Sports Day at Highfield and Brookham once again lived up to its star billing on the school’s busy sporting calendar, with three school records broken.

Nursery got the got ball rolling as we staged four brilliant events over three action-packed, fun and emotional days in front of proud parents and grandparents, culminating in some spectacular performances from our older prep school children.

The young athletes of all ages showed great versatility, courage, determination and no little amount of ability as they gave their all, be it sprinting on the track, clearing hurdles of all sizes, testing their technique at the ball throw or seeing how far they could leap into the long jump pit; all to the uplifting soundtrack of cheers, applause and encouragement from the sidelines from adults and teammates alike.

For some children, a personal best time or distance was the goal, for others the lure of silverware and medals represented a good return for a year of hard work and progress during Games and PE, but for many simply giving it a go, trying their best for their houses and soaking up the special atmosphere was reward enough.

At pre-prep, Oak was the winning house in the joint Reception and Year 1 event while Willow took the honours when the sporting spotlight fell on Year 2 and Year 3.

And on a dramatic day at the prep school, featuring children from Year 4 to Year 8, three school records fell. In the senior girls’ 70m hurdles race, Clemmie Coller took gold in a rapid 12.17 seconds, shaving more than half a minute off Emily Sherlock’s previous best time set three years ago, Tiger Ellis registered 44.20m in the senior girls’ ball throw, eclipsing by almost two metres the previous mark set by Rebecca Denton in 2008, and Olivia Turner broke a longstanding record set by Olivia Wright in 2005 when she cleared 1.50m in the senior girls’ high jump.

In the overall House competition, Trafalgar ran out winners with Agincourt in second and Waterloo third.

Sports Day 2025 awards:

Pre-prep winners:

Victor Ludorum: Kit Larby

Victrix Ludorum: Olivia Newall

Sportsmanship: Ellen Massey & Wilf Snagge

Prep winners:

Junior Victor Ludorum: Max Braithwaite

Junior Victrix Ludorum: Eliza Robertson

Middle Victor Ludorum: Seb Brunner & Lucas Borwick

Middle Victrix Ludorum: Alice Dibben

Senior Victor Ludorum: Jaime Borwick

Senior Victrix Ludorum: Clemmie Coller