Beyond PE and games lessons
We organise sports tours that reap huge benefits in terms of the children’s skills and playing experience, as well as being a special cultural experience for the children. We have annual trips for senior boys and girls to a variety of destinations such as Barcelona, Netherlands and South Africa and for a variety of sports depending on the preferences of that year group such as football, netball, hockey and cricket.
We organise extensive matches and tournaments against other schools and all ability levels have the opportunity to play competitive sport.
Children enjoy kayaking and canoeing in the pool and on the lake.
There are extensive extra-curricular clubs after school including ballet, football, judo, fencing and gymnastics from their first school year up to Year 8. From Year 3 up, further options are available including golf, athletics, girls’ cricket, tennis, swimming and modern and street dance.
Our boarders also enjoy Real Tennis training and matches after school. Real Tennis is the original racquet sport from which the modern game of tennis derived.
Our sports facilities
Westbourne House School is set in over 100 acres of well-drained playing fields. Our sporting facilities include:
- extensive playing fields with football, rugby, hockey and cricket and rounders pitches, and a 400m grass athletics track
- full sized Astroturf hockey pitch which converts to nine tennis courts in the summer term
- 3 outdoor hard tennis courts
- 5 outdoor netball courts
- 2 glass-backed squash courts
- 25 metre indoor swimming pool
- 9 hole par 3 golf course
- multi-purpose sports hall with floor markings for activities such as tennis, netball, basketball, badminton, volleyball, indoor football and hockey
- indoor and outdoor cricket nets
- dance studio
- lake within the grounds offering kayaking and canoeing
- climbing wall
As an Old Westbournian (former pupil), I am especially proud to be the Head of Boys' Sport at Westbourne House!
I am thrilled to share my passion for cricket, squash and hockey - and indeed all sports - with the next generation of pupils.
My goal is simple: to help every pupil, from those who are new to team sports to those who are competing at an elite level outside of school, to develop their skills on and off the field.
Sport and activity is such an important part of people’s lives due to the huge impact it has on physical and mental health. To see children progress and enjoy sport is something I find very satisfying and I simply love our pupils' enthusiasm, engagement and sportsmanship.
My team and I stretch the more experienced athletes while ensuring that all pupils develop their skills and enjoy competitive matches against other teams.
I am a qualified hockey coach, netball coach and umpire. I have also attended CPD in swimming, athletics, cricket, badminton, rounders and climbing. As a teenager I played county hockey and recently I have played county league netball. I would say netball is my passion but I will try my hand at most things!
