Sport, physical activity and exercise are central to school life at Tormead. We help all our pupils to discover a life-long love and appreciation of physical activity through our broad and stimulating curricular and co-curricular programme. By providing inspiring teaching and high-level coaching, we carefully nurture all pupils, regardless of their ambition and experience, to find their sporting passion and maximise their potential..   

By October 2024, development works at the Urnfield will provide a state-of-the-art home for Tormead Sport. Upgraded facilities will include an all-weather hockey pitch, 400m athletics track, artificial cricket nets and improved parking and access facilities. To find out more about Tormead’s new sporting home, please watch the video below.

  At Tormead, we are committed to helping each pupil find a life-long passion for sport and physical activity. This is achieved through an extensive and engaging co-curricular programme that runs before, during and after school. With over 20 sports and physical activities on offer, we are committed to helping each girl find an activity that suits her. This programme is delivered by a 30-strong team of P.E. teachers and sports professionals who enable our high performing athletes to excel, whilst creating an environment of ‘sport for all’. Our sports clubs are well supported through our fixtures programme which ranges from national and regional competition to inter-school friendly matches. We make sure that all pupils have the opportunity to represent the school in sport at the appropriate level. A full range of co-curricular sports and physical activities can be found below:

We offer regular mid-week and weekend fixtures for core sports, and give pupils the chance to compete in county, regional and national level competitions. Our participation sports focus on promoting positive physical and mental health in a non-competitive context.

Discover our full programme of competitive opportunities here.

We are leaders for sport in the local community and provide a pathway for girls to access high quality coaching in school and externally. We have coaching and facility hire partnerships with Guildford Hockey Club as part of our high-performance hockey programme, as well as sharing coaching provisions with Guildford Saints FC & Guildford City Swimming. As a high performing gymnastics school, we also offer girls of all gymnastic abilities the opportunity to train on Saturday morning and lunchtime.

To promote life-long participation and engagement in physical activity, students in Sixth Form select from a wide range of physical activities. They have the autonomy to choose their curriculum by selecting options across our core sports, as well as physical activities that increase physical, mental, and social wellbeing.

The P.E. & Sports Department run a large and successful academic programme for A Level (AQA). For more information on this, please click here.

Whatever their sporting ambition, experience or ability, all pupils have the opportunity to fall in love with sport and physical activity at Tormead. To keep up to date with the latest news from Tormead Sport, please follow @Tormead_Sport on X (Twitter). If you would like to find out more about P.E. and Sport at Tormead then please contact our Director of Sport, George Pettitt on gpettitt@tormeadschool.org.uk.

George Pettitt

Director of Sport