There is a wide range of activities outside the classroom, organised and run enthusiastically by members of the teaching staff. As well as the afternoon games programme there are sporting, cultural, and creative pastimes to give pupils a positive, active, and constructive approach to leisure time.
Activities take place throughout the week, and pupils attend the activities that most interest them and that they can fit into their busy schedules. Some activities are extensions of the games programme, and make use of facilities or coaching expertise that may not be available in the usual games times. Activities such as Fencing, Basketball, or Canoeing are in this category.
Pupils in Forms 1 to 3 are expected to have a full activity programme; as pupils have more academic pressures and coursework then allowance is made for that, though the benefits of pursuing enjoyable hobbies and pastimes are never forgotten.
All of Forms 3 and 4 (Years 9 and 10) take part in the school’s Combined Cadet Force on a Thursday afternoon, and the majority of the fourth form begin the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. The Army, Navy, and Air Force sections of the CCF give the pupils the chance for outward bound activities, helicopter and fixed-wing flying, and weekend expeditions in the Brecon Beacons.
The current activities programme includes the following:
Sports:
- Badminton;
- Basketball;
- Climbing;
- Golf;
- Indoor Cricket;
- Shooting;
- Tae Kwon Do;
- Weight training;
- Volleyball.
Culture
- Ballet;
- Chamber Choir;
- Choral Society; Choir;
- Film Society; Jazz Band;
- Language Club;
- School Orchestra;
- School Play;
- String Group;
- Stage Management.
Social/General;
- Chess;
- Community Service;
- Computing;
- Debating;
- Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme;
- Horse Riding;
- Public Speaking;
- Young Enterprise;
- Young Designers.
Most academic departments also run clubs based on their subjects, such as History, Greek, and Welsh.
Activities at Christ College are about participation, commitment, organisation, and (most of all) about having fun!
