Activities at Durham School
Durham School offers all its pupils a wide range of extra-curricular activities (the majority of which are non-sporting activities) and encourages them to take full advantage of the programme so that they receive as broad an education as possible. This programme is in addition to the games programme which offers every pupil the chance to take part in a sporting activity almost every day of the week.
The programme operates between 5.00 and 6.00 pm each day and is semi-voluntary with younger pupils (Years 7-9) currently expected to opt into a minimum of two activities per week. Older pupils are given greater flexibility.
The following activities are offered in the Christmas Term 2009. Please note that not all these activities are available to all age groups.
- 1st XV Training Sessions
- Aerobics
- Big Band
- Board Games
- Boxing Club
- CCF (Year 9 upwards)
- Ceramics
- Chamber Music
- Chess
- Choir
- Christian Union
- Classical Greek
- Classics and Latin Club
- Climbing
- Computer Aided Design
- Cricket Nets
- Current Affairs
- Dance Club
- Duke of Edinburgh
- Durham Eye (School Newspaper)
- Fashion Design
- Football
- French Film & Conversation for GCSE
- High Jump Training
- Homework Club
- Hot Potatoes (Discussion Group)
- ICT Club
- Intermediate Squash
- Italian Club
- Jewellery Making
- Junior Art Club
- Junior Dance & Movement
- Junior Football
- Junior School Council
- Junior Squash
- Knitting
- Model Making
- Nature Club
- Orchestra
- Oxfam
- Peer Group Support Training
- Poetry Club
- Politics
- RAF Training
- Rifle Club
- Senior Art Club
- Senior DT Club
- Soft Toy Making
- Spanish Conversation for Beginners
- Strategy Games
- Strength & Conditioning
- Swimming
- Sword Fighting
- Tennis
- UCAS preparation
- Water Polo
- Windsurfing
next event
U10 v King's Hawford (H) A & B teams
Friday, 12 March 2010
Testimonials
"When you join the school, you get a buddy who is there to help you around the House and she is just like a big sister. I found that I soon made friends with all the other girls in MacLeod and many of the Pimlico girls. So settling in was not as scary and hard as I thought it would be - it was actually quite fun!
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Emily Phillips (MacLeod, Year 9)