Extra Curricular
Activities
 Extra-curricular
activities are organised by staff to provide extension and enrichment
of the official curriculum.
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;
- Chess club; history club; drama rehearsals
for productions;
- History, geography and modern languages clubs;
- A visit to Germany; an A-level study visit
to Spain.
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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