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 TBC
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 TBC
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 TBC
Puppetry Workshop
Cost TBC
Song Composition workshop
Pupils will spend the day using BandLab and/or the recording studio to compose their own songs in a style of their choice. They will be learning about components (for example, chord progressions, bass lines and memorable melodies), structural elements (such as introductions, verses, choruses and bridge passages) and having a go at developing their music editing and production skills. Pupils will be able to use instruments as well as use software. They would be encouraged to share and celebrate their songs towards the end of the day, with the aim of producing and mastering a group album as a final product.
Cost TBC
The Humanities Hunger Games.
Foreign Film Club
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 TBC
Hawk Conservancy
A wildlife day out discovering birds of prey set within 22 acres of stunning countryside. The Hawk Conservancy Trust is an award-winning visitor attraction.
Cost TBC
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 TBC
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 TBC
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 TBC
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 TBC
WINCHESTER TREASURE HUNT
An adventure walk around Winchester solving the The Mystery of the Bishop’s Golden Tankard
FREE
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.