The Physical Education programme at SVS has been designed around the latest cutting-edge physical education teaching techniques to ensure our students experience new opportunities in a challenging yet comfortable and enjoyable environment. The PE programme consists of Sport Education, Games for Understanding, Junior Athletic Development, Fitness Testing as well as Swimming and Athletics.
Students are not only encouraged to participate in sport, but to also try new sporting roles and exploring different facets of sport. Our students delve into other roles in the sporting world, including learning skills of coaches, analysts, umpires and managers. This SEM allows students to develop communication, leadership and teamwork skills and it gives them the responsibility to lead lessons under the supervision and guidance of the sports teachers.
In partnership with Maidstone and Medway Athletics Club, we have our own all-weather Athletics facility on site. With an Olympic-standard 400m track fully equipped for all athletic disciplines, the track is available for students to use during their timetabled lessons and through our enrichment programme.
We have a thriving Athletics club, in which we train for the annual United Westminster and Grey Coat Foundation Athletics meet, competing against the other schools in the foundation. We also hold our own inter-house Sports Day at the end of the Summer Term which is always a fantastic, fiercely-contested occasion.
We are proud to be the only official Saracens Rugby Academy partner school in Kent and one of only four throughout the Saracens Academy Region of Kent, Essex and Hertfordshire.
Our partnership started in 2017, with the aim of better aligning our Rugby programme, and will introduce students to the possibility of having a professional rugby career. Saracens only select schools that they feel demonstrate similar core values, whilst also having the ability to provide the players with the most appropriate academic focus alongside their Rugby development.
The Junior Athletic Development programme at SVS has been designed through our close relationship with Saracens Rugby. This unit of Physical Education is led by our Athletic Development coaches and is aimed at developing each child’s physical literacy through performing exercises that will improve their core stability, posture and functional movement.
Games for Understanding is a problem-based approach to games teaching, involving exciting new games such as Handball, Ultimate Frisbee and Futsal. Within each, players are challenged to work on the three core areas; on-the-ball skills, off-the-ball skills and tactical skills. Teamwork, leadership and communication skills are developed through this platform of gameplay.
In Physical Education lessons, students undergo seven fitness tests, twice yearly, across a range of components of fitness. This allows each individual the opportunity to identify trends in their own personal fitness. Students then have the opportunity to improve specific aspects of their fitness by attending additional fitness sessions led by our Athletic Development coaches. The data gathered in each fitness test allows students to track and monitor their own fitness over the course of an academic year.
Most of our sports facilities are on-site, including:
In addition, the Sydney Wooderson Sports Centre houses:
Our Preparatory School also has numerous Netball and Tennis courts, a full-size AstroTurf pitch, indoor and outdoor Cricket nets and a large multi-use sports field.
This is a dedicated programme for our students to maximise their athletic performance potential. The Talented Athlete Programme includes:
Our experienced and dedicated coaches lead the Talented Athlete Programme, to ensure that our students have outstanding opportunities to develop their potential.
These dedicated sessions are run to ensure that our young sportsmen and women not only develop athletically but gain the knowledge and expertise required to take control of their own training regimes in a safe, effective and motivating environment.
The Talented Athlete Programme is designed to empower our students, to give them the educational understanding and confidence to train like elite athletes.
Attending the Talented Athlete Programme is compulsory for our Sports Scholars and Exhibitioners, but it is open to all students.
