After School Clubs

We spend the first few weeks of the club working on skills (e.g. sketching, testing different materials, looking at the work of different artists and completing their work) and then spend around six weeks on creating an overall final piece. Our absolute hero in Art Club is Bob Ross – we spend a portion of every week watching him for inspiration, and our club motto is “We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents!”

This is a fitness club and the children are made fully aware that it is not a combat sport, nor is it self-defence. Children will benefit from developing mutual respect, teamwork and co-ordination. It is a sport that is very inclusive for both boys and girls, motivating pupils to become active and inspiring them to engage in a fun filled session.

Our after-school cooking club gives children the opportunity to discover the joys of preparing fresh, healthy and nutritious food, also with some occasional sweet treats as well. Children will prepare a different dish every week and will learn basic food hygiene, how to prepare vegetables, peeling, cutting, grating, slicing, melting, weighing, measuring, time and all with a huge amount of fun.

Drama is one of our newer clubs, headed by Mr Hallam and Mr Peggs, both of whom have a passion for drama. During this club, children are encouraged to become more confident in both their reading and speaking, as script reading is an important part of the club, as is performing in front of others. Within the first few weeks of this club, children who are normally more quiet and reserved have thrived in this club, and have really begun to make progress with their acting skills. Aside from script reading (And editing and writing new scripts), we also play a variety of drama games that encourage the children to be more confident and enthusiastic, as well as improving their skills in the range of dramatic genres there are.

Forest Club gives an opportunity for those children who do not access Forest School to experience what it has to offer. Children are able to go bug hunting, treasure collecting, den building, take part in stick activities, identify trees and plants they find, and planting. Or simply to lead their own play in an outside environment where they will pick up a love and respect for nature and the outside world. We respond to what they would like to do and try to facilitate activities they want to try out. We encourage children to manage their own risks and develop their own curriculum.

Railway modelling is once in a lifetime opportunity in school to be able to build your own model railway. I actively brings out a child’s design and technology and art skills. This very unique club separates us from most schools and is a creative process from start to finish. From testing trains and setting up tracks to adding final touches to environments so the stories can come to life from their very own model. Last term we were able to create a farmyard/beach scene. The opportunities are endless.

STEM club is a great place to create things and perform experiments outside the classroom. The children apart of the club have learnt so much and keeping coming back as we keep discovering more and more new things. Our children learn new things such as making the rovers and slime. The group is very helpful and are great to work with to achieve some new and amazing things.