Skills & experiences for life

Religious education:

White-water rafting in the French Alps

Religious education is offered to all the College's students and everyone attends daily assemblies. A parent may request the withdrawal of their child from religious education. When this occurs the student will follow a course of supported self-study in moral issues.

Health education:

The topics covered at various times include safety, drugs (their use and misuse), sex education, personal hygiene, family life, health related exercise, food, nutrition and lifestyles. Sex education is offered to all students in line with recommendations from the Department for Education and Skills. Parents have the right to remove their children from the sex education lessons that are delivered as part of the PHSE programme. Those who wish to exercise this option should contact the personal tutor or the Principal.

Careers education

The College provides high quality careers education geared towards raising the aspirations of all young people. Introduced in Years 7 and 8, by Years 9 to 11 a specific programme is in place which includes careers information about work, training and educational opportunities. Individual work experience placements are organised towards the end of Year 10. The careers education programme continues at Post- 16 level and students are given guidance on higher education courses and other opportunities, including employment. There is an extensive careers library in the College and students are free to use this facility at their convenience. The College employs its own careers adviser to offer personal advice to students.

Sporting activities

Our modern sports facilities and committed coaching staff are dedicated to making sure the students get the most out of physical activity – whatever their aptitude or ability. We participate in a variety of sports with our teams often competing at town, district and county level. These activities include favourites like football, netball, rugby, tennis, rounders, athletics, trampolining and after school clubs such as judo and dance.

Culture and the arts

Art, design, music and drama allow students to express themselves in a variety of ways, in both group and solo projects. In art they will work with a wide range of materials, in music they will have access to our purpose built recording studio and budding actors will experience drama workshops, theatre trips and have the use of the Weston theatre.