Clubs run on three afternoons until half past three, are free, and are staffed by teachers paid for the hour.
The marine club is the one this school is known for. Thirty one students from grades seven to twelve, snorkelling the house reef in four marked sections four times a year, counting what they see on a form the club designed with a marine biologist who visited, and giving the results to the island council. Modest, repeatable and real: it is now a five year record of our own reef and the council has quoted it twice. Every student in the club holds a water safety card and no student is in the water without two adults and a boat.
The garden is eleven beds, worked by anybody who turns up, and everything grown is cooked and eaten at the school on the last Thursday of the month.
Sport is honest about its limits. Since the erosion took half the playing field we have netball, volleyball, athletics on the road on closed mornings, and swimming, which is the one thing we have more of than any school inland. Football is played on the council ground twice a week by arrangement, which the council gives us free and which costs the children a ten minute walk each way.
The Quran club, the art club and a small drama club run in the hall. Every club is open to every child, and the unit's assistants go to clubs with the children who need them, which had to be arranged deliberately rather than assumed.