SJL Prospectus 2023-2024 (1) - Flipbook - Page 11
Education for a changing world
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Co-curricular
Opportunities
The range of co-curricular opportunities available
at SJL is unrivalled. They help to support work in
the curriculum and enable students to learn new
skills, such as teamwork and resilience, whilst
having fun and making new friends.
Each year we offer an extensive programme of
concerts, plays and musicals, allowing students
opportunities to perform before a variety of audiences.
On the sporting side, we offer a huge choice of
activities that reflects our broad sporting curriculum. As
well as traditional sports like football, rugby and netball,
we also offer more unusual options such as indoor
rowing and golf. PE plays a major role in our promotion
of healthy lifestyles and the PE staff encourage all
students to participate fully.
In addition to many trips and visits to the theatre and
places of interest in the UK, students have the
opportunity to travel more widely to enhance their
learning. The English faculty take students to the
battlefields of the Somme and Ypres. The Modern
Foreign Languages faculty offers trips and visits to
locations such as Barcelona and Bingen Am Rhein, and
German exchanges in Years 10 and 12. The History
faculty visits Normandy in Year 9. Geographers have
the chance to visit places such as the Azores,
Swanage and Epping Forest and our work on the
Global Dimension has enabled students to visit
Downing Street, the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office, Brussels, Germany and Zambia. Musicians
participate in annual band tours to destinations such as
the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Switzerland. Each
year a group of students takes part in a World
Challenge trip, and destinations have included
Morocco, Vietnam and Romania.
Finally we offer a huge choice of lunchtime and after
school clubs in areas such as Media, Art, Music,
Science, Public Speaking, Duke of Edinburgh, Latin,
Library reading groups, Young Enterprise and
Dragons’ Apprentice. From the Ukulele Club to
Robotics Club – there’s something for everyone!