Senior - Activities & Excursions

Recreational Activities

Every day students have the opportunity to enjoy Taunton School’s superb sports facilities which include two indoor heated swimming pools, a fitness gym, three sports halls, extensive playing fields and numerous tennis courts. A full programme of activities and excursions is organised by experienced, well-qualified staff and students are supervised at all times.

Sports

Each day there is a wide range of organised and supervised sports on offer for everyone, for example:

• Football
• Volleyball
• Tag Rugby
• Basketball
• Netball
• Swimming
• Badminton
• Fitness Training
• Ultimate Frisbee
• Rounders
• Baseball
• Croquet
• Tennis

Evening Activities

Each day there is a wide range of organised and supervised activities on offer for everyone.  Possible examples are:

• Cinema
• Skittles / Bowling
• Craft evenings
• Talent and singing competitions
• Shopping trips
• Fencing
• Beach games and surfing 
• Circus Skills 

After an activity there is usually free time so that students can relax with their friends.
Students will go on an excursion on a Saturday and sometimes as part of their lessons.

Weekend Excursions

Here are examples of some of the excursions that we offer:

• Exeter - lively cathedral city 
• Bristol - important commercial centre of the South West
• Longleat - a safari at an English stately home
• Cardiff - vibrant Welsh capital
• Bournemouth - lively, cosmopolitan seaside town
• London - history, culture & excitement in the capital
• Warwick - ancient medieval castle theme park
• Oxford - university city
• Bath - Roman spa town

Travel, food and group activities are included in the course fees. Drinks and souvenirs are extra.