Extra Curricular
The Tythy Challenge
What is the Tythy Challenge?
The Tythy Challenge is an award scheme that embodies the values of Tytherington School and recognises the actions and efforts of the members of our school community in living those values.
What are the Tytherington School Values?
Our values are set out within our vision statement and are:
- Constantly Strive to improve everything we do
- Encouragement to be Articulate, Resilient, Courageous and Curious
- Confidence to stand up for what you Believe in
How are the values embodied within the Tythy Challenge?
The values form five elements within the challenge. Each of which a member of the school community can achieve in their own right and, when all are achieved, collectively form the Tythy Challenge:
Strive: Make great efforts to achieve or obtain something.
To achieve the Strive element, your activity must:
- Demonstrate your ability to speak or write fluently and coherently.
Example Activities:
- Plan and complete a walk, hike, run or bike ride and record it on an App like Strava, posting a screenshot and photos from it as evidence. Challenge yourself in some way. Possibly through the distance travelled, elevation climbed, variety of places visited on the route (e.g. shop, place of worship, etc.) or speed completed in.
- Complete a physical challenge like doing 100 sit-ups and 100 burpees in a day and record a video of you “feeling the burn”!
- Hold a “Joe Wicks PE-a-thon” in your household and complete 1 workout from YouTube per hour for a number of hours.
- Design your own board game and play it with your family – click here for guidance on how you might go about this.
- Find a new recipe and cook or bake it for the other members of your family. One that has challenging or technical elements to it and take pictures of what you make.
- Learn a dance and perform it.
- Upcycle an item or furniture or an old garment.
- Create or craft something that requires you to use new skills or materials that you have not used before.
- Set a target to complete a number of acts of kindness and work your way through the list.
- Complete at least one PiXL Build Up modules and submit your completed workbook as evidence. E.g.:
- Write a letter of encouragement to someone you know is having a hard time.
- Make a get-well card for someone that is unwell.
- Wash someone’s car for them.
- Make a phone call to a relative to check-in on them and say “Hi”.
- Clear out some old clothes to prepare to take to a charity shop.
- Bake something for a neighbour or neighbours.
- Write a letter to someone, telling them how much you appreciate them.
- Knit something for charity.
- Complete at least one of the following PiXL Build Up modules and submit your completed workbook as evidence:
- Sign up and complete a course on one of the following platforms:
Articulate: Demonstrate the ability to speak or write fluently and coherently.
To achieve the Articulate element, your activity must:
- Lead to you making great efforts to achieve or obtain something.
Example Activities:
- Write verse as a poet or rapper and perform it on video – click here for a session on using you current state of mind to practice creative writing/rhythm, and to build confidence in self-expression and communicating your feelings.
- Write or perform your own articulate speech or learn and perform a famous speech from the past.
- Learn a monologue/speech from a play and perform it. Possibly from Shakespeare or a famous poem.
- Give a talk on something that really interests you and that you want to encourage others to take interest in.
- Develop your writing through the creation of a fictional world, like JK Rowling’s Wizarding World – click here for guidance on how to do this.
- To give yourself a greater challenge in the Articulate element, you could complete the speech or written piece in a language that is not your native tongue.
Resilient: Able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions.
Courageous: Able to control your emotions in a difficult situation.
To achieve the Resilient & Courageous element, your activity must:
- Develop or demonstrate your ability to withstand setbacks or recover quickly from difficult conditions.
- Develop or demonstrate your ability to control your emotions in a difficult situation.
Example Activities:
- Complete at least one “Crest” of the Tytherington Partnership Emotionally Healthy Crest Award and submit your award as evidence.
- Complete at least one PiXL Build Up modules and submit your completed workbook as evidence.
- Enroll for free and complete “The Science of Wellbeing” psychology course on Coursera – click here to view the course page.
- Complete a range of wellbeing activities and reflect on which one or ones that you found the most effective for you.
You could try ones from the following list and use them to complete a Crest Award submission:- Inhale, Exhale, Let Go with Rebecca Dennis
- Happy Flow with Kim Hartwell
- Awaken Your Senses: Guided Meditation with Sebastian Pole
- GABA – A Storytelling Meditation on Being More Stardust
- Any other wellbeing activities that you can find or are aware of.
- Write or record a story about overcoming adversity that describes the steps that someone can take to withstand setbacks, recover quickly from difficult conditions, and control their emotions in a difficult situation.
- Demonstrate the perseverance and resilience required to learn how to play a musical instrument by working your way from beginner to being able to record a piece that you can play.
- Join a new team, group or ensemble and invest time in establishing yourself within it.
- Make a collage of your hopes and dreams for the future and explain to others about how you plan to achieve them.
Curious: Eager to know or learn something new.
To achieve the Curious element, your activity must:
- Lead to you experiencing or learning something new.
Example Activities:
- Try out a Salsa class and submit a video of you doing it – click here for a free Salsa class.
- Listen to a poem recital and write a reflection of your thoughts from listening to it – click here for a free poem recital.
- Write out a number of research questions about something that you would like to know more about and then set out to answer them… adding and answering other questions as you go and then write up your findings or create a report or presentation.
- Research and learn about conservation work that you can do from your own home and complete activities to help your local wildlife thrive. A few ideas that you could complete and record evidence of are:
- Read blogs about local conservation work to get ideas of activities to do and then have a go at them – click here for a blog from the BBC.
- Learn about Hedgehogs and take action to help save them through conservation activities – click here for information about this familiar animal.
- Build a Bug Hotel – click here for helpfull plans to complete a DIY bug hotel.
- Create a plan for planting flowers (in flower beds, hanging baskets or planters) that attract pollenating insects and then record the insects that visit during the course of Spring and Summer.
- Complete a walk with a purpose and use the Winter Watchlist to plan to see, hear and experience as many items on the list as possible and record photos and audio clips as you go.
- Immerse yourself in a “Citizen Science” project through:
- Complete at least one of the following PiXL Build Up modules and submit your completed workbook as evidence:
- Sign up and complete a course on one of the following platforms:
Believe: Certain that something is true and worth standing up for.
To achieve the Believe element, your activity must:
- Demonstrate your confidence and ability to stand up for what you believe in.
Example Activities:
- Complete a piece of persuasive writing that aims to bring other people around to your way of thinking on a matter.
- Write a letter to your local MP, councillor, or other public figure about a matter that you feel passionately about in your local area.
- Write and perform a piece of music with a political message (i.e. a protest song), such as promoting environmental issues.
- Research the role of music in the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s and record a talk where you inform others about it.
- Prepare a formal debate with a friend and record it as you calmly argue the chosen suggestion or “motion” relating to an idea or opinion – click here for support in how to participate in a debate.
How will the Tythy Challenge be recognised?
Any member of the school community that completes individual elements of the challenge will receive an eCertificate for each, recognising that they have achieved that element of the Tythy Challenge.
When all five elements have been achieved, their achievement will be recognised through the awarding of the Tythy Challenge pin badge that they can proudly wear after being presented with it.
Achievement of the elements or the overall challenge will be recognised in our Headteacher’s Notes.
Who can embark on the Tythy Challenge?
Tytherington School has always been a school at the heart of the community, and it is our ambition to make embarking on the Tythy Challenge and achieving the award open to the whole of our community.
Therefore, any student, staff member or parent/guardian, past or present, is invited to take on the challenge and complete activities that achieve recognition in each of the five elements and the overall Tythy Challenge.
How do I achieve the Tythy Challenge?
To achieve the Tythy Challenge you need to submit evidence of the activities that you have completed towards each of the five elements of the challenge. Your evidence for each of the five elements will be judged against the criteria for each element and approved and certificated should it meet the criteria.
Once you have submitted approved evidence of your activities for all five of the elements, you will then have achieved the Tythy Challenge.
Can I complete two or more elements in one activity?
No, you are required to complete separate activities for each element of the award.
How do I submit evidence of an activity that I have completed for an element?
When you have completed an activity that you feel is eligible for recognition under the criteria of an element, all you must do is submit your evidence via one of the following online forms: