All things Rugby @ Sportability this week

This week's main sport was Indoor Rugby. As always we started the session off with warms up but Ray was absent this week so these were led by Ollie and Alan.
The Rugby started with some individual work and in-particular throwing the ball up in the air and catching it whilst jogging around the hall. The more adept at this also included a few claps as the ball was in the air before catching it again. Then it was on to moving the ball around the body.

From working individually it was on to pairs work - standing back to back it involved passing the ball over the heads and under the legs, then side to side - first one side then the other. As you will see in the photos above we had an odd number so Daisy, Teagan and Kerrie worked together in a trio which made it interesting!
The pairs work continued with some passing to each other before the coaches then set up a Slalom course for the kids. This meant running around cones that had been laid out then throwing the ball in the air and clapping before catching it and running back.​

After a quick drinks break Ollie led a passing game where all the kids were around him in a circle. To start with he would pass the ball back and forth with each child in turn. Then it moved on to the child with the ball picking another person on the other side of the circle by calling out their name. They would run towards them and take their place in the circle once they had passed the rugby ball to them. The child receiving the ball would then repeat the process with another child.
The last rugby based activity to finish things off before the main break was a game of Dragons Den. This is a tag rugby game where one kid has to run up and steal a ball from the dragon's nest and then make it "home" again before being tagged by the dragon (the dragon being on of the other children).

After the main break we took things down a notch or two with some Curling using our indoor 'stones'. The coaches would pick two people to compete against each other and they would sit on a bench at the end of the hall. The target was taped to the middle of the hall and the players took in turns to get as close to the centre of the target as possible in order to get as many points as they could. The game is all about rolling the stones in the right direction and with the right weight, or force. Each player has three stones and the latter ones can be used tactically to either knock your opponents stones out of the way or to block a potential throw by the opponent.
The session ended with some golf putting with cones and hoops being used as targets. The hoops were used as big holes to aim for and then the cones were used in a game where you collected as many cones as possible by hitting them with your putts.

As you can tell from all the photos above it was a really packed session but one that was a lot of fun. Star of the week this week was awarded to Hal by all the coaches. A very well done Hal! You did a lot better than your football team at the weekend - but then again that could be said for most of our teams!

We look forward to seeing you all again this coming Saturday and we hope the winter weather does not stop us getting to Oak View School for another packed session of sports

Hal receives his Star of the Week award from Ollie