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Autumn 1 2026 Home Challenges
- Help your grown ups around the kitchen in a new way e.g. setting the table
- Help your grown ups in the bathroom in a new way e.g. tidying away your bath toys
- Help your grown ups in your bedroom in a new way e.g. making your bed
What is the Agents of Change programme?
We believe it’s crucial that our children see themselves as those who make a positive impact on our world. We help them to see themselves as “Agents of Change”, making our world a better place through their simple actions. We have to be the change to see the change! One way we do this is to set the children challenges to optionally complete and then share with school. They then earn awards for doing this.
How does it work?
- Each half-term, children have 3 home challenges they can complete (KS2 now have 4 options but only need to do 3).
- For each AoC home challenge a child does, they will earn a special AoC card to keep.
- They will also be doing an in-school challenge each half-term as part of their class learning project
- Complete the AoC home challenges across the year, and they’ll receive a special bronze, silver or gold award!
- Bronze – for doing 12 challenges made up of 6 home challenges + 6 class challenges
- Silver– for doing 18 challenges made up of 12 home challenges + 6 class challenges
- Gold (Graham Robins Award) – for doing 24 challenges made up of all of the 18 home challenges + 6 class challenges
How do I let my child’s teacher know that they have completed a home challenge?
- New this year – we are using Google Classrooms to help you see, submit and track home challenges. This makes it easier for you and the teachers.
- Please log this on Google Classroom on the web or app. You should see 3 classes, with one called “Agents of Change”. Click on that one.
- Click on the “Classwork” button. You should see the 3 or 4 home challenges for Autumn 1.
- Click on a particular challenge to see the details. You might need to “View Instructions” or flick up if on a mobile/tablet.
- You can simply add a comment, or click “add or create” to submit a photo or something else. Then click on “Mark as Done”. This last step is really important! This means the teachers gets notified it’s been done.
- Remember, you or your child can still talk to the teacher or bring something in from the home challenge if that’s appropriate. We’re keen to celebrate their achievement together!
I think I’m logged in but the classrooms aren’t showing. What’s wrong?
- If someone already has a google account on the phone or computer, quite often Google Classroom will use that account first.
- Check which account you are actually logged in with. This is almost always because it is the wrong account. Switch your Google account to ensure it’s the school one (“@stmarksce.org.uk”), not a personal or work one.
Class Challenges 2025 2026
- In Year 1, we thought about our world and how we need to care for it.
- We have lots of ideas that we are going to promote such as: picking up litter, using less water and turning off lights.
- We know this will help us to make our world a better place and will help us to look after the Polar Bears. We are finding ways to share the best things to do to make a difference.
Questions!
Can I do the home challenges in any order?
- Yes!
What happens when my child has done a home challenge?
- Your child will receive an AoC card which they can take home. We keep a record of this in school so we can count how many they’ve achieved.
- You’ll also have a copy of the challenges to keep at home so you can tick them off.
How do I tell a teacher that a home challenge has been completed?
- A few options. Our preference is to use the AoC google classroom. Alternatively, please let the teacher know.
If I need any resources, can I speak to the teacher about this?
- Yes, and we’ll help out as much as we are able to.
When are the bronze, silver and gold badges presented?
- This will happen at the end of the year.
Do they get 6 AoC cards automatically?
- Not quite! Each half-term, the children are working on a project in school regarding being an Agent of Change. When they complete this each half-term, they will get a card.
Agents of Change
At St Mark’s CofE Primary School, we believe it’s crucial that our children see themselves as those who make a positive impact on our world. We help them to see themselves as “Agents of Change”, making our world a better place through their simple actions. We have to be the change to see the change!
This may start at school- for example, in the classroom, on the playground, bringing a smile, sharing resources, or playing together.
It also impacts our local community -for example doing a litter pick, writing a letter/email to cheer someone up, leaving surprise flowers at residents doorsteps, raising money for St Michael’s Hospice, or sending cards to local residential homes.
We also look wider afield. Over the past year, we have been working hard to help our children to become courageous advocates, who use their voices and actions to bring about positive change in our world. We want the children to feel that they have the power to move beyond simple fundraising, to use their voices to raise awareness of issues impacting others in our community and across the world. We have been working with Christian Aid’s Global Neighbours Project to help us understand this more and to develop our understanding of global citizenship. Through this we have carried out actions such as: writing to local companies to encourage more environmentally friendly ways of working, advocating for Fair Trade, supporting Foodbank and developing connections with the children from The Mud House Children’s Foundation, our partner charity in Tanzania.
