Fostering Excellence with Extensive Opportunities

We proudly support students of all ages in developing their unique interests, whether in class, onstage or on the sports field. Our generous co-curricular offering allows boys to become highly accomplished by exploring a wealth of unique and prestigious learning opportunities.

Our budding athletes achieve excellence owing to our school’s exemplary sports programme, led by top professionals and esteemed guest coaches. Students with a flair for performing access world-class music and drama provision that includes the best tuition from a team of established musicians and the chance to collaborate with theatre experts from London’s West End. Our extensive clubs and societies allow boys to pursue their interests in exciting disciplines, including App Design and Multimedia Creation, which foster the skills for success in the 21st century.

Additional enrichment opportunities are embedded throughout school life, meaning boys are continuously challenged, nurtured and inspired. They emerge confident, multi-skilled graduates, with a strong, resilient mindset for future excellence. 

Sports
 

Sports

Our exemplary sports programme is meticulously crafted to promote technical and physical excellence while building a foundation for long-term health and wellbeing. 

Students are regularly coached by professionals in their fields, including former English national rugby coach Eddie Jones. With access to the best sports facilities, our boys extend and elevate their sporting abilities. Along with our cutting-edge strength and conditioning suite onsite, students make use of extensive pitches at Ealing Trailfinders, also used by professional rugby and cricket teams. 

Sports are compulsory across year groups, and our broad selection caters to all interests, from football, rugby, tennis and cricket to basketball, swimming, yoga and table tennis. Weekly fixtures provide a packed timetable for our numerous sports teams, and external competitions and inter-Trib events allow boys to develop their skills even further, represent their school or Trib, and make lifelong friends and connections.

Music

Music

We encourage all students to develop their artistic abilities. Around 200 boys enjoy one-on-one music lessons, led by highly accomplished professional musicians, who perform regularly with Europe’s top bands and orchestras. Every boy learns to play one brass or string instrument in Year 7 to discover and nurture their unique talents, and establish a basis for future accomplishment.

Our exceptional and active School Choir and many popular ensembles mean that music is a vibrant dimension of Wetherby Senior school life. Concerts and recitals take place termly, allowing students to showcase their outstanding abilities and providing pivotal public performance experience.

Drama
 

Drama

Drama at Wetherby Senior is an exciting experience that cultivates a broad and practical skill set. Exceptional tutelage and prestigious opportunities help learners become skilled performers and experience all aspects of theatre production, both on the stage and behind the scenes.

Our excellent Drama Department produces three large-scale productions every year, in which students participate either onstage or in other areas (e.g., lighting and set design). The Upper School show is our largest production, performed with girls from Francis Holland School, Regent’s Park. Taking place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), the production allows students to experience a professional theatre space and learn from the best in the business by collaborating with costume, set and lighting designers from the West End. 

Our central London location ensures easy access to many exciting and innovative productions, and our Drama Department has run trips to see ‘Hamilton’, ‘Othello’, ‘Blood Brothers’, ‘Life of Pi’ and ‘Best of Enemies’ and others.

Clubs and Societies

Our extensive range of clubs and societies helps students to develop a diverse skill set and valuable personal qualities, while also having fun and enjoying new experiences. By exploring new and existing interests, they become highly accomplished, learn teamwork and leadership and build confidence in their abilities. Watch the video to hear from our teachers and pupils, or click on the sections below to find out more.

Art Open Studio
The Barometer (our pupil-led magazine)
Carnegie Shadowing Bookclub
Classical Civilisation Clinic
Comparative Literature Club
Creative Writing Club
English Catch-up
English Club
History Clinic
History Club
History Film Club
Latin Clinic
Lower School Play
Myths and Legends Club
Sketchbook Surgery
Trib Drama
Upper School Play

Charity Committee
Duke of Edinburgh Award
Epic Gap Year Club
Ethical Leadership
Model United Nations
Politics Essay Writing Skills
Senior Debating
Service and Volunteering
Young Enterprise

Ancient Greek
German Clinic
L’etranger

Backgammon
Chess
Lego Club
Lego Robotics
Warhammer

Brass Academy
Brass Roots
Cello Ensemble
Guitar Ensemble
Jazz Ensemble
Lower Brass Ensemble
Music Technology Club
Orchestra
Percussion Ensemble
String Quartet
Swing Band
Rock School Year 7-8
Rock School Year 9
Theory Club
Wind Ensemble

App Design Club
Chemistry Scholar
Code Club
Crest Awards
Environmental and Sustainability Club
Geography Catch-up
Junior Science Club
Multimedia Creation
Physics Clinic
Young Explorers Club

Barbell
Basketball
Boxercise
Football
Gym
Handball
Lord’s Cricket
Rock Climbing
Spin
Table Football
Table Tennis

Cooking Club
Diversity Committee
Prayer
Wetherby Allyance

School Trips

School Trips

Being based in Marylebone, we provide access to exciting destinations across central London, including parks, theatres, galleries and museums. Our students enjoy plenty of enriching school trips to areas of historical, geographical, literary, religious or scientific interest. We also host talks and workshops with esteemed guest speakers on various social, political and cultural issues.

Community Service

Community service

Volunteering and Charity Work

Students in each year group volunteer to support those in the community and across London, whether by helping the elderly use digital devices or assisting learners at local primary schools. They also take part in fundraising activities to support charities chosen by the School Council, having fun while they deepen their knowledge about issues facing the world today.

Duke of Edinburgh Award

The Duke of Edinburgh Award is a popular, challenging and well-respected programme that is achieved by completing a personal programme of activities in numerous sections. It is an excellent opportunity for our young people to enhance their teamwork, organisation and leadership skills.

Leadership

Leadership roles allow students to contribute positively to our school and broader society while developing important transferable skills. These include Middle School Ambassadors, Trib representatives, School Council positions and, in the Sixth Form, Head Boy, Deputy Head Boy, and prefect positions, along with peer and academic mentors.

Career Guidance

Our careers programme starts from the moment boys join (much earlier than most schools) and aims to instil drive and purpose while ensuring each boy fulfils his potential in our increasingly competitive and ever-changing world.

Through our comprehensive approach, which includes mock interviews, skills-based projects, expert talks, internal discussions, personal development, subject linkage and co-curricular activities, our pupils are equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to make informed career choices. We explore university options and professional life with support from a brilliant range of potential employers, our own exceptional staff and our active alumni network.

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