At Ramsgrange Community School, we strongly encourage and promote student involvement in wider school life.
We believe that extra-curricular activities offer a wide range of benefits for students, both academically and personally including:
- Personal development: Building confidence and self esteem, encouraging responsibility and improving time management.
- Social Skills: Teamwork and collaboration, communication, friendships.
- Academic enhancement: improves focus, discipline and motivation.
- Physical and mental health: reducing stress by supporting mental wellbeing through creative and physical outlets.
- Career and Skill development: exposes students to a wider range of interests, builds their "CV".
- Community Engagement: promotes civic responsibility and community mindedness and inclusion.
At RCS, we provide a diverse selection of extracurricular activities for our students, covering a broad spectrum of interests such as arts, sports, gaming, culture, music, and more. These run during the school lunch breaks.
These usually include, but are not limited to:
| Sports |
Arts |
Multi-disciplinary |
- GAA: Ladies Football, Camogie, Gaelic Football, Hurling.
- Soccer: boys and girls teams
- Rugby
- Basketball: boys and girls teams
- Athletics
- Equestrian
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- Choir
- Trad Music
- Drama
- Film/Photography Society
- Arts and Crafts Club
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- Homework Club
- Chess Club
- Wellbeing Club
- Gaming Club
- Dungeons and Dragons
- Green Schools
- Farmers Club
- Student Council
- Quiz Club
- Learning Hub
- Ukrainian Society
- Gardening Club
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We are open to student suggestions and will support any student volunteers to run student-led activities too!