Outside of the curriculum
We provide a number of opportunities for students wishing to take part in sport outside of the curriculum. We have an excellent sporting reputation both locally and nationally through our extensive extra-curricular programme which focusses on recreational participation as well as competitive performances. We regularly play in national, county and district competitions as well as friendly fixtures and we have strong links with local sports clubs.
House sporting events
Tring School also has a very strong and competitive house system which our house games and swimming galas and annual sports day are integral parts. These events give all students the opportunity to rake part in sporting activities for their house.
The PE department offer other opportunities for recreational and sporting activities. We organise the bi-annual ski trip for years 10 and above and enrichment activities which has seen us take students from year 7 and 8 to Willen Lake in Milton Keynes for a whole day of outdoor and adventurous activities (including water sports).
Tring School boasts excellent sporting facilities which allows us to offer a broad range of activities. These include a gymnasium, a 5 Badminton court sports hall, a 25m swimming pool, an all weather artificial pitch, 3 newly resurfaced netball / tennis courts and extensive grassed playing fields.
PE Extra-Curricular Activities – Summer Term 2017
|Athletics||All Years||Wednesday||Lunchtime||Playing Fields||All Staff|
|Athletics||All Years||Monday||After School||Playing Fields||All Staff|
|Cardio Tennis||All Years Boys||Thursday||Lunchtime||Courts||JA|
|Cricket||Yr 7 & 8||Thursday||After School||TPCC||JA/AB|
|Cricket||Yr 7 & 8 Boys||Tuesday||Lunchtime||Astro||JA/AB|
|Cricket||All Years Girls||Wednesday||Lunchtime||Astro||CH|
|Cricket||Yr 9 & 10 Boys||Thursday||Lunchtime||Astro||CC/JDM|
|Cricket||Yr 9 & 10||Tuesday||After School||TPCC||CC/JDM|
|Crossfit||Yr 10 - 13||Friday||7.15 - 8.00 am||TRFU||JA|
|Pitch Conditioning||Yr 10 - 13||Monday & Friday||Lunchtime||Playing Fields||JDM|
|Rounders||Yr 9 & 10 Girls||Thursday||After School||Ashlyns Fixtures||LHB|
|Rounders||Yr 9 & 10 Girls||Thursday||Lunchtime||Playing Fields||CNN/GC|
|Rounders||Yr 7 & 8 Girls||Tuesday||After School||Kings Langley Fixtures||LHB|
|Rounders||Yr 7 & 8 Girls||Tuesday||Lunchtime||Playing Fields||LHB|
|Senior Conditioning||Yr 10 - 13||Tuesday - Thursday||After School|
3.30 - 5.00 pm
|Senior Conditioning||Yr 10 - 13||Tuesday - Friday||7.15 - 8.00 am||TRFU||JDM|
|Softball||All Years||Thursday||Lunchtime||Playing Fields||LHB|
|Tennis||Yr 9 & 10 Boys||Wednesday||Lunchtime||Courts||AB|
|Tennis||All Years Girls||Friday||Lunchtime||Astro/Courts||LHB/CN|
|Tennis||Yr 7 & 8 Boys||Monday||Lunchtime||Courts||DSR|
|Tennis Squad Training||All Years||Friday||After School||TTC||JDM|
|Touch Rugby||All Years||Friday||Lunchtime||Playing Fields||KF|
|Volleyball||All Years||Friday||Lunchtime||Playing Fields||JDM|


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Thursday, May 27, 2010
Yes, I know the title isn’t original but I like it!!! As you can see, Lee Dewyze DID win last night! I have to say that I really liked them both but I was happy for him. He’s so cute and nice. I also LOVED Idol last night. There were a ton of stars and awesome performances. Any time Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson, Alanis Morisette and Joe Cocker are on the same TV show...I’m happy. It was also really cool to see Bret Michaels on the show. I love any story when someone can show strength when they are going through a hard time. Anyway, I look forward to seeing how both of their albums turn out and whether or not I actually buy them.
I don’t really have much to say today but I did want to show you what I bought during lunch:
This is a points clicker key chain from Weight Watchers. All you do is enter your points for the day and as you eat, you just click off the points. I was really excited about this. I always have all this stuff I have to write down. The key (pun intended) to this will be to just make sure that I remember to click off the points. The most important thing for me is that I keep track of what I eat during the day so in a couple weeks if I find that I am not keeping up with the clicker, I may have to go back to writing everything down. I think it should work fine though.
I am debating on whether or not to play softball tonight. It’s the tournament and I really don’t want to play but they may need me to. What I really want to do is go home, walk and just be done with all this business. This is definitely going to be my last year playing softball for the team because I am not very good and the leaders on the team are very competitive...they most certainly aren’t playing for fun so I don’t want to bother them or myself with poor softball skills. It’s no great tragedy...I think the team and I both will survive if I don’t play.
Again, I don’t have a real agenda today so I hope you have a great night!
“See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out
It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day.” Beautiful Day-U2 (and now, also sung by Lee Dewyze)
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The sound of "Play Ball" can't come soon enough for the Ottawa Fat Cats.
They've got more than 4,000 season tickets already out there, they've got a two-year agreement in place with the City of Ottawa for the stadium and they've got a new coaching staff in place.
But the big plan includes so much more.
Fat Cats GM Duncan MacDonald believes this is a vibrant community that can support professional baseball.
He wants professional baseball back in the city. And he's got the Toronto Blue Jays in mind.
Right now, there's not a lot of legwork MacDonald can do. He needs a long-term stadium agreement in place with the city. But it seems like a perfect match.
"(The Fat Cats) are here until the end of 2012," said MacDonald. "If we knew we had a 10- or 15- or, ideally, a 20-year lease, we would absolutely be in position to secure a pro franchise. But it's a chicken and egg thing. Who goes first? Maybe the city could give us a conditional lease so we could at least knock on doors.
"Would we be excited about the prospect of having an affiliation with the Blue Jays? Absolutely.
"The season for the New York-Penn rookie league is mid-June to the end of August. That would be perfect. These are the future Jays."
For now, it's the Fat Cats who occupy the stadium.
As an expansion franchise in the Intercounty Baseball League last season, the Fat Cats made strides. And it's time to move forward with Tim Nelson as the new manager and Gatineau's Stephane Petronzio as the player development co-ordinator.
"I've been around baseball a long time, at all sorts of levels. I'm excited about this," said Nelson. "We can improve on last year. It would be nice to get baseball back to where it was in the heyday of the Lynx."
Nelson was selected in the seventh round of the 1998 MLB draft by Baltimore. He has coached with Canada's national junior team, in Italy and locally, with the Otawa Nepean Canadians.
The team does have some support within city council.
"We don't want to ever let (the stadium land) become condos," said Coun. Bob Monette. "We have condos in the city of Ottawa. We only have one baseball stadium."
The Fat Cats, who have COOL Beer Brewing Company on board as the official beer supplier for the team and stadium, already has 114 event days booked this year ... things like the Shriner Circus and National Capital Baseball League games, along with Fat Cats home dates - 18 games, which begin with a May 21 opener against Kitchener.
To make it all work, to get fans to buy into the idea of a day at the ballpark, MacDonald says the Fat Cats know what they have to do.
"Our predecessors at the ballpark were focused on baseball," he said. "We're focusing on other things. Let's face it, the game can be tough to watch. You need to have entertainment. You need to have something for that fussy child in the third inning.
"This isn't America. This is Hockey Country. You need entertainment and we'll provide it. If your team wins, it's a bonus."


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Actually it isn't a -lot- more likely that a car will get forgotten (left sitting
some where rather than moved as quickly as possible) just because it is a
"foreign" car. Home road cars were left sitting without earning pretty
much just as often as those from other roads ...
Admittedly there was a higher revenue gain from using the home road
cars ... but the crews weren't necessarily going to pay a lot of attention
The time when a home road car made a lot more money was when it
was serving home road destinations ... on both ends of the haul (from
and to were both home road).
But when you stop to think about it for a bit - a lot of the uses of RR
shipping didn't have that aspect.
Filling the demand (shipper requests an empty/delivering a loaded
car/moving a loaded car) were the -primary- concerns. All other concerns
were secondary to those needs.
But paying attention to the costs related to a car just "sitting
some where" was still important.
I'm just pointing out that this wasn't all that much more important
based upon whether the car was home road or not (to the crews
doing the work).
When cars are in short supply - whether that situation is short or
long term - it was/is easy to "blame the system". And the car
service rules were designed to keep the system working as well
as can be expected.
Certainly the crews took actions - daily/all the time - that contributed
to the bottom line efficiency of the RR. All too often they "did what
they were told" (by the clerks) and so a car (or cars) can get left
sitting far longer than a "perfect" system would indicate it should.
Just as often as not the real reason for a car sitting some where
for a long time is that it has gotten "lost" by the clerks ... if no one
"knows" it is sitting some where it isn't likely to be included in the
list of things to do today.
- Jim B.


Take a sit, just for one more drink, stick around just this one time for the last time, you found a way to get into my life and mapped the perfect route into my heart, you somehow found your spot where no one has in a really long time, and now I acknowledge that you are the one, but the story of us has run its cause, one question though, is it killing you as much as its killing me?
Next to you, I’d thrive, conquer, win and prosper but no, you found your place way before you said Hi, to you I was nothing more than a mare curiosity, I know this wasn’t to be a fairy tale, this isn’t Hollywood but did you really have to find your place right where you knew I couldn’t let you go without shuttering to pieces? Take a sip of your drink, tell me please…..
Everything good is gone, it’s time to taste the coffee and realize it doesn’t mean am lonely when am alone, but in this case, knowing am not your princess leaves me somewhat lonely but I got to finish this one drink, wipe my naivety and say goodbye. I am a true survivor, after all, all you are is all that could break me but am still standing.
You’re my superman, and now I got to watch you fly away so someone willing to stick around long enough to learn my second name can stand a chance, someone who will not come as close to you in whatever sense, but I got to watch you fly away, as with every day that passes with no word from you leaves me a few seconds closer to my grave, you pull my strings and now it’s time to cut the cord. Fly away superman
I loved you from the word go, every aspect of who you are is amazing and definitely my final piece but sadly I got to say goodbye after this drink as you have played me long enough. My universe will never be the same without you, am glad you came.
Don’t forget me; every now and then make a silent prayer that I do find someone like you. I wish you all the best, here’s to you, here’s to us.
My drink is up, GOODBYE
Goodbye my lover -James blunt


5 Web Applications to Watch in the EnterpriseBy Elizabeth Millard | Posted 2008-09-24 Email Print
Baseline talks to the experts on which Web 2.0, social networking applications and customer-focused community capabilities they think have the most potential for growth and influence in the Enterprise. These Web applications in areas like microblogging, product comparison and collaborative work spaces are considered up and coming players in an already-crowded, competitive Web 2.0 market.
For both employee interaction and marketing to customers, enterprises are drawing on the social networking and community capabilities of Web 2.0. Within the next few years, this trend should get even hotter, believes Gartner analyst Adam Sarner, who predicts that by 2010, over 60 percent of Fortune 1000 companies with Web sites will have some form of community functionality in the applications used by employees and customers. Here's a handful that could make some noise in an already crowded market.
Microblogging tools are worth watching, notes Forrester Senior Analyst Jeremiah Owyang. "Tools like Yammer, ESME, and many others have started to appear, giving remote teams the ability to communicate somewhere between IM and emails," he says.
At Yammer, the main question for users is "what are you working on?" As a company's employees answer that question, a feed is created that funnels content to a central location, where colleagues can check the status of projects, ask questions, share links, and post news.
The tool can also act as a company directory, since every employee can create a profile. Plus, when they post project updates, those micro-blogs are linked to their profile, giving co-workers and the employee the ability to reference past discussions or work.
In true social networking fashion, anyone in a company can start a Yammer network and begin inviting colleagues. According to Yammer, privacy is maintained by limiting access to those with a valid company email address.
The site was founded by former executives of PayPal, eGroups, eBay, and Tribe, and has strong VC backing, so it's likely to become more prominent in the future, Owyang posits. Plus, the basic service is free, so a company can try it out without much budget risk.


We had family visiting from the UK so we decided to do some sight seeing. We hadn't got round to this since moving to Malta in June.
Firstly, the grumpiest lady was at the ticket booth, who provided absolutely no information at all..she was not too happy to answer any questions. We got down to the boats and whilst it is true you will never wait more than 15 mins, the reason being they rush you at full speed to get off the boat. You're barely seated before they pull away and you put your life vests on and present tickets while alrewdy starting the journey. There's about 8 people squashed onto the boat which makes it hard to see when you are in the middle. The caves are pretty but you are going from cave to cave so fast along with many other boats up front and behind. No time for hovering or looking around. Impossible to take any pictures around the other on the boat or the other boats taking the tour. We went on a Sunday so perhaps it was just the worst time to go but given there were 4 of us paying 8 EUR I wonder if it would be cheaper to get your own boat and sightsee on own agenda.
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Well, we have moved on from the lovely lovely Beachhouse to Suva, the capital of Fiji (oooOOOoo). We were sitting outside the magistrates court today and a man came along and told us about the first coup that happened right there at the courts and the second that happened down the road. It was all very interesting until he started carving our names into pieces of wood and trying to sell them to us.
It was a bit of a mission getting here today, we got the bus to Suva which was quite nice actually, lots of scenery and stuff, buses are brilliant. Anyway, the mission came when we arrived at Suva bus station which is just a big bus park with buses going everywhere, I'm sure there's no order to it at all. We asked a man in a car park which bus we needed to get and he told us what it would say on the front and that it was green. Half of the buses at the bus station were green. We ended up just wandering round the bus station trying to guess which bus to get on until we saw it while crossing the road and flagged it down. So that seemed all fine and dandy until, about 20 minutes later, the bus we were on arrived back at the bus station. I hate that bus station. The bus driver had just forgotten our stop apparently and ushered us to another bus to take us to where we needed to go which actually turned out to be about ten minutes down the road.
Anyway, one MASSIVE hill later we finally got our hostel which is fine but a bit dissapointing after the Beachhouse. It was to be expected really. We've had a bit of a walk into Suva to find the internet cafe we're in now and it's a pretty interesting place, a big change from the tiny villages we've been seeing from the bus. Tomorrow we are going to go to the Fiji museum (they've got forks that Fijians used to eat eachother with and other exciting things) and maybe try and go to a Church because apparently the choirs are amazing here.
Yes well, there's my blog about Suva, it's not particularly descriptive but we've only been here since about three o'clock so yes, better blogs coming soon.
Here are some of my photos from the Beachhouse:
This computer doesn't like my camera so photos are coming soon as well, sorry to get your hopes up and everything


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