About this event
KEY INFORMATION
Target Group: Aspire (Not as competitive B/C teams)
Age Category: Year 3&4
Squad Size: 8 a-side
Gender Specifications: Minimum of 2 boys and 2 girls must be on the pitch at any time.
- Schools to bring a squad of maximum of 10 and minimum of 8.
- Please ensure children bring appropriate clothing for outdoor rugby, including wet weather gear.
- Please bring plenty of fluids and also a snack.
- Please bring enough school staff to supervise the children.
- If you have size 3 balls and bibs please bring them.
- Players are permitted to wear studded rugby/football boots (not blades).
Rules:
- The object of the game is to score a try by placing the ball with downward pressure on or behind the opponent’s ‘goal line’. Players should NOT dive over the try line in an attempt to score a try. Any tries scored this way will be discounted.
- There will be no scrum, no kicking and no line out.
- A free pass is to be used to start the game and to restart after an infringement has occurred i.e. forward pass, ball out of play, knock on, off side. At a free pass, the opposition must be 7 metres back. Before a team can restart the game after a try is scored the opposition must return to their own half.
- After 6 passes the ball will be turned over.