Clubs and Activities

We offer an extensive and wide ranging programme of extra-curricular activities in order to further enhance the educational experiences of our students and develop their interests. Many Departments offer extra-curricular activities for all ages and abilities, with lunchtime, after-school and off-site opportunities that vary from year to year. The Library is also open every day during lessons, at break and at lunch time so that students can use computer facilities, read or complete work.

Take a look at some of the subject specific activities we offer:

Art and Design Department

Club	Day and time	Target group	Term
Skills Booster Year 7	Monday After school	KS3	1 and 2
Gifted and Talented skills	Monday After school	KS3	all terms
Homework Club KS3	Tuesdays After school	KS3	all terms
Coursework sessions KS4/5	Tuesdays After school	KS4 and 5	1, 2 and 3
Catch-up sessions KS4	Wednesdays After school	Focussed interventions:	Termly
Revision sessions	Tues/Weds After school	Year 11	Term 3/4-
Breakfast Art Catch Up	Wednesdays before school	All years (also with breakfast)	all terms

Club

Day and time

Location

Time

Teacher

Poetry

Monday

3:00-4:00

Mr White

Creative Writing

Years 7-8

Thursday

Lunch

Mr Rigby

Citizenship

Debate Society and Law Society is run on Thursday lunchtimes - All years are welcome

English

Awaiting content

Geography

The Geography department focuses its extracurricular activities on fieldtrips and runs the following trips each year.

Juniper Hall near Boxhill - 3 day residential in January for year 12/13
Faltford Mill in Suffolk - 3 day residential term 5/6 year 7/8
Reculver Coast in Kent - day trip term 3/4 year 12
GCSE controlled assessment 1 day study event term 1/2 year 11

History

History Club takes place every Wednesday of Week B. 3-4.30pm.

ICT

Club

Day

Time

Target group

Location

Revision

Club

Monday - Friday

3-4 pm

All year groups

Rooms 91 and 92

ICT club

Thursdays

3- 4 pm

All year groups

Room 91

Media Studies

Department	Club	Day	Time	Target group	Term	Location
Media	Media Club (inc BBC School Report)	Friday	Lunch	KS3&4	All	M4
Book Thieves	Book Thieves	Tuesday	Lunch	All	All	M4
Media	Football and Sandwiches	Thursday	Lunch	All	All	M4
Media	Fred at School (European Cinema)	Wednesday	After School	Year 10	Terms 4 and 5	M4
Media	RNS Film Society	Wednesday (usually)	After school twice termly	Dependent on screening	Twice termly	Lecture Theatre

Performing Arts

DAY & TIME	ACTIVITY	WHERE?
Monday Lunch	Ukulele Club (all years)	Room 85
Tuesday lunch	KS3 Keyboard Club Music Practise Rooms Open (you must book a slot in advance)	85 Practise rooms
Tuesday 3-4/4.30	Whole School Show Rehearsals – January-July	Performing Arts
Wednesday Lunch	Music Practise Rooms Open (you must book a slot in advance)	Practise rooms
Thursday Lunch	Music Practise Rooms Open (you must book a slot in advance) Guitar Club (all years)	Practise rooms Room 85
Thursday 3-4pm	Youth Theatre (by invite only) September - December ‘The Drama Workshop’ – KS3 & 4 September – December	Room 84 Room 83
Thursday 3-4pm	‘Vocal Harmony’ – KS3,4 &5 singing September -December	Room 81

Physical Education Department

Club	Day	Time	Target group	Term	Location
Basketball	Wednesday Friday	Lunch Time	Years 7-11	All year	Sports Hall
Netball	Monday	Lunch Time	Years 7-9	September-April	Sports Hall
Skills Club	Tuesday	Lunch Time	Year 7 and 8 low level students	All year	Sports Hall
Badminton	Thursday	Lunch Time	Years 7-11	All year	Sports Hall
Futsal Club	Monday	3-4pm	Years 7-11	All year	Sports Hall
Archery	Friday	3-4	All years	All year	Sports hall
Softball	Thursday	3-4pm	Years 7-11	Summer terms	Field
Cricket	Monday Thursday	3-4pm	Years 7-11	Summer Terms	Field/Sports Hall
Athletics	Thursday	3-4pm	Years 7-11	Summer Terms	Field
High Jump	Wednesday	Lunch Time	Years 7-11	Summer Terms	Sports Hall
Basketball Academy	Every day	7.30am-8.30am	All years	All year	Sports Hall

Throughout the year we also enter students in years 7-11 into the SSG Sports competitions, which allows pupils to compete against other schools in Medway in a variety of competitions including; futsal, indoor rowing, basketball, indoor athletics, handball, rugby, cross country, cricket, rounders' and athletics.

Basketball teams compete in the English School Cup, the Kent Cup, The Medway CVL league and the Medway School Basketball League.

We also run school teams in years 7-11 in Football and Netball. These teams train after school and compete against other schools.

Psychology

Visits run by the department include the following:

An exchange trip to Finland where they conducted cross cultural research and compare findings against those in England. This is great for UCAS statements as the specification does not require independent research but doing it is above and beyond.
CSI days have been run where students become criminal investigators.
Trips to Psychology open days at Universities.
An over night criminology trip to London.
A theatre trip to see Derren Brown.
Additionally the psychology department holds revision clinics most nights and lunch times

We are currently planning the following so look out for adverts:

A trip to the zoo to study animal behaviour.
Planning brain dissection - potentially for all year groups.

STEM - Science technology Engineering and Maths

STEM club terms 1-4 – see advertised dates.
Driving school 4-6 normally Wednesdays
Gifted & Talented visits led by NST – Term 4
Saturday schools for Science - as advertised
Hatching chicks in STEM – Term 4

Non subject specific

Interhouse Spelling Competition All year
Lunchtime games club - every Wednesday
Pride (People Respecting Identity Diversity and Equality) Wednesday lunchtime all years