Sports

Football academies at British boarding schools are attracting growing interest from families seeking a school that combines strong academics with serious sporting opportunity. Across the UK, more schools are building links with professional clubs, including international names such as Paris Saint-Germain. With two schools recently announcing new partnerships with Chelsea Football Club, this is a timely opportunity to look at what these programmes can offer young players.

While women’s rugby took centre stage this summer with England hosting the very successful World Cup, the focus is now back on the men’s game with the return of the Autumn Nations Series. All three home nations are involved, facing teams like Australia, USA and Argentina, and all three feature men who benefitted from rugby at British boarding schools.

One of the many benefits of independent UK education is the access to new experiences. Alongside more traditional sports, there is a wide range of opportunities; for example, your child may want to try fencing at a British boarding school like one of the following.

Looking ahead to the start of the next academic year, here are a few things we’ve heard about that are new in September at our British boarding schools.

We have featured some top British boarding schools for golf here before, that blog focussing on schools in Scotland, where the sport originated. Now let’s take a look at a few in England.

This isn’t the first time we have featured tennis as part of a UK education but, with news of great provision for the sport reaching us from elsewhere, here is a fresh look at some of our top British boarding schools for tennis.

Following the recent blog about football in general, the next question was which British boarding schools are best for girls’ football? We are pleased to present more than a few examples.

Back to our run of blogs on best/top British boarding schools for… this time focussing on swimming.

There are some fantastic schools playing the “beautiful game”. Here’s a small selection of British boarding schools that are best for football.

Having recently featured basketball in our blog, it’s great to hear more about Wycliffe College’s development of the sport directly from the students who are enjoying it: