Sporting Excellence at Bottisham Village College
Staff at Bottisham Village College were delighted to hear this week that the
College has once again been granted the prestigious Sports Mark Award. This
award is in recognition of sports teaching of the highest quality, an excellent
programme of extracurricular activity and the outstanding facilities at
Bottisham, which are open to members of the local community.
We are really proud of the recognition from Sport England that we provide a wonderful opportunity at Bottisham for young people and for the whole of our community to enjoy sport and to lead a healthy life.
Bottisham has excellent facilities for sport, including a large sports hall, fitness suite, floodlit astro-turf, 38 acres of playing fields and access to a heated swimming pool. All of the pupils at the college enjoy a wide range of sports activities and there are many clubs that take place at lunchtime and after school. School teams play fixtures against other schools during every week of the school year and the college has been successful in winning a number of District Championships, including the Cross-Country Championship and the Jubilee Cup Athletics Competition for Cambridge and District Schools. The school is also very proud of the fact that all pupil who wish to take part in competitive sport are able to do so through inter-form competitions and in school teams.
Teaching and learning is of the highest quality and the subject is very popular indeed as a GCSE examination. The college has very good relationships with local sports clubs and many pupils go on to become members of clubs which play at the college and in the local area.
At a time when school sport is often criticised, it is good that sporting excellence receives this national recognition.