The GRASSROOTS RUGBY CD ROM is a coaching manual aimed at teaching the fundamentals of Rugby Union and, as such, it provides a wealth of essential information useful to both teachers and pupils and material specifically applicable to units of national PE curricula.

GRASSROOTS RUGBY can be used on a single computer or a network and can be displayed on Smart Boards and interactive Whiteboards. Its information is presented in a series of conventional browser pages which include images, diagrams and Macromedia Flash animations as well as text. It is comprehensively hyperlinked and includes a full Table of Contents and a Glossary of technical terms.

Thus, it is suitable for individual study by pupils aged 11 through 16 by and teachers as well as for group teaching and discussion sessions.

Rugby Union Rugby Union is a classic invasion game and almost all of its tactics and strategy are aimed at creating opportunities for one team to penetrate the other team's territory - and the remainder at creating situations that prevent this penetration! It is axiomatic in Rugby that understanding your opponents' defence tactics is a crucial key to developing successful attacks. Rugby is also a classic co-operation game. Of course, individual brilliance may produce a score but many, many more scores are made by the attacking team working together to create and then exploit scoring opportunities. Likewise, the most impregnable defences are all characterised by perfect co-ordination and co-operation. One of the enduring qualities of Rugby, particularly apparent at school levels, is the opportunities it provides to children of all physical shapes and sizes to participate fully.

Use GRASSROOTS RUGBY to meet specific Physical Education curriculum requirements in England (QCA/DfES Standards for PE Key Stages 1-4) and the equivalent levels in Wales , Scotland, Northern Ireland and, of course, the rest of the world.

• Acquiring and developing skills
  • GRASSROOTS RUGBY identifies and explains a wide variety of individual and group rugby skills.
  • GRASSROOTS RUGBY clearly shows the application and hence provides the impetus for the development of these skills.
• Selecting and applying skills and compositional ideas
• GRASSROOTS RUGBY stresses the need to identify attacking opportunities and select the appropriate tactic to exploit them.
• GRASSROOTS RUGBY stresses the need for players to support each other as individuals and units.
• Knowledge and understanding of fitness
• Evaluating and improving fitness
• By encouraging fitness as a key ingredient of rugby success GRASSROOTS RUGBY provides opportunities for a result-oriented evaluation of fitness.

Click on Lesson Plans below for sample Physical Education lesson plans. You are welcome share your Lesson Plans based on GRASSROOTS RUGBY with other teachers. Simply  them to me AS ATTACHMENTS and I'll publish them on this site.