{"id":2960,"date":"2021-05-11T17:20:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chavagnes.org\/?page_id=2960"},"modified":"2021-08-22T17:26:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T15:26:49","slug":"sport","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.chavagnes.org\/en_gb\/academic-life\/extra-curricular\/sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<h3><strong>Sport is an important and integral part of the formation provided at Chavagnes and boys enjoy the chance to let of steam every afternoon after a heavy day of lessons.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Team games provide a natural forum to develop team spirit and to experience healthy physical exertion. Games offer a necessary counterbalance to spiritual, cultural and academic activities, and play a key role in the growth of the whole person.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the afternoon sports activities, a cross-country programme operates throughout the year and our boys always do well in local 2km and 10km races at Ascensiontide. Older boys have opportunities to practise weight-training and rowing. In addition, a number of our boys belong to the local Chavagnes football club and represent the village in local competitions, and we support their involvement in external teams&#8217; competitions.<\/p>\n<h3>The games programme intends to provide each student with:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>An experience of a variety of sports, so that at the very least, he can become an informed spectator.<\/li>\n<li>Teams that will participate against local and other boarding schools<\/li>\n<li>A sense of sportsmanship, often lacking in today&#8217;s drive for &#8216;professionalism&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>A taste for sport and an ability to enjoy it, even for those who find it difficult.<\/li>\n<li>An understanding of the value of being physically fit to be mentally more efficient.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sport is an important and integral part of the formation provided at Chavagnes and boys enjoy the chance to let of steam every afternoon after a heavy day of lessons. Team games provide a natural forum to develop team spirit and to experience healthy physical exertion. Games offer a necessary counterbalance to spiritual, cultural and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":2952,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2960","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"campaignId":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chavagnes.org\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chavagnes.org\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chavagnes.org\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chavagnes.org\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chavagnes.org\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chavagnes.org\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3647,"href":"https:\/\/www.chavagnes.org\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2960\/revisions\/3647"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chavagnes.org\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chavagnes.org\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}