Extra-Curricular Activities

Extra-curricular activities are organised by staff to provide extension and enrichment of the official curriculum. You can also find details below of some extra-curricular activities run by local organisations.

To give prospective parents some indication of the opportunities which may be available to their children, the following list shows representative extra-curricular activities provided in the immediate past and/or offered during the current year:

• Practices and competitions in a wide range of sports including athletics, cricket, tennis, basketball, gymnastics, football, netball; 
• Instrumental and vocal music at lunchtimes and for performance;
• Adventure holidays in Cornwall and Spain;
• The opportunity to work as a school library assistant;
• Use of school computer equipment during lunch hours and after school;
• Use of the art rooms during lunch hours and after school;
• Games club; history club; drama rehearsals for productions;
• History, geography and modern languages clubs
• Residential trips to support learning, such as Isle of Wight, Juniper Hall, Auschwitz, battlefields, field work
• Duke of Edinburgh Award activities and expeditions.
• Worldwide Expedition in alternate years to far flung countries such as Honduras, Peru and Borneo.

Please download a copy of our latest extended day and after school activity booklet for details. A sports fixtures calendar is available in the News & Events area of the website. (The latest extra-curricular sports programme is also available as a download from the PE page.)

 

New - Kitchen Garden Club

Greenshaw has recently started a Kitchen Garden, an ongoing plan to grow and cook our own food within school.  We have been lucky enough to secure a free after school Food Growing Club with One Planet Food, Eco Local, a company based in Carshalton that delivers to Sutton a broad range of environmental services.

At this club students will be able to grow from seeds their own food, maintain and look after various crops and grow in their knowledge and understanding of how and where we get our food from.  Hopefully, weather and crop dependant, students will be able to taste their own ‘school grown’ food.

There are a limited number of places available, students need to be able to attend all sessions which will run every Friday after school from 3pm to 4.30pm outside the Food Technology room.  There will be at least one member of staff present with the pupils during the sessions.

Please see Miss Parsons in Technology for more details and forms.

 

Partnership with Sutton Tennis Centre

Greenshaw has recently finalised an official partnership with a local tennis and fitness provider, Sutton Tennis Academy, located a few minutes from the school at Rose Hill Park. As part of the agreement the club is offering all Greenshaw staff and families huge discounts on memberships. For the ZONE Health and Fitness, a peak gym membership (including over 60 classes per week) is £32.50 monthly, as opposed to the usual adult price of £49.50.Greenshaw student gym membership is £19.50 Joint and family memberships are also discounted. A proportion of membership fees for every Greenshaw member will go directly back to the school, creating a fund that the school can use at its own discretion.

This new partnership with Sutton Tennis Academy will be of great benefit to both the students and the school. For example, it has agreed to fund and sponsor the school’s football kits for the next five years and it is helping Community Sports Leaders to obtain their awards.

For more information about the membership offers, please contact a membership advisor on 020 8641 6611 or info@zonehealthandfitness.co.uk.

 

Get Active London

Get Active London is a project designed to bring all London's Sport and Physical activity offerings into one up-to-date information hub. The project is essentially a database of all venues, clubs and activity providers in the 33 boroughs of London.

The project came about response to various research which indicated that a key factor to encourage participation in sport and physical activity was having access to more information about activity offerings.. In response to these needs the Get Active London activity finder was born. The system is self managed by clubs and activity providers. The Local Authorities, PRO-ACTIVE's and National Governing Bodies Act as content administrators for the projects.

Click on the logo to check out the Get Active London activity finder.

 

Links with Wimbledon Rackets Club

Greenshaw also has links with Wimbledon Rackets and Fitness Club. Click on the icon for more details.

 

 

 

Charging for School Activities

It is a statutory requirement that educational activities during the school day be provided without charge to parents, except in the case of the following:

• individual and group instrumental music lessons given by peripatetic teachers;
• those items made in Design and Technology lessons which parents have agreed to pay for and keep;
• school visits where parents have agreed to make a voluntary contribution to the cost, subject to the following conditions:
• parents in receipt of income support or family credit are exempt;
• parents who find it difficult to make a contribution can be assisted by the school;
• if all parents who could make a voluntary contribution do not do so, the activity will be cancelled unless the school has an alternative source of finance.

 

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