Skills and Games

The traditional English art of bell-ringing requires a combination of skill, musicianship and strength. The club is open to complete beginners and those with prior experience. The club rings in various local churches.

A chance for Lower School pupils to play a wide range of fantasy role play games, strategic wargames and boardgames.

The game of Bridge is one of the world’s most popular card games. This trick-taking game is played by four people in two competing partnerships. Bridge is an excellent way to stretch your brain, sharpen your maths skills and make new friends. Beginners are welcome and will be taught the basics of contract bridge. Experienced players will be able to enjoy opportunities to play with other players of a similar level.

Come along, practise and improve. Pupils of all standards attend, from novice to England squad player. We are happy to teach you to play from scratch and help you to develop your game. We enter county and national tournaments, and we run knockout tournaments for individuals and for house teams. Grandmaster Peter Wells coaches on Wednesday afternoons.

Clash Royale Club is an Other Half option for those looking to enjoy and improve their gameplay with other students. There will be a combination of tournaments, as well as scenario practice and guidance on how to improve. On top of this, there will be ample opportunity to discuss decks, cards, clan wars, and all other areas of the game.

Learn to cook essential and economical student meals. Try your hand at making dishes like spicy risotto, spinach and feta frittata and chocolate pudding – not forgetting spaghetti bolognese. Learn the basics of menu planning and budgeting to make a tight student budget stretch. No prior knowledge or skill necessary.

Learn the basics of operating a light aircraft at an airfield. Progress onto landing challenges in various cities and mountain sites in a variety of aircraft. Compete with your friends to achieve the highest score in the TOP GUN challenges

There is no requirement to be in CCF to join this club.

Go is a strategy board game that has been played for thousands of years. It has simple rules but takes a lifetime to master. In the club you’ll learn the rules, have a go at some puzzles and play games against each other.

An opportunity to learn to play Go, a board game that has been around for over 3000 years and is played all over the world. No experience necessary or expected. Students are taught the rules (which only takes 5 minutes) and get to have fun playing against each other. They’re also given the chance to improve their game by completing puzzles and other activities.

In this club you will learn how to touch type, which is a method of typing without the use of sight. At the end of term, your fingers will instinctively go to the appropriate key, which is the primary aim of these sessions. Speed will come with practice, and especially to those who practise between sessions. Typing.com is a web-based program chosen for its smooth interface, great games and videos.

Mahjong is a family friendly game that is much like chess, very commonly played in East Asian households. The game contains 144 pieces with 4 suits and small “pictograms” of sorts that indicate its purpose and use, and in order to win one only has to achieve one of a wide variety of combinations.

At Warhammer Club Lower School pupils will have the opportunity to build and paint miniatures and then battle it out with each other in games of Warhammer: Age of Sigmar.