Sports
SHSB is well known for high success in sport on a borough, county, national and international level. In 2010, the school came 4th in the World Cross Country Championships held that year in Slovenia its third international event. On June 22nd 2012, the school celebrated winning the Borough Athletics Competition for the 31st year in a row with some students achieving national records for their age group. While Cross-Country and athletics are the schools strongest siding their football, hockey, tennis, rugby, basketball and swimming teams have also achieved county and national success.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)