Student Societies

So, I was thinking as Sandra has managed to set up a film group, and this seems like an awesome idea, I had a bit of a look through of the personality sections of people's profiles, to see if there might be other clubs that would be taken up.

I notice there are quite a lot of musicians (roughly 1/4) quite a lot of artsy people (counting musicians, I think it's roughly 1/2) and also lots of sporty people (I lost count). I thought it might be a neat idea to set up societies for these three activities as well, and possibly a drama group to lead on from Sandra's (don't feel pressured here)? Also, if enough students had interest in particular areas, then more clubs could possibly be made by people within those interests.

Plus, as these are all really typical things for secondary schools to run clubs for (taking artsy as just an art club), it would follow that they had it at foresta. I'm pretty sure you could do some threads for events at each of these groups as well, like sports fixtures within the school or something.

(Plus it gives excuses to be doing music/drama/dance exams in school, as ABRSM/ other-international-exam boards people would then likely notice a school with these groups.)

Well, considering that Sandra's film club has yet to do anything, that tells you how well that works. It's not that we couldn't do them, it just seems that people don't have much of an interest in them. That very well may be due to the recent drop in activity, but still all the same it would probably be up to a player's character to initiate these clubs, much like Sandra had. It would just be a matter of motivating members to get involved with these things and spreading the word.

If people want to create clubs and run events accordingly then by all means go for it.

I know it hasn't been hugely successful, but I think with a bit of advertising over the next few weeks it could be. 

Well, I'd be happy to get Peregrine to take control of a music group or maybe a couple of them (eg a band or chamber orchestra, I'd take a look through profiles and see what's likely to be most appropriate.)  as I've finally got free time to do that, and I should be able to maintain it for a while. 
I wouldn't want my characters to be leading more than that, but I think if a couple more people could each take on one then we could easily get up to enough to be representative of the students' as a whole. Besides, I think having the societies could potentially be easy thread idea material, and around holidays we kind-of need ideas for threads which don't have to be pre-planned so much.