Activities and After School Clubs

From December Sheering News

At Sheering School we aim to provide a range of extracurricular activities to encourage the pupils' social and cultural development. Pupils are given opportunities to enjoy music and to take part each term in school productions that develop their enthusiasm for performance and raise their self-esteem and confidence.

A school journey to Norfolk takes place every two years and makes an important contribution to all aspects of our pupils' social and personal development. The school has a School Council with representatives from each year group, which meets regularly to find ways of ensuring that the school is a happy and safe place in which to work and play.

Within each class, pupils have an opportunity to contribute to classroom rules.

We also provide weekly clubs to enrich the curriculum.

At lunchtime, pupils are able to attend a recorder club and School Band Practice. A weekly Bookworm Club encourages pupils to share books with each other. Our football club is open to all Key Stage Two pupils, and is run after school by a grandparent with FA Coaching Qualifications, who previously helped train young footballers at Southampton Football Club.

This term two new clubs have begun after school: a Netball Club, run by a netball coach from Harlow, and a Gymnastics Club, run by a parent, who also runs a Gymnastics Club in Sawbridgeworth. Both these clubs are proving very popular with our pupils.

Our pupils had an opportunity to display their musical skills in a special Harvest Celebration at Chelmsford Cathedral in October in aid of Barnardo's. Thirteen Key Stage Two pupils sang a selection of Harvest Songs and looked and sang like a real choir. The school and the children's parents were very proud of their performance. The same children also took a leading role in our school's Harvest Festival Service, held later in the month, which included the presentation "Lord of the Harvest." Following our Harvest Festival Service our Year Six pupils were able to deliver harvest gifts to senior citizens living alone in Sheering. Our pupils always enjoy the opportunity of delivering the gifts and talking to local residents.