Junior School Co-Curricular Life

Clubs | Trips and visits

Clubs

In all subject areas, activities take place to go beyond the already ambitious curriculum. Budding linguists can explore Japanese and Greek, for example, and Chess Club gives focused time to develop gameplay and strategy. Maths Explorers groups take place from Year 1 to challenge children in their thinking and problem solving. Computing Club gives time to explore programming and journalists in the making can hone their writing in Magazine Club, producing a magazine (Chatterbox) for the whole school to read. Science Club is always full of energy and excitement as children explore and discover more through engineering and experiments. Electronic Music Club introduces children to the use of technology in music production and History Club gives the opportunity to explore historical events and debates while General Knowledge Club tests quick thinking and factual recall.

The clubs take place before school, during lunch times or after school. 

Club timetables vary from term to term and, except for team practices and musical groups where continuity is desirable, are all voluntary, although we do expect club members to commit themselves for the duration of the term.

Please note that there are no additional costs for clubs, except for a tiny minority (for e.g. Ballet, Lamda and Taekwondo). 

Trips and Visits

Visits out of School range from day visits at numerous locations and centres in the local area, to fully residential experiences beginning with one night away in Year 3.  The cost of all these visits are covered within school fees. 

All experiences are carefully planned to enrich the curricular activities in school.  Please see the news and events section of our website for reports on our most recent activities. 
 
At the beginning of the school year, the Infants all go on a trip together.  This is organised on a three year cycle and includes a trip to either the zoo, farm or safari park. At the end of the Trinity term, there is an end of year Infant trip altogether.  

Reception have a wonderful time at their Forest School in the Alleyn’s School grounds every week, and recent trips to support their topic have included The Unicorn Theatre and The Horniman Museum. 

Years 1 and 2 are taken on a variety of topic visits, which run on a two-year cycle. Past trips have included the London Transport Museum, Hever Castle, The London Eye and the Cutty Sark, but each trip is dependent on their topic. 
 
In Year 3, the children visit the British Museum, Dulwich Park and Horton Kirby Environmental Centre. They all experience a night away from home on an action-packed residential trip to the PGL centre at Marchant's Hill. 
 
In Year 4, there are trips to the Horniman Museum, and onsite immersive days to support their topics. They also spend two nights away from home engaged in fun team building challenges and environmental investigations at Hindleap Warren, an outdoor activity centre in the Ashdown Forest. 
 
Year 5 visit the Science Museum and British Museum.  Every June, they spend five days (four nights) at the UK Sailing Academy (UKSA) on the Isle of Wight. Here, they can extend their physical education with windsurfing, sailing, kayaking, surfing and keel boating as well as engaging in some geographical, scientific, and historical studies. 
 
Year 6 spend a morning at The Houses of Parliament and participate in workshops at the Southwark Junior Citizenship scheme. After their Senior School assessment, they spend a day unwinding at Stubbers Activity Centre, taking part in a variety of outward-bound activities.  

The climax of Year 6 is their week-long residential trip to Chester.  This is a fun packed week which includes visits to a football stadium, trips to the beach as well as days spent at a Theme Park and Chester Zoo.