Activities Programme

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At the Prep School, we offer a wide range of Activities which can be pursued between 5.50pm and 6.25pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. On Saturdays, we offer a full day of enrichment for all our pupils from Year 5 upwards.

These Activities provide the children with a wealth of opportunities either to pursue their particular interests further or to have a go at something new. Through the programme, we aim to build confidence and self-belief whilst cultivating new abilities which may develop into lifelong skills and interests and which encourage them to take on new challenges – as well as of course offering plenty of opportunity for fun!  Boarders are required to choose an Activity on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays; day-pupils may sign up to as many or as few each week as they wish!

We strongly encourage our children to make choices. Our evening activities programme enhances the curriculum giving the children time to explore hobbies and interests. We try to offer as broad a programme as possible: on the sporting side, there is everything from football and tennis to tae kwon-do and fencing, while ever-popular options for the more creative-minded are making mosaics, extra art and design technology projects, dance and drama. Slightly more unusual choices on offer in recent terms have been astronomy and sign-language!

Children who pursue Activities also have the opportunity sometimes to compete in inter-school events, participate in plays, concerts and festivals and attend field trips, all of which help to develop their abilities and build team spirit in a fun environment.

On a Saturday, our pupils from Year 5 upwards have two sessions of ‘things to make you brainy’ in the morning – from reasoning skills to interview techniques, from history of medicine to history of art, from stocks and shares to debating, and from semaphore to theory of music. All academic enrichment is carefully guided to support and extend thinking skills, knowledge acquisition and ‘cultural capital’. In the afternoons, our children get to ‘choose their own adventure’ – there is no set curriculum; instead, members of staff choose something they are passionate about to share for a half term programme and children select from a list of wonderful adventures. Recent activities have included: sea-fishing and fossil hunting on the beautiful North Norfolk coastline, mountain biking around the local heaths and forests, robotics, ‘make-up of stage and screen’, mindfulness, drama, gardening, mural making, cookery, photography, Tolkien circle and ‘produce and perform your own pop song’.

“…this jolly and caring prep has all the ingredients for a memorable childhood.”

The Good Schools Guide 2022

RECENT ACTIVITIES (5.50pm-6.25pm)

Aerobics

Extra Art

Outdoor Fun Games

Archery

Fencing

Play rehearsals

Arts & Crafts

Film Club

Pottery

Astronomy

Folk music

Professional Squash coaching

Athletics

Football

Professional Tennis coaching

Badminton

Gardening

Rambling

Basketball

Greenpower Go Karts

Recreational swimming

Beginner’s Golf

Gymnastics

Rounders

Board Games

Jewellery-making

Sewing

Chess

Jiminies

Shooting

Computer game programming

Judo

Sign language

Cooking

Kayaking

Squash

Costumes & Wardrobe

Librarian Training & Bookworm

Strategy Board Games

Creative Writing

Library Activities

Supervised music practice

Cricket

Making Mosaics

Tae Kwon-Do

Current Affairs

Membership Golf

Tennis

Dance Theatre

Model Railway Society

Trampolining

Design & Technology

Music Technology

Trivial Pursuit

Dodgeball

Music Theory

War Games

Drama workshop

Natural History Society