Clubs and Visits

Extra-curricular activities provide vital experiences and opportunities and OLA Junior School offers an exceptionally wide and constantly changing choice to its pupils.

Pupils from Year One through to Year Six have the opportunity to sample a variety of clubs or activities after school. There are approximately 25 clubs which run during the course of the week from 3.20p.m. to 4.00p.m. Each term the range of clubs change to enable pupils to experience a rich and diverse mixture of activities. Parallel to this we also run a study class which is usually staffed by one of the teachers so that pupils can complete their homework before leaving the premises; freeing their time after school to pursue hobbies which they may have outside of school.

Clubs on offer include such things as:

  African Drumming

  Art

  Athletics

  Around the World (Geography)

  Ballet

  Cheerleading

  Chess

  Choir

  Computer Clubs

  Construction Club

  Cookery

  Creative Play

  Cricket

  Cross Country Running

  Dance

  Drama

  Eco Schools

  Fencing

  Football

  Gardening

  Geosafari

  Gymnastics

  Hockey

  Karate

  Knitting

  Maths Games

  Needlecraft

  Netball

  Papercraft

  Rounders

  Tag Rugby

  School Council

  School Productions

  Squad Swimming

    
OLA values highly ‘out of school’ experiences which help to support and enrich classroom based work. Every term each year group has at least one opportunity to work away from the premises. Below is a list of some of the things that may take place in a normal year:
 
·      Year 6 residential at Foxlease
·      Year 3 residential at Hillend
·      Legoland
·      Sulgrave Manor
·      Ashmoleon Museum
·      Didcot Power Station
·      Natural History Museum & Pitt Rivers
·      Sutton Courtenay Environmental Centre
·      Abingdon Museum
·      Canal Walk
·      Henley Rowing Museum
 
As well as going out on school trips we actively encourage visitors to come into school and work with the children to broaden their skills and knowledge. Most recently we have had a Roman soldier, a storyteller giving the children the gruesome details of Beowulf, Zoofari (with snake!), music workshops, ceramic workshops, Victorian workshops and much, much more!