The school has a strong musical tradition and provides choristers for St Margaret's Church in Westminster Abbey.

It also excels in sport, drama (having produced winners of the recent Shakespeare Schools Festival), chess and Latin.

As well as these buildings and the playing fields of Vincent Square, the school hires facilities at the Queen Mother Sports Centre in Victoria and at Battersea Park.

[11][12] The hall, which would also serve as a canteen prior to the opening of 21 Douglas Street and space for P.E.

Adrian House provides access to two science laboratories and the basement is devoted entirely to the music department.

The school is Anglican and has a Thursday service in St Stephen's Church, Rochester Row.

The winners and some runners-up from the Years 7 and 8 finals of the competition are invited to play in the school's annual Summer Concert in St John's, Smith Square, as well as the school's Senior String Orchestra, Senior Choir (made up of boys from Years 6, 7 and 8, also known as the Westminster Boys' Choir), the winning house choir and a number of instrumental ensembles.

There is also an annual reading competition, in which each boy chooses and optionally learns by heart a short piece of prose or poetry (fictional or otherwise), based on a given theme.

Before his recent retirement, there was also a general knowledge quiz, written by a Latin, Greek and sports teacher, S.R.H.

Boys who do well in the second round are entered to the SATIPS nationwide general knowledge quiz.

In Year 5, the following subjects are taught, all by specialist teachers: Mathematics, English, Science, French, history, Geography, Religious Studies, Music, Art, Drama, IT, PE and Games but most are in their classroom.

Going into Year 8, the year group is split into those who will take Common Entrance or a similar exam for their chosen future school and those who embark on what is known as the "Scholarship Course", in which they prepare for scholarship papers to their chosen future schools.

In Year 8, the boys are divided into four classes for each of humanities, science, languages and maths.

[15] There are regular inter-house competitions during the school year, including music, Scrabble and Chess.

These extras include bridge, chess, swimming, fencing, judo, karate, mandarin, LAMDA, indoor and outdoor cricket, indoor football, cooking, photography, climbing, table tennis and outdoor tennis.