Sports and Activities
The School offers a wide selection of sports ranging from the traditional rugby, hockey and cricket, to others such as indoor hockey, sailing and Eton Fives, being one of a handful of schools in the country to have Fives Courts. The School also offers other activities, including the Torino Debating Society, a Sub Aqua Club, Duke of Edinburgh Award and a Combined Cadet Force of which the School has an Army and Royal Air Force section. The School's music department provides several Orchestras, Ensembles and Choirs. Plays are staged every year, in either Great School or Little School.
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