Other Activities
Wednesday Activities
Wednesday Activities take place on a Wednesday afternoon, and on occasion a Monday afternoon if there is a CCF field weekend. There are a variety of activities which boys can choose, depending on their year group. These are listed below.
Wednesday Activities - Shells
- Sculling
- Golf
- Squash
- Video Production
- Rackets
- Cricket
- Model Planes
- Drama
- Photography
- Design
- Art
- Hockey
- Card Games
- Country Pursuits
- Duke of Edinburgh
- Fitness training
- Scalextric
- Backstage
- Pilates
Wednesday Activities - Removes (CCF)
Combined Cadet Force training takes place on Wednesday afternoons, in Wednesday Activity time, as well as one Field Weekend a term and regular camps and courses. All boys undertake one term of Adventure Training activities (the last term of the Shells) and spend one year in the Royal Navy, Army or Royal Air Force Section in the Removes. A number then choose to stay on as volunteers in leadership roles.
Wednesday Activities - Fifths (Community Partnerships)
Those Fifths not continuing as CCF NCOs are involved with Community Partnership activities:
- Concert Parties (several groups of musicians visit residential homes for the elderly to perform music and chat over a cup of tea)
- Visiting elderly residents at Mayott House
- Working as volunteers at local schools:
- Oxford Academy (Latin teaching)
- Radley Primary School (learning support & outside projects)
- St Swithuns Primary School (learning support)
- Appleton Primary School (chess club)
- St Nicholas Primary School (chess club)
- Rush Common Primary School (maths for gifted pupils, chess club)
- Thomas Reade Primary School (after school sports)
- Kingfisher School (specialist school for learning difficulties)
- Mary Hare (school for the deaf)
- Gardening (Littlemore Church & Radley Church)
- Dog walking for local residents
- Abingdon Wellbeing Resource Centre (Day Centre - visiting their elderly clients & producing their monthly newsletter and offering IT help for the elderly)
Wednesday Activities - Sixth Form
- Conversational Spanish
- Contract Bridge
- Crossword Puzzles
- Cooking
- Study Skills
- Cooking in French
- D of E Gold
- CCF Helper/NCO
- Life Saving
- Shell Activity Helper
- Introduction to Opera
- Books you may not have read.....
- Radleian
- Basic Car Maintenance/Quick Cooking
- Design Projects
- The Chronicle
- Art
- Community Activity
- Electronics Project Work
- Poems
- Films
- In Demand
- Photographic Archive
- Debating
- Countryside Pursuits
- Real Tennis
- Drama
- Lacrosse
- Pilates
- Conversational French
- Spanish/Hispanic Films
- Chinese
- Polo
- Circuit Training
- Table Soccer
- Card Games
- Church Architecture
- Ground Force
- Conversational German
- Critical thinking
- Backstage
- Tea and Reading
- Summer Cooking
- Historical Novels Appreciation
- Table Tennis