Extra-curricular Activities
Music, drama and art are strong at the school. The Drama department have their own drama studios as well as a purpose built theatre. The Drama department regularly holds school plays and nurtures dramatic talent, with Old Russellians going on to participate in events such as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The music department have facilities including a recording studio and numerous practice rooms. The school choir and Barbershop both actively participate far abroad and have sung on an occasion for the British Ambassador to Thailand. There are very good facilities for sports and games, including a large sports hall, gymnasium, indoor swimming pool, tennis courts, and flood lit pitches. Other facilities include a prep library, senior library and sixth form study centre and sixth form cafe. There is a plentiful range of clubs and societies. Full use is made of the estate and a good deal of enterprise is shown in cultural visits, and expeditions abroad such as the annual ski trip to the Rocky Mountains, various language department trips, expeditions to the Himalayas and Peru, and the various geography department trips. In 2008 the school held a trip for students allowing them to go to Kenya to help Magnet High School for a month. Royal Russell School had been helping to donate money to Magnet High School over the past years forming a strong relationship with the Kenyan school.
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