At Sidcot we’re lucky in having an excellent rural location and top class facilities for sport, arts, crafts and environmental studies, as well as links with local community groups, charities and business. Activities run at lunchtime, after school, after tea and into the evening, as well as at weekends. With over 100 extra-curricular activities ranging from archery to trampolining, maths club to hill walking, we make sure our students have plenty of opportunities to try new things as well as developing existing interests. There’s plenty going on outside school too, with field trips, gallery and museum visits, international exchanges, music tours, lectures and sports fixtures, also available to students as they progress through the School.
Arts
Sidcot Creative Arts Centre bridges the traditional genres with the latest technology and state of the art facilities for fine art, music, drama, sculpture, photography and digital media. Our music school has a dedicated performance hall, practice rooms, a recording studio and music technology suite. Our drama department has the facilities to turn performances into theatre, radio, or film.
Sports
A whole range of sports are on offer at Sidcot: football, rugby, hockey, cricket, netball, tennis, athletics, horse riding, fencing, golf, dance, water polo, basketball, table tennis, dry slope skiing and many more. We have a busy fixtures list throughout the year playing competitively against local schools with some excellent results. In the Sports Centre students have use of a superb 25-metre indoor heated pool, a multi gym and sports hall.
The great outdoors
Many of our students take part in a variety of outdoor challenges as part of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme, which is very popular at the school. They might also get involved in green initiatives like our recycling scheme or those run by local community groups. They can also join the gardening club, take up beekeeping or help with the development of our nature trail.
The glorious indoors
We can say with confidence that there truly is something for everyone in the list of indoor activities that includes digital media projects, debating, jewellery making, TV production, the pre-university cooking club, pop and classical choirs, needlework club, maths cafe, bell ringing and much more.
Working for the community
Working to support charitable organisations is part of our Quaker values. Students are involved in organising events for Red Nose Day, Children in Need, Macmillan Cancer Support and local charities. We believe this experience is essential to develop maturity and empathy.
Senior School Activities
- 4 x 4 Challenge Club
- Adventure Club Climbing
- Basketball Club
- Boys’ Football Practice
- Boys’ Hockey Practice
- Combined Quaker Choirs Event Rehearsal
- Drama Rehearsals (for termly performances)
- DT A Level Support Session
- DT Product Design Coursework Club
- English Clinic
- Free Swim
- GCSE Food Preparation & Nutrition Help Club
- Girls’ Hockey Practice
- Girls’ Netball Practice
- Glass Workshop Club
- Golf
- Hockey Skills Coaching
- Languages Revision Cafe
- Library Study
- Life Drawing
- Maths Café
- Multigym
- Music Practice Rooms
- Open Art Studio – 3D
- Open Art Studio – Fine Art
- Orchestra
- Photography – Exam Support
- Pottery Throwing
- Riding Lessons
- Swim Academy
- Textiles Exam Group Catch-Up Session
- Water Polo
- Athletics (Indoor)
- Dance
- Fencing
- Sidcot Swim Club
- Trampolining