EXTRA-CURRICULAR PROVISION

It goes without saying that students come to school to learn, but learning at Farlington is not restricted to the classroom.

We firmly believe that lessons learnt beyond the classroom are as vital to a child's preparation for life as those learnt within it.

Clubs & Activities

Farlington offers an extensive extra-curricular provision, incorporating sporting, creative and enrichment options. Our twice-daily activities programme allows every pupil to be involved in an enrichment activity - outdoors or indoors; practical, intellectual or unusual. We offer a range of extra-curricular art, music, dance and drama clubs, and provide a varied and inclusive extra-curricular sports programme.

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Farlington's school motto is 'live life to the full', and the exceptional breadth of extra-curricular clubs and activities on offer ensures that students are given the opportunity to do just that! Pupils are encouraged to explore existing interests further but also to step out of their comfort zone and try something new.

At Farlington, we understand that what happens beyond the classroom is as valuable as what goes on inside it. Through participating in, and in some cases leading, a club, team or society, students at Farlington learn a whole new set of skills to carry forward into their lives beyond school.

Please find below a list of the extra-curricular activities currently on offer at Farlington:

Music Clubs

Individual Instrumental / Voice Lessons

Sports Training Sessions, including: Hockey, Football, Netball, Cricket, Cross Country, Rugby, Basketball, Badminton, Tennis

Martial Arts

Street Dance / Ballet

Speech and Drama

Fencing

Cookery

Trampolining

Art Club

Drama Club

Gardening Club

Debating Club

Modern Foreign Languages Club

Coding Club

Eco Council

The Great Outdoors

The great outdoors is a wonderful place to learn, and we encourage all of our students to get out and enjoy the wonderful rural setting Farlington is so lucky to call home.

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Our Forest School programme helps children to develop a love of the great outdoors and helps develop self-esteem, confidence and a sense of responsibility.

Making excellent use of our magnificent woodland location and on-site Forest School, our highly-qualified Forest School Leaders teach children to work safely with various real tools and natural resources to bring learning to life. This helps to create a greater understanding of the balance of nature and the finite resources around us.

Weekly Forest School sessions are currently available to all children from Reception to Year 6, with leadership and teamwork days offered to the older students.

School Trips

Throughout their time at Farlington, pupils will be offered numerous opportunities to travel far and wide, from local trips for our youngest Lower School students, to expeditions around the world for our older students.

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These day and overnight trips underline the school's belief that relevant and enriching trips complement and benefit classroom learning.

Some Farlington trips are directly linked to the curriculum - such as History trips to the battlefields of Belgium and Northern France; Art History trips to Florence; Geography trips to Iceland, and Drama and Psychology trips to New York - whilst others enable our pupils to put classroom language learning into practice in France, Germany or Spain.

Some of our trips are linked to examination preparation, for example a day trip to Science Live, whilst others are designed to facilitate bonding between new pupils.

For the more adventurous we run an annual ski trip, and there are expeditions which provide life-enhancing and transformative experiences in places as far flung as Eswatini.