As part of the fundraising for the Senior Sports Tour to South Africa this summer we will be selling refreshments on Saturdays before home sports fixtures begin.
Hot drinks and cakes will be available from the Tuckshop so please come and support.
We are continuing with the process of organising the return visit of our Dutch hosts from October 2022. We are looking forward to reciprocating the fantastic experience which our pupils received during our four night experience with the players from Hopbel Hockey club. The return dates are from Saturday 29 April through to Wednesday 3 May.
The girls and boys (mainly girls) are a variety of ages, between 12 and 15. This may be of interest if your child would like to attend the Holland visit in October 2023, however this invitation is open to all families. In order to host, we are looking for families who can offer to host a pair (or more) of Dutch visitors and willing to entertain and involve them in your family life for the four nights. We will organise an itinerary of fixtures, activities during the school day and a BBQ for our guests with their host families on the final evening. We will let you know who the other host families are so that you can organize other events together if you wish. We will supply bus tickets for the Dutch visitors should these be required but they will need to be picked up after fixtures each day from College.
Due to requisite safeguarding checks, all adults (members of the family over 18 years old) within the household must hold an enhanced DBS certificate, to be sent for by the Princethorpe Foundation, even if they currently have a DBS certificate from another employer. If you are subscribed to the DBS Update Service, please do let us know. To allow plenty of time for the DBS certificates to be received before the tour, please do book an appointment with our Recruitment Co-ordinator at recruitment@princethorpe.co.uk, as the DBS check has to be done within the three months prior to the visit. It will only take 15 minutes per person to apply for the DBS certificates, and one person from the household can bring the documentation on behalf of everyone in the household. The recruitment team are available Monday to Friday from 8.00am until 5.00pm. If you have any questions, please do contact Claire Wildsmith or Suz Jeffery on 01926 634269. Please see the attached document entitled ‘Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks’ for the ID documentation required.
Many thanks for your continued support of Princethorpe Sport and we hope that you can continue this by hosting some Dutch guests in April.
A warm welcome to the Lent Term programme of Physical Education and Games at Princethorpe College.
Our PE and Games Department have created a helpful guide for pupils and parents ahead of the Lent Term 2023 which includes further information about:
• Team coaches and how you may contact them
• Instructions on how to access the Princethorpe Sport app
• Information about fixtures, including selection and cancellations
• Sports kit expectations
• Postcodes for away fixtures (which can also be found in the Lent Termly Calendar)
If you have any questions, please direct them to your son/daughter's team coach or email myself, Lee Cassell (Foundation Director of Sport), Jen Law (Head of Girls' Games) or Joe Jackson (Head of Boys' Games).
Lee Cassell
Foundation Director of Sport
As the Trinity term is fast approaching we start moving our thoughts to summer sports and the cricket season. The cricket kit is not compulsory for all, however, for those who will be representing the College in the Boys' A and B teams and those who would like to wear the kit we offer a cricket shirt, trousers and sleeveless slipover.
As a general guide we normally run an A and B Boys' team for U12 through to U15’s who are required to wear the school cricket kit.
This year, for the first time, the Girls' cricket teams have the opportunity to wear the female fit cricket shirt with their skort if they would like to for their weekly fixture programme.
All orders must be placed before the end of the school day on Thursday 16 February 2023 using the order form here, you will be notified by email when they are available to collect from the School Shop.
We have one of each size available to try on in the School Shop. The white PE polo is also a good size guide.
If you need any help with your order please contact Tamsin Frost on 01926 634272.
Barbara Bromwich
Foundation Shop Manager
