Rippa-Rugby Interschools

This week Wednesday, Panmure Bridge rippa-rugby and rugby teams went to the Auckland Unviresty Rugby State. In the girls rippa-rugby team, we played on field 5 for each round. In the year 5 - 6 girls rippa-rugby team was, Farzana, Nicole, Sakina, Fau, Kaitlyn, Charlize, Liletina, and Sandra. The first school we versed was baliey road. In the end it was a draw, 2 to 2. The second school we versed was sylvia park. We were able to beat them, with 3 to 2 and came first. Afterwards we had skills session with three coaches. First we started with one and rotated. In the first one, we learnt screm, in the second rotation we learnt passing, then in the last rotation we learnt tackling to give it a try. We also went and watched the year 8 boys play tackle and played a few small games of rugby tackle. Without everygame we got short breaks and before the skill training we had time to take a full break and eat. I really enjoyed that day, and had a lot of fun with my team. Thanks to everyone for this event and organzing it.

Kiwi Sport | Rippa-Rugby

This week Thursday LS1 had kiwi sport in the hall with coach Hamish. This week we played a few rounds of rippa-rugby. First everyone got a belt. The class was halved into boys and girls then everyone was numbered into 4 groups. I was team 4 with Sakina, Matthew, Alice, Giovanni and Acein. Team 4  and 2 had to put on blue and team 1 and 3 had green belts. Every team got to play each other and play the same amount of rounds. We had to use the info and skills we learnt from the past weeks of practice and use them in the games. I think my group did good because we were passing the ball to everyone and used skills for us to score some points. The first teams that played were 1 vs 2, then 3 vs 4, next was 3 vs 2, and then 1 vs 4. In the end our team won with one draw and a win.

Kiwi Sport | Rippa-Rugby

This week Thursday we had kiwi can on the courts with coach Mr Hamish. Our sport this term is Rippa-Rugby. Today we were learning to step and side step people which is like tricking them because these are skills to use in rippa-rugby to not get your tag pulled. First everyone got a rippa belt from the bag and two rippa tags. Mr Hamish split us into 3 groups and we played a few games of rippa rugby. One team sat off under the hut while the other two teams played and then one team that was playing swapped positions with the people who sat off. After a couple round of this, the groups lined up on the cones. One person who volunteered from each group had to be the ripper and stood on the opposite side of their team behind a cone. Each group had a ball and the person at the front had to run and practice stepping the person without them getting you rippa tag. Stepping which is side stepping is when you put your foot out to the side to make it seem as if you were about to go that direction but trick them and go the other way and keep running. The person had to practice stepping the person behind the cone and then run the ball back to your group and give it to the next person in line. Now and then the person behind the cone had to switch with someone else so that they still get a turn. Next we learnt another skill which is one I already knew about and was using it in the games just like the other skill. For this we had to also put our foot out as if we were going that direction but go the other way by turning you body and keep running. Then we had to get into partners but I got into a small group of 3 with Nicole and Florence. One partner went one side and the other went on the other side. In our case, Nicole went on the other side and Me and Florence stayed. Mr Hamish numbered us off so when he called our number we could run. Me and Florence were both ten but I was ten 1 and she was ten 2. We all had to stand in a line on each side. If Mr Hamish called your partner number then you and your partner ran and one person had to try and rip the tag off while the other gets the ball and tries to get a touch down. When in the little game we had to use one of the skills we learnt. If your number was called you had to go around and up the line to get the ball from Mr Hamish and run to get the goal. After this we came back and took our rippa tags and belt off. We said bye to Mr Hamish and lined up ready to go back to class.

Kiwisport | Rippa-rugby

This week Thursday LS1 had kiwi sport on the netball court with Mr Hamish. First everyone got a belt and two rippa-tags. The first game we played was rippa-rush. This game is like bull rush but the rippa-rugby version. Everyone stayed on one side of the court and there were 2 rippa taggers in the center. If Mr  Hamish said something and someone in the group had it they had to run. The rippa taggers had to stay against the yellow line until the people started running. We played two rounds of this game before moving on. After rippa rush we were split into 3 groups. 2 Groups played at a time and the other group stood under the hut waiting for their turn. Each group had two rounds playing each. After that we played a game to practice backwards passing. The 3 groups lined up and some people of the group split and went on the other side. One person who was in front of the line started running forward and passed down to the next person who passed it down to the next person aswell. The last person with the ball passed it the person in front of them. Lastly we said goodbye to Mr Hamish and went back to class.