Ngaio School offers the ROCKET Challenge as its optional home learning programme. Linked to the school ROCKET values, this programme has been designed to recognise the learning children already do outside of school, and to encourage them to extend themselves in these areas. It is designed especially to:
- challenge children to try new things
- to encourage them to contribute to family, school and community
- to enable children to discover, develop and showcase their talents.
The ROCKET Challenge is linked to the research about engaging learners by having “challenges and choices”. Each of the six ROCKET values is a category full of exciting challenge options e.g. one of the open-minded challenges is to “design and make an object to improve the way we live”.
The Challenge focuses on learning through the process – the doing, making, finding out, as well as the finished product. We want children to be trying their own personal best, and achieving at a level that is challenging for them.