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A Co-ed Celebration

After recently attending an annual 20 girls in the whole school and one female role models, celebrating a
head of sport conference I couldn’t help sports team in the seventies, we now wealth of experience from our female
but notice that there were more female offer 11 hockey teams, 15 netball teams sports coaches. In recent years, we
coaches present than ever before. There and 17 tennis teams made up from the have had coaching from international
has certainly been a shift towards 150 girls at Bloxham. Our mixed sports rugby, squash and hockey players as
equality for women in terms of prize teams of riding, swimming, badminton well as a premiership netball coach,
money and accolades in sport. That and sailing often have a strong female many of whom are still at Bloxham. I
said, there is still a glaring omission presence which has helped the sports am proud to offer equal opportunities
of female sport with contracts, to grow with enthusiasm and interest. for both girls and boys to play sport
financial payment and sponsorship. Indeed, we are often fielding more at Bloxham. All the major sports are
Unfortunately, this creates a limited teams than neighbouring schools with carefully considered in terms of
amount of media interest and female twice as many girls in each year. As we resources, provision and time and we
role models, which subsequently has an continue to grow we are able to strive aim for all sporting achievements to
effect on female sports participation. to compete, as our younger years have be celebrated with equal importance.
proven with our U12s hockey team From the Yearlings county cup rugby
The history of girls at Bloxham will being the most successful girls’ team in win to Exham House netball colours,
be celebrated over the next 12 months the school. we are proud that all of our pupils can
as we mark our 20th anniversary as look beyond gender when celebrating
a fully co-educational school. From At Bloxham, we are able to compete success and feel part of a real sporting
the school’s humble beginnings, with against the national trend of limited community. rMO

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