Blanchelande College Extra Curricular & Music

Extra-curricular Activities

Pupils at Blanchelande enjoy a wide variety of clubs and extra-curricular activities, which run before school, during lunchtimes and after school.

Infant school clubs and activities

Regular clubs include:

Recorder
Tennis
Football
Sewing
Construction
Drawing
Brilliant Books
French
Board Games

For the Trinity Term clubs lists, click here

Junior school clubs and activities

Clubs include:

Art
Recorder
Homework
Fitness
Choir
French
Netball
Football
ICT
Choral speaking
Coding
Chess
Tennis
Tag-rugby
Kwik cricket
Bikeability
Gardening and environment

For the Trinity Term clubs lists, click here

Senior school clubs and activities

Academic support and extension groups
Badminton
Chess
Creative writing
Cross-country
Dance
Debating
Drama production
Duke of Edinburgh award (Bronze, Silver and Gold)
Fitness
First aid
Italian
Lego Robotics
Orchestra
Prep
Sports clubs for all major school sports

For the Trinity Term clubs lists, click on the links below:

Lower Senior – lunchtime clubs

Lower Senior – after school clubs

Upper Senior – lunchtime clubs

Upper Senior – after school clubs

School Music

Music forms an essential part of the school curriculum and there are also lots of additional ways to get involved outside the classroom. Whether striving for perfection or just picking up the basics, whether four or fourteen, we want all pupils to have fun studying and making music.

Class Music

Pupils benefit from use of the latest music composition software – Garageband and Logic – on iMacs, as well as Sibelius on the department’s PCs.

Nursery: 20 minutes of class music and collective singing. Music as part of continuous provision activities
Infants (Reception – Year 2): 30 minutes of class music and 30 minutes of collective singing
Juniors (Years 3-6): one hour of class music and 30 minutes of collective singing
Seniors (Years 7-9): 70 minutes of class music
Years 10-11 (GCSE) receive just over two hours of class music in small classes

Instrumental lessons

Pupils can have instrumental lessons from Year 1. Lessons are charged directly by the instrumental teachers and are currently available for the following instruments: violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, singing, trumpet, trombone, French horn, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone, ukulele, recorder, drumming, guitar (acoustic, classical and bass).

Blanchelande College enters its pupils for ABRSM and Trinity College music exams.

Gifted musicians

Pupils have the opportunity to join a wide variety of music groups.

Choir: the school has choirs for infant, junior and senior pupils, and a harmony group for seniors by audition
Groups for keyboard players (seniors) and recorder (Y2-Y6)
The School Orchestra (open to pupils who have reached Grade 2)
Ensemble groups (often for GCSE students)
Pupils also have the opportunity to set up their own bands with their friends.