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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:
      
Rugby
Hockey
Cricket
Athletics
Cross-Country
Badminton
      
Tennis
Soccer
Canoeing
Basketball
Swimming
Off-site, the School offers opportunities to participate in:
      
Rowing
      
      
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 - 30th September 2006
Sports Awards Evening - 29th September 2007
Sports Awards Evening - 25th September 2008
Sports Awards Evening - 22nd September 2009
      
Form 1 Girls Hockey 2007-08
      
      
In recent years, individual boys and girls have achieved representative honours at inter-provincial and international levels in Rugby, Hockey, Athletics, Cricket and Rowing.
      
      
      
        
        
The King's Hospital, Palmerstown, Dublin 20, Ireland
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