Bristol Grammar School is unveiling its new sports pavilion at Failand tomorrow, putting sports performance IT at pupils' disposal.

Donors and supporters will attend an opening ceremony and lunch and watch hockey and rugby matches between BGS, Clifton College and Prior Park.

The pavilion makes the school one of only a few in the region to use motion and performance analysis software.

The interactive sports package allows teachers to hone pupils' performance by letting them film, review and improve their movements and skills immediately after playing a game.

"We recognise that IT enhances students' enjoyment of lessons across the curriculum as much as it helps to reinforce teaching and learning," said head of PE upper school and 1st XI hockey coach, Fran Ripley.

"Having worked with the University of Bristol's sports performance department, who also use this technology, the school decided that it wanted to provide the opportunity not only for gifted and talented sporting students, but for all students across the school to develop their abilities at sports and PE."

Head teacher, Roderick MacKinnon, said: "Our visionary new sports pavilion provides students and visitors with a remarkable, state of the art sporting facility.

"It will help to shape our sporting stars of the future. We are all extremely grateful to our many donors and friends who have made this possible."

The school's Failand sports facilities include the pavilion, nine rugby and four football grass pitches, four cricket squares, two floodlit Astroturf pitches, six netball and seventeen tennis courts and an athletics track.

The pavilion will be used by BGS pupils, those from competing schools and local clubs and organisations.