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Educating boys through sport, with the guiding principles of participation, performance and enjoyment.
Sport has been central to the Eton curriculum for some time – the first ever recorded inter-school fixture is an Eton v Westminster cricket match in 1796, amateur rowing was established here and the Eton House Field Game trophy is even older than the FA Cup. In the 21st Century we provide organised sport on six afternoons per week. The sports programme is designed to encourage a rich and diverse experience for boys. Opportunity is key: pupils play for school teams and in House competitions for major sports teams including rugby, hockey and cricket, as well as a broad array of other sports such as fencing, squash, rackets, martial arts and water polo. Most Masters enjoy coaching sports teams and we also employ many coaches whose sole role is to concentrate on one particular sport to offer specialist coaching to pupils or support other staff.
Whilst pupils enjoy playing sports in their own right, the process of engaging in sport at Eton also embodies many qualities promoted by the College. Learning to win and lose; to lead and be led; to push oneself to, and perhaps beyond, one’s perceived limits; to think as part of a team; to know when to strive for more and when to acknowledge defeat – these are all part of learning to be human. Consequently, Eton aims to give every boy the chance to benefit from learning through sport by playing, improving and enjoying the sport of his choice.
Due to the plethora of extracurricular opportunities at hand, I was keen to try my hand at things I’d never done before such as playing the Field Game, a sport which combines elements of football and rugby.
Josh, pupilRepresenting Eton and your House
The College offers a great deal of coached sports with many boys using this pathway to play for school teams. School teams include, but are not limited to, approximately 45 school rugby and football teams in the Michaelmas half (term), 18 hockey teams in the Lent, 22 cricket teams, 10 rowing crews and over 40 pairs in tennis, as well as school teams in many other sports ranging from basketball to fencing to sailing and climbing. Competitions in House sport take place in all three halves (terms) so that there is at least one competition in each sport during an academic year. Many sports have more than one such competition to allow boys of different standards to play meaningfully and enjoy representing their House.
House fixtures across all sports each year.
Athlete Development Programme
All boys are encouraged to take advantage of the Athlete Development Programme (ADP) regardless of the sports they like to play or the level at which they play them. This programme includes a strength and conditioning element, but also encompasses other areas of physical development that all boys can engage in. Through the ADP, pupils develop their overall athletic performance, including: an appreciation of healthy nutrition, the importance of rest and recovery, and how exercise can have a positive impact on mental health.
Our Games
It was at schools like Eton that sports first became rationalised and had formal rules introduced. We are proud of the fact that we still play our original football games to this day: the Wall Game and the Field Game. All current boys get a chance to play both games and, in the case of the Field Game, teams of alumni also return to the College every Saturday in the Lent half (term) to have another go. Eton Fives is another ‘original’ sport; although other versions of Fives have also been developed, this game is played nationally and internationally by many schools and clubs, with current Eton pupils making very good use of our 16 courts.
Facilities
We support boys by providing the finest facilities we can, including a national standard athletics stadium in partnership with local clubs and the rowing lake at Dorney, which was successfully used for the 2012 Olympic Games.
However, these are exciting times as Eton embarks on the next stage of embracing education through sport. By 2021, we will have five floodlit artificial pitches, and by 2022 this will be accompanied by new indoor facilities, including a new swimming pool and two sports halls. These will all complement our fantastic current outdoor facilities, which include approximately 40 football/rugby pitches, a 2km rowing lake, 19 cricket pitches and 50 tennis courts.
Art
Music
Moving into a new era for Borderline Theatre, The Wall was the first in the hilarious and universally acclaimed Stewarton Trilogy by DC Jackson, son of longtime Borderline producer Eddie Jackson. Presented in association with Tron Theatre, their then Artistic Director Gregory Thompson directed this CATS Award winning production for Best Ensemble Cast. It was also nominated for a CATS Award in Best New Play and Best Female Performance for Sally Reid, while shortlisted for the Saltire Society/Royal Mail Scottish First Book of the Year Award.
“What was so astonishing about the cast was the confidence with which such a young group of actors handled material that required vigorous discipline in its comic delivery. The sense of playful engagement with the text was tempered by this admirable professionalism, in which each actor presented perfect solos before rejoining the ensemble in perfect harmony.” // CATS Award Panel
“As joyously life affirming – and painful – a romantic comedy as A Midsummer Nights Dream…with slightly different drugs.” // Liz Lochhead
The Wall was written following Jackson’s success in a Playwrights Studio Scotland 10 minute scene competition. Through a scheme at PSS where he was mentored by John Tiffany, he developed the scene into the full length play that we toured. Following the remarkable critical and commercial success of The Wall, we went on to stage three further plays from Jackson – The Ducky, The Chooky Brae and My Romantic History.
The Wall is a hilarious, romantic and touching coming of age story about four bang up-to-date, innocent, streetwise, characters surviving school holidays that are like a microwave with so much happening and everything happening so fast. Norma Gordon has got a problem and she’s going to be in big trouble if her Dad finds out. Norma needs to find Rab McGuire fast. Her big brother Barry’s no use. He’s in love for the first time. Michelle Montgomery loves Barry back but her mum and Aunt Alice just won’t let them be together. This summer everything’s changing in the small Ayrshire town of Stewarton.
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Cast
Norma Gordon // Sally Reid
Rab // Finn den Hertog
Barry // Scott Hoatson
Michelle // Kirstin McLean
Creative Team
Writer // DC Jackson
Director // Gregory Thompson
Designer // Becky Minto
Lighting Designer // Lizzie Powell
In 2008…
28 Feb to 8 Mar // Tron Theatre, Glasgow
18 Mar // Regal Community Theatre, Bathgate
20 Mar // macrobert, Stirling
3 Apr to 5 Apr // Byre Theatre, St. Andrews
10 Apr to 12 Apr // Dundee Rep Theatre
Critical Response
★★★★ “Immaculate…The Wall roars out on a surge of fierce comic and dramatic energy that never lets up, through two hours of solid-gold banter and perfectly structured narrative development…a rite-of-passage comedy of the highest quality” //The Scotsman
★★★★ “A lightweight charm that would seem disposable were it not for the deeper seam that newcomer Jackson gradually exposes…perfectly plotted play…As confident as it is funny, it promises great things from this writer.” // The Guardian
★★★★ “Guile, deftness and warmth…the great quality of Jackson’s writing is its sureness of tone, inspired wit and ingenious wordplay. This is a piece that never misses an opportunity to entertain.” // The List
★★★★ “It is funny and true and hugely enjoyable” // The Times
“Razor-sharp rites-of-passage comedy” // The Herald
“A hilarious and thought provoking insight…a work of comic magic…roaring laughter from the audience, the play really digs in to our compassion…brilliant performances” // British Theatre Guide
“As sweetly ephemeral as a pop song, performed with great comic timing and youthful pizzazz” // Mark Fisher
“Impeccably observed … A stunning piece of popular theatre.” // The Stage
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“For well written and perfectly performed comedy, I’m not sure I’ll see better this year.” // View From the Stalls
“‘It’s a love story that’s about that stage of love that’s bigger than any other, when you first experience it as a teenager. It’s that big, grand melodramatic stage of love. It certainly was for me.’
‘There’s an element of teen movie about it – if you like that Breakfast Club kind of movie, then you’ll like this’, he says. ‘This is more of a fun night at the theatre. There have been plenty of plays about the various wars we’re in and political crises and so on, and they’re good work, but this definitely isn’t that kind of play. I hope it’ll reach an audience who are interested in just a fun night out.’”
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““I don’t have much of an imagination. More or less everything I write is auto-biographical, but changed. Nothing particularly noteworthy happened to me in my childhood, so obviously to build a play I have to fabricate something, and I think probably all four characters in The Wall have aspects of me about them.”
“My favourite time in a theatre audience,” he says, “is when they’re falling about with laughter enjoying themselves.”
“As much as I say I want to write comedies and popular theatre,” he answers, “I don’t think those two things should necessarily exclude being able to write things with truth and honesty and wider political resonances. All of which,” he asserts, serious at last, “I think The Wall has. But would I be against writing a juke-box musical? No, I certainly would not, and if Billy Bragg’s ready to have his songs spun into a ham-fisted romantic comedy, I’m his man.””
Borderline Theatre Company
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KA7 1NU
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Email: enquiries@borderlinetheatre.co.uk
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