We are delighted to announce that the School Sport Magazine has ranked BGS as the 2nd best all girls’ independent school for sport in 2018.

Overall, we have placed 8th on the list of all coeducational and single sex independent schools, rising two places from 2017. This is an outstanding achievement against sports specialist schools.

The list reflects competitive achievements in a wide range of disciplines throughout last year.

2018 was a stellar year of sport for BGS, which included a plethora of local, regional and national titles across a range of disciplines.

Notable achievements included reaching the National Finals in netball, swimming and tennis.  The 1st Lacrosse team qualified for the South East Finals and the U13 rounders team became National School Champions.

Currently in hockey the 1st XI have reached the final 16 of the England Hockey National Schools Competition and the U13 netball team have reached the semi -finals of the Independent Schools Netball Cup competition both of which continue this term. The lacrosse teams look forward to their National Schools competition in March.

Over 60 girls are on regional and national pathway programmes or play at national level, including, a GB track cyclist; England water polo player; England U16 Hockey player; five players in Wasps Netball Hub; twelve regional academy lacrosse players; three regional hockey performance centre players and thirty Junior County Hockey Academy centre players. An Upper Sixth golf player is English Girls’ Champion of Champions and an U10 is National Golf Champion.

Mrs Axford, Director of Sport, adds: “We are immensely proud of the girls for achieving such outstanding results in regional and national competitions across a number of different sports. However, most importantly it is also our great strength in depth, where all girls are consistently encouraged to achieve their potential which shines through on a daily basis in school sport at BGS.”

A big thank you to our exceptional PE department (some of whom are pictured) and the support of our parents; the girls could not do it without you!