Rock Climbing
Recent Successes

In 2019, two Westminster Girls represented England at the first World Schools Climbing Championships.

Independent Schools’ Championships
Overall Team Winners 2009-2014
2017: Individual Silver
2016: Team Winners: Senior; Individual Winners: Senior Bouldering and Senior Lead Climber; Individual Silver
2015: Team Winners: Senior
2014: Team Winners: Senior; Individual Winners: Junior Climber, Junior Boulder, Junior Top Rope
2013: Team Winners: Senior and Junior; Individual Winners: Senior Circuit, Senior Boulder, Junior Circuit, Junior Rope
2012: Team Winners: Junior and Senior Bouldering; Junior Leading

Rock climbing Station takes place on the School's two climbing walls in the main hall of the Sports Centre. Approximately 50 pupils choose the Station, so a normal Station afternoon is split into two separate sessions with each pupil receiving at least one hour’s climbing and instruction from experienced and knowledgeable Common Room staff. The School’s climbing walls cater for all abilities, offering a huge variety of options, from 7.5m-high climbs requiring the use of safety ropes and harnesses, to low-level bouldering climbs above foam crash mats.

There are fixtures against other schools during the year, the highpoint being the Independent Schools’ Climbing Championships, in which Westminster has had great success over the years, both individually and as a team. In addition, two Westminster girls were selected to represent England at the inaugural World Schools Climbing Competition in France in 2019. In the Lent Term there is an annual House climbing competition, as well as regular opportunities to go on climbing Expeditions in the UK and overseas.

"The teachers are really nice. And it's a super chilled sport... It's really calm. If you're having a down day, or you don't want to do something, you can kind of relax, and still try."

— Year 13 pupil

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