EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS


We’ve had some very good sportsmen and women


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through the school in the last fifty-odd years and we’ve produced


international cricketers and hockey players, and rugby players who have had good careers in the game


One of the grass hockey pitches


successful institutions, the school is very aware of the world around them and adjust what they offer accordingly. “There’s been gradual change since I arrived at the school. We’ve expanded the number of tennis courts, artificial hockey pitches, cricket squares, football pitches, and the number of rugby pitches has grown from eight to fifteen, which reflects the growth of the school.”


“I think the number of students and needs of the school have been the main motivation behind the expansion. For instance, boys and girls both play cricket now, which means we needed more facilities.” “There’s more demand for tennis, so we added more courts, and the Prep school has expanded along with the senior school, so there are more hockey players which led to the second artificial pitch.”


The school chapel


“Sport is very important to Felsted and, over the years, a number of people have helped build the reputation of the school resulting in the overall level of sport being very good, and the school has recently been


When he first joined the school in 1975, there were only vegetable plots, but a desire to improve the aesthetics and a promotion to Head Gardener in 2001


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gave him the opportunity to apply his vision


Bury Garden - a lot of the school’s plants are nurtured here 92 PC February/March 2019


nominated for TES Sports School of the Year.”


It isn’t only the sports side of the grounds that have developed with time, but the gardens as well. On the tour route, we walked behind the chapel to the Bury Garden where Nick Day grows a vast majority of the school’s plants from seed inside two greenhouses.


When he first joined the school in 1975, there were only vegetable plots, but a desire to improve the aesthetics and a promotion to Head Gardener in 2001 gave him the opportunity to apply his vision. “We’ve really developed the gardens because it all used to be grass and vegetable gardens when I first joined. Now they are a feature of the school.” “When I first joined, there were no hanging baskets, but we slowly introduced them and, as one department saw them, the demand increased and now they are all over the site; we’ve got fifty hanging baskets and forty flower tubs around the school.” Growth in pupil numbers has meant a


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