Sport
Bablake believes both competitive and non-competitive team or individual sport and exercise are a crucial aspect of a young person's education.
Our bodies are intelligently wired machines but they need to be exercised! Physically, sport helps you maintain a healthy, toned body, while the stamina built for a sporting context helps energise you for all other activity. 'A healthy mind in a healthy body' is an oft-quoted maxim, but its common sense cannot be denied.
Regular exercise boosts self-confidence, mental concentration, coordination, agility, muscular strength and cardiovascular fitness. In a team context too, it brings so many social advantages: making friends, working in cooperation and experiencing the opportunity for leadership or development of specialised skills.
All of our pupils have a PE and/ or games session built into their timetable and there is an extensive programme of competitive sport. Bablake benefits from excellent sporting facilities. On-site, we have a sports hall that has a swimming pool, gym, dance studio and climbing wall. We also have excellent outdoor tennis and netball facilities next to the main school buildings. Only a mile up the road from the main school site we have an Astroturf and a vast playing field with facilities for rugby, rounders, cricket, athletics and football.
Our pupils enjoy many of the following sporting activities:
- Athletics
- Basketball
- Biathlon
- Chess
- Cricket
- Cross-country
- Dance
- Fitness
- Football
- Gymnastics
- Hockey
- Martial Arts
- Netball
- Rounders
- Rugby
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Water Polo
For further information about our competitive sport, please visit the Bablake Sport website.
