A passion for sports has taken 13-year-old Myles Dismont Robinson far: medals and scholarships have culminated in securing a place at one of Britain’s top schools.

The irony of achieving an outstanding talent scholarship in rugby to attend Harrow School this September is that he initially disliked the sport at which he has notably excelled.

“It wasn’t something I wanted to pursue — it was cold; I was this little Bermudian boy running in a wet, cloudy climate, and I didn’t have a clue how to play,” Myles recalled.

Enjoying the game came with acquiring the rules of a notoriously rough sport, where his agility and speed propelled Myles to impressive achievements.

“All you have to do is run — if you’re fast enough you can really do things,” he said. “I was scoring tries and getting praise from my team-mates.”

Myles has had an international education from an early age: though he originally attended East End Primary, his parents Delaey Robinson and Andrea Dismont Trott sought alternative education for his brother that led them overseas.

They chose a Montessori school in New Mexico. Ultimately Ms Dismont Trott and her husband Christopher Trott settled on the UK: Fleet School in London.

Myles’s penchant for sports emerged in Windlesham School in West Sussex, a preparatory school adept at finding the inner talents of its students — and popular with Bermudians.

Myles discovered rugby there at the tender age of nine, and also flourished at football, athletics, cricket and hockey. Mark Duncan, the school’s director of sport, called him “a young man with supreme physical gifts” backed up by “a rare combination of passion, team spirit, leadership and humility”.

It came as a surprise, his mother said as the family had been blissfully unaware of Myles’s athletic drive.

“If you’re sending your child overseas, you want to know they’re being nurtured and cherished — Windlesham did that and I can’t recommend it highly enough,” Ms Dismont Trott said.

His cricket prowess caught attention fast, but he excelled in rugby, attaining both junior and senior colours, captaining the Colts A team and becoming the school’s highest ever scoring rugby player.

His skills on the pitch caught the eye of Brighton College’s head rugby coach, Nick Buoy.

At age 12, Myles was the first to be offered its Daley Thompson scholarship in rugby.

He had to decline it, as he was then awarded a scholarship for Harrow, which gives out less than a dozen such scholarships annually to new entrants.

Myles’s time at Windlesham ended with an almost intimidating collection of sports accolades: scoring a place on the Harlequins developing player programme, he also broke a school record as he took first place in the long jump, going on to win gold in the under-13 long jump and silver in the under-13 100 metres at the West Sussex County Athletics, and running extensively in the school’s senior cross country team.

He earned a silver medal in the under-13 long jump at the National Preparatory Schools Athletics held in Birmingham, and competed nationally again as an under-14.

Rugby is notorious for inflicting injuries, but fleet-footed Myles told The Royal Gazette that football had inflicted more damage — and he dislocated a finger playing basketball just a week before trying out for the Harrow scholarship.

“Now that I’m playing academy level rugby, where it starts to get really technical, it makes me want to pursue more academics,” said Myles, who is scientifically inclined, to biology in particular, and is considering pursuing a career as a surgeon.

The Smiths Parish family agree that for locals interested in boarding school overseas, institutions like Windlesham can help bring out the best in students.

“If parents here want to send their child to a good boarding school, they should send them to prep school,” said Myles, commending Windlesham’s headteacher Richard Foster for helping him uncover his talents — and take them to the next level.