During the Summer term, the school offers an after-school drama club for children in Year 3 – 6, and of all abilities. For more information, please contact Clare Talks.
The school holds Primary Schools Chess on Thursdays (16:00 – 17:00) throughout the year, led by chess enthusiast, Dr Follows, supported by senior pupils. Winchester is also the proud sponsor of the National School Chess Championship. For more information, please contact Clare Talks.
The Maths department runs a number of activities that are open to primary and secondary-aged pupils. For more information about any of the following, please contact the maths events team. To join the mailing list, which provides updates on when registration opens for clubs, please enter your details here.
These run in the Autumn and Spring terms at Winchester College and aim to stretch able pupils who enjoy mathematics. They include some preparation for the national competitions run by the UK Maths Trust.
A series of evening sessions in the autumn will focus on preparing for the British Maths Olympiad (BMO1) and Maths Olympiad for Girls (MOG) held on Tuesdays (19:00 – 20:00).
For more information on these clubs or the Olympiad sessions, please contact the maths events team.
Twice a year the school hosts a mathematical lecture, aimed at secondary and sixth formers students but open to all. Recent lectures include ‘The Road from Pythagoras to Beale’ by Professor James Anderson, ‘How to Colour a Map’ by Dr Natalie Behague, and Dr James Munro, University of Oxford speaking about ‘Pursuit Problems'.
Our next Maths lecture will be on Tuesday 7 February at 19:00-20:00. Sign up here to see Dr Chris Berry (previously Maths don at Winchester) speak on ‘How mathematicians (almost) broke the financial world’.
The school runs an annual Winchester Maths Summer School (WMSS), available to Year 12 students from maintained sector schools. The course is led by specialist maths teachers from Winchester College, supported by undergraduate and graduate students from leading universities. It offers the chance to explore maths in small groups, alongside like-minded people, within a beautiful setting and is the perfect preparation for university.
‘The leaders were really intelligent, supportive, and fun to be around. It was really encouraging ahead of university to experience a week doing only maths and love it even more!’ Naomi-Ruth, a former WMSS student now reading maths at Durham.