Sport at Freemen's

work closely to support all colleagues in the department to ensure that the quality of each sport remains competitive, and is performing in line with the School’s vision and aims. The department is well supported by an excellent number of coaching staff and members of the wider common room, all of whom make a significant contribution to sport at Freemen’s. Freemen’s boasts state of the art sports facilities with a large sports hall, a swimming pool (opened 2018), a modern strength and conditioning gym, a new all-weather pitch, two squash courts, a multi-activity room, four hard courts, a PE classroom and a large number of on-site sports fields accommodating for rugby, football, athletics and cricket.

The PE curriculum is diverse and progressive. At key stage 2 students focus on fundamental movement skills, physical literacy and swimming. In key stage 3 and above, pupils take part in a broad range of sports and activities that typically change every four weeks. Through the delivery of these activities, the department also focuses on developing students’ character traits such as resilience, empathy, creativity, ambition, cooperation and many more. The department consistently achieves excellent academic results at both GCSE and A level. Currently, fifty students study academic PE across both key stages.

Each year group enjoys one Games afternoon a week. Boys’ main sports are football, rugby and cricket, whereas the girls enjoy hockey, netball and cricket. The provision for many other sports has increased in recent years, with boys being able to try hockey, with the girls competing in rugby/football. One of our passions is to break tradition and be forward looking with our approach to sport and the choice provided. This has led to the school playing fixtures in thirteen different sports across the school year.