do our utmost to ensure that each student is allocated one of their chosen activities.

When selecting your choices, you will only be able to select 1 residential, so your other choice will have to be from a free activity, band A or band B.

Important: Students must be happy to participate in any of their selected choices. Once allocated, no changes can be made.

Activity nominations can be submitted from Friday 16 October 2026 at 4pm and no later than midday on Wednesday 21 October 2026 at midday. You will be notified of your child’s allocated activity by Thursday 05 November 2026

Activity Allocation

Allocation of activities are allocated randomly. However, if a Y9 student has selected a residential and has not ever participated in an activities week residential in Y7 & Y8, they will take priority as we want to ensure they have a residential experience whilst at AHS.

If, in exceptional circumstances, we are unable to assign a place to your child for any of their chosen activities, we will contact you before allocations are sent out.

If you do not respond by the deadline, we will allocate on availability.

Please note that once your child’s place is confirmed for an activity, you are committed to paying the full cost.

We will expect your child to return to school on Monday 19^th – Wednesday 21^st for normal lessons after activities week.

If you have any questions, please email actweek@aylshamhigh.norfolk.sch.uk

Mrs T Wiseman

Activity	Deposit Required	Approx Cost
Free Activities
Art and Craft Week	FREE	FREE
Sports and Games	FREE	FREE
BAND A
Pop Up Playhouse	£7	£20
Rugby Academy	£20	£63
Walks, Water and Windmills	£20	£60
BAND B
Day Trippers	£45	£116
Eagles (Nurture Students only)	£65	£187
Watersports	£80	£235
Adventure Week	£90	£263
BAND C [residential]
Derbyshire (Residential)	£190	£535 - £570
WWW Theme Park (Residential)	£220	£590 - £640
Normandy, France (Residential)	£220	£660 - £700
London Experiences	£280	£740 - £840

NEXT STEPS…..

To make your choices please can we remind you of the following:

As your child picks their activity week choices, we do not at this stage look at friendship groups as from past experiences friendships change frequently between now and when activities week happen. Therefore, it is important that your child picks something they want to do rather than what current friendship groups want to do.

As I am sure you can appreciate, matching every student to their favourite choice of activities will never be possible, as many activities have a maximum group size and cannot be exceeded for safety reasons. The first Google form submission of submitted choices will be the one that will be used, so any duplicated submissions will be void.

Whilst we understand that your child may have a preference, their 2 selected activities are considered equally. Any stated preference will not be taken into account, so please ensure your child is happy to take part in either of their chosen activities.

When selecting your choices, you will only be able to select 1 residential, so your other choice will have to be from a free activity, band A or band B.

Please make sure you read this handbook and then use the QR code on the back of the booklet to access the Google Form to complete your choices. Select two activity choices for your child. We will do our utmost to ensure that each student is allocated one of their chosen activities.

Important: Students must be happy to participate in any of their selected choices. Once allocated, no changes can be made.

Activity nominations can be submitted from Friday 16 October 2026 at 4pm and no later than midday on Wednesday 21 October 2026 at midday.

You will be notified of your child’s allocated activity by Thursday 05 November 2026

Once allocated the deposit stated must be paid via ParentPay to secure your child’s place – If these are not paid this place could possibly go to someone else.

Please scan the QR link below to access the Google Form to make your choices

https://forms.gle/CdiFcB7Wr4xN2rYs5