Student Activities & Involvement

Here at the college we have seen a huge rise in student participation in sport and exercise activities. With figures almost double those from previous years, more and more students are taking advantage of the excellent enrichment opportunities here at the college. As well as the hugely popular free swimming and fitness suite sessions at the Dolphin Centre, regular activities in the college sports hall have also increased to include badminton, basketball, 5-a-side football, volleyball and netball. There has also been successful courses in archery and street dance, not to mention the regular trips to the snow-covered slopes of Xscape for snowboarding and skiing.

In addition to this the college has also been entering more sports competitions and meeting with great success! College teams have entered and won inter-college competitions for both male and female 5-a-side football, they have continued to dominate the Tees Colleges’ basketball league, managed to gain second place in the first badminton Tees Valley Cup, as well as having defeated East Durham and Houghall College’s rugby academy in a rugby 10’s match.

With all of this success the college is eager to increase the opportunities for its students and to help all of them be a part of the enrichment and wide variety of sport and exercise activities that take place here at the college. Activities that may be held include: kendo (Japanese sword fencing), young woman’s football, and, back by popular demand, another course of street dancing. 

The sports enrichment team are eager to respond to the demands of the students, so if you have any ideas of the types of activities you want to see here at the college, then speak to Diane in the LRC. If there is enough support from the students, then we will make it happen!