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Other Achievements

At St. Olave’s we value the importance of a broad curriculum and we pride ourselves on providing opportunities for students to build on existing talents whilst developing new skills and interests. The School has a long tradition of providing an impressive and varied extra-curricular programme and all members of the Sixth Form are encouraged to participate in a wide range of activities.

The School has an excellent record in Sport, boasting a major fixtures programme, and many students excel at school level and beyond. As well as the major team games of Rugby, Basketball, Netball, Hockey, Cricket and Athletics many other sports are popular. These include Fives, Swimming, Tennis, Football (including Girls’ Football), Squash and Chess.

There are regular school concerts and drama productions as well as a wide range of orchestras, ensembles, bands and choirs. We also offer individual tuition in a wide range of instruments. The new Music block provides first class facilities for such activities.

For many years groups have been involved in World Challenge Expeditions which in recent years have travelled to Ecuador, Peru, Madagascar, Nepal and Borneo, where they enjoyed a combination of mountain trekking and project work in local schools. The Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme is also very popular and offers Bronze, Silver and Gold awards.

Students may opt for Community Service work on Wednesday afternoons through the School’s ‘Le Chavetois Society’. Popular options include visits and liaisons with local primary schools and Day Care centres. These include our family of local schools which are involved in a number of joint activities with St. Olave’s as part of our Specialist Status. This has included Sixth Form students helping with sport’s days and organising and running a Year 5 Maths Day.

Every Easter a group of Year 12 students go to the Hebridean Island of Rum. Here they take part in mountain trekking, discussion groups and some conservation activity.

There are numerous other activities including Young Enterprise; the very popular debating society; the Model United Nations where, in partnership with other local schools, students take over the Bromley Civic Centre to debate issues in the style of the UN, as well as numerous language clubs ranging from Greek to Swahili.

A large number of clubs and societies are run by the Sixth Form. These include the Medics society, Law society and Engineering society. If members of the Sixth Form cannot find a society they are interested in then they are encouraged and supported to set one up. Senior students also lead a number of clubs for the younger members of the School, often at lunchtime.

At St Olave’s the Sixth Form is very much part of the School and not a separate body within it. As such the Sixth Form play a highly significant role in the day-to-day running of the School. Some students will act as Form Prefects who are attached to Lower School forms where they undertake administrative and pastoral support duties as well as acting as mentors to individual students. Academic Prefects are attached to Faculties and assist them in a number of ways which include running lunchtime clubs as well providing one to one support to Lower and Middle School students in a particular subject. Some students will act as Duty Prefects at break and lunch times with responsibility for supervising areas of the School alongside members of the duty staff. Finally there are also Sports Prefects who help with the organisation, coaching and running of individual School sports as well as giving regular sports reports in Full School assembly. These various prefect teams are led by the Captain and Vice Captains of School who are appointed by the Headmaster following a process of consultation with students and staff.

The Sixth Form students run their own Association comprising of elected members. This is an important body and provides a powerful forum and voice for the Sixth Form as well as being responsible for looking after Sixth Form facilities and for organising events such as the Leavers’ Ball. New members of the Sixth Form are asked to make a voluntary donation of £20 to the Association at the beginning of the year.

For a full list of Extra Curricular Activities and Achievements please see the following documents:

School Colours

The school colours systems rewards exceptional contributions to the school whether through individual sporting achievement, leadership and organisation of school societies, or through competitive success representing the school, either individually or as part of a group. The criteria for the award of full colours is set out below together with details of those who were awarded full colours in previous years: