Activities programme
Introduction
The boarding activities programme is broad, including visits to places of historical and academic interest, and places where pupils can truly relax and have some great fun. Interspersed amongst these have been the more “competitive” activities, including football, basketball, badminton, fencing, cricket and swimming.
On-site activities have included: football, touch – rugby, badminton, basketball, wall climbing, cricket, tennis, squash, Art Club, Rowing Club. Our in-house entertainment include – games evenings, video and DVD evenings, a delicious Christmas Dinner, a fine celebration of the Chinese New Year, pizza parties, pancake evenings, fun cooking cakes etc, in-house parties involving the children cooking some of their native meals, and much, much more.
Off-site activities have included visits to Salisbury, Winchester, Chichester, Petersfield, Spectrum Pools in Guildford, Laser Quest, Bognor Regis, Little Hampton, the beach at West Witterings, Brighton, London, Poole, Kings Theatre in Portsmouth, Queen Elizabeth Country Park, Victoria Country Park, various markets, Intech Science Museum, Royal Marines Museum, Beaulieu Motor Museum and grounds, Romsey Rapids, Monkey World, Marwell Zoo, Cycling in the New Forest, Hampton Court Palace, Hayling Island, Southsea Common, Ropes Courses and Quad Biking at Barfield School (3 Peaks), Porchester Castle, bowling, several cinema trips, Royal Dockyards, Shopping at Gun Wharf and West Quay in Southampton, Ice skating in Ryde (Isle of Wight after a Hovercraft journey), swimming at the Westgate centre in Chichester, Thorpe Park, The Hawk Conservancy, camping at Cobnor, and much more!
Summer 2012 Activities Programme
Spring 2012 Activities Programme
Autumn 2011 Activites Programme
Carnarvon
We arrange our own pool tournament and ladder, table football tournament and ladder, and a chess ladder. Naturally we will enjoy sampling the culinary delights of various dishes produced by the “chefs” amongst us as they rustle-up the occasional meal. If this is not ‘up to scratch’ we will enjoy a take-away evening, whilst watching a recorded game from the Rugby World Cup on our giant screen.
Woodlands
Activities in Woodlands are largely of a culinary nature! Whilst noodles topped with spam or eggs (or almost anything else) can be seen on any evening, more specialist delicacies - Chinese dumplings with Udon Noodles, Mooncake and Rice Balls are prepared for our celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Pancake and the occasional Pizza Evening take place on an ad-hoc basis and, rather more occasionally, a taco or two! Food for the Chinese Hot Pot which provides an interesting focus for the house Christmas Celebrations can include chicken and pork, sausages and various vegetables.
Pupils take part in the various sports activities which are organised through our prefect system, and an important feature of the Autumn Term, is the start of training for the Lion Dance, in preparation for the Chinese New Year in the Spring Term -more of that later!!
Linnholm
Miss Godfrey plans to enthral her girls with lessons in the kitchen, teaching them how to bake cakes, muffins and biscuits. Over and above the normal Sports Hall activities, she will also be running her own badminton tournament during the week, and will plan some enjoyable outings on Saturdays, often with the West End boys too.
St Donats
Mr Murray knows teenagers well, and is anticipating the inevitable request for more functions within the House involving the consumption of Food! With this in mind, he plans to have some Hot Dog and popcorn evenings in the lounge whilst the boys relax watching a DVD on the huge screen. There is also the option of having a Pizza Night, with the boys taking an active part in the preparation.
He also has plans for a “WII OLYMPICS” to take place one night a week over a four week period. Teams of four will compete in various events – all on the big screen, to see which team emerges victorious. Medals may even be awarded to the winning team!
Should he be able to break the inevitable teenage “sleepathon”, he also plans to take his lads for an early morning stroll (on Saturdays or Sundays) to Southsea Common and the seafront.
West End
These young lads will be joined with the girls from Linnholm, and engaged in Sports Hall games, table games in the Social Area and swimming every fortnight. Mr Foakes also plans to introduce some other fun activities and events such as games on Southsea Common, visits to Southsea and Portchester Castles, early morning swims at the Eastney Pool, walks on Portsdown Hill and introducing them to the “art” of biscuit making!
Woodleigh
Mrs Ricks has chosen to entertain her older girls with the occasional Pizza evening, some DVD evenings, competitions using the WII Fit programme and taking them on shopping trips. She also plans to have baking lessons – delicious cakes for the community to share, and over some weekends to show the girls how to make casseroles!
