Grey Court School Sports Offer 2018-2019

Core & Additional Sports

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Sports Offer 2018 - 2019

Sport is an important and vibrant part of life at Grey Court School. We aim to provide a wide range of sports at levels suited to students’ different abilities and interests. The sports programme includes core sports (selection, regular training, full fixture list against other schools) and additional sports (open to all, for health and enjoyment, with some competition). We compete against the best sporting schools in London and the South East. The School has an improving record of sporting achievement. The School’s facilities for sport include:

 A Sports Hall ( court and four courts, court,2 Indoor nets)  Gymnasium for Dance and Gymnastic activities  The School Field is used for PE, sports training, football & rugby fixtures  Playing Fields on Bull Meadow for football lessons and competitive matches  4 outdoor all weather courts including one show court  4 outdoor Courts  OAA course within the school grounds  300 metre grass running track  New strength and conditioning suite

We would like every student to get involved in the extra-curricular sporting activities of the school. Where external coaches are used, all have undergone the necessary child protection checks. There is a designated Grey Court staff member (the teacher i/c) responsible for oversight of each sport.

Contents

Sports Offer 2018 - 2019 ...... 2 Core Sports ...... 3 Athletics ...... 3 Football (Boys & Girls) ...... 4 Netball ...... 4 Rugby Union ...... 5 Tennis…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………6 Basketball ...... 76 Additional Sports………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..8 Badminton…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………8 Cricket ...... 9 Cross Country ...... 9 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………10 Rounders ...... 10 Volleyball ...... 10 /Dance……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………11 Sport Scholarship Programme……………………………………………………………………………………………………...12 Sport Sports Club Links………………………………………………………………………………………………………………13

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Core Sports

The core sports programme is the core of the sporting offer at the School. There are currently six major sports:

 Athletics  Football  Netball  Rugby  Tennis  Basketball

 The aim of the core sports programme is: to involve large numbers of students and field as many teams competitively as possible  to select teams on talent  to run a full fixture list against other schools  to enter competitions  to train at least once a week  to give students the opportunity and encouragement to play at district, county and regional level

All students are encouraged to try out for the core sports. Students who have a talent for a sport and are selected for teams will be expected to train and play for the school. The students in the Elite Training Groups will have compulsory training added to their timetable. This is dedicated training time and is an expectation of the PE Department.

Athletics All Years

Track and field athletics play a large part in the curriculum and are developed further as a core extra- curricular sport during the Winter/Summer Term. Students have the opportunity to learn aspects of track running at all distances, including relays and hurdles. They are also able to develop new skills in the field events (discus, javelin, shot putt, long jump, high jump, triple jump, and hammer). There are fixtures against other secondary schools. Grey Court School takes part in the Richmond Schools’ Track and Field Championships at Kingsmeadow in June. The Year 9 boys, Year 10/11 boys, Year 7 girls and Year 8 girls, were crowned champions in 2018. Grey Court won the overall Boys’ trophy and Grey Court won the overall (Boys’ & Girls’) trophy for the third consecutive year. In the English Schools Championships, the Junior Boys, Junior Girls & Intermediate Boys qualified for the South East English Schools Regional ‘A’ Finals. The Intermediate boys finished 3rd and Junior girls came 3rd which was a superb achievement. The school also competed in the indoor season at Lee Valley for the third time during the winter months. Our Year 8/9 boys finished 5th in the ‘A’ Final.

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Season Autumn/Spring/Summer Term Training Monday - Friday Cost nil Teacher i/c Mr S Willmore/Mrs K Shaw Coaches Mr S Willmore Mrs K Shaw Mr A Ridley Miss N Drinkwater Mr J Murphy Miss M Barrett Mr M Flood Mrs I Garrard

Kit School PE polo shirt, shorts, white socks, trainers or spikes

Football (Boys & Girls) All Years

Football forms an important part of the curriculum in both boys’ and girls’ PE. Football training allows students to develop their individual skills and their role within a team. The school competes in the Richmond Borough League, Surrey Schools Cup and the English Schools FA Cup competitions alongside friendly fixtures organised. Our Year 7 boys’ team won the Ibstock Park 6-a-side competition. The boys’ teams also reached 4 Cup Finals last season but only our Year 8 team were victorious. Mr Joseph Jones (ex- student, now playing with Eastleigh FC) leads the Junior Boys’ training. The school has developed excellent links with Brentford FC who run training for all girls on Mondays and an elite skills development group on Wednesday morning for selected boys in Years 8-10. We also have excellent links with Richmond Park FC who run an elite training session for Junior girls on a Thursday. In 2019 we are planning to run the first girls’ football tour to the UK’s biggest Junior football festival in Bognor Regis, with the opportunity to compete at St Georges. The girls’ Senior football team have been Borough Champions for three consecutive years and the Junior team finished 3rd in the borough last year.

Season Autumn/Spring term Training Girls: Monday & Thursday Boys: Monday lunch & Thursday Elite group – Wednesday morning Cost nil Teacher i/c Mr S Willmore/Mr A Ridley Coaches Mr S Willmore Brentford FC Mr A Ridley Miss M Barrett Mr J Murphy Miss N Angel Mr J Jones Mrs I Garrard Richmond Park FC Kit School PE polo shirt, shorts, football socks, football boots & shin pads

Netball All Years

Netball is one of the main winter sports at Grey Court School for girls. Senior fixtures against other schools in the Borough run in the Autumn Term from September to October while Junior fixtures commence in the

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Spring Term after February half term. All teams have friendly fixtures against local independent schools and competitive state schools all year round, including fixtures against KGS, Tiffin, LEH, Surbiton, Ewell Castle, Godolphin and Latymer to name a few. Year 9 & senior training runs on a Monday. Training for year 7 and 8 will be on Wednesdays. There is also shooting practice every Wednesday lunchtime for GS and GA position players. Last season, our year 8 team and year 9 teams were Borough runners up. Every two years we run a netball tour to Disneyland in Paris and enter the Paris International Netball tournament.

Season Autumn/Spring Training Year 9/Seniors: Monday Year 7/8: Wednesday Shooting all years: Wednesday Lunchtime Cost nil Teacher i/c Mrs K Shaw Coaches Miss N Drinkwater, Mrs A Sallis Mrs I Garrard Kit School PE polo shirt, shorts, socks, trainers

Rugby Union/League All Years

Rugby is one of the main winter sports at Grey Court School. Over the last year the School has developed a strong reputation for Rugby and plays against top private school opposition. There are matches from September to March, most will be mid-week fixtures but we do have Saturday fixtures. After the February half term, there are Rugby Sevens competitions. Our Year 10 Rugby Union team lost in the Semi Finals of the Middlesex Cup, our very strong Year 7 boys’ team were crowned Middlesex Plate winners and also won the Orleans Park 7s Cup. Our Year 9 team won the St James 7s Cup. Our Girls’ rugby is continuing to grow, we have lots of girls committed to the training sessions. We have a superb link with Richmond RFC and they deliver our training for the Girls. Harlequins RFC also deliver an extensive block of rugby to all the girls in Year 7. The girls compete in all the local borough tournaments and festivals and have represented Richmond in the London Youth Games in the past.

Rugby League – The Year 7 boys’ rugby league squad excelled this year. They were crowned Borough Champions, London and South East Champions before going on to lose in the quarter finals of the National Cup. They have already won the Borough competition heading into Year 8. Our Year 8 were also crowned Borough Champions heading into the Year 9.

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Season Autumn/Spring Training Y7-9 – Monday Y10-11 – Wednesday Y12-13 – Wednesday Girls – Tuesday Cost Nil Teacher i/c Mr J Murphy & Mr M Flood Coaches Mr S Willmore Miss A Burton Mr J Murphy Miss N Drinkwater Mr M Flood Richmond RFC Harlequins RFC (helping in lessons ) Kit School PE Rugby shirt, shorts, socks, boots, gum shield

Tennis All Years

Tennis is played in the Summer Term. In preparation for the season, there will be tennis practice in the Autumn/Spring term led by professional coach, Mr James Kober. Team squad training will take place on Tuesday and Thursday during lunch. This starts at 12.10pm and finished at 12.55pm. The Wednesday evening session is open to all students and starts at 3.15pm.

All students are welcome to come along, try out and play. Ham & Petersham TC are a community partner that will offer coaching support to the school and a place for students to play outside of school. The fixture list over the past year has become a lot stronger. We have Junior/ Senior Boys/Girls teams in the LTA leagues. Our Intermediate girls were crowned South East Champions last year. We run the Road to Wimbledon Competition each year and Grey Court also holds Wimbledon ball boy/girl trials with our students in Year 9. Last summer, we had 4 students who made it through to ball boy/girl at Wimbledon.

Season Autumn/Spring/Summer Term Training Junior Girls/Boys team training – Tuesday lunch Senior Girls/Boys team training – Thursday lunch Wednesday – All Students Ball Boy/Girl training – Friday pm Cost nil Teacher i/c Mr J Kober, Mrs I Garrard, Mr J Murphy Coaches Mr J Kober, Mrs Kober, Mrs I Garrard Mr J Murphy Miss N Angel Mrs K Shaw Kit School PE Tennis/Polo shirt, shorts, socks trainers, racket

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Basketball All Years

Basketball is played in the Autumn and Spring Term and is one of the main girls’ sports. There are competitions for each year group against other schools in these terms. We have an excellent link with Richmond Knights and they deliver the training sessions on Friday morning and Friday after school. These require payment. They are also leading an elite skills development group on Thursday morning for selected girls in Years 8-10. Our Senior Girls have been Borough Champions for the past four years and last year got to the last 16 in the London Youth Games. The Junior girls’ teams were runners up last year but were Borough Championships the previous two years and have also represented Richmond in the London Youth Games. This year we are hoping to gain a place into the NBA London Schools Tournament, this will be for our Year 7 girls only.

Season Autumn/Spring Term Training Elite Sports Programme – Thursday morning Year 7/8 mixed: Friday morning Year 8/9 mixed: Friday after school Year 8/9 girls: Tuesday after school Year 7 girls: Friday lunch time Year 10/11 girls: an additional session will start after the netball season Cost Friday morning and Friday after school – payment to Richmond Knights Teacher i/c Mrs K Shaw Coaches Mr A Ridley Mrs K Shaw Mr D Sherlock Mrs A Sallis Richmond Knights Miss M Barrett Mr P Sheldon Kit School PE Polo shirt, shorts, socks trainers (compulsory)

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Additional Sports

In addition to the major sports, the school aims to provide the opportunity for all students to participate in sport through an extensive and growing programme of additional sports:

 Badminton  Cricket  Cross-Country   Rounders   Volleyball 

The aim of the additional sports programme is:

 to be open to all  to be run as much for health and enjoyment as for competition  to have a handful of fixtures or events

All students are encouraged to find at least one sport they enjoy. We do expect students to make a commitment to their chosen sport for the season – they are expected to attend regularly and participate in any fixtures or events. Please note that there is a charge for some additional sports. If you are not able to afford the cost please contact your child’s Head of Year. The school’s policy is that we will always try to provide financial assistance in so far as our resources allow so that any student can participate.

Badminton All Years

Badminton is a popular club and starts after October half term. There are Borough competitions for each year group.

Season Autumn Term (after October half term) Training Monday lunch Cost Nil Teacher i/c Mrs K Shaw Coaches Mrs K Shaw Kit School PE shirt, shorts, socks trainers (compulsory)

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Cricket

Cricket is played in the Summer Term. In preparation for the season, there will be Indoor nets practice in the Sports Hall from January. All boys are welcome to come along and try out and most will get to play. The fixture list over the past year has become stronger with challenging matches against other schools.

Season Summer Term Training Year 7-10 – Monday & Friday Cost Nil Teacher i/c Mr S Willmore Coaches Mr S Willmore Mr A Butt Mr J Murphy Kit School PE shirt, shorts, socks trainers

Cross Country All Years

The school cross-country programme leads directly into the Borough Competition and county competitions in January. In addition to curriculum time sessions there is the opportunity for students to develop their running before and after school in the school grounds and Richmond Park. We also have teams in the English Schools Cross Country Cup. Our Intermediate Boys’ team made the National Final last year. It was a brilliant day and a superb achievement.

Season Autumn Term Training Thursday Morning Cost Nil Teacher i/c Mrs I Garrard Coaches Mr S Willmore Mrs I Garrard Mr J Murphy Miss N Drinkwater Mrs K Shaw Kit School PE Polo shirt, shorts, socks trainers or running spikes (compulsory)

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Handball All Years

Handball is a new club. The session will be led by Mr Murray who plays at a very high level.

Season Autumn Training Thursday lunch Cost Nil Teacher i/c Mr C Murray Coaches Mr C Murray Mr A Ridley Mr M Flood Kit School PE top, shorts

Rounders All Years

Rounders is played in the summer term. This club is extremely popular for both KS3 and KS4 girls and runs alongside the girls’ fixtures. The Junior and Senior girls’ teams finished runners up in the league

Season Summer Term Training Wednesday Cost nil Teacher i/c Mrs K Shaw Coaches Mrs K Shaw Miss N Drinkwater Mrs I Garrard

Kit School PE shirt, shorts, socks trainers (compulsory)

Volleyball All Years

Volleyball is an expanding club held after school on Thursday. Miss Barrett runs the club and we enjoy high numbers at the club. We are the current U13 Boys and Girls Champions.

Season Autumn Term Training Thursday Cost nil Teacher i/c Miss M Barrett Coaches Miss M Barrett Mr A Ridley Kit N/A

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Gymnastics/Dance

All Years

Gymnastics has developed over the last two years and we now compete at a high level entering London Regional Competitions in both Sports Acro and . The Senior Gymnastics team finished 4th in the South West London Regional Championships, finishing above many highly regarded independent schools. Gymnastics is taught to all girls in the curriculum. We compete in the Borough Dance Competition and in previous years have finished 3rd, Mrs Sallis is our specialist Dance teacher. We plan to deliver an exciting Gym and Dance evening to promote and demonstrate the girls’ impressive performances.

Season Autumn Term Training Friday (Gymnastics for all) Various mornings (Elite gymnastics) Tuesday and Wednesday Lunchtimes (Dance only) Cost nil Teacher i/c Miss N Drinkwater Coaches Miss N Drinkwater Mrs K Shaw Mrs A Sallis (Dance) Kit School PE Polo top, Blue shorts (no socks allowed)

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Sport Scholarship Programme

Grey Court School is offering the Sport Scholarship Programme to high achieving students in Year 7 in 2018-19. This initiative will be starting its second year. The programme aims to reward enthusiastic and committed sports performers with a supplemented sport focused curriculum and outstanding Commented [AJ1]: House style Enrichment Programme. This programme will then link in with our Elite Player Development Programme which starts in Year 8. Each year we will also allocate the prestigious Grey Court Award to the top sport scholar for Year 7 at our annual Sports Celebration event. The inaugural winner in the Summer of 2018 was Zuko Robb.

Scholarships are awarded to students who demonstrate particular talent within the realm of sporting and athletic activities. This may be demonstrated in any practical activity including (but not limited to) team games, athletics, , gymnastics and dance or if students have a strong aptitude to become a top level performer as shown through our testing process.

Sport scholarships will be awarded to candidates who can make a significant contribution to the sporting success of the school. Scholars will be expected to participate fully in their chosen activity but also to represent the school in other major sports. On receipt of a scholarship, students will be monitored throughout the year in their respective sports and academic work. Scholars will sign a contract and their performance, attitude and contribution to the school and school sport will be reviewed on a termly basis, monitoring their continued suitability for the Scholarship Programme.

Outline of Scholarship Programme

Year 7 programme

 3 additional sessions per week: o One before school: . Strength and Conditioning/ Fitness session o Two in curriculum time: . Focus on improving practical ability/preparation and recovery . In game play and athletics events

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School Sports Club Links

The school has links with clubs in the local community that offer further coaching and the opportunity to compete against other clubs. All of these clubs have qualified and DBS checked coaches. Contact details and training info if available is listed below for the sport and the club:

Athletics: St Mary’s Richmond Athletics Club, St Marys University College Twickenham Kim Weir [email protected]

Football: Richmond Park FC David Fox [email protected]

Brentford FC Griffin Park Braemer Road Brentford Jamie Tompkins [email protected]

Rugby Union: Richmond RFC Dominic [email protected]

Tennis: Ham & Petersham TC Grey Court School James Kober

Karate: Khalsa Karate Grey Court School Satinder Sehra 07917 673 039

Boxing: Two Kings Boxing Club Luke Moran 248 Kingston Road Kingston Upon Thames

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