Sporting events

The school hosts a number of sporting events throughout the year, giving pupils the opportunity to experience inter-school matches using Taunton School’s state of the art facilities in our Sports Hall and on our pitches/courts.

During our mixed sporting event we offer a range of different sports including rugby, hockey, netball, tennis, cricket, athletics, swimming, climbing, badminton, basketball, squash, lacrosse, football, gymnastics, rounders, movement skills and fundamentals, and fitness/strength and conditioning.

This is an opportunity for Year 5 & 6 children, boys and girls mixed,  Fitness and fun go hand in hand at Taunton School and we have the facilities to be able to offer a fantastic experience.

The football and netball tournaments host 2 teams of 9 children from each school for the football tournament and between 8-10 children for the netball tournament. We host a presentation/prize-giving session at 4pm and parents are very much encouraged to attend. Tasty home-made refreshments from our excellent on-site catering facilities are provided for hungry participants and their families!

The school also hosts a swimming gala includes a number of recognised competitive individual and relay races. The maximum distance of any race for any individual or stroke will be 50m, but would include backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle.

There is also be a number of fun relay activities, which will require teamwork rather than swimming ability. Some of these races will include the ability to perform skills such as: kicking, underwater swimming, retrieving weights from the pool bottom and towing .

Aims

The aim of the swimming gala is to look at a variety of swimming based skills, with some coached elements to help support the students development.

Pupil Involvement

Year 5 and 6 boys and girls

Frequency

The netball and football event takes place once during the summer term.

The swimming gala takes place once a year in the summer term.