Information: Extra Curricular Activities

 

Below you will find examples of activities that we have run for members of the main school over the last few years:

 

Annual ski trips	Residential drama trips
Local theatre visits	Visits to the Clothes Show
Art trips to Amsterdam, Liverpool and  Leeds	Lower School Pantomime
Biennial sponsored walk	Annual watersports trips
Librarians' trips to Alton Towers	Year 9 Response Disaster Challenge
Exchange trips to France and Germany	Year group trips to Flamingoland
Regular music concerts	Battle of the Bands
Chemistry at Work Day at York University	Year 8 Maths trail
Visits to the BBC Good Food Show	Year 9 History trip to Eden Camp
Year 10 Battlefields trip	Geography trip to High Force Waterfall
Year 10 History trip to The Royal Armouries	Year 7 History and Geography trips to Pickering
Year 10 Sociology visit to York Crown Court	Year 10 RE trip to Fountains Abbey
Textiles trip to Leeds College of Art and Design fashion show	Year 10 Business Conference at Askham Bryan
Year 11 Geography trip to Leeds	Year 10 trip to Cambridge University
Year 9 Science trip to Magna	Lower School drama productions
Sponsored assault course	Year 10 trip to Faraday Lecture, Harrogate
Year 9 French trip to Normandy

 

 

Click on the following for further information and photos:

 

Year 9 Disaster Challenge 2005

Lower School drama production 2006

Chemistry at Work Day, York University 2006

French exchange trip 2006

History Battlefields Trip 2006

German Exchange Visit 2006

French Trip to Normandy 2006

Year 8 Maths Trail

 

The following activities take place weekly in school:

 

- AS/A2 Art Support
- GCSE Art extra
- Maths Intervention Classes
- Maths Gifted and Talented Sessions
- Business Studies Coursework help- 
- History Club
- Geography Support
- Food Technology Coursework Support
- Home Economics Coursework Support
- Textiles Coursework Support 
- Textiles Coursework Support
- Creative Writing Workshop
- Science Club
- Chemistry Workshop
- GCSE Music Performance Coursework Support
- String Ensemble
- String Quartet
- GCSE Music Composition Coursework Support
- Brass Ensemble
- Flute Quartet/Ensemble
- Sax Quartet
- GCSE Music Listening Support
- Chamber Choir
- Various music practices
- Swing Band
- Music Theory Practice
- African Drumming
- Homework Club
- Electronic Library
- Reading Challenge
- Lexia Electronic Spelling
- Handwriting Club
- Careers Resources
- Drama Club
- Library
- Amnesty International
- Rock Solid
- Christian Union
- Computer Animation and Multi-Media Club
- Dance Club
- "Midsummer Night's Dream"