Sporting Opportunities for All
King Edward's seeks to provide a broad, well-balanced curricular and extra-curricular programme for Sport. All pupils are encouraged to experience and enjoy a wide range of activities, nurturing them to reach their maximum potential.
Throughout their time at King Edward's we promote positive attitudes towards physical activity, laying the foundations for all pupils to be able to follow active and healthy lifestyles in the wider community.
The PE and Games programme is designed to be fully inclusive. We want to provide opportunities for participation by pupils of all levels of age and ability, involving either competition within the School or with other schools. Pupils are offered a wide range of sports during PE and Games lessons, with more choice being available as pupils progress through the school.
King Edward's seeks to provide a broad, well-balanced curricular and extra-curricular programme for Sport. All pupils are encouraged to experience and enjoy a wide range of activities, nurturing them to reach their maximum potential.
Throughout their time at School we promote positive attitudes towards physical activity, laying the foundations for all pupils to be able to follow active and healthy lifestyles in the wider community.
The PE and Games programme is designed to be fully inclusive. We want to provide opportunities for participation by pupils of all levels of age and ability, involving either competition within the School or with other schools. Pupils are offered a wide range of sports during PE and Games lessons, with more choice being available as pupils progress through the school.
Inter-form sport is operated by the PE dept allowing participation in a variety of competitive team activities for boys and girls. Team selection is guided by form tutors.
Selection for school teams follows on from participation in Games, extra-curricular time and inter-form sport for all boys and girls. In Year 7 on entry and Year 8, all pupils follow the main sport of that term. In the first year all pupils work together for the initial weeks, then the boys are arranged in groups based entirely on ability.
The nature of independent education these days makes school very competitive in all aspects of their curriculum and sport is no exception to this. At King Edward’s School we take pride in our pupils performing at the very highest levels in competitive sport and their sporting commitments in School provide the foundation for representing their County or on occasions at National level. There must therefore, be room to celebrate and promote excellence. To achieve this we play many of the best schools in the South West. The school has enjoyed success in national competitions and gained representative honours in many sports.
Our philosophy is that ‘Sport for All’ and Excellence can co-exist together successfully. They are not mutually exclusive.
The PE Programme
Year 7 and 8 pupils receive one lesson of Physical Education a week. All pupils are taught a variety of activities. These include:
. Invasion games – Basketball, Soccer, Lacrosse
. Net games – Short tennis, Badminton & Tennis
. Aesthetic & Conditioning activities – Dance, Gymnastics, Trampolining, Athletics and Health Related Fitness
. Outdoor Education – Orienteering and Team building
The emphasis throughout all of these activities is on developing motor co-
ordination, social skills, such as teamwork, and fitness for a healthy lifestyle.
The programme varies in content as pupils move through the school.
The Games Programme
All pupils in years 7 & 8 take part in the major team sports of the term. This
gives pupils a good understanding of the skills, techniques and tactics involved
in each sport.
Autumn Term:
Rugby for the boys
Hockey for the girls
Spring Term:
Hockey for the boys
Netball for the girls
Summer Term:
Cricket for the boys
Tennis and Rounders for the girls
Each group is taught by a fully qualified Physical Education teacher with support
staff. Representative teams are selected at A,B and occasionally C team
standard.
It is seen as a Privilege to represent King Edward’s in a sports team and the
School has an expectation that pupils fulfil that commitment.
Sports Tours
We aim to offer the opportunity for pupils to take part in long weekend and
extended tours both within the UK and also around the world.
The 26th Annual KES U19 Hockey Festival will take place during the weekend of 19th to 21st of March.
Typically each team will play four games over the weekend, there being no cups or medals, the Festival affording a way of playing teams you would not normally meet during the season. There are over 85 games to be played during the weekend (each game is 28 minutes each way) on astro pitches all over Bath, Bristol and Somerset.
The Festival regularly attracts schools from South Africa, this year being no exception. This year we welcome St David's Marist Inanda School (Johannesburg) U16 team and 1st XI, and Clifton College (Durban). They will be joining the many regular schools from all parts of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland as well as new comers Dulwich College (London) and Bedford School.
The Festival also provides a fitting end to the hockey season for King Edward’s 1st XI, playing one of the Festival teams on Friday afternoon in front of the whole school. Games on Saturday and Sunday are used for the development squads.
As well as Avon Hockey Umpires’ Association providing officials, we also have three umpires from Holland and Spain as well as several umpires travelling up from the South East.
Please find attached the playing programmes and participants list for the weekend.
We hope everyone has a really enjoyable Festival.
Dr L H Newman
Jake Oldaker selected for the England U16 Rugby squad.
Jake will represent England in the forthcoming International matches at Easter. The England U16 rugby team will be embarking on a 12 day tour to Italy in April. The team will play the Italian U17 XV in Rome, and then play France U17 and Wales U16.
Jake Oldaker achieved his selection for the England U16 England squad following trials at Abingdon during February half term. Previously Jake had been part of the U16 South West RFU Division.
Mr Tidball, 1st XV Coach and Head of Rugby at King Edward’s School said: “The School are delighted and very proud to report that Jake has been selected for the England U16 Rugby squad. This is a fantastic achievement and we wish Jake all the best for the forthcoming matches in Italy.”
Jack Beazer selected for the U16 South West RFU
Congratulations are also due to Jack Beazer, who was selected to represent the U16 South West RFU at the Divisional Festival. Jack has been selected to play for the U16 South West RFU in the forthcoming matches against Munster and the Italian U16 National side.