While the British International School has earned an excellent reputation for sporting success, our competitive achievements are only part of the picture. Our main focus is  teaching pupils a broad, balanced sports programme which is tailored to each individual and prepares children for a lifelong involvement in sport and physical activity, promoting confidence, health and wellbeing. A comprehensive programme of physical and creative activities complements our philosophy and encourages all pupils to try something new and develop their talents.

All children, irrespective of their particular sporting talents, are encouraged to represent the school in fixtures on a regular basis. Each term we run regular school teams and pupils can try out a number of different activities through our extensive Clubs programme. This approach allows for flexibility.

Whenever possible we operate separate development team’s tournaments and training to ensure later developers or younger pupils have the same player developmental opportunities as more physically mature peers and our senior coaches are often allocated to work with these teams.

Unlike many schools we generally do not mix our Year 7 and 8 pupils to select our first teams.  Although this policy may on occasions slightly weaken our top teams it does mean that far more girls and boys have the opportunity to play sport In order to help pupils, realise their full potential it is possible to play tennis full time, swim up to seven times per week, play basketball, rugby as well as football and still participate in
regular team sports. Operating individual sporting programmes allows the school to find strengths in every child. Children are not forced to participate in the sport of the term but, instead, through negotiation, pupils are encouraged to pursue sports that are appropriate for their needs.

Each week all year groups spend at least 2 hours within the curriculum on PE, games or individual sports, which includes two PE lessons per week delivered by five full time specialists. In addition to curriculum games, pupils are encouraged to participate in extra squad and team training sessions. Many of our pupils participate in various sports sessions at least once every day.