Clubs and Societies
There are clubs and societies that run during lunch times and after the school day. Currently, there is are a String Ensemble, Wind Band, Brass and Sax group, Recorder Ensemble, three choirs and various other activities. There is also a Chess club, a science club and a photography club. The school participates in The Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme.
The Wollaton Park Campus building is the home to Cornerstone Church, a large independent evangelical church, who have their offices within the school and meet at the school each Sunday.
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Famous quotes containing the words clubs and, clubs and/or societies:
“I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children’s homes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“Neighboring farmers and visitors at White Sulphur drove out occasionally to watch ‘those funny Scotchmen’ with amused superiority; when one member imported clubs from Scotland, they were held for three weeks by customs officials who could not believe that any game could be played with ‘such elongated blackjacks or implements of murder.’”
—For the State of West Virginia, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)