Clubs and Societies

The Lower School offers an extensive range of extra-curricular activities and events. There’s something for everyone and we expect every pupil to involve themselves in some aspect of our programme. Not that they need much encouragement – they thoroughly enjoy participating in the many different clubs on offer and show great commitment to the music groups, drama productions, choir, sports teams and other available activities.

Current and recent activities in the Lower School include sports clubs, Lego, Minecraft, dance, theatre, gardening, eco, badminton, Natural History Club, tennis, fencing, languages, orienteering, 8th Norwich Cubs and Scouts, baseball, maths, cricket nets, craft, football, desktop publishing, Hockey Hard Hitters, movie-making, scratch, cartoon strip, music groups, cycling awareness, choir, computing, juggling, senior strings, chess, junior strings, hot air, swing band, steel pans, recorders and guitar circle.

We field Sports Teams in rugby, netball, hockey, cricket, cross-country, athletics, swimming and tennis.

The Lower School stages two musicals each year, along with Lower Three Pop-Up drama and the Upper Three Revue. Recent productions include Alice in Wonderland, Olivia!, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Wizard of Oz and Bugsy Malone.

Clubs

The Lower School provides a comprehensive range of Before, During and After-school clubs (97 at the last count) suitable for all year-groups, all abilities and, through our Natural History Club, all family members too!

We believe that opportunity lies at the heart of our broad curriculum, nurturing and developing pupils in preparation for the future. Teaching staff, parents and external experts deliver a myriad of different clubs and activities during the course of the academic year, on the basis of suggestions made by the School Council. Clubs provide the chance for pupils to try something new, to develop and improve an existing skill, to further extend themselves. The following are just some of the activities we have recently offered:

 

Sport

Tennis, rugby fitness, boys’ netball, running & sprint, football (indoor/outdoor), canoeing, badminton, ultimate frisbee, girls’ rugby, softball, baseball, hockey, cricket, rounders, swimming and fencing.

Music & Drama

Wind band, guitar group, guitar ensemble, Hot Air, string orchestra, Stickers percussion, chamber choir , school choir (over 100 participants), musical performance, Hocus Pocus drama, Zumba dance and steel pans.

Arts and Crafts

Collage, observational drawing, craft, textiles, outdoor art.

8th Norwich Sea Scouts

8th Norwich (Norwich School) Sea Scout group is a Royal Navy recognised group sponsored by Norwich School. Recruiting solely from the school, it provides a broad scouting programme with an emphasis on outdoor adventure and water sports. The group is one of the largest and most active in the UK and provides evening, weekend and residential activities to over 200 girls and boys aged 8 to 18. The Group is split into three sections: Cubs (age 8-10); Scouts (age 10-14); and Explorers (age 14-18).  Find out more by visiting their website: www.8thnorwich.org.uk/

Others

Adobe Photoshop, Scratch, movie making, touch typing, Minecraft, natural history, board games, chess, languages, Lego, Jackanory, Photography, cycling, cookery , origami, gardening,  speed stacking, Cubs and Scouts.