St Swithun’s ranked as one of the best sporting schools in the country

St Swithun’s School in Winchester is celebrating its remarkable sporting achievements after being ranked as the top girls’ boarding school for sport in the recent edition of School Sport Magazine.

Alongside this accolade, the school was ranked as the top school for sport in Hampshire and 4^th out of all of the girls' schools across the country.

School Sport magazine ranks the top 200 best schools for sport including both state and independent schools. The rankings take into account results in more than 20 different sports and more than 120 different events.

In addition to the elite success, the magazine features a piece by head of physical wellbeing, Asha Riley, focusing on the importance of getting girls active and emphasising the school's commitment to providing opportunities for girls across the school community to benefit from physical activity.

Asha works across the senior school to reduce the barriers that often prevent girls from taking part in sport and physical activity while extolling the benefits, both physical and mental, of exercising.

Jane Gandee, headmistress at St Swithun’s School, said: “We are very proud of our sporting accomplishments, both in terms of our elite athletes and the work we do to help our entire school community be active.

“Women’s sport is riding the crest of a wave and we are passionate about providing a world-class sporting provision alongside our continued reputation for academic excellence and pastoral care.”

Director of sport, Jon Riley, added: “We are continuing to expand our sporting offer to provide even more sporting opportunity to our pupils. Alongside our strong traditional offerings around lacrosse, netball, tennis and athletics we are thrilled to see the recent success of cricket at the school while golf and badminton are two areas that we are excited to grow.”

Find out more about what makes St Swithun’s a world class girls’ school offering a complete education by visiting us. Find out more at www.swithuns.com.