Sports News Archives | Downside School

13 May 2020

VE DAY 75TH ANNIVERSARY

The 75th anniversary of VE Day last Friday was particularly poignant. As well as a celebration of peace in the past, it also symbolised the coming together as virtual communities in the face of the current COVID-19 struggles. Again we pray for peace, albeit in a different form. Downsiders engaged wholeheartedly with a special programme […]

24 Jan 2020

GIRLS CRICKET WINS OVER PRIOR AND ROYAL HIGH

This week the Downside girls U15A cricket squad won against Prior Park and Royal High Bath in the first round of the 2020 Lady Taverners competitions – the UK’s only national girls-only cricket competitions. In a post-match interview the Downside team spoke of how supportive they were of each other throughout the games – an […]

29 May 2019

INTER-HOUSE ATHLETICS COMPETITION

Sporting spirits were high last week as all six Houses at Downside School competed in the ever-popular annual Inter-House Athletics. The School decamped up to the athletics track and field, complete with music and refreshments, to compete in a variety of events including javelin, high jump, shot put and running. The standard of the performances […]

23 May 2019

ETHAN’S RUGBY PATHWAY

Sport at Downside School in Somerset continues to go from strength to strength, for both the boys and girls teams. Pupils’ discipline, humility, tenacity and teamwork on and off the pitch is evident in everything that they do. One such pupil is Sports Scholar Ethan Morgan who lives for rugby and has recently been selected […]