Activities Days
Activities Days
Following on from the success of Activities Days in 2024, we are pleased to announce this year’s activities days will be held on
Thursday 17th July and Friday 18th July 2025.
The activities offer a broad and balanced range from which you and your child can choose. We are sure that our Activities Days will give your child the opportunity to work with staff and peers in an enriched, more relaxed and practical environment.
Does my child have to take part?
Activities days are an excellent way for our pupils to develop Exceptional Character and as such, full attendance is both essential and mandatory. Pupils who are absent will be processed through the normal attendance school policy.
How do I book?
You will need to book your child’s 3 activity preferences, using our parent evening booking system. https://kingswinchester.schoolcloud.co.uk/ .
Can my child take part in the same activities as their friends?
Due to the limited numbers of spaces on activities, we cannot guarantee your child will be allocated their first choice and should therefore be mindful they may not placed within their friendship group. Some activities are year group specific, so you will only be able to see the activities available to your child.
When can I book?
Booking preferences for Day 1 open on Tuesday 4th March at 3pm and will close at midnight on Sunday 9th March. The system will allocate places the following day.
Day 2 booking preferences open on Tuesday 11th March at 3pm and will close at midnight on Sunday 16th March. The system will allocate places the following day.
Please note that if your child has already been allocated a space on a Residential trip you will not need to make any bookings.
Can I change their choice?
Once the system has allocated the places to pupils for both days you will be able to change your child’s activities, on the booking system only, as long as there are spaces available. No changes can be made after midnight Sunday 23rd March.
When do they have to be paid by?
Payment will be set up on ParentPay by Thursday 27th March. Please be mindful that any outstanding payments on your ParentPay account will need to be settled in order for us to book an activity with a cost attached. Full payment for all activities is required by Thursday 1st May 2025. Unfortunately, your child will not be able to attend an activity if full payment has not been received by this date.
What do they need for the day?
Further details regarding your child’s chosen activities will be sent to you in due course.
If you are in receipt of school funding, there may be an opportunity to allocate some of this towards an activity. Please contact us by Friday 13th March if you wish to discuss.
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.
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
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
Dungeons & Dragons
An exciting opportunity to write, run and play a 2 day campaign of Dungeons and Dragons or several other Tabletop RPGs. You don’t need any previous experience of playing as tutorials on all points of the game are available. Come and enjoy a whole new world of your own creation.
FREE
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
Harry Potter Day
Spend the day immersed in the Harry Potter universe playing Quidditch, Potion making, t-shirt and wand design, magical creature care and Hogwart’s Escape room!
Cost £15
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
Murder Mystery Day
A chance to fully immerse yourself into character, as you take part in Kings’ Murder Mystery. You will be designated your role, prior to the activity, (so have opportunity to bring in a costume and make-up, should you so wish). Cards containing evidence will be given to you throughout the day, in order to solve the mystery. Will it be you?
FREE
Parkour Day
Discover the thrill of Parkour, Free running and Tricking with PFT Academy. Unleash your inner acrobatic and parkour skills.!
Cost £30
FRIDAY ONLY
Tennis Tournament
Strive to go down in history as the Kings’ Grand Slam tennis champion! Become legendary as Kings’ Tennis champions! We would like to hold a competitive tournament; come ready for a fun day
FREE
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.