Enriching the experience.
We use the term Enrichment to refer to all the opportunities your child will have access to in addition to their teaching and learning. We pride ourselves on going the extra mile to make a Downsend broad, immersive, challenging and eye-opening.
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Clubs
Explore our Clubs Programme.
In the Senior School, clubs are offered on different days of the week depending on your child’s year group and finish at 5:30pm. Many are provided free of charge.
Our Clubs Programme is designed around our Future Skills vision and offers opportunities ranging from Podcasting, Robotics, Lego Engineering to Public Speaking, Experimental Chemistry or the iDEA Award, the digital equivalent to the Duke of Edinburgh Award, providing pupils with digital skills they need for the future.
Sports
Sports practices.
Every year group will have dedicated evenings for sports practices which are open to every pupil to attend. Running from 4:30-5:30pm, the practice is dedicated to the sport that is being played that term and will focus on conditioning, technique, strategy and teamwork. We often use this as an opportunity to review VEO footage taken at matches to review match play and discuss tactics for future games.
Music and Drama
Encouraging future musicians.
The opportunity to enjoy and learn a musical instrument, and be part of groups, bands or choirs is extensive. Pupils can take additional lessons through our peripatetic specialists as well as joining our rock bands, brass, string, wind or percussion groups at lunchtimes or after school.
Performing Arts.
Our Drama department produces several high quality performances every year which are performed to packed-out crowds in our Creative Arts Centre. From Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat to High School Musical and the Lion King, pupils are asked to audition for parts and then attend rehearsals both during lunchtimes and after school.