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Warm-ups and Cool Downs

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Teacher-led discussion on the importance of warming up and cooling down as part of a fitness session. Use these resources by Gloucester Rugby Heritage to inspire pupils to plan and carry out a rugby specific warm-up and cool down, targeting elite level players.
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Designing Fitness Programmes

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Use these resources by Gloucester Rugby Heritage to teach pupils to understand the principles behind designing training programmes for different clients Give the students resources 1.2a and 1.2b. The timeline indicates how forward thinking the club were in hiring coaches. How does this compare to modern staffing structures in professional rugby? Pupils recap the principles of training and discuss the different type of players that are currently playing at Gloucester and what their individual training needs would involve.
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Finding all possibilities

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Use these resources by Gloucester Rugby Heritage to teach pupils about developing logical strategies to find every possibility: Discuss different types of problems and strategies used to solve them. Word problems, identifying patterns, visual problems and puzzles, logical thinking and finding all possibilities. Try out a Sudoku using numbers and then one using rugby pictures.
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The Haka

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Use these resources by Gloucester Rugby Heritage to inspire pupils to produce an original and innovative dance.
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The sports development continuum

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Use these resources by Gloucester Rugby Heritage to enable pupils to apply the sports development continuum to rugby in Gloucestershire, identifying rugby specific examples for each level: What is the sports deveopment continuum? Why is it an important factor when considering how an individual progresses within a sport? How has rugby developed to fit within the continuum?
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Rugby pass angles

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Using these resources by Gloucester Rugby Heritage, pupils should understand what a right angle is, what an acute angle is and what an obtuse angle is, and use protractors to find the angles accurately.
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Wordsearch

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The word search (9.3a) has been set up as a quick activity asking the students to search for rugby positions. It is ideal for a starter or plenary, particularly for wet weather lessons in PE. Customise these resources by Gloucester Rugby heritage for your lesson.
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Writing a playscript for the half-time team talk

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Using these resources from Gloucester Rugby Heritage, explain to the class that there are not many stories written about rugby for children, but there are several books of true stories for adults and biographies and autobiographies of famous rugby players. Discuss what happens in the changing rooms before the game, at half time and after the game. Then encourage students to write a playscript to perform.
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Fishing equipment problems

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Use these resources by Gloucestershire Archives to teach pupils to solve one-step and two-step problems involving numbers, money or measures; choose and carry out appropriate calculations, using calculator methods where appropriate.