Extra-Curricular Opportunities

One of the most exciting things about our Design and Technology department are the extra-curricular opportunities that we offer students. We compete nationally in the Vex Robotics competition in which students receive a box of parts and must design, build and programme a robot to play a game that changes each year. We have had numerous successes in this competition, often against independent and grammar schools with much larger budgets than our own. However, due to the hard work of the students and the positive environment of the club, The Cotswold School robotics club have become one of the teams to beat in the UK.

We also run an Interior Architecture Club for students who want to get involved with design outside of their lessons, and compete in a range of catering competitions such as the ‘Rotary Young Chef of the Year Competition’ in which we have also been very successful. We also run a Drawing Club and also lead the STEM activities in the school such as; the weekly STEM club and the ‘Engineering Buggy Design Challenge’, in which teams of students must design a buggy to carry a passenger safely around a track that contains a range of tricky obstacles.