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Excellence in academic study is complemented and enhanced by students taking part in extra-curricular activities.
Opportunity
Strength in the Performing Arts
We value highly the Performing Arts culture we have as a School and the benefits participation in these activities brings to our students both as performers and individuals. Students can participate in events which could include our annual whole-School production, the Shakespeare in Schools Festival, a Performing Arts Showcase, a Talent Competition and a Christmas event. We also have nine vocal and music groups from which to choose.
Denbigh has a reputation for sporting excellence and opportunity across Milton Keynes and beyond. We are extremely competitive in all our sporting endeavours and our sports teams were undefeated in 64% of their 248 inter-school matches in 2013 - 2014. Our U16 Boys Badminton Team won the National Schools Badminton Championships this year, the fourth time a team from Denbigh has won the National Championships. We have teams ranked first or second in Milton Keynes in Badminton, Basketball, Football, Cricket, Cross Country, Golf, Netball, Rounders and Tennis. We actively encourage our students to play for local clubs and compete for regional and/or national squads and teams. Currently, 36 of our students are competing at a regional or national level in their sporting field. It is our belief that giving students a positive experience of sport in school can inspire them to a lifetime of exercise which brings long term benefits in terms of health and well-being. The fact that all our students take part in ‘Inter-House’ sporting activities and approximately half of our students represent the school in sports teams, is a source of great pride to us.
Sporting Excellence and Opportunity
Extra-Curricular Activities
Our students can choose from over 60 extra-curricular clubs and activities covering a wide spectrum of interests from the Debate Society to Creative Writing, Raspberry Pi and Eco-Schools. Our students regularly successfully compete in local, regional and national competitions including: the National Science and Engineering Competition; MK Magistrates’ Mock Trial Competition; Rotary Club School Technology Challenge; MK Young Enterprise; UK Maths Challenge; the National Schools Badminton Championships; the Cranfield Business Challenge; The Bank of England Target 2.0 Competition; the British Biology Olympiad and The Engineering in Education Award.
The School also runs a prestigious STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Lecture Programme, through which leading academics and researchers come into School to deliver lectures on a range of current STEM related issues carefully chosen to build on and extend GCSE and A Level programmes of study.
Many students visit the residential centre at Longrigg in Cumbria for a full range of outdoor pursuits and can participate in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. We also run two ‘Activities Days’, held each year in June during which students are off timetable and take part in a range of enjoyable activities in Milton Keynes and beyond. The activities include visits to a West End Theatre and Alton Towers and opportunities to undertake activities such as wake-boarding, sailing and cycling. Students can also participate in the many Inter-House competitions that take place at lunchtime and after school including, ‘Master Chef”, ‘The Cube’ and the ‘Inter - House Quiz’.
Educational Visits
OAt a time when it is increasingly difficult to run school trips, our commitment to the educational and social benefits for students by taking part in educational visits has not been diminished. To this end approximately 50 individual day trips and 13 residential visits took place last year, including European language and cultural exchanges, theatre and museum visits, Science and Geography field trips and visits to successful companies. Trips this year included a visit to the CERN Centre in Switzerland, home to the Hadron Collider, a visit to the Auschwitz Memorial Museum and the World War 1 battlefields. Our students also took part in our fourth World Challenge trip to Tanzania, climbing Mt Kilimanjaro and participating in community projects.