Bishop Wordsworth's Church of England Grammar School
Sport
Sport plays a central role in the school's aims to encourage all our pupils to develop their potential by setting themselves the highest standards of excellence and achievement with integrity and confidence.
Thank you to our sponsors of BWS Sports
BWS has a proud history and tradition of sporting provision, whether it is for our top performers or the beginner.
Sport plays a central role in the school's aims to encourage all our pupils to develop their potential by setting themselves the highest standards of excellence and achievement with integrity and confidence. The school's broad range of sport activities provides students with a well-rounded, balanced education catering for a wide range of talents and interests and adds great enjoyment to students school life.
We are committed to providing inclusive, challenging and enriching Physical Education and sporting opportunities, which promote high standards of performance and a positive attitude towards sport and physical activity for life, to inspire and motivate all our pupils to lead happy, purposeful and responsible lives.
We strive for national recognition across a wide range of sports and compete on a local, regional and national level, with a multitude of sports available and success achieved across the board. We also encourage our students to compete outside of school in order to gain an invaluable team and social experience. This enables both BWS and the clubs to benefit from a more knowledgeable, experienced and skilled pool of talent.
Sport and physical activity provides an environment where we are able to learn most about ourselves and others. Out on the playing fields, in a cave, out in the woods or half way up a rock face we often find ourselves doing things, thinking things and surprising ourselves like never before. Physical activity and developing a physical literacy stimulates not only the body but also the mind and facilitates a making of bonds with others that are not easily broken. Here lie some of the key reasons why physical activity is central to BWS, the building of skills, the building of friendships and the building of individuals motivated and determined to go out and enrich the world in which we all live.
Social Media
Our fixtures, results and extracurricular opportunities can be found on our designated sports website or via the whole school calendar.
For the most up to date information on sporting success in school and beyond, please visit our twitter (@bwssports, @bwsrugby) Instagram (@bwssport) and TikTok (@bwssport) pages.
Sports Options
*currently an option for both boys and girls, however other options eg football may become available depending on numbers.
CSL
The Level 2 Award in Community Sports Leadership course is an option for our Year 12 boys and girls to choose within their enrichment timetable.
The prime aim of the award is to prepare responsible, motivated and confident people who can independently lead safe, purposeful and enjoyable sporting and recreational activities for small groups. The award is also designed to encourage people to get involved in the organisation and provision of sport on a sustained voluntary basis, some of whom will then choose employment in sport.
It concentrates on improving leadership skills required to plan, prepare, deliver and evaluate a session. A number of National Governing Bodies have created specific progression awards which allow the successful candidate special access to their first coaching award in recognition of the skills, knowledge and abilities they gain during their CSL training. The course is run across the whole year with a mix of classroom and practical time preparing candidates for placements in primary schools and the wider community.
The main event for the students is ultimately the Primary Tag Rugby Festival, which they coordinate and run on the day. Around 30 local primary schools compete in this highly successful event, which is a testament to our students' ability to operate in this environment. It requires a lot of work in the lead up but provides the boys and girls with a valuable skill set as they move into their final year of study and, ultimately, into the world of higher education.
Injury and Concussion Management
Upon joining the school your child will be registered with our partners return2play who manage all of our concussions both on and off the field of sport within school. Their website has a page with all the relevant information regarding symptoms and management.
We also have a paediatric trauma trained physio running a triage clinic during the Autumn term and treatment can be requested outside of this time or contacted for advice.
As well as this we run weekly yoga sessions for all our team players and follow prehabiliation programmes through PE/Games based around those produced both by the FA and RFU to reduce injuries in the first instance.
Sponsors & Sports Subs
In order to run the competitive programme that we do at the level that we operate we rely on the support of not only our sponsors listed above, but also a contribution from those playing in the form of a Sports Sub. At the start of each term a letter is sent home asking for your support which goes directly to your child’s chosen sport to include fixture costs including kit, transport, first aid, referees and teas, but also access to our physio, return2play and our ability to offer video analysis to our senior sides.
If you or your company would be interested in supporting sport as a whole or a specific sport please contact rdg@bishopwordsworths.org.uk
Volunteers & Referees
We welcome parental support, particularly on a Saturday with block rugby fixtures. If you would be willing to take a team or are able to referee please contact rdg@bishopwordsworths.org.uk
PE/Games
Students in the lower and middle school should wear the school PE/Games kit available from the school shop for all sports lessons. This kit is also available to the 6th Form. For those who make teams and/or start to train more throughout the week we realise a need for more sports kit and below are links to our online teamwear stores.
We realise kit can be expensive and sometimes students forget or lose kit, they may wear plain navy tracksuit bottoms and sweatshirt. They may not wear black kit.
Teamwear
Our teamwear supplier Tsunami run an online shop that delivers termly, the shop window opens for a window of two weeks and then closes to allow production and the lead time for delivery etc. The window for ordering opens 6-8 weeks proceeding the next term.
We also allow Team BWS branded items from local company Loon Sports.
We have teamed up with Grays Team Sports (Gilbert) to offer an online equipment shop for rugby, netball, cricket and hockey.
The shop is designed to have a beginner, intermediate and competition level and price point option for equipment.
By ordering through the website the school receives credit for us to then purchase our own training equipment.
Please contact Grays directly for any queries.
Please use the discount code: A_BISHOPWORDSWORTH20