Junior Clubs

Open to all abiltites, Art Club works on a project basis where the girls are given the opportunity to complete a piece of art over a number of weeks; encouraging the girls to utilise their imagination and creativity in a variety of ways.

Open to: Years 3-6

Try out a range of athletics disciplines and develop your running, jumping and throwing skills in this fun sport for all club.

Open to: All year groups

Our Ballet Club allow girls to enjoy the physical and social benefits of ballet, song and dance in a safe, caring, positive and informal environment. With clubs for four age groups, girls can build their confidence and social skills, learning manners, discipline and respect while developing their basic ballet technique, coordination, musicality, balance, posture and rhythm.

Open to: Reception-Year 3

Enjoying playing your brass instrument? Then come along and extend the fun by playing a fabulous range of fun repertoire with your fellow brass players.

Open to: Years 3-6

If you are an advanced string player, you may be invited to join this chamber group where you will experience the excitement of playing music for quartets. Performing at the Carol Service, Spring and Summer Concerts are particular highlights.

Open to: Years 5-6

Year 1 Chess

A fun beginners club teaching the basics of chess with friendly competitions during the year

Open to: Year 1

Year 2 Chess

Expanding the girls’ knowledge of how chess pieces move, value of the pieces and chess openings through teaching and fun tournaments to develop logical and strategic thinking as well as forward plnning.

Open to: Year 2

KS2 Chess (intermediate-advanced)

Girls continue to develop their strategic game by using a mixture of teaching and internal tournaments throughout the sessions in order to improve their game. Girls will explore chess strategy and tactics, discover effective openings and plan checkmates through tutored demonstrations.

Open to: Year 3-6

Chess Squad

Girls will continue to improve their strategy of the game and will discover tactical tricks to help visualise winning moves and improve match play. Girls will represent the school in matches and external tournaments.

Open to: Year 3-6

Concert Band is an ensemble for all woodwind and brass players. Enjoy playing an exciting variety of repertoire from film scores and folk tunes to pop songs and sporting themes, ready for performing each term.

Open to: Years 3-6

Improve your bowling, batting, fielding and catching. We play lots of games and have lots of fun, which will help prepare us for when we play matches.

Open to: Years 3-6

An activity that blends runners of all ages and ability and takes place in Stoke Park.

Open to: Years 3-6

Fun, excitement and a rhythmic boost
Is what you will get from the Djembe group.
So if you think you have enough energy,
Come along on Mondays at 8.30.

Open to: Years 3-4

A weekly session taught by a highly qualified peripatetic instructor, providing girls with the opportunity to learn the three disciplines of this combat sport, i.e. épée, foil and sabre.

Open to: Years 4-6

Club Bonjour Francais offers a structured programme taught by linguists in a relaxed and informal atmosphere. Sessions are packed with fun activities, games, songs, crafts and role play so that girls gain confidence and enjoy learning French.

Open to: Reception-Year 3

Whether you know how to play a guitar or not, come and learn how to play in the company of friends experiencing tremendous fun and musical drive. Pick out a melody or learn some chords, take pleasure from mastering pop songs and folk tunes – you will be amazed how quickly you can learn and perform in many concerts.

Open to: Years 4-6

This session is for the elite national squad gymnasts for choreography of group floor in preparation for National Schools competitions.

Open to: Years 4-6

A sport for all activity that encourages keen gymnasts to develop their skills.

Open to: Years 3-6

Highway Development Squad 1

This session is for young, intermediate players and concentrates on technique, footwork and competition.

Open to: Years 2-3

Highway Development Squad 2

This session is for older, intermediate to advanced players and concentrates on technique, footwork, tactical situations in singles & doubles play and competition.

Open to: Years 3-6

Pre-Prep Highway Gymnastics

This session is teaching gymnastics skills and building confidence in any young, beginner gymnasts. Covering skills in floor, vault and conditioning.

Open to: Reception-Year 2

Highway Gymnastics

This session is improving gymnastics skills as well as building confidence in any novice gymnasts. Covering skills in floor, vault, tumbling and conditioning.

Open to: Year 2-5

Highway Swimming

Swimming lessons held in the GHS pool for girls in Reception and Year 1.

Open to: Reception-Year 1

Highway Swim Squad

Swimming lessons for advanced swimmers in the GHS pool.

Open to: Years 2-6

Highway Tennis

Mini Red

An introduction to tennis in a fun environment using the LTA’s Mini Tennis scheme with low compression balls and small rackets. This session is a fun game based session introducing all the shots of the game in a fun environment. We focus on all the core skills with movement, footwork, reception & anticipation skills.

Open to: Reception-Year 2

Mini Tennis Orange

The next step improving the knowledge of the game with a bigger court and a smaller ball. More focus on technique with all the strokes & shots using patterns of play & competition.

Open to: Years 3-6

Mini Tennis Green/Full Court

Green balls are used as a transition to a full court ball on a normal size tennis court. Green ball & Full court tennis sessions are always run in separate sessions.

Open to: Years 6-Year 11

Highway Triathlon

This club incorporates bike maintenance and handling, running, transitions and open water swimming skills.  Alongside mini races of duathlons, aquathlons and triathlons in a combination of elements ranging from a pool swim, a multi lap grass bike course and run course.

Open to: Years 3-7

Swimming lessons for advanced swimmers in the GHS pool.

Open to: Years 2-6

Develop your Hockey skills in preparation for matches.

Open to: Years 4-6

This session is for selected elite gymnasts who train at a high level to represent the school in Surrey and national school competitions in floor, vault, tumbling and sports acro.

Open to: Years 3-6

Girls are encouraged in the art of Judo in a friendly and fun environment.

Open to: All year groups

This session is for selected gymnasts who train at a higher level to represent the school in inter- school competitions in floor, vault and sports acro.

Open to: Years 4-6

Calling all string players (Beginners – Grade 2) not yet ready for String Orchestra. Miss Kimber needs your talent and enthusiasm in Junior Strings! Even if you have only had a few lessons, come along and discover what it is like to be part of an ensemble. We have fun playing many different styles of music and pick our favourite pieces to perform in concerts throughout the year. Year 2 are invited to join in the Trinity Term.

Open to: Years 3-5

Small groups of girls work together on speech delivery, acting, verse and prose to gain confidence when speaking and performing in front of other people. Exams are taken with The London Academy of Music and Drama.

Open to: Years 3-6

Girls work on pieces from Musical Theatre productions in a fun atmoshere where learning encompasses both singing and acting, promoting core life skills in confidence, vocal projection, handling nerves and anxiety and presentation skills. Girls may work towards optional LAMDA Group Musical Theatre exams.

Open to: All year groups

Lower Choir is for all girls in Years 3 and 4. Spend half an hour on Thursday lunchtimes having fun singing a wide repertoire of catchy songs for many events throughout the year.

Open to: Years 3-4

M:Tech is a Music Technology course which allows girls of all musical abilities to compose in an exciting way using digital technology alongside fun media projects.

Open to: Years 3-6

Carousel is a one term club (either the Michaelmas or the Lent Term) which acts as an introduction to Music and Musicianship through learning to play the recorder and the violin and dancing to music. In the Trinity Term there is a further programme of sessions, open to all Year 1 girls, where they will be introduced to every family of instruments in the orchestra and the Piano.

Open to: Year 1

This group meets after school on a Wednesday to ‘think outside the box’ and extend the girls’ musicianship. We explore musical topics which develop the depth and breadth of musical skills and knowledge through researching, performing, listening and composing activities. We have fun sharing our creative thinking through activities and chatter!

Open to: Years 3-5

Practice your netball skills in your playing teams and develop a lifelong love of the game.

Open to: Years 3-6

The Junior School Orchestra allows girls (Grade 3+) to enjoy playing a wide range of orchestral instruments together in an ensemble. We play everything from Bach to the Beatles!

Open to: Years 4-6

There are so many percussion instruments for you to explore,
Whilst developing your rhythm you can be sure.
Xylophones, maracas and conga drums too,
It happens on Mondays just before 8!

Open to: Years 5-6

How about a new challenge? Have fun learning to the play the treble recorder, even if you’ve never played a recorder before. Enjoy the rich, mellow tone and have some fun playing a mix of new and familiar tunes.

Open to: Years 5-6

Let us reach new heights of recorder playing together. A mix of traditional tunes, duets & trios, ABBA, Jazz and a good dose of Christmas Carols, come and join us for some break-time fun.

Open to: Year 4

year 2 recorders

Would you like to start playing a musical instrument and learn how to read musical notes? Come and join Mrs Wardell for half an hour of fun and learning each week and be amazed at how quickly you can make up your own tunes and play any tune in the book! It is an excellent way to prepare for learning the piano or an orchestral instrument. We really enjoy performing our pieces in concerts during the year too!

Open to: Year 2

year 3 recorders

Did you enjoy learning to play the recorder in Year 2? If so, why not carry on learning more notes, different rhythms and having even more fun playing difficult pieces really well. If you are waiting to play a larger woodwind or brass instrument, keep your musical interest going by playing the recorder.

Open to: Year 3

Develop your individual softball cricket skills, particularly bowling and batting. This club is for the top Junior School Cricket teams, taught by a Surrey County Cricket Coach.

Open to: Years 5-6

If you are a violinist, ‘cellist, play the double bass, or even better the viola, and have passed your Grade 2, come and join us to play a wonderful mix of classical and popular music!

Open to: Years 4-6

This squad is for our elite Junior School swimmers in prepration for matches and galas throughout the academic year.

Open to: Years 3-6

Tennis – young beginners

This session is for young beginners, introducing and developing the coordination, techniques and movement patterns of Tennis using the various low compression Red/Orange balls.

Open to: Years 1-3

Tennis Club

This session uses small rackets, using low compression red balls working alongside the LTA Mini Tennis schemes. This is an introduction to tennis learning the basic skills all of the shots & strokes with lots of fun games.

Open to: Years 1-3

Tennis – intermediate

This session starts to introduce more technique with all the strokes & the shots, applying more footwork & patterns of play for competition using the various low compression Orange balls.

Open to: Years 3-6

Tennis – competitive

This session builds on competitive game situations with applying tactics, more in depth technique with all the strokes & match play with singles & doubles.

Open to: Years 3-6

Tennis Development Squad

This session is for older, intermediate to advanced players and concentrates on technique, footwork, tactical situations in singles & doubles play and competition.

Open to: Years 3-6

Upper Choir is for all girls in Years 5 and 6. Come and spend an hour after school singing a surprisingly diverse repertoire of songs for many different events throughout the year.

Open to: Years 5-6

Do you love singing? Come and sing with your friends and have fun learning lots of new songs with lots of brilliant actions too! You will love singing to your parents in concerts and special events throughout the year.

Open to: Year 2

This is our only selective choir with auditions for every girl in Year 6 in September. As a smaller chamber choir, we sing a range of styles of both sacred and secular songs for different events. The Consort of 20 sings at Christmas, and the Festival Choir of 30 performs in the Lent and Trinity Term concerts.

Open to: Year 6

A relaxed club where girls will learn yoga poses, games and relaxation techniques.

Open to: Years 1-6