The extra curricular programme is enormous and the department fully deserve to be holders of the prestigious Sport Marks Gold award. This has been held for three successive periods since it's inception.

Sports tours are a regular feature of the extra-curricular programme at Cranbrook School, with the Senior Boys Rugby and Senior Girls Hockey embarking on a tour to Brunei & Australia in 2011.  Previous tours have taken the school to France, South Africa, South America, New Zealand & Fiji.  For the major sports squads, the aim is to make the tours bi-annual.

Boys and girls teams represent the school most Saturdays throughout the year and the quality of the teams is high.

Click on the links below for more details of the sports clubs available at Cranbrook School

 BOYS HOCKEY

 Atheletics

 Basketball

 BOYS TENNIS

 CRICKET

 GIRLS HOCKEY

 NETBALL

  Rugby Club 2011

The boys play rugby in term one followed by hockey and cricket, while the girls play hockey followed by netball, tennis and rounders.

Senior teams are run at 1st/2nd and 3rd levels while each year group has A and B teams and on occasions C and D. The fixtures are played against local Grammar and Independent schools on both Saturday mornings and afternoons.

Most of the teams enter county and national cup competitions and are very successful. Highlights in recent years have been the senior girls triumph in the John Taylor hockey tournament and the 1st XV reaching the semi final of the Daily Mail Plate rugby competition.

Inter House sports competitions are an inherent part of school life and allow healthy competition between the houses with mixed years working together to develop and enjoy an additional team experience.

Students also have the opportunity to attend extra curricular dance clubs or enter their own compositions into the Dance Show.  This is held in the Queen's Hall and has a new scheduled date this year for October.  Additional classes and workshops are run throughout the year to complement the school based experience.

We have a new Astro pitch with warm up area and the netball courts have been re-surfaced with the new AENA regulation posts and there are more developments in the very near future.

All in all it's a very exciting time for sport as the department works together to further improve its already exensive and committed programme.

The Use of Nutritional Supplements at Cranbrook School.

The PE Department does not condone the use of any supplements that can be used for weight gain or muscle development.  This includes substances readily available in health food shops or from the internet.  Many of these supplements are now openly advertised on television, in magazines and on web sites.  Many high profile sportsmen are putting their name to these products.

Present medical information is hard to come by and therefore the advice of the PE department is that any student should firstly discuss the use of supplements with their parents and take advice from their family doctors.

With the exception of anabolic steroids all of these supplements are legal in the eyes of WADA and therefore students are not breaking any sporting rules by using them.  The PE department feel that the benefits of using these supplements can be matched perfectly well with a balanced diet, a good fitness programme and a sensible use of weight training equipment which is now available at school.

There are well documented risks with taking supplements, such as kidney/liver problems.  Not all people with pre-existing kidney disease will have obvious symptoms but supplements are contraindicated in people with kidney/liver disease.

Cranbrook School PE Department.

Cranbrook Baselayer Range

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 Player Layer Autumn 2011

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