Sports

The superb facilities at the school include 8 acres of sports fields, which offer quality football pitches, rugby pitches, athletics facilities and cricket squares. There is a 5 a side astro turf pitch, fully equipped gymnasium and outdoor heated swimming pool.

Head of PE and Games, Mr Gary Wood, highlights both the quality of the various sports teams and the wide variety of opportunities for all the boys to participate fully in the extra curricular sport. The Ryleys School is very proud of its ability to combine maximum participation with professional coaching and performance levels. As well as being highly competitive, boys are taught sportsmanship and fairplay.

Inter school fixtures and tournaments, both locally and regionally, are major parts of the sporting ethos at The Ryleys School. Regular international sports tours and trips have been arranged in the past years. These have included: football tours to Gothenburg, Sweden; Lake Garda and Milan in Italy; as well as several great rugby tours to Barcelona.

In recent years, many boys have gone on to reach County and Regional level in their chosen sports, several achieving sports scholarships at Senior Independent Schools such as Sedbergh School and Ellesmere College.

The following lesson-based activities and skills are taught by fully qualified PE staff and specialist coaches.

Junior School Curriculum (Reception to Year 2)

Michaelmas Term	Sending/ receiving skills with a large ball Throwing/ catching/ target, aiming & hitting games
Lent Term	Gymnastics, balance & movement Skipping/ jumping skills Bat and ball skills/games
Summer Term	Working with a partner. Running, jumping, throwing and balancing. Swimming skills/ water confidence activities

Middle School Curriculum (Year 3 and Year 4)

Michaelmas Term	Football skills/games Gymnastics movement Hockey Skills Cross Country Invasion Games
Lent Term	Rugby skills Basketball/ Bench ball Health & Fitness Bat/ ball games Sending/receiving
Summer Term	Kwik Cricket Mini Tennis Athletics events Swimming technique Bat/ball games

Senior School Curriculum (Year 5 to Year 8)

Michaelmas Term	Football Hockey skills Cross Country Health & Fitness Basketball
Lent Term	Rugby Gymnastics Basketball Bat/ ball games Sending/receiving skills
Summer Term	Cricket Mini tennis Athletics track & field events Swimming technique development

School sports teams have competed in the following sports.

Under 8 (Year 3)	Under 9 (Year 4)	Under 10 (Year 5)	Under 11 (Year 6)	Under 13 (Years 7/8)
Mini soccer	Mini Soccer	Mini Soccer	Soccer XI	1ST XI Soccer
Kwik Cricket	Kwik Cricket	Cricket XI	Cricket XI	1st XI Cricket
Touch Rugby	Mini rugby	Rugby IX	Rugby XII	1st XV Rugby
		Athletics	Athletics	Athletics
		Swimming	Swimming	Swimming
			Tennis	Tennis
			Basketball	Basketball

Extra curricular sports on offer include:

Table tennis
Golf
Badminton
Chess
Judo
Gymnastics

Games Kit

For details of games/PE kit please refer to our uniform link where full details are given.