With specialist sports coaches and outstanding facilities, our core sports are rugby, netball, hockey, cricket and swimming. In addition to this, cross country and athletics are part of the offering and additional lessons in sports such as fencing, judo, golf and tennis are also available.
Children from Nursery through to Year 6 are given the opportunity to swim here at Westonbirt. Every year group has at least one swim lesson a week all year round in our excellent indoor 25 metre pool. We focus on children initially learning water confidence and then develop pupils’ swimming across multiple strokes.
As children progress into Year 3 and above, there is an added competitive element where children are able to compete in galas. We have been very successfully in recent years, winning trophies on at a national level in the Olympic pool in London on multiple occasions.
As a school, we place emphasis on the holistic development of the player and sportsperson. This means that learning and refining the core skills required is vital and encouraged through the sessions but this sits alongside the values that sport brings such as: resilience; independence; teamwork; sportsmanship; courage and work ethic.
Children are encouraged to be competitive, determined and to give their all but at the same time to be evaluative of their performance, supportive of others, fair and most of all, to enjoy sport. Where children show a particular aptitude for sport, we will encourage and assist in their development and support them with their journey.
