By providing an extensive range of sporting and leisure activities, the school encourages participation as a positive experience in each pupil’s personal development. The pursuit of excellence, loyalty and a sense of balance and fair play are central to this approach.
The School’s aim is to provide the facilities and opportunities to enable the most talented to achieve the highest standards possible while also making it possible and pleasurable for all to engage in their chosen activities as relaxation and enjoyment.
The King’s Hospital offers an unrivalled choice of sporting and recreational activities with such outstanding facilities as:
Ultra-modern Sports Hall & Gymnasium (with fully computerised fitness centre)
25-metre indoor heated swimming pool
floodlit, artificial grass hockey pitch
rugby pitches
all-weather hockey pitches
tennis courts
on the 80-acre campus at Palmerstown.
The School provides coaching and training in the following on the campus:
Each September a Sports Awards Evening is held in the school to recognise the outstanding team & individual achievements of the previous year. The Sports Award Evening was inaugurated in 2006.
Sports Awards Evening
Girls Hockey 2011
In recent years, individual boys and girls have achieved representative honours at inter-provincial and international levels in Rugby, Hockey, Athletics, Cricket and Rowing.
Irish Rowing Championships 2009
The First XI Cricket Squad - winners of the Leinster Schools Senior Cup 2010
Senior Boys Rugby Tour to South Africa 2010
Senior 4 x 100m Relay Team - Leinster & All-Ireland Champions 2010 !
Action from the Leinster Senior League Final April 2011
The King's Hospital, Palmerstown, Dublin 20, Ireland
