Projects
Frensham Heights is the site of many projects. Over recent years this has seen the construction of the award-winning highly equipped Performing Arts Centre (PAC) which is the venue for drama and dance performances as well as school notices and the 'Morning Talk' on Monday afternoons when a speaker talks about a particular topic. The school now has a new Music School and a new sixth form centre. As well as numerous studies for both day and boarder pupils, this new sixth form centre will also act as a boarding house for sixth form boarders.
Socially, the school is involved in many projects including an active School Council and much charity fund raising, currently for the Liberty Foundation in Belize. The school also plans to send a team of pupils to Belize in July 2008 to work with the Liberty Foundation. The school is also involved in World Challenge, every two years sending a group to a country to participate both in adventure and charity work. In the summer of 2009, the expedition was in India, while previous destination have included Tanzania, Chile and Costa Rica and numerous other countries. The next trip in the summer of 2013 is to Cambodia and Vietnam. Money for each expedition is raised by the students themselves and have, in recent years, included the raising of money through ice cream sales during the summer term and organising school discos, most of which being the 'Spring Fling'. Much of the money comes from the lucrative school tuck shop.
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