New Notre Dame Netball Partnership with London Pulse for 2025/26

Notre Dame is delighted to announce our new and bespoke Gold Netball School Partnership with London Pulse, the leading Netball Super League (NSL) franchise in the country which commences in September 2025.

The London Pulse – Notre Dame School Gold Partnership is aimed at supporting us to deliver netball programmes that inspire and develop all our players/students, regardless of their current level of play, to reach their maximum potential whilst really enjoying playing the sport and growing their love of netball.

London Pulse is a leading netball club in England with professional athletes who believe in connecting with the next generation of young people in schools. Their Club Mission is to encourage and empower women and girls from all backgrounds to enjoy netball and to gain confidence from being part of a team, learning skills such as resilience, winning with grace, losing with dignity, perseverance and determination.

Our new Partnership will be delivered across all year groups from Prep, through Senior School and into Sixth Form providing consistency of coaching programmes, progressions in age relevant development. It is aimed at inspiring future netball players at the earliest ages to enjoy participating and learning about the game.

Core elements of the new programme include:

Development of player and team performance through building fundamental core skills, game awareness and becoming netball fit.

Provision of lesson and squad session plans for prep and senior school students.

Video access to skills and drills plus coaching library.

Year 6 – 7 secondary school transition support.

Strength and Conditioning/Fundamental skills and movement support to build on the foundations of fitness for senior school players.

In addition, Notre Dame will be organising game day school trips to see London Pulse play at The Copperbox next season.

Director of Sport, Mrs Purgavie said:…..

I am very excited to start this collaboration with London Pulse. This bespoke Gold Netball School Partnership is a fantastic opportunity to inspire and empower students of all levels to grow their skills, confidence, and love for the game. The commitment to holistic development—from Prep to Sixth Form—is an opportunity we couldn’t refuse and one we can’t wait to start in September. We look forward to seeing the positive impact this will have on the school community and the future stars of netball!

Head of Netball, Mrs Hook, Head Coach for U17 Pulse Power, commented:

I am delighted with the new London Pulse Netball Partnership which will provide a huge amount of support to continue to grow netball here. Notre Dame is one of the first schools investing in Gold Membership to provide a range of bespoke benefits to our netball students/players which can only be a positive investment. As a London Pulse Coach, I know first hand the commitment from the club to develop netballers at every age group and every ability level to ensure all can enjoy our great sport.

Year 9 Tournament

What a start to the hockey term, hosting a Year 9 B team tournament where, for so many girls, it was their first ever 11 aside game. It was a fantastic morning and that was just the weather!

The girls from all schools learnt so much throughout the morning and it was a pleasure to see their game develop over the different matches. The tournament was won by Gordons who were strongly undefeated. There were some stand out performances by both our goal keepers, Molly and Ava, as well as some really gritty performances from Jess, Becky and Emily who’s work rate really stood out over the morning.

Year 8 A and B v SWPS

Afterschool we also had the Year 8s playing their first fixtures with the As having a really competitive 0-0 draw and player of the match going to both Lily and Talia.

The Bs had a great battle in their game with Olive scoring a great team goal late on in the game to give them the 1-0 win. Michelle was awarded player of the match in this game.

1st XI v Tormead

Wednesday saw the seniors take to the field, with the first team trying out Tormead’s new and very windy pitch! The girls had a great first half with real exchanges of goals, and some excellent goal keeping to keep Tormead’s attacks down. However in the second half Tormead proved to be the stronger team. Great goals came from Freya and Emily with player of the match being tied between both Sofia’s in defence.

Mrs Jelley

2nd XI v Tormead

Well done to the 2nd XI who had a hockey match at Home against Tormead School on Wednesday afternoon. Despite Tormead being the stronger of the two teams and enjoying a comfortable win, ND showed tremendous team spirit and perseverance. Player of the match was Fran S.

Team: Lucy F, Jemima B, Chloe J, Celina F, Lottie M, Olivia S, Audrey J, Clio S, Stella T, Charlotte S, Fran S, Scarlett T

Ms Dugeon

Gold for Fran!

Huge congratulations to Fran S who came first out of 65 competitors in the British Novice 90cm competition at a British Showjumping event in Wales last weekend.

She also came 7th in the 85cm and top 25 in the 95cm.

If you are interested in joining our Notre Dame Riding team, please do contact Olivia Looker olivia@westweylands.co.uk

We love to hear about your daughters’ achievements in sport outside school. Please do share any photos and news with us and we will include it in the Friday Mailing!
(email lplummer@notredame.co.uk)

We also post videos and photos on our Sports Instagram Account so please do send any sports news throughout the term and we will aim to share it!

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