Head of PE - Steve Thomas

Southend High School for Boys works in conjunction with the Prince Avenue Primary School, and both Earls Hall Infant and Junior Schools as part of its school sport cluster group.

Southend High School for Boys

The school was founded in 1895 and provided the first secondary education within the Borough of Southend-on-Sea. It moved to its present spacious site on Prittlewell Chase in 1939.

Southend High School for Boys is a Foundation school within Southend-on-Sea Local Authority. It is a grammar school, with entry dependent upon performance in selective tests set by the Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex (CSSE).

Since 2001 the school has been a Language College, promoting modern foreign languages both inside and outside the curriculum as well as within the local community. It was a founder member of Southend Excellence Cluster, supporting and collaborating with nearly thirty primary and secondary schools. In 2006, as a high-performing specialist school, we were invited to become a Leading Edge school, promoting innovation in teaching and learning in liaison with local partner schools.

Southend High School for Boy's approach to sport is in line with the school's belief that education is holistic; every pupil has the ability to achieve something worthwhile in a given field. The main objective of the extra curricular sports programme; therefore, is to identify and develop achievement in every pupil, because achievement in one area so often proves to be the key to success in other areas as a whole.

Sport at Southend High School for Boys enjoys an international reputation based on good facilities and the skills, dedication and expertise of the PE Staff.

At SHSB there is a vast selection of activities; athletics, badminton, basketball, cricket, cross- country, golf, hockey, orienteering, skiing, swimming, table-tennis, tennis and weight-training.

Each year more than 20 of SHSB students win County honours across a broad spectrum of Games. In recent years we have won national titles in a thletics and cross-country, whilst reaching finals in tennis and football. County titles have been achieved in athletics, football, cross-country and tennis. SHSB is extremely proud of its sporting record and achievements.

Adam Hickey is an international athlete and cross-country runner, Sam Sutcliffe an international rugby player. Jonty Clarke is in the current GB hockey team and Simon Thomas and Neil Scriviner became International School athletes in 1999.