Enrichment Opportunities

From learning history to making it

A Cognita education goes far beyond the classroom. We’re setting our students up with the agency, adaptability and positive attitudes they’ll need to grow, thrive and succeed in a rapidly evolving world.

We know that everyone learns differently. So our educators work hard to give our students multiple ways to learn. Whether it’s field trips, excursions or other programmes, we’re helping our students to build critical life skills and create memorable experiences.

Here’s what life looks like beyond the classroom at Cognita.

Our world of discovery

Learning beyond the classroom

We give children the chance to learn differently with some help from the Active Learning Group (ALG). ALG is a division of Cognita specialising in learning through experiences and developing essential skills that students can take forward. And they’ve got a lot of different opportunities:

Active Learning Centres

Whether it’s climbing mountains, exploring woodlands or splashing in the sea, our Active Learning Centres combine learning essential skills and looking after wellbeing to give students a taste of the great outdoors.

These centres are a permanent outdoors classroom for all of our UK schools. Students can stay in bell tents, a glamping pod village or built dormitory-style rooms. And each centre serves fresh, high quality food using locally-sourced ingredients.

Through this experience, students will learn teamwork, resilience and confidence. And skills they’ll need for the future.

SuperCamps

The perfect way to keep 3-14 year olds learning and having fun during the holidays. Our SuperCamps are run at over 40 schools and they offer a wide range of activity and skills development programmes.

As well as their multi-activity camps, SuperCamps also offer specialist courses working in partnership with The LEGO Group, Chelsea FC and Rise Cookery School.

Ardmore Language Schools

Learning a language isn’t as simple as memorising verb conjugations. Sometimes you need to put down the dictionary and talk to people.

That’s why our UK and US residential and homestay centres give students the chance to actually use language. They’ll build their knowledge and confidence in English. And they’ll learn through activities, cultural visits and specialist sports courses.

The Bushcraft Company

Over 35,000 students aged 7-18 will get out of school and into the wild, giving them back-to-nature experiences around the UK. They’ll get to cook salmon over an open fire, build shelters to sleep in and learn how to navigate through dense woodland.

It’s as real as you can get.

Camp Wilderness

Camp Wilderness provides children aged 8 – 16 with back to basics overnight camps in the UK, helping children to unplug and rewild during the summer holidays.

Camp Asia

While all of these ALG programmes run in Europe, we use the same expertise in Camp Asia.

Camp Asia in Singapore keeps students busy with exciting, activity-based camps during school holidays. This year, over 6,000 students visited their the 23 camps which is the highest turnout yet.

And it’s no surprise, when students can try out robotics, football, drones and Super Chef. And we’re now looking to expand throughout the region.

Student Exchange Programmes

Step out of your comfort zone and become more empathetic and better prepared to embrace the diversity of our world on a student exchange programme. For five weeks, international and UK school students swap lives and experience school, outdoor activities and culture in a different country.

The results? Students who can think beyond their local context, and exposure to a whole range of fresh ideas and experiences that build bonds, relationships and character.

More than 600 students and over 50 accompanying teachers have taken part and are seeing the benefits since we launched the programme back in 2014.

ENRICH ME

ENRICH ME brings market-leading enrichment provisions to Cognita schools in Dubai, leading to an even higher quality learning experience for our students.

This inclusive offering is designed to be fun and engaging for all our learners, whilst also developed to drive high-performing students to achieve professional results.

After a successful start with football and swimming, the programme has been extended to include netball, performing arts and music.

Oxford Certificates Programme

We partner with Worcester College, Oxford one of the most historic colleges at the University of Oxford, to give 15+ year-old students the opportunity to live and learn at the college. Every year, we have cutting-edge courses, taught by tutors from Oxford and Cambridge.

And why not taste a little of the culture while you’re there? If you sign up to the enrichment programme you’ll experience cultural talks, visits and activities too. You get a certificate from Worcester College when you complete the academic or enrichment programme.

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