Sports

King's campus is an 80-acre site boasting some of the most impressive indoor and outdoor sports facilities in the North West and, indeed, of any day school.

The Sports Centre provides:

• a 1,000m² main sports hall
• a six-lane 25m swimming pool
• Cheshire’s only dedicated indoor cricket facility
• a dance/martial arts studio
• a fitness suite
• an indoor gallery area and a café

Externally, there are:

• 8 senior rugby pitches
• 4 cricket pitches
• outdoor cricket nets
• five junior football pitches
• junior rugby pitches
• two all-weather Astroturf hockey pitches
• six tennis and netball courts
• a 400-metre athletics track
• a dedicated rounders pitch
• Derby Fields Pavilion and car park

Starting in the Infants, pupils enjoy both PE and Games lessons with dedicated Sports Staff and coaches. In the Juniors, a healthy interest in sport is promoted and swimming becomes a timetabled activity. Children compete regularly (often at A, B and C team levels) against schools from the locality as well as from across the North West. Boys have regular football and rugby fixtures whilst the girls compete at netball, hockey and rounders. Cricket, cross-country, swimming, athletics and trampolining competitions allow boys and girls to represent the school at the same occasion.

Emphasis is placed both on participation and excellence, with practices held in most of the above sports at different age levels during lunch breaks or after school. King’s has been highly successful in gaining many sporting honours in both local and regional competitions. In recent years, King’s Juniors have regularly been Macclesfield Primary Schools football, swimming, netball and cross country champions; our trampolinists are National Champions in several age categories; our U11 rugby team regularly wins the AJIS competitions; and our U11 hockey and netballers have also won regional and national titles. King’s Juniors also have the opportunity to take part in an optional Sports Tour (in Year 6) to compete in The Jersey Games.

For Seniors, the range of sporting opportunities includes: athletics, basketball, biathlon, camps and expeditions, cheerleading, cricket, cross-country running, equestrian, golf, hockey, judo, netball, orienteering, outdoor activities, rugby, sailing, skiing/snowboarding, soccer, squash, swimming, taekwondo, table tennis, tennis, trampolining and volleyball.

King's has an outstanding sporting pedigree - our pupils are at the heart of the County and regional elite hockey, netball, athletics and rugby squads.

King’s is ranked in the Top 25 schools nationally for Sport!  We are also one of the Top 100 Cricket schools in England (The Cricketer 2016 - 2021) and is in the Top 20 Rugby schools in the country (Daily Mail). 

Each year, Sports Tours are scheduled for the boys (rugby, cricket or hockey) and girls (hockey and netball) with recent locations including Australia, Barbados, Canada, South Africa, South America, Spain & Gibraltar,  South Africa (2020) and New Zealand (2023).

2015 - Hockey & Netball Tour to Barbados
2016 - Hockey & Netball Tour Spain & Gibraltar
2017 - Rugby Tour Singapore & Australia
2018 - Cricket Tour Dubai
2018 - Hockey & Netball Tour South Africa
2019 - Boys’ Hockey Tour Portugal
2019 - Rugby Tour South America (Argentina, Uruguay & Brazil)
2020 - Hockey & Netball Tour South Africa
2023 - New Zealand

There is an annual Year 6 Sports Tour and and annual Year 8 boys' rugby tour to Cardiff.