Facilities
Tonbridge School's facilities include a sports centre and a large climbing wall with many routes at all levels, a swimming pool with extra depth at one end for scuba diving, an exercise gym, a large sports hall with five cricket nets and facilities for badminton and basket ball, and a large multi-purpose room for Judo, other martial arts, table tennis, fencing, pilates, yoga, spin class and the like. The building also hosts a media centre with news room with industry-standard recording and editing equipment. There is also a cafe and a bar. The school has three hockey astros - one floodlit water-based astro and two sand-based astros, used by Tunbridge Wells Hockey Club and Sevenoaks Hockey Club as well as by the school. It has a six-lane floodlit tartan athletics track, used by Tonbridge Athletics Club; it includes facilities for discus, javelin, shot-put, high jump, long jump, triple jump and steeplechase. The School has over 100 acres (0.40 km2) of pitches. The main cricket pitch (The Head) is occasionally used for Kent 2nd XI cricket matches. The school also has squash courts, fives courts and two rackets courts. There is also a shooting range. Sports also occur off site. These include golf, clay pigeon shooting, horse riding and sailing. The school owns several fleets of boats, most notably a fleet of 6 fireflies and 6 R.S. Fevas, both of which are regularly renewed.
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