Potterhouse School holds clubs every Monday afternoon. This creates opportunities for students to broaden their experience, skills and knowledge, and to develop community.
Students enroll in a club at the beginning of every term. They choose from one of the clubs available. The clubs available this term are listed below with an explanation about each one, as well as the cost, where applicable.
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Clubs Coordinator: Mr David Kamotho
Taekwondo is a Korean martial art, characterized by its emphasis on head-height kicks, jumping and spinning kicks, and fast kicking techniques. It offers students an opportunity to be energized, meditate, improve their focus, and build discipline.
Price per Term: 10,500/=
Dance mainly focuses on nurturing, enhancing and exploiting dance talent in children. Potterhouse School boasts a music and dance culture, evident from our reputation in musical theatre. The club enables students to learn dance basics and choreographies that in turn develop personal traits such as confidence, creativity and teamwork.
Price per Term: 10,500/=
Numerous studies have shown that chess has a positive impact on the mental growth of children through improved memory, visualization, calculation and concentration. The club is offered to the children by Mini Chess Kenya, an organization that seeks to empower children by training them in chess. The club will equip students with the skills necessary for chess and increase their competitive ability and teamwork through in-house and inter-school tournaments. It also promotes self-discipline.
Price per Term: 10,500/=
Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye. Robotics Club students use Lego™ sets to create robots, simple working machines and advanced working machines. There are different Lego sets that are suitable for different age groups. Young age groups start with simple working machines while older age groups advance to the Mind Storms™ set which offers a chance to program the robots. Students in this club also learn core values like respect and teamwork which will help them in the future.
Price: 10,500/=
Monkeynastix is a physical education program that uses creativity and movement to achieve physical development goals for children ages 1-8 years. Monkeynastix offers three separate curriculums for ages 1-2, 3-6 and 7-8. A Monkeynastix session includes warm-up to music, stretch and tone, and working with specialized, age appropriate equipment. The session is fun packed to ensure that the children enjoy themselves as they learn and exercise.
Price per Term: 10,500/=
Ballet is an artistic dance form performed to music, using precise and highly formalized set steps and gestures. Many young dancers long to slip into their tutus for the first time, and try on a perfect pair of ballet slippers. But the benefits of enrolling your young dancer into a ballet class goes beyond just how cute they’ll look in a tutu. Ballet offers an opportunity for students to gain confidence, improve posture and coordination, enhance their focus, increase flexibility, improve general health and give them a chance to bond.
Price per Term: 10,500/=
Inline roller skating is an activity that is great for increasing stamina, burning calories and improving balance. It offers a skill that enables one to easily participate in other forms of skating such as ice skating. And the best part – it is fun!
Price per Term: 10,500/=
It takes a certain level of fine motor skills for a child to string beads. In Beading Club, students get to build their creativity, improve their motor fine motor skills, in-hand manipulation skills, increase their concentration, coordination and visual perception skills, and build their cognitive skills, such as planning. Children who participate in Beading Club have shown improved handwriting as well as pencil handling skills in coloring and writing activities.
Price per Term: 10,500/=
Potterhouse School’s Umbro Soccer Club is a soccer club that aims to helps kids stay fit and healthy. Playing soccer provides exercise that improves cardiovascular health, increases coordination, improves strength and enhances flexibility. It also builds on the teamwork skill in students. Soccer players have to work together as a team in order to be successful, which in turn enhances social interactions.
Monday Soccer Club – 10,500/=
Saturday Soccer Club – 8,500/=
Price per Term: 10,500/=
The junior golf team in Potterhouse School uses golf to firmly establish good attitude and life skills in the students. We offer a remarkable growth and monitor children’s progress by coaching them to participate in junior tournaments in the country and abroad.
We take them through the following levels:
A: level 1
B: level 2
C: level 3
These levels teach them the following: Introduction to golf, safety, gripping and etiquette, putting forms, setup and putting stroke.
Our lessons are taught in a language that is simple for all children to understand.
Price per Term: 10,500/=
We create productions for children and provide drama training and theatre making opportunities for students in Potterhouse School. We provide opportunities for our students to participate in presenting and making theatre as actors, stage managers, directors and technical operator. Our school workshops emphasize team work; create expressions, inspiration, laughter, exploration and individual discipline to achieve a personal aim or the group’s common goal in telling stories that reflect their lives.
Price per Term: 10,500/=
Careers in aviation are extremely rewarding. In the Aviation Club we teach and train our children in aviation. We also have interactive sessions with the guardians/parents of Aviation Club members to enhance their knowledge so as to inform them about schools to apply for, duration of training, costs, which government bodies examine, and types of licenses and certifications. Students also get opportunities to visit different hangers and interact with airplanes, pilots and other professionals.
Price per Term: 10,500/=
Media Club is a place for students who have an interest in photography, filming, radio, TV, social media marketing and management, journalism, advertising and YouTube blogging. Students are given the opportunity to develop their skills through training programs such as shooting and editing music videos, TV shows, adverts, short films, radio indents etc. The students get to learn more by visiting television and radio stations. The media club seeks to nurture creatives that the school can work with in covering school events and various projects.
Price per Term: 10,500/=
Scouting is all about building confidence and self-esteem, learning important life skills and leadership skills, team building, outdoor adventure, education, and fun! Scouts learn how to make good choices and to take responsibility for their actions so that they are prepared for their adult life as independent people. They also learn how to be self-starters. Students also participate in camps and many outdoor activities.
In Potterhouse School we have introduced the 1st 5 devotions as a way for children to learn the Word of God. With this we have seen children improve on their understanding of Christianity and the Word of God. The Christian faith is the foundation of Potterhouse School and at its heart. Children who are in Bible Club get to play and have fun learning the Word of God with lively activities and fun games, which also incorporate the 1st 5 devotions.
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The President’s Award-Kenya, is an exciting self-development programme available to all young people countrywide, equipping them with positive life skills to make a difference for themselves, their communities, country and the world. It was launched in 1966 by the Founding Father of the nation, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. As Potterhouse School we agree with the core values of the President’s Award. It exists to develop and deliver quality experiential activities that impart positive life skills and ethical values to young people for a better society.
All payments should be made to Potterhouse School before commencing the programme. Please sign up by filling the slip below and return it to the swim coaches.
The Music department is currently offering a variety of instrumental lessons. If the instrument of your choice is not listed below, please contact the Clubs Coordinator.
If your child is interested in taking music instrumental lessons please complete and return the consent form below.
The lessons will only start after payment confirmation and receipt of the signed consent form.
The amount is ksh 12,500 for 10 individual lessons that run throughout the term.
