CONTACT VIRTUAL OPEN DAY BOX OFFICE PORTALS Phone Email Twitter Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Menu HOME | ABOUT BALLARD | BALLARD SPORT BALLARD SPORT Ballard Sport provides a positive and inclusive award-winning sports’ provision with specialist PE teachers teaching all pupils from Nursery upwards in outstanding facilities, including an Olympic Astro. Many schools have to look to external coaches for individual sport tuition. Ballard Sport has six full-time PE staff, who have extensive teaching experience across not only the traditional school sports but also new and exciting sports that are very popular such as volleyball, girls’ football and cricket, badminton, handball and basketball. Boys and girls focus on six sports a year, these are: football, rugby, basketball, hockey, cricket and athletics. Girls is similar with hockey, tag rugby, football, netball, cricket and athletics. We have strong links with local sports clubs, which enables us to provide further opportunity and encouragement for those pupils who wish to develop into county, national and, potentially, international players. The club links for all sports encourage pupils to follow up their passion with local or regional clubs. The community access programme is geared to supporting Ballard pupils with clubs such as Lymington Netball, New Forest Volleyball, New Milton Cricket being based at Ballard. As well as winning a wide-range of team competitions, we also support pupils in their success out of School across a wide-range of representative sports. Pupils can access bespoke arrangements for tennis, skiing, horse riding / equestrian and sailing. Ballard’s approach is that sport and its benefits are for life and so our values are summarised by the acronym TREDS – teamwork, respect, enjoyment, discipline and sportsmanship. First and foremost, Ballard strives to make sport a positive experience for everyone and we recognise that there will be a great range of ability and skill but that every child has potential and needs encouragement but also challenge. At Ballard Sport we understand the importance of fitness in all areas of life. Our Health Related Exercise (HRE) units help each child develop a bespoke fitness programme. In addition, our key strands in the “Early years” provision focuses on gymnastics, running and basic catching and throwing. This develops through the Ballard Journey into finer skills and games skills and tactics. We share this with parents to help our children continue the programme at home. Read more about our Sporting Heritage here. RUGBY HOCKEY NETBALL FOOTBALL TENNIS SWIMMING HEALTH RELATED EXERCISE nursery pre-prep lower prep upper prep senior NEWS sport 18/12/20 School receives FA Girls’ Football Partnership Award Ballard has been recognised by the nationwide scheme that aims to make football mainstream... sport 29/06/20 Ballard’s Virtual Lockdown Games Virtual Olympics a success for sports-loving Ballard School The Tokyo Olympics may be on... sport 25/02/20 Ballard pupil selected as an English Karate Federation’s England Squad Athlete and wins two gold medals in the same week. Carla Rudkin-Guilleme (Year 8) has had an exceptional week; she has been selected onto... next OPEN MORNINGS STORIES & TESTIMONIALS PHOTO & VIDEO GALLERY VISIT OUR VIRTUAL OPEN DAY next Ballard School Fernhill Lane, New Milton, BH25 5SU Tel: 01425 626900 Email: admissions@ballardschool.co.uk Keyboard shortcuts Map data ©2021 Terms of Use This page can't load Google Maps correctly. Do you own this website? OK View larger map © 2021 Ballard School School Website Design : innermedia.co.uk High Visibility | Sitemap | Privacy Policy We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. By clicking “Accept All”, you consent to the use of ALL the cookies. However, you may visit "Cookie Settings" to provide a controlled consent. Cookie Settings Reject All Accept All