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Prospectus Extra Curricular
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The Libraries Leyes Lane library is a busy and vibrant place open to students throughout the school day. In addition to 10,000 books covering curriculum subjects, hobbies and leisure interests, and a wide range of fiction there are video and audio tapes and a suite of networked computers, giving access to the library catalogue, CD-ROMs and the internet. Library staff are always available to give help and advice, and Year 7 and 8 students follow a course in Information Skills. Frequent events take place to promote reading, including inter-form reading quizzes, author visits, book fairs and competitions. For more information on the libraries click here
All pupils are encouraged to use ICT regularly and for appropriate purposes including homework and coursework. We have Broadband access to the internet and pupils are taught to surf safely and correctly. We ask parents and pupils to sign a Code of Internet Use Agreement. ICT is used in all subjects through a range of media including digital cameras and digital video. We currently have a pupil/computer ratio of 1:6 at Leyes Lane and 1:5 at Castle.
Music, art and drama have a high profile in the school offering a wide variety of extra-curricular activities to support and enhance the students’ experience. In recent large-scale musical productions such as Cabaret and Grease the Expressive Arts departments have combined to stage Christmas shows for packed houses with the highest production values available to any school. A drama studio and the latest state-of-the-art dance studio provide venues for a range of smaller scale productions throughout the year. A combination of local and national theatre trips and in-school performances by visiting theatre companies offer enrichment for all students. The art department mounts two exhibitions a year, a vibrant testament to the broad range of media open to our students and the fruit of regular visits to galleries and exhibitions. After-school clubs provide opportunities for sustained creative work. The opportunities provided by the inexhaustible Music department ensure that every student with any kind of musical interest can rehearse and perform their work. The Concert Band, Swing Band, Junior Choir, two Vocal Harmony groups and a variety of pop bands and ensembles rehearse at lunchtimes and after school, mounting regular concerts both in school and in the locality. The excellent resources of a Music Technology suite at Leyes Lane and a separate suite of rooms at Castle supplement two further music rooms.
From poetry days and science lectures for GCSE students to conferences on A’ level Psychology, History, Languages and RS, much use is made of the universities in the Midlands region. Technology visits are undertaken to centres of national industry in the locality. Mathematicians and Sixth Form public speakers enter regional competitions, while students in Years 10, 12 and 13 undertake geography field work visits: and there are more besides.
In Year 10 students have the opportunity to gain the Bronze Award by completing four sections: service, skills, physical recreation and an expedition. Those wishing to progress to the Silver Award may do so through the Kenilworth Open Award Unit.For further information click on the logo above
The European and Residential Dimensions Several departments arrange visits on a regular basis to half a dozen European countries. There are exchange visits to our twinned towns of Eppstein in Germany and Bourg-La-Reine in France. The Latin, Textiles, Food Technology, History and P.E. departments organize exciting tours which both enhance the curriculum and encourage groups of students to bond and work together. Every February there is a ski trip to the Alps. In Year 8 students spend a week at a superbly equipped activity centre in Torquay where the focus is on team building in the context of physical and mental challenges.Everyone has the opportunity to go.
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