A child's confidence is built on the experience of success. The greater number of opportunities that a school can provide, the greater chance of each child finding an area of success. This is the thinking behind the provision of an Activities Hour each weekday, and for the variety of different things which go on during it.

Hobbies vary from term to term, but a typical list includes: yoga, fencing, wildlife studies, fishing, archery, croquet, classic film club, mountain biking, tapestry, card making, enamelling, ricochet, cycling, re-cycling, indoor cricket, model making, battle re-enactment, chess, wide games, electronics, rifle shooting, Subbuteo, pottery, observational drawing, table tennis, lacrosse and Giant Connect 4.

The ninety acres of open and wooded grounds are ideal for making camps and dens and having camp fires, for tobogganing, nature study, fishing, bird watching, creating gardens, for wide games - or just lying under a tree and reading. There's space for a boisterous chase game with friends, or a moment of quiet away from the closeness of community living.