Activities

We offer a wide range of over forty weekly extra-curricular activities, with particular strengths in sport, music, dance, and speech and drama. Many activities take place between 4.15pm and 5.15pm, but some take place during the lunch hour.  Team sports include rugby, hockey, and netball in the winter and cricket, rounders and athletics in the summer. Matches are arranged with local schools and Kingswood Preparatory School attends and hosts tournaments in which several schools participate. There are after school clubs for team sports, judo, orienteering and other sports.

We encourage all children to consider learning to play an instrument of their choice. Tuition in a wide range of instruments is available, including violin, piano, clarinet, flute, cello, recorder, guitar and brass instruments. Children are able to join small instrumental groups, which meet regularly and often accompany the School at assemblies. All Prep School children have the opportunity to audition for a place in a more select small choir. Pupils may take the Royal School of Music or the Associate Board examinations.

Children from the Nursery upwards can choose to join ballet, tap or modern dance classes, and may take the examinations in RAD ballet and ISTD modern and tap dancing. Pupils may take extra tuition in verse-speaking, drama and mime from Year 1. Pupils from Year 3 upwards may take examinations for the English Speaking Board and many choose to enter the Mid-Somerset Festival. School dramatic performances take place at Christmas and the end of the Summer term.

Special interests are additionally served by the Art Club, Chess Club, Computer Club, First Aid Club and others. The programme is a flexible one, responsive to the needs of the children, varying according to the nature of the activity and numbers participating in each group.