Queen Elizabeth School Cluster Tag Festival
The QES Cluster Festival kicked off the Tag Rugby season in South Lakeland, with a schools Tag Rugby morning at Kirkby Lonsdale RUFC. 160 Children for St Mary’s Kirkby Lonsdale, St Patricks Endmoor, Burton Morewood and Old Hutton Schools Participated in the festival and 17 Rugby Leaders from QES were on hand to help with the running of the day.
The Children where split in to 8 groups where they were coached by QES Rugby Leaders for the 1st hour of the morning before being split up into teams of 10 where 4 mini festivals were played. Each team represented a Rugby Nation from the world cup. The winners of each mini festival were: Fiji, Wales, Italy and England.
The Morning is a great way to engage all children across the Year 5 and 6 age band in the cluster and offer them an opportunity to experience rugby in a fun and enjoyable way. By splitting individuals into teams ensures that the day is competitive between class mates and friendship is developed between other schools. Special thanks must go out to the Volunteers who did an incredible job coaching, refereeing and team managing.
The volunteers have all signed up to the local volunteer programme run by Garry Holmes RFU Community Rugby Coach. The next event many of these children will be involved in is the South Lakes District Tag Rugby Festival as part or the national Tag to Twickenham programme where the winners will represent the district at the Regional Finals at the Armitage Centre in Manchester on 15th June 2010.
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