Learning from Chelsea

Our budding Prep footballers travelled to Chelsea's Cobham training ground to take part in tournaments in February.

Harrodian’s Under 10s footballers had a great chance to sample Premiership quality training facilities and pitches when they visited Chelsea’s Cobham training ground on the 23rd and 24th February.

Boys from Harrodians 9s and 10s and girls from the 8s, 9s and 10s took part in male and female 7-a-side tournaments staged on successive days and all performed well. The boys were impressed by the Chelsea set-up and the girls were equally inspired by the environment with several describing the experience as their ‘best football day ever’.

Meanwhile, earlier in the month, our Prep swimmers were busy competing in the Richmond Borough Swimming Championships at Richmond pool with nine of them among the 500 pupils taking part. 'The squad were great and showed lots of support to each other,' says Mr Arash Soleimani, Head of Swimming. 'And there were some excellent individual performances and strong relay performances on the day.

Among the Harrodians who distinguished themselves were Xander who finished first in the Borough in his race and Melody and Omer who both finished second in theirs.