Kingsgate Park Sports Centre KP Brochure | Page 22

K I NG S G AT E PA R K
K I N G S G AT E PA R K
P RO J E C T P H A S E :
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CHANGING FACILITIES
Although we have done our best to improve
the limited changing facilities in recent years,
they remain far from adequate. When we host
other schools, for example, our boys end up
changing in a cellar. Far from ideal!
The new Sports Centre will have more than
twice the number of changing rooms, some
with external as well as internal access for visiting
teams, and cater for accessibility requirements.
VIEWING GALLERIES
Our boys excel at a number of minor sports,
but there is currently very little opportunity
for parents or teammates to share in or celebrate
this success when instead you are restricted
to watching tennis through a fence, martial
arts through a doorway and basketball from the
sidelines, with your knees tucked tightly in.
Community use is an important aspect of the
new Sports Centre, not least because it will help
to support staffing and resources, delivering the
best possible experience for all those who use
the facilities.
RACKETS
If you are concerned that the great Win Coll
institution of rackets has been overlooked, please
don’t be. Like a fine wine, racket courts improve
with age so these will be staying exactly where
they are, untouched.
Improved viewing galleries will make it possible
for family and friends to lend their support in
the Sports Centre, just as they do on Winchester’s
splendid cricket and football pitches.
In addition, the new Sports Centre will provide
a class exercise studio primarily for community
use, together with a sports classroom for teaching
PE and for school and community courses such
as First Aid.
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“The primary objective
remains to make sure that
any Wykehamist who wants
to follow a sport of his choice
can do so to the highest
possible standard.”
SAM HART
Housemaster Toye’s, former Head of Sport