TOP SCHOOLS FOR SPORT IN SOUTH WEST LONDON AND SURREY

With dedicated sports directors and state-of-the-art facilities, these schools offer the highest quality training for your child to achieve their sporting potential.

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Whether your child is passionate about sport, or already competes at a high level, this list will guide you through the schools in south west London and Surrey which will allow them to excel in their favourite sports or try something new, be that football, rugby, swimming or rowing.

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Halliford School

Halliford offers an extensive fixture list with two teams fielded at every age group. They have a history of running sporting tours over weekends for Rugby Sevens and golf with younger year groups, and their Senior Rugby tours travel internationally – most recently to Canada, South Africa and New Zealand. The school offers some fantastic facilities, from a well-equipped Sports Hall and Fitness Suite to playing fields both on the school site and on sites nearby. In 2022, they were shortlisted in the Independent Schools of the Year Awards in the category of Sporting Achievement.

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Claremont Fan Court School

Claremont Fan Court School‘s grounds are home to 100 acres of green space, with football rugby and lacrosse pitches, tennis courts, a cricket field, athletics facilities, and a sports hall with a gymnasium. Their major sports include lacrosse, rugby, football, netball, tennis, cricket, athletics and cross country, with all sports supported by specialist teachers and coaches. Afternoon games are a fixture of their weekly timetable and they have a strong fixture list against local schools, participating with success at country and national level competitions. Pupils also enjoy the opportunity to participate in orienteering, gymnastics, golf, skiing, fencing, trampolining, triathlon and archery.

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Feltonfleet Preparatory School

Thanks to a dedication to cricket in the curriculum, top-notch facilities, packed fixtures schedule, outstanding coaching, and four county titles in 2023, Feltonfleet continues to make its mark on the cricket scene. For three years running, the school has made it to The Cricketer Schools Guide Top 50 Prep Schools. It also has a heated indoor pool and extensive athletics facilities. In recent years the school has seen success in Rugby Sevens, swimming, skiing and hockey.

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Sutton High

Sutton High is an independent day girls’ school with a leading and achieving sports programme, with the girls 1XI hockey team having recently participated in the South Africa Hockey and Netball Tour 2023. Their extracurricular sport activities include ballet, Taekwondo, gymnastics, swimming, netball, rounders, hockey, tennis and athletics.

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King’s College School

This independent day school has become a leading sporting school offering outstanding quality, with many teachers and coaches recognised at a national and elite level. There are a large range of activities on offer, from cricket, football, rugby and tennis to rowing and hockey. For the co-ed sixth form, girls have a wide variety of opportunities, including a new girls’ rugby team, and their 1st VII netball team competes in the Independent Schools Netball Competition. They have a free choice programme on Games afternoons which allows pupils to take part in any activity of their choice.

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Ewell Castle School

Ewell Castle School’s sports programme is focused on fostering a genuine interest and enjoyment for physical education alongside true sporting excellence in competitive activities. Their main team sports include rugby, football, netball and cricket, and students also have the opportunity to participate in athletics, badminton, basketball, tennis, cross country, golf, hockey and volleyball. Facilities include a large air-conditioned sports hall with indoor cricket nets, grass playing fields and two tennis courts. The school runs an extensive sports programme which includes weekly Saturday morning sports fixtures against other schools in the local area, squad training sessions both during games afternoons and after school. The school is also noteworthy for its Tennis Academy, which is a scholarship programme open to elite athletes featuring professional coaching and a tailored academic curriculum.

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