Year 5&6 Touch Rugby Festival

Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/10/2023
9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Categories

• Event

Age Category:      Year 5&6

Squad Size:           8 a-side

Gender Specifications: Minimum of 2 boys or 2 girls on the pitch.

• Schools to bring a squad of maximum of 12 and minimum of 8.
• Minimum of 2 boys and 2 girls must be on the pitch at any time.
• Fixtures list will be provided on arrival.
• Please ensure children bring appropriate clothing including wet weather gear.
• Please bring plenty of fluids and also a snack.
• The fixtures are to be played on the astro turf.
• Please bring enough school staff to supervise the children.
• Please bring your own bibs.
• The event will be touch rugby – no tag belts required.
• Players are permitted to wear studded rugby/football boots. Players should wear appropriate clothing for outdoor rugby.
• 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.
• 6 touches allowed before the ball is turned over.

Venue: Chester Rugby Club, Hare Lane, Littleton, Chester, CH3 7DB.

This is a festival, there will not be any winners.

Teachers only are to meet at the desk to register for the event. Children must wait in their school group.

Please can schools bring their own first aider.

 

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