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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.

The links below go into greater detail on some of the facilities available to students at Greenshaw.

 

Special Provision

Pastoral