Frensham Heights School - Extracurricular Activities

Extracurricular Activities

Extracurricular activities (ECAs) are a large part of Frensham life and all students from year 7 to year 13 are required to take part in at least some ECAs each week. For years 7-11, the minimum number of ECAs per week is three while in sixth form, the minimum is only two. There is a wide variety of extracurricular activities run both at lunchtime and after school and occur every day (including Saturday mornings when things like Saturday Photography and a Ballistics ECA take place.). Examples of ECAs include swimming (in the summer term), five-a-side football, photography, chess, badminton, cooking, fashion and textiles, critical thinking, yoga, meditation, card games to name only a few. Individual teams and music, dance or drama groups also have ECAs running outside of lesson times which often occur after school (such as Cantamus and the wood wind group). Different ECAs are for different year groups while some are for all years; for example, critical thinking, yoga and meditation is mostly for the older years.

The ECAs available vary from year to year and from term to term (the latter due to variations in weather) and as such, new ECAs may be introduced. For instance, at the start of the 2011/2012 Academic year, an Italian ECA was begun which may continue to GCSE level. Also in 2011/2012 there were Enterprise and Statistics ECAs where students could gain IGCSE qualifications.