Hello

At High Wycombe Rugby Club we are committed to growing the sport in our community, to give more children the opportunity to experience and participate in our great sport.

As such we are looking to find opportunities to partner with local primary and secondary schools to offer rugby sessions as part of the core curriculum and through after school activity clubs.

In the pages that follow we hope to provide you with both an overview of our club and more importantly a flavour of how we can work with you to tailor an experience that will be most valuable for your pupils and school.

As HWRUFC Youth Chairman, and someone who has played and coached rugby in Buckinghamshire for over 25 years, I am incredibly proud to sponsor our ambition to grow rugby in the community and am delighted that we have Scott Winton leading this endeavour as our Head of Community Coaching. Scott has fantastic experience and enthusiasm for growing rugby through schools and has exciting plans for how he can work with your schools to do that.

We really hope that we will have the opportunity to speak with you and work with you over the coming months. Scott will be reaching out to you in the coming weeks and if you would ever like to speak to me I would be delighted to connect with you also.

Best wishes,

Michael Fradgley

Youth Chairman HWRUFC

Our Head of Community Coaching

Scott Winton

I’ve been involved in rugby for almost 20 years, either through playing, coaching, officiating or simply just watching. I first started playing at U6’s continuing on throughout Mini’s & Junior’s levels to Colts and beyond, representing my university for 3 years during my undergraduate degree at Nottingham Trent University (NTU). I left university with a 2.1 in BSc Coaching and Sports Science, having spent time on placement at primary schools in Nottingham, organising Nottingham Schools Sports days through the university and studying coaching techniques, exercise physiology and sports psychology.

Since graduating, I’ve spent time working in secondary schools in the Reading area, primarily in the PE department. This included delivering both practical and theory lessons, leading games sessions, coaching rugby teams and officiating school rugby fixtures. One of the schools I worked in was an all-girls school with very little experience of rugby and part of my role included developing ways to introduce rugby to students completely new to the sport. On top of this, I helped to deliver the active sport aspect of a primary school after school club in Wokingham, focusing on getting children of a wide range of ages moving, utilising a variety of sports to do so.

I recently completed an MRes in Exercise Physiology, also at NTU, graduating with a Commendation. It was during this time that I started to play touch rugby, coming in as a complete beginner and going on to represent my university at 3 national tournaments. I’ve carried on with touch rugby, partaking in the Wycombe Summer Touch League this year. Following my MRes, I’ve worked in Wycombe in a similar community officer role, promoting the club while delivering sessions in primary and secondary schools. I also led rugby sessions for SEND children, as well as walking rugby sessions for the Over 50s Club at Wycombe Leisure Centre.

Outside of rugby, I’ve also played cricket and badminton. Whilst at university, I was a leader for the NTU Sport’s ‘Play 4 Fun’ scheme in badminton, running sessions twice a week. These sessions centred around providing a social environment for people to make friends, get active and try a new sport, using fun variations of badminton to do so.