Bluecoat Sports and Christ’s Hospital School
Bluecoat Sports is a registered charity set up to benefit the students at Christ’s Hospital and the wider community by providing sporting facilities. Any surplus that we generate is used to enhance our provision and improve the well-being of the School’s students and our members.
Students at Christ’s Hospital are supported financially by the School’s generous bursary scheme, and many would not otherwise have the benefit of the excellent academic and sporting programme, including the facilities provided by Bluecoat Sports.
Christ’s Hospital and Bluecoat Sports
Being so close to Horsham and with excellent rail and road links, Bluecoat Sports in West Sussex is uniquely positioned to offer outstanding facilities to everyone in the local community and athletes of all ages and ranges of ability. The Club has supported many Christ’s Hospital School students and Sports Club members in achieving major accomplishments in different sporting fields.
Commitment to health
The team here at Bluecoats strongly believes in the vital role sport has to play in improving the health of the nation. Horsham and the surrounding area is a fantastic place to live, and Bluecoat Sports is helping to meet the needs of a fast-expanding and increasingly health-conscious community here in the heart of West Sussex.
About Christ’s Hospital School
Christ’s Hospital is a unique independent co-educational boarding and day school for boys and girls aged 11-18. The School is one of the oldest boarding schools in the country and is unique in many ways, offering an incredibly high calibre of education to children with academic potential from all walks of life.
Christ’s Hospital calls itself A School Like No Other, this stems from the School’s history, what the School is, what it does and what it strives to be.
Before the School moved to Horsham in West Sussex, Christ’s Hospital was originally a London school (1552 – 1902) and looked after the city’s poor and orphaned children. The City of London Corporation, along with a wealth of donors continue to support the School’s ethos and charitable mission.
As the forerunner in the field of social mobility, Christ’s Hospital is the leading charitable School in the country and an inspiration for other schools wanting to offer bursary-assisted places. Students’ fees are assessed according to family income, so it is a child’s ability and potential to benefit from a Christ’s Hospital education that determines their selection. This results in a social and cultural diversity that enriches our school community, and offers our students unique opportunities as we prepare them to take their place in the modern world.
In recent years the School has made considerable advances with major improvements on the campus, an enhanced strategic and financial footing, and greater connectedness to the wider community, nationally and worldwide. Most of all, the School has kept true to its original mission, to create opportunity for those in need.
The school believes in the benefits of a rounded and balanced education for all students. In practice, this means that as well as a challenging academic programme, students are also involved in music, art, drama, public speaking, community action and sport.
Christ’s Hospital is top in West Sussex for A* at GCSE, and almost all sixth-form leavers go on to a degree course at a top university in this country or abroad, with 12% of them going to Oxbridge. Students go on to study a range of subjects, particularly sciences, medicine, engineering, economics, maths, classics, history, philosophy and English plus we have regular entrants to conservatoires, drama schools and art colleges.
To find out more about the school, please visit Christ’s Hospital School
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