Stanfield hosts AJIS Under-11s Rugby Festival

Stanfield Preparatory School was proud to host the AJIS Under-11 Rugby Festival 2022.

A total of 12 schools from across the North West took part in the day-long event, which was held in a round-robin format across four pitches on the Boys’ School site.

Pupils from each school played the matches in a great spirit of enthusiasm, while there was some excellent, committed rugby on display from every team.

The full list of schools to take part is as follows:

Newcastle Under Lyme School
Cheadle Hulme School
Stockport Grammar School
Birkenhead School
Manchester Grammar School
Kirkham Grammar School
AKS Lytham
The King’s School, Macclesfield
St Mary’s College
The Grange School
Bolton School
Stanfield Preparatory, Merchant Taylors’

Manchester Grammar School and Stanfield Preparatory, Merchant Taylors’ were each able to field two separate teams and we were proud to see our Golds team emerge unbeaten at the end of the day.

Mr Benbow, head of juniors at Stanfield Preparatory School, Merchant Taylors’ said: “Rugby has always been an essential part of life at Merchant Taylors’ and features heavily in the tradition of our school.

“It was a pleasure to be hosting another AJIS rugby event here, especially considering the challenges of the last 2 years. As always, the emphasis of the event was to allow our players to develop their rugby skills in a competitive environment and I was very impressed with the levels of play and sportsmanship on show across each team.”