WELCOME Reigate Grammar School is renowned for its sport and prowess on the games field. Our aim is to provide all students with a sports programme that will foster a lifelong involvement in sport.

Youtube Vision for Sport

The winter term has been another busy and successful period for students at RGS and we are looking forward to welcoming back the students for the Spring Term as we start 2024. We welcome new colleagues to the department in January with Miss Sophie Pout joining us as Head of Girls Cricket and Girls Football, with Mr Joel Ogilvie as our Lead Football coach and with Miss Jasmine Strudwick taking over as our new Head of Swimming.

Sport continues to evolve at RGS with increasing emphasis on our vision to develop Great People through Sport. We’ve looked to increase both student and parent voice over the last few months and now have an active Student Sports Committee who are creating a strategy to support a drive towards increasing the number of senior students playing core sports. The Sport Parent Feedback Group met recently and discussed sport at RGS generally before focusing on both the balance of participation and performance sport, and how best we can develop communication with our community. My sincere thanks go to all those who are involved.

Some highlights from the Winter term include:

• Hockey Tours to Taunton and the Netherlands

• A Rugby tour to the Rugby World Cup in France

• A Sport Science Trip to Surrey University

• The Junior Girls finishing 5th Nationally in the Cross-Country Championships in Suffolk

• The Senior Girls Swimmers finishing 8th Nationally at the Swim Relay Championships in Birmingham

• Football, Hockey, Netball and Rugby Teams all in the last 16 of the country in National competitions, at the time of writing

• More than 200 junior students taking part in charity runs

• A High-Performance Talk from Rick Cooper on the theme of empowering students to develop a strong collective and individual identity

• And so much more...

If you missed any sporting highlights you can find more information from this term by looking back at the archive of sports bulletin.

Sporting Achievements

Please remember that you can stay in touch with all of the sporting stories by reading the Weekly Sports Bulletin which is published each Friday in the Headmaster’s bulletin. We would love to hear about, and celebrate, any sporting achievements your child has had recently. If you do have a story you wish to share with us please do get in touch via bulletin@reigategrammar.org or to gjb@reigategrammar.org.

You can also follow us on Instagram at reigategrammarsport .

George Browning Director of Sport

Sport continues to evolve at RGS with increasing emphasis on our vision to develop Great People Through Sport. Being part of Team Reigate is about being part of something bigger than yourself and we hope that all students will have the chance to shine. We want all students to experience sport in line with our six missions to create great people, shown here. Much of what we do revolves around creating meaningful and memorable experiences for the students of which there should be many each term. We want to create an environment where all students have a positive experience during fixtures. This means both RGS and opposition teams. Being part of Team Reigate is about being part of something bigger than yourself and we hope that all pupils will have the chance to shine in this environment.

Watch our Vision for Sport short film.

Purpose Sport will have a meaningful and memorable effect on the life of every student P

Opportunity : Opportunities to sample and then to stretch all students in sport

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Performance: Being the best you can beperformance is always what matters, not the result

Learner-Centred : Being learner-centred means putting the student first

Enjoyment An unrelenting focus on positive experiences for all children and young people