Beyond the Classroom: clubs and enrichment

We aim to make school life an exciting experience, offering learning opportunities for personal development, achievement and enjoyment. We want to provide an education for life, giving our students the knowledge, skills and values they need to become well-rounded and confident individuals.

Our energetic and inspirational staff offer a wide range of different clubs each term, catering to a myriad of interests. Taking part in clubs promotes building positive relationships with staff and enables friendships to form with pupils from other year groups, alongside developing their interests and expanding their horizons.

The school year at Hampton Court House is punctuated with a number of extra-curricular enrichment programmes. These include the Arctic Expedition and survival skills trips, the Duke of Edinburgh Award, Camp HCH, and Bikability. Complementing our innovative curriculum, a wide range of trips are also held throughout the year.

Given that some clubs are seasonal, our club programme varies throughout the year on a rotational basis, and we frequently review our offering and introduce new clubs to enable our pupils to try new experiences.

Club range (non-exhaustive)

  • Ancient Greek
  • Animation
  • Art & design
  • Art in nature
  • Ballet
  • Basketball
  • Capoeira
  • Chamber choir
  • Chess
  • Chinese
  • Coding
  • Debating & Model UN
  • Detective
  • Developing mobile apps
  • Ensemble
  • Fencing
  • Football
  • Gardening
  • Jewellery making
  • Judo
  • Latin
  • Lego robotics
  • Little Voices
  • Maths challenge
  • Mini athletics
  • Models & Mayhem
  • Music tech
  • Netball
  • Newspaper
  • Photography
  • Poetry
  • Pottery
  • Rounders
  • Spaghetti maths
  • Sustainable design & technology
  • Tennis
  • Textiles
  • Touch-typing
  • Urban Fun
  • Watercolour
  • Yoga
  • Zoo

We also offer general wraparound care clubs consisting of a morning club and a prep and play club after school.

 

Trips (2023 – 2024)

Overseas and residential

  • Senior School Arctic Expedition
  • Classics trip to Pompeii
  • Spanish trip to Granada
  • Art & Photography trip to Florence
  • Sixth Form trip to Dorset
  • Senior and Sixth Form Ski trip to Italy
  • Year 7 Geography and Classics trip to Bath
  • Year 5 trip to Paris
  • Senior School Football Tour (Holland)
  • Senior School Netball Tour (Shrewsbury)
  • Year 6 PGL trip

 

Day trips

  • Year 7 Geography trips to Epping Forest
  • Year 7 & 8 Maths Challenge
  • Early Years trips to Kew Gardens, PICNIC Kingston, Bocketts Farm and Legoland Windsor
  • GCSE History trip to the Imperial War Museum
  • Prep trips to the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace and Chessington Zoo
  • Photography trip to Kew Gardens
  • Year 7 trip to Hounslow Art Centre
  • GCSE Geography field trip to Battersea
  • GCSE Mandarin Buddhist temple trip

 

Theatre trips

  • Early and Lower Years trip to Richmond Theatre
  • A Level Spanish play
  • A Level English trips to the National and Duke of York Theatres
  • GCSE Drama trip to Southwark Playhouse
  • GCSE English trip to Rose Theatre, Kingston
  • Prep trip to the Globe Theatre

 

For more information on the enrichment programmes, trips and clubs on offer at Hampton Court House, please reach out to Ali Murani, Clubs Coordinator.