Aldenham School is lucky enough to have six fives courts. A Fives Club with specialist coaching takes place in the Activities sessions every Tuesday and Thursday throughout the year. The main fixtures are played in the Lent term against schools such as Eton, Westminster, Highgate, Mill Hill, Bekhamsted and RGS High Wycombe.

A brief history of the game.
Although the etymology of "fives" is still obscure, players have come to accept that it derives from the games being played with the fingers of the hand acting as a "bunch of fives". The word was not used before the 17th century, but by the 18th and early 19th centuries fives was constantly recorded.The game was played at public schools, apparently without rules until the Eton Fives Association published "the first authoritative set of laws" in 1931.
The buttresses of cathedrals and churches were particularly convenient for a ball game. The modern court is faithfully modelled on the one which had been used for a long time on thechapel steps of Eton College.