Brighton College

[tennesseewhiskey1]

Hi everyone!

We have just been accepted to BC - have two children who will be joining, year 5 and year 2 - i was wondering if there are parents of the school on this that would be keen to share if the children of any extra football/weekend sports outside of the school - it seems the school is pretty good on sport Mon-Fri so wondering if weekend sport might be overkill.

You will definitely want to be involved in weekend sport, as the sport provision at the prep is so poor. It's such a small school, and many of the parents block their kids from doing any 'risky' sport, such as rugby / hockey / football - this means the prep struggles to put out a competitive team, especially from year 7 onwards. If your child is serious about sport, make sure they join a club outside.

BC struggling to put out a competitive team really surprises me. Don’t they win everything?! Also is the sport provision at the prep poor? Don’t they use the College facilities plus the Jubilee Ground, Stanley Deason, Sussex Uni etc.? I don’t have experience of years 7 & above (we’re not there yet) but certainly years 5 & under are very sport-heavy.

That said lots of children do additional sports at weekends too. Depends on what yours are like really. Mine like a lot of activity at weekends so do swimming/football/rugby but they do have weekends off if they need it. See how tired yours are once they start (yr 5 is pretty full-on).