Bright and early start again! This week I am going to talk about the rugby session with the primary 3 class.

The warm up was a classic couple of rounds of toilet tig to get the kids on the move before recapping on what we learned the previous week. The kids were then split up into 3 teams of 5 and 1 team of 4 for relay races. This gave the kids a chance to practice running and holding the ball and scoring a try whilst encouraging team work, competitiveness and motivation. As the numbers were odd, I decided to take part with the team with the fewer participants. Like last week, this allowed  me to really connect and build on my relationship with the class that is only growing every week.

The session then progressed into a mini possession type game. This consisted of the class being split into two groups with myself and Lauren taking one half of them. The game resembled a bigger, more inclusive version of ‘piggy in the middle’. The kids had to work together and pass quickly to their team mates without the ball being intercepted by the two and sometimes three kids in the middle. This really helped the kids work on their special awareness, speed and decision making whilst keeping a large fun element to it.

Great session again – the kids really seem to be enjoying every challenge we put in front of them!