Sporting Provision Students are offered a wide range of sports opportunities to improve their skills and engender a desire to participate in sport for the rest of their lives. • Students are encouraged to participate in competitive sport against their peers and students from other schools. • Students experience the wide range of social, moral and cultural benefits that sports participation provides. • Throughout Years 7 and 8 students follow a full programme of practical activities during two 90 minute sessions each week. • In Key Stage 4 (Years 9, 10 and 11) students undertake courses which involve theory as well as practical sport. • In the Sixth Form, students can choose to follow A Level Physical Education or the BTEC National in Sport. • Sixth Form students can take part in a wide range of sports for the School on Wednesday afternoons. The senior Football, Netball and Basketball teams play in local and national competitions and are very successful. Session 3 Sport All students can take part in the wide range of sports which are offered during Session 3 (between 4.00 and 5.40pm). They can progress from participation and competition at House level, through School teams onto district, county, regional and national representation. Fitness for Learning A 70-station Fitness Centre with a specialist Spin area (which opened in April 2007) provides students with an opportunity to improve their fitness, using a wide range of state-of-the-art equipment for both aerobic exercise and resistance training.

The centre has fully trained instructors and the latest computer software system to support and monitor the progress of the users. Students have the opportunity to use the equipment during PE lessons and also in Session 3. Training sessions and Spin Classes are booked through an online bookings system