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VALE ROYAL December 09

 SCHOOLS

Primary Schools

 After the State Schools competitions I will been working with primary schools helping them with their preparations for the Yr 3/4 Northwich Tag Festival which will be held on June/July and with over 100 pupils taking part last year it was a great day and thank you to the club members who took the time to come down and help.

High Schools Schools
I have been running sessions in Hartford, Weaverham, Rudheath and Leftwich where I have been concentrating on Yrs 7,8&9 boys in preparation for the upcoming State Schools competitions with hopefully Rudheath entering a year 7 team for the first time. Moss Farm staged a girls roadshow on the 25th November where 30 girls from the local schools came down and despite the awful weather worked really hard and enjoyed themselves. Congratulations go to Hartford who have qualified from the borough competitions and are now going onto represent Vale Royal at the North West Competition being held at Broughton Park RUFC on the 9th Feb for the Yr9 and at Rochdale RUFC on the 4th Feb for the yrs7&8.

FE
Rugby has been hit and miss so far at Mid Cheshire but they are still attending the FE festivals with the next one being held at Sandbach RUFC on the 10th Feb. Sir John Deans have been playing regular fixtures and have been largely successful and St. Nics have been playing when they can. Hopefully next year we will be setting up a Cheshire FE league to help with the development of rugby in that age band.

COUNTY

(Cheshire Womens XV)

So far Cheshire have won both games against Northumberland and Yorkshire with a number of the Northwich women making telling contributions in the victories, particularly Jodie Coutts in the game against Yorkshire. Unfortunately we went down in a close defeat to Lancashire but credit to all the players who did the shirt proud.

Natalie Wilson
Hayley Couttes
Jodie Couttes

COMPS AND FUTURE WORK

State Schools Comps

Year 9 – Thurs 4th Feb

Year 8 – Tues 9th Feb

Year 7 – Thurs 4th March

All to be held at Winnington Park RUFC

FE Festival - 10^th February at Sandbach RUFC 12 30 - 4pm

CPD courses for coaches – Possible dates being the 17^th & 24^th Feb

Young Officials Refs Course – Early Feb at St Nics and May at Weaverham

CLUB WORK

 I will be down this Sunday and then on the following dates:

14^th FEB
10^th MAR
31^st MAR
11^th APR

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VALE ROYAL – Sept-Oct 09

 SCHOOLS

Primary Schools

This half term I have been working with primary schools helping them with their preparations for the Northwich Tag Festival which was successfully held on Friday Oct 9^th and with over 250 pupils taking part it was a great day and thankyou to the club members who took the time to come down and help.

High Schools

I have been running sessions in Hartford, Weaverham and Rudheath where I have been concentrating on Yrs 7,8&9 both boys and girls and a girls afterschool club at Leftwich.

FE

I have delivered sessions at Sir John Deanes and Mid Cheshire College which is slowly and surely taking rugby on board. I arranged a fixture for Mid Cheshire against St Nics which St Nics won in a very keenly contested game. Both colleges took part in the recent FE comp held at Knutsford Rufc which saw Sir John Deanes college come out on top.

COUNTY

(Cheshire Womens XV)

So far Cheshire have won both games against Northumberland and Yorkshire with a number of the Northwich women making telling contributions in the victories, particularly Jodie Couttes in the game against Yorkshire.

Natalie Wilson
Hayley Couttes
Jodie Couttes

COMPS AND FUTURE WORK

High Schools

Yr9 - 12^th November
Yr8 - 17^th November
Yr7 - 24^th November

State Schools Comps
Yr9 - 28^th January
Yr8 - 2^nd February
Yr7 - 4^th March
Yr9 Finals - 18^th March

Girls Roadshow - 25^th November

FE Festival - 9^th December

Club coaching day at Moss Farm - 30^th Oct

CPD courses for coaches – TBA

Young Officials Refs Course – TBA with with local schools

CLUB WORK

So far I have been down at the club on the Sept 6 & 23, October 11 delivering sessions to different age groups. The next date I am down is Sunday 8^th November. Also I delivered a Rugby Ready course at the club on the 14^th September.

In conjunction with the girls delivery Kevin Jones and myself arranged an open training session at the club one Wednesday evening but unfortunately it wasnt successful. Maybe delivering an open taster session at each school then having one at Moss Farm might be the way forward next time?

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VALE ROYAL – November 08

SCHOOLS

Primary Schools

This month despite the weather I have continued to deliver tag rugby to the following primary schools:
Darnhall
Greenfields
Crowton

Emerging Schools
I have continued to help out at the after school rugby club at Rudheath High School and ive gone into Weaverham HS to do some curriculum work with the Yr7 pupils.

Northwich Challenge Cup.
Weaverham, Leftwich, Hartford, Rudheath and Federation Windsford battled it out at Yrs 7 & 8 in the first of the monthly leagues being held at Northwich RUFC, all schools producing entertaining and hard fought games for the spectators watching.

State Schools
Weaverham and Leftwich were the representatives for Vale Royal in the state school finals held at Moss Farm where they both competed well against schools such as Caldy Grange and Bramhall HS.

WOMENS RUGBY

Northwich RUFC held a rugby roadshow day for girls of Yrs 8,9,10 from the local schools, Weaverham and St Nics both attended and enjoyed being coached at all aspects of rugby from the Cheshire Community Rugby Coaches with a number of girls expressing an interest in joining the womens section at Northwich RUFC.

FUTURE PROJECTS

Northwich Challenge Cup
The Northwich challenge cup will begin on Monday 8^th Dec.

Emerging Schools
26/02/09 - Yr7 Emerging Schools Comp - Northwich RUFC
03/03/09 - Yr 8 Emerging Schools Comp - Northwich RUFC

Coach education evenings
I am hoping to hold coach education evenings at the club on a monthly basis covering all aspects of rugby, more info to follow.

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VALE ROYAL – OCT 08

SCHOOLS

Primary Schools

This month saw the Vale Royal Tag festival held at Northwich RUFC, almost 300 pupils from local primary schools took part producing some great rugby with the winners and runners up going on to represent Vale Royal at the tag finals day at Macclesfield RUFC.

Emerging Schools
I have continued to help out at the after school rugby club at Rudheath High School and St. Nics.

I have also delivered a session at Greenbank specialist school and arranged for more sessions to be delivered in preparation for the tag tournament in Blackburn later in the year.

FE Tournament.
Sir John Deans represented Vale Royal at the Further Education Tournament held at Warrington RUFC were they narrowly lost in the semi finals to the eventual winners Warrington Collegiate.

State Schools
Weaverham and Hartford HS were the representatives for Vale Royal in the state school competitons held at Winnington Park RUFC where they both competed well against schools such as Caldy Grange and Bramhall HS.

COUNTY

(Cheshire Womens XV)

Unfortunately the game away to Leicestershire was cancelled due to them being unable to raise a team. On a positive note a number of the Northwich women’s team were selected for the squad:

Natalie Wilson
Hayley Couttes
Mel McPhillips
Karen Gooch
Rachel Birtles

FUTURE PROJECTS

Northwich Challenge Cup -

The Northwich challenge cup will begin on Monday 10^th Nov.

State Schools
The State schools final will be held at Northwich Rufc on Tuesday Nov 4^th.

Emerging Schools
26/02/09 - Yr7 Emerging Schools Comp - Northwich RUFC
03/03/09 - Yr 8 Emerging Schools Comp - Northwich RUFC