At the end of December, NextGen XV, the rugby organisation which has broadcast many of the Ipswich School rugby matches, named Ipswich School in their Global Top 20 Schools for 2023 – the first time which Ipswich has featured in the rankings.

Ipswich School’s 1st XV came in at number 19, alongside schools from England – Harrow and Kirkham Grammar – and schools from Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Wales. In naming Ipswich School, NextGen said: “2023 was the year that Ipswich School went from rising force to a fixture at the top of English schools rugby, and with that a place in this year’s Global Top 20. A maiden victory over
Sedbergh, Ipswich’s greatest ever result, was Indoor hockey team are third in country the first signpost of what was to come as they embarked on a season that saw them defeated only once.”

They added: “That defeat came right at the end, to the second best side in the world this year, Harrow. It
might have been a bit of a chastening afternoon for Ipswich but the very fact that the billing for the game
was that it was a battle of the unbeaten teams, a showdown that was rated the biggest game of the season, showed just what incredible progress they have made. The Suffolk side are now one of the very best in the world.”

Well done, boys, on this great success.