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What is touch?
- It’s non-contact
- It’s fun!
- Great way to active and develop transferable movement skills
- Easy to learn
- Can play it anywhere
- It’s inclusive – can be mixed or single gender
- Only need a ball to play
- A great opportunity to introduce young leaders
- Team sport, providing connection with others
- Develops individual social skills
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Underpinned by our core values (Teamwork, Respect, Enjoyment, Discipline, Sportsmanship)Easy to adapt
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Playing touch
There are lots of ways to play, intra or inter school, indoors, ultra-violet, as part of a participation festival, a School Games Organiser activity or within our National Touch to Twickenham event.
We’d recommend playing between 5 and 10-a-side, and as it’s non-contact you can play mixed gender and mixed year group teams. Follow the standard Touch Union rules or adapt these based on needs of your students.
Why not get your young leaders involved as organisers, pitch marshals or referees?
Find out where others are playing via your local club, School Games Organiser, County Schools Union or via the SOCS website.
Are you a school games organiser?
With the ability to adapt and the flexibility Touch offers you, we believe that Touch rugby can really support the young people in your partnership, by providing a format which gets young people active, develops their social skills and supports your activity intents – especially around social connections.
How Touch Rugby can foster social connection:
- It’s a team sport so gives a sense of belonging to a team and the need to work as a team.
- Provides connections with referees, volunteers and opposition players.
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Creates problems solving opportunities for the team.
How you can further develop their social connections:
- Peer coaching.
- Young leader.
- Rewarding connections.
- Set problems within the game.
- Team time out / huddles.
- Provide independent working environments i.e. design a warm up.
- Session design that promotes teamwork i.e. more points for everyone touching the ball
Touch to Twickenham
Touch to Twickenham is a fun and inclusive national programme to drive non-contact participation in schools and colleges in England.
Key information:
- Open to Year 9 mixed and Year 12/year 13 mixed gender teams
- 8-a-side with minimum 4 female students on the pitch at all times
- Year 9 events in April-May 2024 with finals day at Sixways stadium, Worcester in June
- Year 12/Year 13 events (open to both schools and colleges) in February-March 2024 with finals day at Sixways stadium, Worcester in May
- Winners from finals days to play at Twickenham Stadium in November 2024
- Each event is tiered for players with no rugby experience or those who have played before
- Start up support for schools and colleges brand new to rugby.
For more information please visit the event handbook. To enter either or both the Year 9 or Year 12/Year 13 events click here.
