Picture Blog: Lake Wood School Visit

The National Senior Women's 7s Team held some fun rugby skill sessions with the Kids of Lake Wood School in Bear Mountain today. We got there with a bag of balls, some cones, a few pinnies and just started to rattle off some ideas to do with the groups. The girls came up with 4 stations that we would end up running the different grades throughout the day. What was pleasing is that no matter the grade be it 1 or 6 they all had fun doing the same drills!

The kids were fantastic. We ended up having station one being a relay station, where the kids would work on their evasive skills. Not running just in a straight line, but cutting off the cone, what we like to refer to as a power step. Each kid had to go through about 5 cones then return to the same way they came before their other teammate could leave the mark. It was wet out, so there was a lot of slip and slide, which also made it hard to cut, but the kids were laughing, and lets be serious, falling and sliding is the best part!
Station 2 was run as basic catch and pass. You had 4 cones squared up, and the kids would run across and pop up the ball to their opposite, two lines going at once. Then they would have to meet in the middle and try to put the ball up for their opposite to run onto. The third part to that drill was them catching and passing, following your pass to the right and then to the left. Bringing the drill to the end, the grid opened up and all the balls got placed in the middle. The kids all still on 4 corners they had to run into the middle of the grid one kid at a time, relay style, and bring one ball back at a time. Once all the balls were gone from the middle, they were allowed to go and take balls from the other 4 corners.
Station 3 was British Bull Dog. You know! A classic. 3 people start in the middle, call the group of people over who are waiting to run on the line, and they try and tag as many to join in their chain to help them out in the middle the next time.
Station 4 was End ball. It's just like Handball but a very beginner level version and we play it with a Rugby ball! Once you get the hang of it, you can start to add skills, rules etc.

The Kids loved it. They laughed, cheered, and over all they seemed to have had a great time! I know that we all enjoyed spending the day with them. We were very thankful to have had the opportunity to work with the school today. Those experiences go a long way. We hope the kids got as much out of it as we did!

This is something we do on a regular, and I thought it was really neat to bring into this day! It's our motto team first, and so we bring everyone in for a team on 2...1...2...Team! Loved it.

Thanks Lake Wood School for asking us to come in and work with all the wonderful kids!