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Extra-Curricular

Overview

Extensive extra-curricular opportunities are a particular feature of Maidwell. The varied activities programme ensures that evenings and break times are busy and stimulating times for the boys. Equally they love having free time and the chance to relax with their friends.

There is a wide-ranging winter lecture programme which offers the boys the chance to broaden their horizons; we are very fortunate to have many distinguished visiting speakers. Leadership training is a central part of the education that we provide and our outward bound activities programme is an integral part of this; early on boys learn about outdoor camping skills and the older ones are taken on more adventurous activities and taught about orienteering, climbing, camp-craft, canoeing and hill walking; there is the chance for some to join the annual leavers’ sponsored expedition.

The leavers’ programme during the last few weeks of a boy’s time at Maidwell is a tremendous highlight focusing on a week away by the sea, an overnight survival exercise and numerous one day trips and adventurous outings.