Enrichment

Enrichment 2025 – 2026

Our enrichment programme deepens, develops and broadens our students personal, social and imaginative world through our core provision in years 7 and 8 and after school clubs for students up to year 10.

By working in partnership with experienced practitioners, coaches and artists we believe these experiences will build confidence, fuel curiosity and broaden our pupils’ ambition.

Core Enrichment – Years 7 and 8

Pupils select one enrichment from each of the three groups over the year: Move, Create and Imagine

Move enrichment encourages students to move not only their feet, hands and bodies but to use their minds and imaginations to work out how to play as a team, develop their skills and be the best.

Ballers Academy  blends professional ambition with pupil-centred training, enabling our young football players to reach their potential on the pitch. Ballers Academy is based in the heart of Bermondsey.

Mixed Marshall Arts Professional coaches from London Grapple take students through the essential skills, moves and philosophy of the sport as they blend three martial arts in one.

Parkour is run by London Parkour’s professional coaches exploring and developing the skills to run, leap, bounce and jump on anything and everything you may encounter in everyday life.

Rugby is a first for Charter Bermondsey! We are delighted to be working with Southwark Tigers. Tigers who are building our first team from scratch as pupils learn, train and compete in a truly international sport that demands resilience, integrity and the ability to play truly as a team.

Table Tennis is taught by our professional coach, Tyler Anderson, who works with the ground-breaking charity, Greenhouse Sports. Greenhouse believes that through an engaging, consistent and demanding coaching programme, pupils can realise their potential.  Our unique Table Tennis Programme is supported by The Worshipful Company of Pewterers.

Ultimate Cheer works with the very best cheer leading coaches developing our students gymnastic skills, teamwork and personal joy!

Create enrichments build our students confidence, resilience and creativity through a wonderful range of activities including:

Choir is run by our wonderful music teacher Ms. Knowles developing a love for singing through teaching a range of songs from the classics to the contemporary.

Drama is run by professional theatre makers with extensive experience of working with young people in education and beyond. Students develop their improvising, devising and acting skills through creating their own play over the term.

Musical Theatre is run by professional musician and singer Dan Thorpe. Dan explores some of the classic musical theatre songs whilst developing students own creative and song writing skills.

Leatherwork is one of our founding enrichments reflecting a trade and professional at the heart of Bermondsey’s history.  Students work with experienced leather designers and makers to produce a range of leather goods from key rings to leather wallets.  Our Leatherwork enrichment is generously supported by the Worshipful Company of Curriers.

Sewing is led our tailor and seamstress, Ginette Nsasi, who introduces our pupils to the fundamentals of sewing and tailoring, building on the fantastic work undertaken in DT. Students make a range of products based their own creative and inspiring ideas.

Imagine enrichments fuel our pupils’ intellectual and imaginative curiosity offering a broad range of activities including:

Board Gaming is interactive, in real life gaming without a device and without a screen. From snakes and ladders to Uno students learn some classic board games that can only be enjoyed with each other.

Chess  It was our Bermondsey Hero, Ada Salter, who introduced the playing of chess as a sport to Bermondsey in the 1920s. Pupils are taught by the brilliant Chess player Hatem Almeer, who works with Chess in Schools.

Debating collaborates with Debate Mate’s professional team to develop our students skills or persuasion, discussion and argument as they tackle some of the most pressing topics and ideas of our day.

Film Club encourages students to engage, discuss and experience a wide range of films from across the world that they may not have come across from Studio Gimle to British Classics.