Over the past three weeks, our PE lessons have centred around rugby skills, especially passing and moving with the ball. Pupils have been learning key rules of the game:

• Passes must go backwards.
• The team must stay behind the ball carrier.

To reinforce these skills, we’ve played a variety of fun and active games:

🎯 Canadian Goose

Everyone starts with a ball. On command, balls are placed down and one is removed. Players without a ball become robbers, trying to steal balls and pull flags from others.

🏃 Flag Fury

Players move freely, trying to collect flags from others and attach them to their own belts—only one flag per person before moving on.

🐻 Bears and Buffaloes

Pairs line up in the middle. On their team name being called, they run to score a try while the opposing team tries to pull their tags.

🚪 Great Escape

Attackers start in a central square and try to escape to the edge without losing their tag, while defenders attempt to stop them.

❄️ Rugby Freeze Tag

Catchers tag others using the ball. Tagged players freeze with hands up until freed by a high five.

This year, all classes will be working on the same activity in PE, with each class developing skills at their own level. We started the year with a Football block, focusing on building confidence and ability in key skills.

In Primary 2/3, our objective was to develop dribbling and passing skills. The pupils worked hard throughout the block, gaining confidence and making great progress with their skills.

It has been wonderful to see the pupils settle in quickly and adapt to the new class structure so well. We look forward to continuing this positive start as we move into our next activity block!

Here we are doing a team work exercise.  The group had to move around, but the middle person wasn’t allowed to touch the hoop.

Here we are practising our passing and dribbling skills.