The school is actively involved in works for charity, both for the local and wider community and visitors to assembly tell the pupils of a variety of health and community initiatives. The largest single event, which raises about £2000 annually, is the Sponsored Walk, which supports local children’s charities chosen by the boys. National events like Red Nose Day receive enthusiastic support and at Christmas, members of each tutor group club together to make up gifts for needy people in the local area or in a troubled part of the world. In 2003, we are again providing shoe-boxes full of gifts for Operation Christmas Child.  

The Personal and Social Education Programme brings many adults into school, including the Police, Transport Police, First Aid Trainers, Cycle Safety Instructors, The Fire Service and the Health Education Unit. Several groups have staged drama presentations with a moral, social or health message.

Sponsored by local businesses, the Technology Department has, for some years, designed and constructed vehicles that have competed successfully in national competitions and we are currently forging stronger links with science-based industries as we pursue our ambition to become a Specialist Science College.

The Art Department has frequent links with the Midlands Art Centre and the Music and Drama departments participate in many local contexts.

The Old Nortonians' Football Club continues to base its three teams at the school and there are regular bookings by a Little League Football club. Occasional bookings are taken for the Hall, field or outbuildings but security and supervision considerations limit the amount of community use there can be of the site.