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Sixth Form Clubs and Activities

T6C offers many additional activities and opportunities for students outside normal lesson time, including:

The Clarendon College

  • Athletics
  • Badminton
  • Basketball
  • Football
  • Hockey
  • Kayaking
  • Netball
  • Rugby
  • Squash
  • Trampolining
  • Access to the Fitness Suite
  • Annual Next Step Conference
  • Annual Sixth Form Charity event
  • Annual Student organised RE conference
  • Annual Ten Tors teams
  • Annual Welcome BBQ
  • Art day trips and weekend excursions to visit galleries and museums
  • Biology trips to such venues as Bristol Zoo and the Natural History Museum
  • Business Studies / IT visits to local and national businesses in the UK and abroad
  • China exchange and visit in 2008, 2009 and 2010
  • College Newspaper
  • Community Sports Leader Award
  • Design and Technology trip to London
  • Drama students are invited to take part in the Endgames Theatre Festival at the Egg Theatre in Bath
  • Drama workshops with professionals
  • English Literature trips to see theatrical productions, particularly in Stratford or London
  • Geography field trips, including a residential field trip to Slapton, Devon
  • Gifted and Talented Conferences: Boston 2006, Kuala Lumpur 2007, Bath 2008, Malaysia 2009, Malaysia 2010, Malaysia 2011
  • History trip to Berlin
  • Languages Trip to Paris 2011
  • Lifeguarding qualification offered annually
  • Lower school Impact groups run by Senior Students
  • Many opportunities to participate in extra curricular Music and Theatre performances
  • Maths Surgeries
  • Model United Nations
  • Residential visits to foreign countries for Language students
  • Ski Trips
  • Theatre visits to Bath, Bristol, Salisbury, Stratford and London.
  • Travel and Tourism - Visits to a variety of organisations, e.g. Alton Towers, Thorpe Park, Berwick Lodge Hotel, Madame Tussauds and Bristol Airport as well as overseas residential visits e.g. Peak District, Rome, Milan and New York for Travel and Tourism students
  • UK Maths Team Challenge
  • Visits to a Crown Court, University Psychology Department and Drug Rehabilitation Centre for Psychology students

The John of Gaunt School

  • Rugby
  • Duke of Edinburgh Award
  • Basketball
  • English Workshop drop-in facility
  • Senior Dance Group
  • Girls' Football training
  • Music - Choral, String, Brass, Wind Band, Open House, Barbershop, etc. Many opportunities to practice and learn new instruments and skills.
  • JOGON Radio Station, community-making radio programmes
  • Gifted and Talented Conferences: Boston 2006, Kuala Lumpur 2007, Malaysia 2008
  • School Council meetings
  • Many Theatre performance opportunities, including School Productions and Pantomime
  • Annual Ski trip
  • Community Sports Leaders' Award
  • World Challenge Trip
  • Art trips: London in Autumn Term, European City in Spring Term
  • Media Trip to Museum of Moving Image in Bradford, Yorks.
  • Theatre Visits
  • Individual/Pair tutorials after school
  • Workshops taken by professional actors/dancers
  • Visits to exhibitions
  • Visits to school by professional theatre companies
  • Directed rehearsals after school and/or weekends
  • Engineering Enterprise Scheme
  • Clothes Show Live, NEC
  • Bath Fashion Show
  • Graduate Fashion Week
  • English Conferences
  • A Level English Workshop - weekly
  • Clanger Wood Environmental Project
  • Lake District Field Trip
  • Model United Nations Yrs 12/13 includes conferences in Belfast and Bath
  • Citizenship Foundation - Mock Trial (Law)
  • Magistrates' Workshop - visit to Magistrates' Court
  • AS Law Study Day
  • Y12 trip to Old Bailey/Parliament
  • Visits to Crown Court, Bristol
  • Speakers from legal profession - barristers, solicitors, other agencies
  • A2 History Study Day for American History (Civil Rights) students
  • Cinema visits
  • National Youth Parliament competition
  • Berlin. Residential Trip in History - includes visits to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, the Reichstag museum of German Resistance, Gestapo HQ and Topography of Terror museum, Checkpoint Charlie and East Berlin, House at Warnsee
  • Sixth Form History revision conferences
  • Maths Revision Days
  • Sixth Form Maths After School Academic Support
  • Senior Maths Challenge
  • Work Experience abroad, if you study Languages
  • French and Spanish exchanges
  • Sixth Form charity events
  • Boys' Football fixture every week
  • Hockey fixtures
  • PE A Level revision sessions
  • Fitness suite
  • A Level PE revision conference
  • Psychology - One day student revision conferences in Bristol or London
  • Physics - Year 12 trip to site where physics is used. Previous trips include Colston Hall and Rolls Royce in Bristol, and Rutherford Appleton Labs, Didcot.
  • Geology - Yrs 12/13 trip to Isle of Arran, Middlehope and Portishead.
  • Applied Science - Yr 12/13 trip to see how science is used in the workplace - previous trips have included Peter Black Cosmetics and a visit from Bristol University to extend investigative work.

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