Rugby
Rugby is the main sport of the spring term. All boys will play rugby for two, three or four sessions a week during this time.
To extend the more able and include the less able the boys work in carefully chosen groups based on age, interest and ability and are coached by enthusiastic, qualified and regularly trained members of staff or visiting specialists. These sessions all take place within our 70 acres of private, secluded, beautifully maintained grounds where we have four rugby pitches all appropriately designed for the various age groups to use.
We run rugby school teams for 1st XV, 2nd XV, 3rd XV, U11a, U11b, U11c, U9a & U9b and being such a small school we ensure all boys who wish to play have the opportunity to represent the school at rugby at least once each year. This combined with our philosophy of 'the performance and behaviour being more important than the result' are important factors in the development of the boys. The many fixtures that our school teams participate in are mostly against much larger local prep schools but despite this fact we usually seem to win our fair share.
NB – In all our sports, but particularly in rugby, I would like to stress that safety is paramount and that we all constantly work very hard together to balance minimising risks with allowing the freedom to experiment, improve and have fun.
Martyn Foss
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