Sport

Beyond the classroom

Sport

Sport is an important part of the culture at Emanuel School. Cocurricular sport is highly valued and provides the opportunity for mass participation and the pursuit of sporting excellence. We aim to support positive well-being, fitness and character development by helping pupils learn to cope with success and failure, to understand and appreciate others, and to encourage the appreciation of fair play. Each week every student participates in a 70-minute games session and further provision is offered during extra-curricular time before school, lunch times, after school and weekends.

There are three main strands to our sporting provision:

1. Performance: A focus on our core sports; our aim is to provide opportunities for our talented sports players to excel in sports and to aspire towards representative honours where possible. We aim to ensure all students have access to excellent coaching and facilities and provide competitive inter-school fixtures. These challenge our students, encourage them to grow in their sport and help them to understand the importance and value of competitive sport.

Our performance sports are cricket, rowing, rugby, football, netball and hockey. 2. Development: The school has a strong sporting tradition and a commitment to ‘sporting excellence’ and ‘sport for all’. Our aim is to provide a range of supplementary sports and activities which are delivered within the extracurricular clubs and games programme to support the athletic development of our students. Students participate in seasonal inter-school competitions consisting of athletics, cross-country, fives, girls’ football, swimming and water polo. 3. Engagement: A range of additional sports are available to ensure all students participate in some sporting activity and learn the value of regular exercise for health, friendship and challenge. These cover extra-curricular clubs (climbing, dance, girls’ rugby, tennis, table tennis and squash) and the senior games programme (croquet, CrossFit, pilates, touch rugby, ultimate frisbee and yoga).

Sports facilities

Students benefit from the school’s excellent on-site and off-site sporting facilities. At the main school site on Battersea Rise, there are 12 acres of playing fields, a large sports hall with a climbing wall and dedicated fitness suite, mini astro, fives, tennis and netball courts and an indoor swimming pool, which is also popular outside of school hours with the local community. Off-site, we have a well-equipped boathouse at Barnes Bridge and a further 14 acres of playing fields at Raynes Park, as well as the use of Surbiton Hockey Club, Barnes Hockey Club, All Stars Tennis, the South Bank Centre and The Wimbledon Club.

Sports tours

Every year there are trips and tours organised to broaden the students’ sporting experience. Tours typically follow a two-year cycle, where every other year, a major sport tour is available for boys and girls of junior and senior age. Typical senior tours include a 10-night cricket tour in Sri Lanka or the annual rowing training camp at Easter in Italy.

Emanuel’s music provision is top notch, offering a breadth of opportunities from the traditional to cutting edge.

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