After School Clubs & Activities (Commoners)

We currently offer nearly 50 after-school activities each week, known as ’Commoners’. Most are run by staff and are free. They form an important aspect of a Pilgrims’ broader education, giving boys and staff alike the opportunity to extend and share interests beyond the classroom. Juniors and Seniors generally follow the same programme, which creates a great opportunity for boys to socialise and integrate across all the year groups. 

Your son can look forward to enjoying a vast array of opportunities, from Winchester Fives to Ultimate Frisbee, sailing on the Solent to origami. Boys do swimming, water polo, photography, computer coding, fishing, karate, judo, knitting, chess, Mandarin, role-playing, board games, pasta making, photography, fencing, or rowing.  

If there’s an activity which your son would like to do which isn’t offered, we encourage him to ask if it could be added and we’ll do our best to include it. 

 

 

Break times 

Break times every morning and afternoon provide an opportunity for all important socialising. After a snack, inventive play takes over all three of the Quads, with kickabouts, games of football, basketball, mini-cricket, Beyblades, diabolos, conkers, hide and seek; whatever is the favourite of the day. The Library is always open with chess, magazines and comfy sofas. The Priory has air hockey, table tennis, snooker, pool and table football. 

School trips 

In addition to the educational day trips enjoyed by every year group, there are skiing holidays, sports tours (a cricket tour to Sri Lanka, for example), geography and classics trips, Easter and summer activity camps, and other opportunities throughout the year.