Sporting and Extra Curricular Activities

The sporting facilities are superb.  We have a four court sports hall, a specialist gymnasium, a fitness suite, tennis courts, a large playing field and an all weather soccer/hockey pitch.  Not surprisingly these are well used.  The PE department offers a full timetable of college fixtures for every year group in athletics, basketball, cricket, hockey, netball and soccer, plus interform competitions in badminton, football and unihoc.  There are also regular badminton, gymnastics and trampolining clubs.  We also have a PE development officer who is constantly expanding our provision and coaching expertise.  We are proud of the part sport plays in the life of the college.

Clubs
Interested students join after school groups such as the Drama club, Science club and Technology club.  There are homework clubs run by every department and every year we have an enrichment week,  at the end of the summer term. The timetable is set aside for students in Years 7, 8 and 9 to develop their interests through workshops, day trips and overseas residential journeys.

All departments offer a wide range of extra curricular activities that expand the students’ horizons, experience and academic achievement in trips, clubs, performances and working with experts. 

Trips
In the last twelve months students have visited the Imperial War Museum, the First World War Battlefields in Northern France, the National History Museum, North Wales, the Dorset Coast, The Hawth Theatre, Tuscany, Italy.

Performances
There are regular public performances put on by Music, Dance and Drama students both here and abroad.  "Oliver" was a great success, as were the performing arts students tours of Tuscany, and Barcelona. Our choir has featured on Swiss TV and been a winner in the National Choir Competition three times.