Sport | Net-Wall Games
Squash is played to a high standard by the older boys in the senior department. The School has four glass-backed courts of competition standard within the Sports Hall. Teams play a number of fixtures and also enter the Surrey Prep Schools tournament, much of which is played at Cranmore. Other tournaments, including the Lancing Prep Schools event, are entered. Lower in the school boys are introduced via the popular “Short Squash” version of the game.
In the summer term all the boys in the Senior Department play tennis during their timetabled lessons. The School fields teams at Under 11, 12 and 13 levels in the Surrey Schools’ League and other festivals. The Junior Department boys play tennis or “Short Tennis” as a club activity.
Badminton is taught within curriculum time and there is a flourishing after school club where the boys compete in a “ladder” competition.
Volleyball is the other net/wall game played. This is introduced in the final two years of the boys’ stay at Cranmore. Time is spent in all lessons within these blocks teaching the boys to score and umpire the games whilst playing.
Net/wall games are an ideal way for the boys to learn to play with others, whilst also playing against them. Good sportsmanship is learnt, as too is the compromise of “play a let.”
