Sport
Despite being a somewhat small school, Frensham Heights hosts several sports teams in various fields of sport and played at all age ranges. These include common sports such as Rugby, football, hockey, basketball, netball and cricket. Taking part in sport each week is compulsory until year 13 when students can opt to use the time usually allocated to sport for extra revision and study, although this is only allowed if a student attends a sport ECA. Although not being renown for its sport, the under 16 boy's football team has reached the quarter final of the ISFA cup, a national trophy for small independent schools, in the last two years running with Nathan Barnett, Gene Barnett, Tom Davies, Michael Floyd and Jolyon Layard-Horsfall being ever present in the side. Davies and Floyd's partnership in defense was key to the success of the team, with Floyd's heading and attacking flair being complimented by Davies' passing range and ferocious tackling. The Barnett twins in midfield, with Gene's goal threat and Nathan's strength and fitness to go along with fantastic technique, gave the team a strong, dynamic partnership in the middle of the pitch. Layard-Horsfall's pace and finishing ability made him the teams main goal-scoring threat. The first XI will have a strong team in the next two years as both Barnett's, Floyd and Layard-Horsfall will be staying on for sixth form, though Davies will be leaving at the end of year 11.
Between year 7 and year 11, there are two sessions of sport each week, while only one for the sixth form. From year 11 upwards, students can choose which sport to do each term with options being basketball, football, table tennis, hockey and golf, as well as swimming, tennis and rounders during the summer. Prior to year 11, students partake in sports including rugby, basketball, hockey and football and athletics, rounders and swimming in the summer term but have no choice in which the activity occurs.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“Americans living in Latin American countries are often more snobbish than the Latins themselves. The typical American has quite a bit of money by Latin American standards, and he rarely sees a countryman who doesn’t. An American businessman who would think nothing of being seen in a sport shirt on the streets of his home town will be shocked and offended at a suggestion that he appear in Rio de Janeiro, for instance, in anything but a coat and tie.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)