Activities
EXTRA-CURRICULAR LIFE
Extra-curricular activities provide vital experiences and opportunities and OLA offers an exceptionally wide and constantly changing choice to its pupils. All boys and girls are expected to participate; there are extended time slots for activities on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday after school and a huge range of activities take place outside these times.
In 2010/11, in the Senior School pupils may choose from:
| Art | Athletics | Badminton |
| Ballet | Basketball | Bridge |
| Bugsy Malone | Carnegie Shadowing | Cathsoc |
| Chess | Choir | Community Service |
| Cookery | Creative Writing | Cricket |
| Dance | Debating | Drama |
| Duke of Edinburgh’s Award | EcoSchools | Fencing |
| Fitness | Food Committee | French |
| Fun Swim | Greek | Hand Bells |
| Hockey | Horse Riding | Indoor Football |
| Junior Language | Justice and Peace Group | Language Exchanges |
| Latin | Learn a new language | Life Saving |
| Model United Nations | Music Theory | Netball |
| Orchestra | Peer Mentoring | Photography |
| Reading Buddies | Rounders | Rugby |
| Sailing | School Council | Science Club |
| Senior Brass Ensemble | Senior Flute Choir | Socrates Society |
| Spanish Dancing | Squad Swimming | Synchronised Swimming |
| Ski Trip | Tech Club | Tennis |
| Textiles | Theatre Visits | Uganda Team |
| Windband | Year Council | Young Enterprise |
Pupils are encouraged to participate in extra-curricular sports clubs regardless of their ability, and we offer an extensive range of after-school fixtures which gives our pupils the opportunity to compete against other schools and take part in county and national competitions.
Young Enterprise is a popular activity, which gives students the chance to be a company director for one year. Every year we run two companies, one in Year 10, one in the Lower Sixth.