Senior School Sport

Royal Russell is renowned for playing an attractive brand of passing football that is entertaining to watch. Our philosophy is based around being committed, loyal and working hard with integrity in all aspects of being part of a team. This has provided a proven track record of winning national competitions and given students opportunities to play at professional clubs.

We offer an exceptional programme for players of all ability levels with an extensive fixture list. Our Elite U13, U15 and U18 teams, we believe, have the best football programme nationally. We offer daily training, delivered by our highly qualified and experienced staff.

Our carefully designed Long Term Athlete Development Model sees players typically receive weekly coaching, structured training for techical skills and tactical development, match play and training delivered by our highly qualified and experienced staff. We have coaches, with UEFA ‘A’ licence outfield and UEFA ‘A’ licence goalkeeper and FA Youth Modules 1, 2 and 3, who have previously worked at Premier League Academy level clubs. We run Futsal sessions for all players to develop their decision making and skill set. Position specific clinics are run in order to improve students’ current technical and tactical aspects of football.

The programme offers a development tour to a world-leading club (Real Madrid) where possible, playing against La Liga clubs with the likes of Rayo Vallecano and Getafe, allowing players to experience a different culture of football.

Resources include the use of handbooks, statistical performance analysis software, video analysis of matches and classroom based sessions for external feedback and tactical understanding using our state of the art hi-cam. Personal fitness programmes are delivered by our Strength and Conditioning coach in our brand new suite, according to player’s needs, identified through our fitness testing procedure using our sports science equipment and swimming pool facilities. We have a Sports Medicine department with a chartered Physiotherapist that delivers injury prevention and rehabilitation and who also monitors a players loading.

We are currently the U18 ISFA National Champions, creating history by winning a treble of major competitions. We have also won major titles in our U13 and U15 age groups. A number of these players have represented the School in the England ISFA U18 National Cup team, with three of our players going on to sign professional contracts in the last two years.

We have exceptional facilities and are currently in the process of developing a 4th Generation Astroturf, alongside our immaculate 5 full size grass pitches and full size floodlit grass 11-a-side pitch and astrotruf.

Through the football programme at Royal Russell, we expect all our players to leave having reached their potential both on and off the pitch.

Royal Russell has a reputable and well established netball programme. Our mission at Royal Russell is to aid girls to become the ‘best athlete they can be’. Being dedicated and motivated towards our netball programme will help towards achieving this goal.

Our aim is not only to coach the core skills, depending on the age and experience of all our players, but to excel the elite by focusing on a high level of technical and tactical play.

Our carefully designed Long Term Athlete development model sees players typically receive around fifteen hours of coaching per week from highly qualified and experienced coaches. Resources include the use of handbooks, video analysis of matches and evaluation of performance related statistics. Alongside team specific court sessions, we also run positional masterclasses, one to one workshops and classroom based sessions for external feedback and tactical understanding. Personal fitness programmes are delivered according to players needs identified by our thorough fitness testing procedure using our state of the art sports science and swimming pool facilities.

We have a strong links with local netball clubs, Superleague teams including Surrey Storm and London Pulse and the national programme pathway.

We have an exceptional standard of facilities including 3 floodlit netball courts and 3 training netball courts. We also have use of an indoor court in our large Sports Hall with an inside training-warm up area.

We expect all our players to leave Royal Russell having reached the very limit of their potential and to pursue lifelong participation in netball and sport.

At Royal Russell we aim to inspire a passion for hockey by blending enjoyment with competition, meaning each individual will fulfil their potential here.

We embrace sport for all so regardless of experience or ability we encourage participation throughout school life. Regularly scheduled school fixtures and annual cup competitions in each age group allow pupils to sharpen their skills in a competitive environment.

Our coaching team comprises current national league players, international coaches and local club players. Pupils can draw on this wealth of knowledge, skill and experience which ensures the delivery of high-quality training sessions and competitive values in fixtures. As mentors we aim to provide an environment that supports each individual’s wellbeing, performance and a balance between that and their academic progress.

Hockey can be accessed through their Games periods, after school clubs, weekend fixtures and lunchtimes meaning a pupil could play between 2 and 6 hours per week. Alongside that our holistic scholarship programme provides more detailed and specific training that incorporates our strength and conditioning department and video analysis. This is all targeted to allow each student to maximise their development and reach their potential.

The importance of strong community links is vital for our programme. With our coaches heavily involved in local clubs we can encourage participation outside school which in turn drives motivation within our school teams.

These links are evident within our fantastic facilities too. Our all-weather full-size floodlit AstroTurf and all weather multi use games area (MUGA) is at the heart of a local club and allows the school to host junior tournaments throughout the year.

The school is proud to have county representatives in the U13, U14 & U15 age groups as well as two individuals looking towards England Hockey Academy & Performance Centre trials. It is of upmost importance that our programme garners these links, embraces the player pathway and champions success.

We hope our passion for hockey instils a motivation within our students to engage with the sport long after they have left the school.

The Senior school trampolining programme involves a weekly specialist session with our Elite performers bouncing at clubs linked to the school. We have close links with RSC who train at Royal Russell and many pupils compete outside school at Regional and National level.

We have 6 trampolines, 2 of competition standard and 4 training beds. We work closely with RSC who train at Royal Russell and compete on the National circuit, we have access to their 3 National standard trampolines when required.

We enter the National schools competitions and have great success at Regional level with the majority of our trampolinists qualifying through to the Southern Zonal finals. At this level the competition is fierce with teams from the South of England all cometing for a place at the National Finals. We have had great success qualifying several pupils through to the finals both individually and as part of a team. The teams have regularly finished as runners up at the National finals which is a fantastic achievement. We are now competing in the higher leveled groups in the Intermediate and Elite categories.

We also enter the Croydon Schools events where we win everything we enter from Elite level individuals to Novice teams we are a force to be reckoned within the borough.

In the Senior School we offer an extra-curricular gymnastics club for those pupils who wish to continue developing their gymnastics skills.

We enter the Surrey schools floor and vault competition as well as the Sports Acro event.  At the Sports Acro competition pupils perform a floor routine in pairs using balances, skills and dance. For our top level gymnasts we enter the London Region competitions which lead to National finals qualification.

We finished in the top 10 in the Surrey schools events with the Sports Acro team 5th, not bad as this is an U19 competition and our pupils were Year 8! Our mixed group gymnasts qualified for the Milano National Team Gymnastics finals where they finished 8th in the country.

Cricket is a popular option for students at Royal Russell. All players are given a grounding in the basics of fielding, bowling and batting and the opportunity to experience small sided games. With the aim of also feeding the teams.

We have an extensive cricket fixtures programme in the Summer term, every Saturday and play friendlies and cup matches in our games afternoons, with an additional training session per week and a fielding/ technique clinic at lunchtimes.

We have set up academies at under 13 and under 15 level to feed through to our first XI, which has also just restarted. We will benefit from strength and conditioning programmes personalised for individual players and undertaken in our new suite. Tours are run to destinations in the Caribbean and southern hemisphere.

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