St Richard's
A traditional Catholic co-educational boarding school
from Nursery through to Preparatory School
Activities
Although academic time at St Richard's finishes at 5.15 most day children choose to stay until 6pm in order to take part in a wide variety of activities. Often lead by their form tutors, they embark on a huge range of primarily skill-based tasks. The emphasis is normally on fun with recent projects including hand puppet production, summer games (including the infamous Frisbee golf) biscuit designing, treasure hunting and felt-making, as well as golfing, canoeing and orienteering. The big event this term is a whole school talent contest : we are quickly seeing that St Richard’s really does have talent!
Hobbies
On Wednesday evenings the boarders enjoy a fifty minute session of a chosen hobby. It is a credit to the school that the staff have such a diverse range of outside interests to share with the children on a weekly basis. Hobby sessions recently run have included : cookery, gardening, film-making, bridge, table tennis, model building, photography and card making.
Hardy’s ROC sessions also take place in hobby time. Dressed in a wide array of camouflage and outdoor apparel, the children venture into the unknown whilst being expertly guided in a whole host of survival skills including den-building, fire-making and the correct use of tools. The fact that day children return to school on a Wednesday evening simply to take part in these sessions is testament to their popularity.
