Activities Days
Annual Trips
Activities Days
Years 7, 8 and 9 Activity Days 2026
Following on from the success of Activity Days in 2025, we are pleased to announce this year’s Activity Days will be held on the Monday 20th July and Tuesday 21st July 2026. Year Group residential trips will run until Wednesday 22nd July 2026.
These offer a broad and balanced range of activities from which you and your child can choose. We are sure that our Activity Days will give your child the opportunity to work with staff and peers in an enriched, more relaxed and practical environment.
The activities are divided into 3 main categories:
Residential Trips 20th, 21st and 22nd July– There is a 2-night off site residential trip for each year group. These cost approximately £300 last year.
Offsite activities 20th and 21st July – These are mixed year, day trips. Examples are a day at the New Forest Aqua Park, Ski & Snowboard Centre, Natural History Museum and the theatre. Costs range from between £35 and £120.
Onsite activities 20th and 21st July – These take place onsite during school hours. There will be mixed year group activities within Sport, STEM, Performing Arts and Humanities. These are low cost or free of charge.
A letter with details about each year group residential trip will be sent out shortly. Pupils who do not go on a residential trip will need to sign up for either an onsite or offsite activity on both days. Further details on how to book these activities will be sent in the Spring term.
Activity Days are an excellent way for our pupils to develop exceptional character and as such, full attendance is both essential and mandatory.
Onsite activities
Afternoon Tea
This will be an action packed day for food lovers. The day will be divided into 3 sessions and at the end of the day you will take home 4 tea-time products: Scones, Jam, Lemon Curd and a Decorated Cake. You should be prepared to work hard, learn lots of new skills and take home some lovely goodies to impress your family and friends.
Cost £18
Angry Birds Science Workshop
You will spend the day with our Science team making and launching catapults. How far will yours go???
FREE
Art & Photography day
Whether you are a complete beginner or a keen photographer, you will spend the day learning new photography skills and techniques for half a day. The other half of the day will be spent honing in your creative skills in our fabulous art studios.
FREE
Create a Musical in a Day
Spend a day with our talented Music & Drama department creating an entire musical in just one day.
FREE
FRIDAY ONLY
Art Studio
Spend the day in our Art Studio using our textiles and art supplies in a relaxed environment.
FREE
Design Tech Workshop (2 days)
Design and make products, using laser cutters and machines and have a chance to get involved with the motorised buggies. Not available to anyone who enrolled in this activity in previous years.
Cost £5
Football tournament
Become legendary as Kings’ football champions! We would like to hold a competitive tournament; come ready for a fun day
FREE
Show-up, Make-up, Glam- up workshop
An exciting day where you will transform and create your make-up by experimenting with colours, textures and styles. You’ll also design and make your very own glam tote bag to take home. Spaces are limited, so secure your spot now and get ready to slay glam like never before!
Cost £10
Minecraft Day
Are you a master builder, engineer or architect? Contribute to building our school in Minecraft. Suitable for anyone interested in using Minecraft as a team, with opportunities for leadership of different areas of the school.
FREE
FRIDAY ONLY
ROBOTICS DAY
Program robots to complete challenges and compete against others in the group. Pupils will collaborate in pairs for racing, Sumo, maze and artistic events. You will be given guidance on how to program and customise the robots.
FREE
THURSDAY ONLY
OFFSITE ACTIVITIES
SKIING & SNOWBOARDING DAY
Whether you’re a beginner or pro, we’ve got it covered.
Here you’ll find a huge 160m Main Slope as well as the UKs largest indoor lesson slope. Both ski and snowboarding slopes are over 30m wide and maintained with the perfect snow – perfect for all your indoor skiing and snowboarding needs!
Cost £73
FRIDAY ONLY
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM VISIT
An exciting trip to The Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London. The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 80 million items within five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, palaeontology and zoology.
Cost £24
Trip to watch Hercules the Musical
A day out to Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, London to watch Hercules, the musical, inspired by the animated film, based on the ancient myth.
Get ready for a wise-cracking, column-shaking, underworld-rocking ride of adventure and self-discovery.
Cost £65
THURSDAY ONLY
DAY TRIP TO NEW FOREST WATERPARK
Measuring in at an impressive 4,000sq meters, this floating, inflatable Aqua Park has 2 trampolines, monkey bars, flippers, slides, hurdles, springboard, rockers, rollers, an overhang climbing wall, a swing, a giant iceberg and much more! Come along for a day of watery-wipe-out fun.
PUPILS MUST BE ABLE TO SWIM 50m UNADIED
Cost £52
VISIT TO KEW GARDENS
An exciting day trip Kew Gardens in southwest London. It is one of the biggest living plant collections in the world, with over 300 acres to explore. The gardens house extensive botanic collections, including conserved plants, living plants, and documents. In addition to flowers, the gardens also contain historic glasshouses, rare specimen trees and serene woodlands.
Cost £24
THURSDAY ONLY
DAY TRIP TO THE WAVE, BRISTOL
The Wave is an inland surfing destination born out of a passion for technology, nature, and human health. At its heart is an unbelievable surfing lake, with perfect wave, set in an incredible green space. Price includes included coach travel, equipment hire (surf board, wet suit etc) and 2 x 1.5 Hour surf Lessons (30 minutes on the beach instructions and 1 hour in the water)
PUPILS MUST BE ABLE TO SWIM 50m UNADIED
Cost £145
THURSDAY ONLY
VISIT TO THE LONDON DUNGEONS
An exciting day in London visiting the London Dungeons. You will step into The London Dungeon for an immersive experience into 1,000 years of London’s darkest history
Cost £12
THURSDAY ONLY
A day on the Water
WINCHESTER TREASURE HUNT
An adventure walk around Winchester solving the The Mystery of the Bishop’s Golden Tankard
FREE
Residentials
Year 7 Badminton Woods Residential
Badminton Woods, offer a vast woodland where pupils can immerse themselves in nature, taking part in a range of fun and challenging bushcraft activities. Whether they are testing their trap-making capabilities or learning how to build a shelter, students will put their problem solving, teamwork and creative thinking skills to the test.
Wednesday 16th to Friday 18th July 2025.
Year 8 Cuffley Bushcraft Residential
Cuffley Activity Learning Centre offers a range of activities that stretch bodies and minds to build confidence. The residential trip has an itinerary to match the experience and abilities of all pupils, there’s enough to keep you busy! A range of fun and challenging bushcraft activities including trap-making and learning how to build a shelter, students will put their problem solving, teamwork and creative thinking skills to the test taking place deep inside the unique woodland Site.
Wednesday 16th to Friday 18th July 2025.
Year 9 Land and Wave Residential
A Residential experience that allows young people to develop and demonstrate their skills in a new environment. Providing activities like Coasteering, Paddle Boarding, Bushcraft and many more which will help young people to develop the necessary skills.
Wednesday 16th to Friday 18th July.
Working together to build our school community: an opportunity to support our families so that all pupils can enjoy life enhancing experiences.
Activities days are an excellent way for our pupils to develop Exceptional Character, and these exciting, sometimes life changing activities are a very important part of our school curriculum.
Each year we are approached by some parents who wish to make a voluntary contribution to help the children from low income families have the opportunity to participate in a range of activities. This year we wanted to formalise this process – making it easier to make a voluntary contribution to help more activities become accessible to every pupil. If you would like to make a donation to support our school community in this way, this can be done by visiting our online school shop.
If you would like to help in this way, please visit our school shop Parent Pay School Shop Activities Week donations where you can see the full list of activities and costs ranging from £1 to £350. Once you have selected your activity, you will be able to make payment by card. When filling in the details, please put ‘donation’ in the ‘child’s name’ box. All donations will be acknowledged, but will remain anonymous.
We are proud to be part of a school community where we recognise that everyone makes an essential contribution to the life of the school. We want to thank all our parents for the support you give us each day as we work together to provide your children with their best possible learning experiences. From positive words of encouragement to our pupils and staff, through to financial contributions, we really value each family for the time, energy and commitment you put into working together with us to build our school community as well as your children’s individual successes.