ABOUT Junior All-Stars
Ready for the next level of rugby excitement? Our Junior All-Stars class is designed to build confidence, teamwork, and sportsmanship through engaging drills, mini-games, and age-appropriate skills development.
We deliver sessions that teach rugby values, knowledge, understanding and application of rugby skills through a series of structured activities and games that are centred around developing a sense of passion and love for the sport.
Throughout classes, which are designed and tailored specifically for children aged 5 to 7+ years, we aim to equip the children both physically and mentally with the skills required through various learning strategies to take their Rugby to the next stage and prepare children for age-grade Rugby.
KEY FEATURES
Key Skills Matrix
Social, Emotional and Cognitive
- Demonstrates good interaction with peers
- Has a sense of identity within the class
- Demonstrates good awareness of surroundings and other children in class
- Able to manage emotions
- Shows confidence and independence in new situations and challenges
- Able to recognise with confidence different colours, shapes and sounds
- Able to confidently count greater values without help
- Able to follow multiple instructions at a time
- Beginning to think strategically during play
- Shows empathy towards peers
- Shows discipline and always listens to coaches when they are speaking
Health and Physical
- Shows excellent balance and demonstrates developed co-ordination
- Able to sustain running at speed and maintain increased levels of activity for long periods
- Can navigate complex objects with a ball in hand
- Able to control and manipulate body through increasing levels of physical demand
- Able to travel with a ball in hand with coordination, balance and confidence
- Shows good spatial awareness of surroundings and other children in class
- Can follow coaches instructions and implement without demonstration
Rugby Skills
- Able to catch the ball whilst on the move
- Enjoys success, can harness competitiveness and a desire to win and understands fair play
- Can beat a static defender by dodging or sidestepping
- Able to beat an opponent 1 on 1 both in attack and defence
- Able to travel with a ball in hand in two hands with control
- Able to confidently pick a moving ball from the ground
- Able to drop kick a ball from hands
- Basic understanding of the rules – Try, tagging, backwards pass rule
- Able to pass whilst on the move
- Able to make backwards passes
- Able to pass a ball to a static partner with correct technique
- Able to safely and confidently pass a ball to another child
- Able to pass a ball accurately to a desired target whilst on the move
- Able to pass a ball accurately over short distances to their fellow team members
- Able to pull tags confidently with precision and at speed
- Able to apply tags to their belt at speed with increasing precision and speed
- Understands and implements proper technique with Key Rugby Skills
- Able to throw and catch a pop pass at increasing heights
- Able to throw, clap and catch a pop pass at increasing heights
- Competently applies skills to game play and thinks strategically