2010 Coaching Kids Rugby Course (CKR)

The VRU will be running a Coaching Kids Rugby (CKR) Course on Monday 19 April for all Pathway coaches (U8-U12). The course offers a great emphasis on Coaching/Refereeing at the Pathway levels and will provide you with the basic skills on coaching and developing Kids Rugby and Rugby skills.

The course will be held at Box Hill Rugby Club, Sparkes Reserve (cnr Middleborough rd and Canterbury rds, Box Hill). The course will commence at 6pm sharp.

All U8, U10 and U12 coaches are strongly encouraged to attend the course. We also encourage any team delegate who will Referee the team throughout the season to attend.

We have decided to structure the course in a way that will benefit all coaches (i.e. we will have a number of presenters in attendance on the night to make the session specific for all coaches). During the practical sections, one presenter will take the Walla coaches and the other presenter will take the Mini/Midi coaches through ‘Core Skills’ and ‘Individual Team Skills’. The CKR Walla course will run for 2 hours and the CKR Mini/Midi course will run for 3 hours (the extra hour is the Smart Rugby component)

A brief outline of the course structure is below

Intro to Kids Rugby 10mins

Warm Up 10 mins

Core Skills 45 mins

Individual and Team Skills 20 mins

Cool Down 5 mins

Game Management 30 mins

Conclusion 5 mins

Smart Rugby 1 hour

At the conclusion of the CKR course (2 hours), we will be running a Smart Rugby component for all Mini/Midi coaches. The Walla coaches are more than welcome to stay, however it is not a requirement that Walla coaches are SR compliant as Walla is a modified non-contact game. All Mini/Midi coaches must be SR compliant.

All participants will receive a CKR booklet and DVD. Participants who stay for the Smart Rugby Component will receive a SR booklet and DVD.