Senior School - Newcastle under Lyme School, Independent Day School

It All Starts Here

Sporting provision at NULS is exceptional in terms of competitive fixtures and specialist coaching, leading pupils to a lasting passion for sport. Our pupils, specialist teachers and coaches enjoy exceptional outdoor and indoor facilities including our floodlit full astroturf pitch, tennis and netball courts, rugby, cricket and hockey pitches, outdoor and indoor cricket nets and our 25m swimming pool.

We always strive to build on our success and our ambition for sport continues to grow as we build a new £4 million sports complex to elevate our sporting offer even further for all of our pupils from Nursery to Sixth Form. The new facility creates a state-of-the-art sports hall beyond the normal scale, incorporating multiple courts for tennis, netball and more, significantly developing our sporting capacity to a region-leading level.

Senior School Sport

Learn more

Netball

The school benefits from excellent coaching in this key sport, provided by our Head of Netball and Girls’ Sport, other Sports teachers’ and outside coaches.

The school has numerous outdoor courts but the school’s new Sports development will elevate netball provision as the department adds two further indoor courts. One of these courts is of premier league standard, with banked seating provision for spectators, electronic scoreboard and so on, which is enabling the school to explore external pathways for elite netballers with premier league clubs.

Furthermore, the school enjoys a wonderful, close relationship with Newcastle Town Netball Club, where many players enjoy netball outside of school, and who use the school as their coaching and match play base.

Netball

Cricket

Cricket continues to go from strength to strength at NULS with the school delighted to enjoy a position in the prestigious Top 100 Schools listings according to The Cricketer, in 2021.

With a designated principal cricket ground, with pavilion, a second cricket square and pitch on our playing fields and an astro wicket, NULS is equipped exceptionally well.

In addition, the school possesses a four lane outdoor astroturf net facility to permit off- season outdoor practice and coaching too.

These facilities are complemented by a superb, new indoor cricket net facility which provides multiple practice lanes for all-year round cricket coaching. The Cricket facility also possesses bowling machines, for its Senior and Prep students, utilised by its staff and resident cricket coach and professional, Jason Brown.

Cricket

Hockey

The school’s Hockey provision has enjoyed an extensive coaching set-up with players enjoying the benefit of a recently renewed full-size astroturf pitch with floodlights.

The school and staff are proud to have enabled a series of players move beyond regional selection, and to move into national team selection processes for their age range. The school also enjoys a close working relationship with North Staffordshire Hockey Club, who use the school as a regional base and where many players also train.

Hockey

Rugby

Our Head of Rugby continues to build on the school’s enviable reputation in this sporting field with a highly skilled team of coaches working with all teams.

The school’s achievements in Rugby are longstanding and the teams enjoy the use of five match pitches. The school’s reputation for producing players who go into professional settings is also recognised with young players and former pupils having been in academies at the likes of Wasps and Sale with the school very proud of alumnus Dan Robson, of Wasps and England.

Rugby

Swimming

The school’s pupils at Prep and Seniors feel the benefit of having two specialist swim teachers at school.

With an impressive 25 metre swimming pool, swimming is an integrated part of the curriculum and co-curricular programme. Pupils enjoy wonderful access to swimming opportunities, from beginners’ classes through the school’s own Swim School, through to elite coaching in the school’s Swim Squad.

Life-saving and Water-polo are also part of the sports teams provision. With the school now embarking on a new partnership with the area’s premier swimming club, this aspect of sport is poised to elevate further as it complements the ambitions being pursued in all sporting domains.