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Rugby

Rugby starts here at King’s Hall with the tag version of the game with the six and seven year old boys in the Pre-Prep. Tag rugby continues with the next age group and then contact rugby starts with the eight and nine year olds. Matches against other schools start with the seven and eight year olds and then, in accordance with the RFU Continuum, we have a comprehensive fixture list stretching up to our top team, the 1st XV.

Our school sporting philosophy is to make sure that every child has the opportunity to represent the school in a team in every term. We therefore had eleven rugby teams last term all of whom enjoyed success and above all had lots of fun. Our three senior teams played very successfully and won 80% of their matches, usually against much larger opposition.

The Year 8 boys go on a rugby tour every other year, usually to France, but in the October half term they went on a tour to Barcelona and had a terrific time. Coaches and sixth form boys from King's College come up to us and help with games sessions quite regularly and also many of our boys are members of Taunton RFC and Wellington RFC, our two local clubs, and so have extra coaching and matches on Sundays.

Every year we have 4-5 boys from the 1st XV who are selected to play for the Somerset Prep Schools XV and also some who are selected to play for the South West Barbarians XV. We even had two Year 8 boys very recently who went on and played for the England Under 13 Barbarians XV. We regularly have success in Rugby Sevens Tournaments and each year we enter the National Prep Schools' Rugby Sevens Tournament held in London in March.