If we want our pupils to have the physical dexterity and stamina to sustain their actions, we must provide them with the instruction and opportunity they need to achieve this.
The school organises a contingent of the Combined Cadet Force (CCF) of which it is justly proud. The contingent is made up of two sections – an Army section and an RAF section – to provide the framework of a disciplined organisation. Within and through this there may be developed in young people personal qualities of endurance, resourcefulness, self-reliance, leadership and responsibility, and a sense of public service, in the belief that these things are of profound consequence to the stamina and stability of the nation, in civil as well as in Service life.
As well as weekly training, the CCF participates in field exercises and each member of the RAF section goes flying once a year during the school week and gliding on one Sunday each term. Each year the contingent runs two camp activities in the summer holidays (Army and RAF). There are also many opportunities to attend camps and activities run externally, such as a range weekend, mess dinner, adventurous training, national leadership courses, and gliding or flying scholarships.
Sport is very popular among both boys and girls and benefits from significant expertise and commitment from our staff as well as some outstanding facilities.
Our rowers have over recent years won many medals in local, regional and national events. Our winter team sports – netball, rugby, hockey, and football – demonstrate an excellence of which we are justly proud, with regular success in local, regional and national competitions and fixtures.
We also enjoy high levels of success in boys and girls cricket, athletics, tennis, basketball, swimming, sailing, kayaking, sub-aqua, cross-country running, climbing, and fencing and we are proud of the breadth of sporting opportunity we offer.
Scuba-diving, Duke of Edinburgh, horse-riding and fencing are among the opportunities we offer at King’s Worcester for pupils to experience and enjoy outdoor challenge and reward.
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award seeks both to challenge young people to try new activities and also to integrate with their local communities. Its programme of activities provides a structured pattern for personal and social development. One highlight of the scheme is the expedition section where pupils are able to test and enhance their potential across a range of skills, including resolve, communication, courage, and commitment.
Our impressive three-storey indoor climbing wall provides an exceptional facility for our pupils to learn the physical and mental skills, and hone the personal qualities, required for climbing.
We run a weekly Bouldering Club and a weekly Climbing Club.
As well as our own pupils making the most of this fantastic facility, we also regularly host local primary schools as part of our programme of work with the local community.
From centre stage to art rooms, from rehearsal spaces to dance floors, pupils at King’s Worcester are empowered through a rich and inspiring programme of creative co-curricular opportunities
The Art Department is committed to developing and supporting the skills and interests of all pupils through a structured programme of activities which promotes the learning of technique, whilst nurturing confidence, individuality and creativity.
Our purpose-built Art School is a very welcoming space that includes five studios, a gallery, offices and a library, workshops and ICT facilities. It is a wonderful space in which pupils enjoy spending time, whether for academic study or to pursue co-curricular interests.
The Art School is always busy during lunchtime and after school. We have a number of exciting art-based co-curricular clubs and activities, including:
– Lower years Art Club: Once a week 3.40 – 5.00. An opportunity for Fourth Form pupils (Years 7 and 8) to participate in a range of art-based activities including drawing, print-making, and sculpture.
– Young Artists Open Studios: Every evening 3.40 – 5.15. A fantastic opportunity to explore individual ideas or to complete class work and homework tasks. (Fourth Form and Lower Remove pupils).
– GCSE and A Level Open Studios : Every evening 3.40 – 5.15An opportunity for exam classes to work on coursework in the Art studios.
– Bronze and Silver Arts Awards: A dedicated club for pupils interested in the arts to pursue their particular interest further and gain a qualification. Pupils will also have the opportunity to attend exhibitions.
– 6th Form Life Drawing: 10 sessions throughout the year 3.40 – 5.30. Optional life drawing for all 6th Form students
– 6th Form ceramics club: Monday evening 3.40 – 5.30. Optional after school ceramics club where students will be introduced to a range of ceramics techniques by our visiting ceramicist
– After School Printmaking: Occasional printmaking sessions run by a visiting printmaker.
Dance provides a liberating opportunity for pupils to experience freedom of movement and expression, and to gain an understanding of cultures from around the world. Dance is an extremely popular co-curricular activity at King’s, with opportunities for boys and girls of all ages to enjoy our purpose-built dance studio — which includes full-length mirrors and a sprung floor — and to perform in the John Moore Theatre and Wightman Studio.
Our dancers can join different dance companies, where they warm up with contemporary dance technique exercises and then work on creating dances for our annual Dance Productions. Our recent productions have focused on storytelling, such as Jungle Fever, Wonderland! and Metamorphoses. These are open to all ages and abilities, with dancers grouped alongside others of similar experience and skill.
Drama activities contribute hugely to the life of King’s Worcester. Our accommodation is superb, with a fully equipped theatre seating 300 and a black box studio seating 80.
We stage several large-scale performances throughout the year, which tend to be divided by year group so that all pupils have the opportunity to shine. There are also multiple showcase opportunities across the year. In addition to supporting our performing pupils, we run two flourishing Technical Theatre Clubs.
An important ingredient in the successful co-curricular life of the school is the work of the team of peripatetic Speech and Stagecraft teachers. Currently, over 40 King’s pupils in the Senior School alone commit to regular Speech and Stagecraft tuition outside their academic timetable, continuing a journey that many begin in our Prep Schools. The Speech and Stagecraft team coaches individuals and pairs as they pursue graded qualifications in performance, musical theatre and public speaking from the suite of certificates offered by LAMDA, the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art, and Trinity College London.
Examples of our drama clubs include:
Technical Theatre Club – learn about lighting, sound, costume, set and video projection, as well as key backstage skills.
Arts Award – a fantastic opportunity for pupils interested in the arts to pursue their individual artistic interests and gain a qualification;
Spotlight – an enhanced development programme for our aspirational performers, preparing advanced repertoire for auditions and showcases.
Music co-curricular activities play a vital role in the lives of pupils at King’s Worcester. There are over 300 instrumental lessons taking place each week and many pupils enter music exams each term. With a broad range of ensembles, choirs, orchestras, bands, quartets, and groups, pupils are able to develop high-level skills and experience rich musical styles.
We offer opportunities for pupils to perform regularly, in concerts, both formal and informal, including our very popular Open Mic Nights. We also provide the music for our musical and theatrical productions in the John Moore Theatre. Our pupils’ musical achievements are outstanding and impressive in equal measure.
The Music Department at King’s has long been a centre of excellence and maintains strong links with the music of Worcester Cathedral and the musical life of the town.
Music clubs include: Jazz Band – open to jazz musicians in all year groups; School Choir – a fantastic opportunity for Lower Remove pupils and above.
Pupils at King’s Worcester are able to participate in tours and trips in order to help them explore the rich tapestry within and beyond our cultural identity.
Trips and tours are highly valued here at King’s Worcester, and form an important part of our co-curricular provision.
Whatever your interest, either academic or co-curricular, there will be opportunities to extend your horizons and indulge your interest, whilst making memories that will last a lifetime.
Modern foreign language trips and exchanges are central to our cultural programme, with annual Spanish, French and German exchanges. Sixth Form linguists also spend two to three weeks immersed in a foreign culture as part of their studies.
Classics pupils visit museums and enjoy a biennial trip to Italy, exploring Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ostia and Rome. Art students benefit from study trips, including a five-day GCSE visit to St Ives and A Level gallery visits across the UK and Europe.
History and Politics offer interactive trips such as Goodrich Castle, First World War battlefields, Paris, and London, including the Houses of Parliament and Churchill War Rooms.
Sport features national and international tours, including cricket in India and Sri Lanka, rugby and hockey in South Africa, rowing camps in Spain, and football tours to Madrid.
Music, Drama and Dance run regular tours and theatre visits, while Physics offers a biennial trip to CERN alongside wider science enrichment opportunities.
Through our inquiry-based co-curricular activities and opportunities, we enable our pupils to understand complex, and at times paradoxical, ideas through problem-solving, logic, wisdom and insight.
The school’s Model United Nations Society is a debating club open to pupils from all year groups. It provides a dynamic and exciting experience through its demand for quick-thinking, sharp understanding and judicious speaking.
Its activities involve pupils engaging in role-play debates as delegates to the United Nations and in simulations of UN committees. We attend two or three conferences each year and enjoy regular success, as our delegates achieve many awards. In our weekly meetings, pupils research the countries they will be representing and the issues they will be discussing, as well as conduct formal debates.
Debating is often said to be the sport of the voice and mind and at King’s Worcester we place much value on enabling pupils to develop sophisticated oracy and intellectual dexterity though our flourishing Debating Society.
At King’s Worcester we regard service to others as a means of using our heritage of philanthropy and Christianity to build a legacy of compassion and care for the future.
Charity work is given a high profile at King’s Worcester because it encourages pupils to look outwardly and think seriously about the wider needs of the community and the world.
Our Sixth Form Charity Committee coordinates many of the charitable endeavours in which our pupils engage and actively supports opportunities which fundraise or educate.
At King’s Worcester we place great value on the work our pupils do with local primary schools and residential homes. Pupils participate in regular visits, undertake joint projects, and offer much valued social events and occasions.
Through exciting and varied opportunities in over 100 clubs and societies, our pupils develop a range of skills and qualities – from leadership and empathy, to insight and tenacity. Our co-curriculum encourages life-long interests and healthy, creative, and fulfilling habits of body and mind.
Explore our co-curriculum6 reasons
1/6 reasons
If we want our pupils to have the physical dexterity and stamina to sustain their actions, we must provide them with the instruction and opportunity they need to achieve this.
The school organises a contingent of the Combined Cadet Force (CCF) of which it is justly proud. The contingent is made up of two sections – an Army section and an RAF section – to provide the framework of a disciplined organisation. Within and through this there may be developed in young people personal qualities of endurance, resourcefulness, self-reliance, leadership and responsibility, and a sense of public service, in the belief that these things are of profound consequence to the stamina and stability of the nation, in civil as well as in Service life.
As well as weekly training, the CCF participates in field exercises and each member of the RAF section goes flying once a year during the school week and gliding on one Sunday each term. Each year the contingent runs two camp activities in the summer holidays (Army and RAF). There are also many opportunities to attend camps and activities run externally, such as a range weekend, mess dinner, adventurous training, national leadership courses, and gliding or flying scholarships.
Sport is very popular among both boys and girls and benefits from significant expertise and commitment from our staff as well as some outstanding facilities.
Our rowers have over recent years won many medals in local, regional and national events. Our winter team sports – netball, rugby, hockey, and football – demonstrate an excellence of which we are justly proud, with regular success in local, regional and national competitions and fixtures.
We also enjoy high levels of success in boys and girls cricket, athletics, tennis, basketball, swimming, sailing, kayaking, sub-aqua, cross-country running, climbing, and fencing and we are proud of the breadth of sporting opportunity we offer.
2/6 reasons
Scuba-diving, Duke of Edinburgh, horse-riding and fencing are among the opportunities we offer at King’s Worcester for pupils to experience and enjoy outdoor challenge and reward.
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award seeks both to challenge young people to try new activities and also to integrate with their local communities. Its programme of activities provides a structured pattern for personal and social development. One highlight of the scheme is the expedition section where pupils are able to test and enhance their potential across a range of skills, including resolve, communication, courage, and commitment.
Our impressive three-storey indoor climbing wall provides an exceptional facility for our pupils to learn the physical and mental skills, and hone the personal qualities, required for climbing.
We run a weekly Bouldering Club and a weekly Climbing Club.
As well as our own pupils making the most of this fantastic facility, we also regularly host local primary schools as part of our programme of work with the local community.
3/6 reasons
From centre stage to art rooms, from rehearsal spaces to dance floors, pupils at King’s Worcester are empowered through a rich and inspiring programme of creative co-curricular opportunities
The Art Department is committed to developing and supporting the skills and interests of all pupils through a structured programme of activities which promotes the learning of technique, whilst nurturing confidence, individuality and creativity.
Our purpose-built Art School is a very welcoming space that includes five studios, a gallery, offices and a library, workshops and ICT facilities. It is a wonderful space in which pupils enjoy spending time, whether for academic study or to pursue co-curricular interests.
The Art School is always busy during lunchtime and after school. We have a number of exciting art-based co-curricular clubs and activities, including:
– Lower years Art Club: Once a week 3.40 – 5.00. An opportunity for Fourth Form pupils (Years 7 and 8) to participate in a range of art-based activities including drawing, print-making, and sculpture.
– Young Artists Open Studios: Every evening 3.40 – 5.15. A fantastic opportunity to explore individual ideas or to complete class work and homework tasks. (Fourth Form and Lower Remove pupils).
– GCSE and A Level Open Studios : Every evening 3.40 – 5.15An opportunity for exam classes to work on coursework in the Art studios.
– Bronze and Silver Arts Awards: A dedicated club for pupils interested in the arts to pursue their particular interest further and gain a qualification. Pupils will also have the opportunity to attend exhibitions.
– 6th Form Life Drawing: 10 sessions throughout the year 3.40 – 5.30. Optional life drawing for all 6th Form students
– 6th Form ceramics club: Monday evening 3.40 – 5.30. Optional after school ceramics club where students will be introduced to a range of ceramics techniques by our visiting ceramicist
– After School Printmaking: Occasional printmaking sessions run by a visiting printmaker.
Dance provides a liberating opportunity for pupils to experience freedom of movement and expression, and to gain an understanding of cultures from around the world. Dance is an extremely popular co-curricular activity at King’s, with opportunities for boys and girls of all ages to enjoy our purpose-built dance studio — which includes full-length mirrors and a sprung floor — and to perform in the John Moore Theatre and Wightman Studio.
Our dancers can join different dance companies, where they warm up with contemporary dance technique exercises and then work on creating dances for our annual Dance Productions. Our recent productions have focused on storytelling, such as Jungle Fever, Wonderland! and Metamorphoses. These are open to all ages and abilities, with dancers grouped alongside others of similar experience and skill.
Drama activities contribute hugely to the life of King’s Worcester. Our accommodation is superb, with a fully equipped theatre seating 300 and a black box studio seating 80.
We stage several large-scale performances throughout the year, which tend to be divided by year group so that all pupils have the opportunity to shine. There are also multiple showcase opportunities across the year. In addition to supporting our performing pupils, we run two flourishing Technical Theatre Clubs.
An important ingredient in the successful co-curricular life of the school is the work of the team of peripatetic Speech and Stagecraft teachers. Currently, over 40 King’s pupils in the Senior School alone commit to regular Speech and Stagecraft tuition outside their academic timetable, continuing a journey that many begin in our Prep Schools. The Speech and Stagecraft team coaches individuals and pairs as they pursue graded qualifications in performance, musical theatre and public speaking from the suite of certificates offered by LAMDA, the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art, and Trinity College London.
Examples of our drama clubs include:
Technical Theatre Club – learn about lighting, sound, costume, set and video projection, as well as key backstage skills.
Arts Award – a fantastic opportunity for pupils interested in the arts to pursue their individual artistic interests and gain a qualification;
Spotlight – an enhanced development programme for our aspirational performers, preparing advanced repertoire for auditions and showcases.
Music co-curricular activities play a vital role in the lives of pupils at King’s Worcester. There are over 300 instrumental lessons taking place each week and many pupils enter music exams each term. With a broad range of ensembles, choirs, orchestras, bands, quartets, and groups, pupils are able to develop high-level skills and experience rich musical styles.
We offer opportunities for pupils to perform regularly, in concerts, both formal and informal, including our very popular Open Mic Nights. We also provide the music for our musical and theatrical productions in the John Moore Theatre. Our pupils’ musical achievements are outstanding and impressive in equal measure.
The Music Department at King’s has long been a centre of excellence and maintains strong links with the music of Worcester Cathedral and the musical life of the town.
Music clubs include: Jazz Band – open to jazz musicians in all year groups; School Choir – a fantastic opportunity for Lower Remove pupils and above.
4/6 reasons
Pupils at King’s Worcester are able to participate in tours and trips in order to help them explore the rich tapestry within and beyond our cultural identity.
Trips and tours are highly valued here at King’s Worcester, and form an important part of our co-curricular provision.
Whatever your interest, either academic or co-curricular, there will be opportunities to extend your horizons and indulge your interest, whilst making memories that will last a lifetime.
Modern foreign language trips and exchanges are central to our cultural programme, with annual Spanish, French and German exchanges. Sixth Form linguists also spend two to three weeks immersed in a foreign culture as part of their studies.
Classics pupils visit museums and enjoy a biennial trip to Italy, exploring Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ostia and Rome. Art students benefit from study trips, including a five-day GCSE visit to St Ives and A Level gallery visits across the UK and Europe.
History and Politics offer interactive trips such as Goodrich Castle, First World War battlefields, Paris, and London, including the Houses of Parliament and Churchill War Rooms.
Sport features national and international tours, including cricket in India and Sri Lanka, rugby and hockey in South Africa, rowing camps in Spain, and football tours to Madrid.
Music, Drama and Dance run regular tours and theatre visits, while Physics offers a biennial trip to CERN alongside wider science enrichment opportunities.
5/6 reasons
Through our inquiry-based co-curricular activities and opportunities, we enable our pupils to understand complex, and at times paradoxical, ideas through problem-solving, logic, wisdom and insight.
The school’s Model United Nations Society is a debating club open to pupils from all year groups. It provides a dynamic and exciting experience through its demand for quick-thinking, sharp understanding and judicious speaking.
Its activities involve pupils engaging in role-play debates as delegates to the United Nations and in simulations of UN committees. We attend two or three conferences each year and enjoy regular success, as our delegates achieve many awards. In our weekly meetings, pupils research the countries they will be representing and the issues they will be discussing, as well as conduct formal debates.
Debating is often said to be the sport of the voice and mind and at King’s Worcester we place much value on enabling pupils to develop sophisticated oracy and intellectual dexterity though our flourishing Debating Society.
6/6 reasons
At King’s Worcester we regard service to others as a means of using our heritage of philanthropy and Christianity to build a legacy of compassion and care for the future.
Charity work is given a high profile at King’s Worcester because it encourages pupils to look outwardly and think seriously about the wider needs of the community and the world.
Our Sixth Form Charity Committee coordinates many of the charitable endeavours in which our pupils engage and actively supports opportunities which fundraise or educate.
At King’s Worcester we place great value on the work our pupils do with local primary schools and residential homes. Pupils participate in regular visits, undertake joint projects, and offer much valued social events and occasions.
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