Activities

Boules

When I signed up for the boules activity I didn’t know what it was, but after the first session I knew every rule I had to know thanks to Mr Kirby. Boules is a fun game to play with your friends for leisure and competitively.

Theo E, Year 8

Golf

Golf is a great activity, taught by the club professional Rob Ralph at the Minchinhampton New Course. Each week you practise either putting, chipping or driving. Every session has a series of challenges and competitions to win points, with the winner at the end of the term getting a prize. There is also a coloured golf ball given to the Player of the Week. Rob is a great coach and makes all the sessions fun and enjoyable. This activity is suitable for people of all standards and is available to Years 4 to 8.

Freddie, Year 8

Croquet

Croquet club is fun because we play small games in pairs. The games are entertaining and very intense sometimes! We play croquet down on the lower banks. Sometimes Mr Clibborn joins in and plays and helps us with tactics and sometimes we get an extra turn. George is the ultimate champion.

Paloma, Year 6

Pokemon

Pokemon Club is really fun. You get to make Pokemon on an app called Poke Art and we also get to watch the Pokemon TV show on the board. At the end of term you do a hunt where Mr Curr hides pictures of Pokemon around the grounds. You have to go around and find the Pokemon and write down the codes on pieces of paper. The first team to find all the pictures and solve the code gets a prize. If you like Pokemon, join Pokemon Club and join the fun.

Max S, Year 5

Polo

For the Tuesday activity, a group of pupils of various ages go off and play an afternoon of polo. We play polo at the Beaufort Polo Club. The group of children that play are Agatha, Lollie, Archie, Hector, Charlie, Honor, Nancy and Layla-Rose.

We are driven there in the school minibus. Once we are there, we start on foot and warm up with our mallets while our polo ponies are tacked up. If the weather is bad, we will play in the indoor arena but if the sun is shining, we play outside and then we practise. Towards the end of the session, we are placed in teams and we play a chukka.

Hector L-P, Year 7

French Filmmaking

One of our activities that we did was French Filmmaking. The challenge was to make an advert about the school in French.

The first thing we did was find a good spot to film and then add some transitions. It was nice to be outside in the sunshine, but at the end of the session we had to go back inside and add the voiceover and the music. This was really fun and I hope we do it again.

Otto B and Louis, Year 6

Mini Beast Hunting

We loved this activity! We looked for spiders and tried to identify them by looking at their patterns and then we tried to catch centipedes. They move too quickly. We also had these things called pooters, which had two pipes… These were brilliant for trying to catch small bugs. One was blocked so that when you sucked up on their other pipe you didn’t end up with the bug in your mouth.

Iris W and Tahlia, Year 5