Background:

Many schools in our cluster have tackle rugby teams and kids who are keen to play rugby for their school. Unfortunately, there is no opportunity in our current Inter-school calendar to cater for tackle rugby. Therefore schools have agreed to take part in the inaugural event.

Purpose:

To provide an opportunity for students to engage in tackle rugby games and developing manaakitanga by hosting and travelling away.

Schools involved:

Upper Hutt, Trentham, Silverstream, Maoribank, Totara Park, Fraser Crescent, St Joseph’s and Oxford Crescent.

Pools:

Structure of Competition:

• Pools A and B have been organised according to the amount of club players for each school. This ensures that these players have been appropriately trained and coached according to rugby union guidelines.  
• After 3 games, a playoff game will occur between Pool A and B winners.
• Point system 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a loss. Please record this in this sheet. If points are level after 3 games, points differential will be used to determine winners of each pool.

Manaakitanga and Kawa for games:

• Haka - Some schools may perform a haka. It doesn’t matter if your school doesn’t have a haka. They simply need to stand on the 10m line and watch respectfully. Schools are to inform each other whether they are going to perform a haka in advance, if both schools are going to perform a haka then the away team will do the first haka followed by the home team.

• Note: during the haka no team is to pass halfway line.

• A small snack or food should be provided by the home team to show hospitality to the travelling team. This could be a sausage sizzle, bring a plate or some baking etc.