Introduction to Team Pangbourne

Sport is a major aspect of the Pangbourne experience which enhances our community and creates the spirit of ‘Team Pangbourne’. Sport demonstrates our Flag Values and develops positive characteristics in terms of attitude, enjoyment, meaningful competition  and aspirational legacy. Our aim is to become one of the best schools in the South East of England for Sport, in terms of participation levels and also for performance in our performance sports. 

Our sport philosophy is to foster a lifelong love of physical activity and develop a strong character through sport, via two main pillars of enjoyable participation and meaningful competition.

Throughout the year, pupils are encouraged to play a variety of sports, engaging in physical activity two times a week, with opportunities for additional further training throughout the week, with competitive matches offered every week. They are able to specialise in a sport of their choice whilst supplementing it with other activities. One of the benefits of coming to a smaller school is that a pupil is able to compete at a range of sports across the year, and we provide the platform and opportunity to be able to do this. At larger schools pupils are sometimes required to choose one sport instead of others. There is a significant body of Long Term Athletic Development (LTAD) research that supports taking part in a range of sports throughout school age life can help with long term participation in physical activity and also with a reduction in injury rates. 

Pupils can choose to play from a range of competitive and recreational sports:

Performance Sports (sports where national level performance and competition is achieved annually)

Competitive sports (sports where local / regional level performance and competition takes place)

Recreational sports (generally non-competitive, with the opportunity for ad-hoc friendly local fixtures)