Sports

A wide variety of both curricular and extra-curricular sports are offered including: football, cricket, swimming, hockey, netball, tennis, gymnastics, rounders, cross-country and athletics. The School is regularly represented by teams in these sports. Most sports are offered to a wide range of year groups, with the School usually running a number of teams including, Under 11 boys, Under 11 girls, Under 10s and Under 9s, ensuring that an ‘academy’ type arrangement is in place at the St. Winefride’s, allowing pupils to constantly develop in these sports throughout their time at St. Winefride’s.

Click links below for our sports/activities timetables: Spring 2024 Summer 2024 Autumn 2023

Activities encourage intellectual as well as physical skills, with teamwork, participation, communication and sportsmanship being key to the school’s sporting ethos.

Music

St Winefride’s School offers,  under a team of competent musicians, a wide range of music tuition. Brass instrument tuition is offered for children in the age range 7-11. The full range of instruments, including the larger euphoniums and baritones can be hired from the school. Woodwind tuition can be available from Year 3, including flute, clarinet and saxophone depending on physical suitability. In Year 4 the children are encouraged to join the school band, which rehearses weekly and performs in concerts regularly. Brass is taught by Mr Evans, who is Principal Tuba with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. He has coached for the National Youth Orchestra and National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain and adjudicated for the BBC Young Musician of the Year. Drumming and piano lessons are very popular, with string instrument or vocal tuition available on request. The sound of music both vocal and instrumental can be heard daily in the School.

The school offers instrument tuition for children, age range 7-11.

Clubs

The School also provides clubs for art, school newspaper, eco-school, digital media and extra curricula sports and gym sessions to enhance the learning opportunities for the relevant years.

Chess Club

Sports, Music and Clubs Gallery