Success Beyond the Classroom

Visits
Visits and out-of-school journeys play a major role in fostering our students' social as well as educational development. Some visits are purely educational whilst others mix educational and social aims.

Some visits are just for one day. Others are residential and spread over a number of days or weeks. Trips include:

• theatre visits
• music concerts
• the Belgian and French battlefields
• art galleries
• Science, History and Geography field trips
• Royal Ballet
• university visits
• Ardeche activities week

Sporting Activities
We have always believed that 'healthy bodies make healthy minds' and recent research has confirmed that physically active students learn more quickly.

This was the main reason why, in order to build upon our academic achievements, we became a Specialist Sports College. This has enabled us to develop a range of superb sporting facilities for the use of both the school and the community.

These facilities include:

• a large sports hall with badminton courts; cricket nets; basketball courts; indoor pole vaulting indoor football pitch; and sports hall athletics facilities.
• a gymnasium and dance centre
• a fitness suite
• a leisure area for aerobics and martial arts
• a computer and conference room
• twelve outdoor floodlit all-weather tennis and netball courts
• extensive playing fields
  
  

We have a national reputation for sporting excellence and have won many national, county, London and District competitions within the wide range of sports we offer: