A ‘bucket list’ of activities for children to tick off each primary school year is part of new measures planned to be released by the Department for Education.
These goals are set to include learning to knit, exploring a cave and climbing a tree and are designed to build character and resilience in children.
Education Secretary Damian Hinds, who was appointed in January, hopes the list will push schools to realise that what ‘you do academically is only part of the story.’
He told the i: ‘It’s about doing stuff that doesn’t involve looking at a screen. It’s about getting out and about.’
Mr Hinds added that he hopes the new initiative will build resilience and help children ‘bounce back from the knocks that inevitably come to all of us.’
Mr Hinds is said to have been inspired by St Werburgh’s Primary School in Bristol which already has a ‘product list’ of 20 enrichment activities for each year group.
Here’s the list of suggested yearly goals from St Werburgh’s Primary School…
Reception – children aged four to five
1. Visit a farm
2. Paint a self portrait
3. Plant some bulbs and see them grow
4. Go on an autumn walk and make leaf rubbings
Bucket list goals for children in each year are hoped to make young people more resilient (stock)
5. Make a sandwich
6. Taste a new fruit
7. Visit a place of worship
8. Fly a kite
9. Make a boat and see if it floats
10. Perform a song
11. Re-tell a story to an audience
12. Post a letter
13. Look after an animal
14. Watch a chrysalis hatch
15. Take a photograph
On the checklist for reception children is posting a letter and dressing up as a pirate (stock)
16. Make a treasure map
17. Dress up as a pirate
18. Look up where you live on google earth
19. Have a teddy bears picnic
20. Go to see wild animals
Year One – children aged five to six
1. Record a ‘sound journey’
2. Make gingerbread people
3. Make and taste chapattis
4. Make a puppet
5. Put on a shadow puppet show
Children will also be encourage to cook and make things as well as playing outside (stock)
6. Make a Chinese lantern
7. Go pond dipping
8. Create a piece of art for an exhibition
9. Visit a Planetarium
10. Perform a dance
11. Go on a mini-beast hunt
12. Make a home for a …
13. Create a class collage
At St Werburgh’s school in Bristol Year One pupils are encouraged to watch a puppet show during the school year (stock picture)
14. Write/draw a comic strip
15. Take part in play day
16. See an aeroplane up close
17. Watch a puppet show
18. Be part of a club
19. Build a den
20. Perform in front of the school
Year Two – children aged six to seven
1. Plan a party
2. Learn a poem off by heart
3. Go to the seaside
4. Bake a cake
5. Buy something and check your change
Education Secretary Damian Hinds said the bucket list is about ‘getting out and about’ by doing things like playing at the seaside (stock picture)
6. Write a weather report for St Werburgh’s radio
7. Build a bridge and test its strength
8. Be a nature detective
9. Dress up as a superhero
10. Make a film
11. Eat something you have grown
12. Pick blackberries
13. Get soaking wet
Dressing up as a superhero is on the list for Year Two pupils in Bristol (stock picture)
14. Go on a boat
15. Learn a French song
16. Walk barefoot on the sand
17. Experience a Victorian school room
18. Walk over the suspension bridge
19. Make a mask
20. Go to the cinema
Year Three – children aged seven to eight
1. Compose a piece of music
2. Take part in a Roman banquet
3. Eat something new
4. Create a mosaic
5. Design and make a board game
6. Climb a tree
Trying yoga is one of the aspirations listed for seven to eight year olds (stock picture)
7. Create a soundtrack for a piece of film
8. Make a pinhole camera
9. Make a musical instrument
10. Light a candle
11. Learn a new game
12. Make something out of wood
13. Cook outdoors
14. Bury treasure and make a map
Mr Hinds said he hopes the bucket list will build character and resilience in children (stock)
15. Program a character on the computer
16. Produce rubbings of fossils
17. Try yoga
18. Start a vegetable patch
19. Visit an art gallery
20. Stay away from home for a night
Year Four – children aged eight to nine
1. Make chocolate
2. Set up a museum
3. Write a play
4. Perform in a play
5. Watch a play or a dance production at the theatre
Many of the goals used by St Werburgh’s Primary school are about getting outside and trying something new (stock picture)
6. Use a camera to document a performance
7. Choreograph a dance
8. Make a sculpture
9. Create a sculpture trail
10. Go in a cave
11. Walk through a forest
12. Visit a Gurdwara
13. Make up your own game and teach it to someone
14. Visit a museum
15. Take photographs of dance
16. Create an outdoor sculpture
17. Swim outside
18. Learn to sew on a button
19. Go on a hike
20. Go on a treasure hunt
Year Five – children aged nine to ten
1. Take part in a debate
2. Vote in a school election
3. Learn how to moon walk
4. Make and launch an air powered rocket
5. Use an OS map
Children will also be encouraged to explore by reading maps and going orienteering (stock)
6. Go orienteering
7. Learn how to use a compass
8. Visit a temple
9. Make a huge class model
10. Visit a Science laboratory
11. Write and perform a poem
12. Write a book for the Reception class
13. Put on a performance
14. Make papier mache planets
15. Learn to climb
16. Go abseiling
17. Write in hieroglyphics
18. Watch a sunset
19. Plan and cook a meal
20. Design and make a model with electricity
Year Six – children aged ten to eleven
1. Go on an open top bus
2. Go on a train
3. Send an email
4. Learn to knit
5. Write a speech
6. Use a local map
Learning how to play an instrument is also encouraged by the school to help children grow
7. Plan a tour around Bristol
8. Interview someone
9. Have a charity week
10. Go on a demonstration/start a campaign
11. Pitch an idea for enterprise to a visiting ‘dragon’
12. Learn to play an instrument
13. Write and record/broadcast a radio play
14. Sleep under canvas
15. Make scones
16. Organise a cream tea for parents and carers
17. See the sun set
18. Go on a picnic
19. See the sun rise
20. Go to London