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Welcome to the New Season

The season starts for the Juniors on Sunday 5th September.

Due to requests from parents, we are starting at the revised time of 10.30am, sessions will still last for 1 hour .

Can you please ensure that you bring your child(ren) ready to start training at 10.30am and sign in as required.

About Junior Rugby

We now have a thriving Junior Rugby section which involves those aspiring players from the age of six and includes both boys and girls.

• Click here to see the highlights of the 2009 / 2010 Seasons

Supervision of training and matches is undertaken by qualified coaches and parents are welcome at both the on field events and the off field socialising.

• Click here for an Application Form in PDF format

The details below give information about the Junior Section activities, who to contact for further information and pictures and match reports.

The RFU Framework for Mini & Junior Rugby

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is the governing body of Rugby in the UK and has an extensive framework covering the intoduction of young people to the game. This covers the way in which the game should be played by different age groups with safety and enjoyment while helping to develop sportsmanship, respect for officials and opponents and other ideals.

The following links are to RFU documents that provide further information:

• Under 7 & Under 8 Mini Tag Rugby (Stage 1)
• Under 9 & Under 10 Mini Rugby (Stage 2)
• Under 11 & Under 12 Mini Rugby (Stage 3)

For further information on any aspects of Junior and Mini Rugby, please contact any of the officials on this page.

Junior Rugby Coaching

We welcome any girls and boys aged between 6 and 13 to join us  between 11 and 12 on a Sunday morning during the Rugby Season - under 9s play non-contact tag.

All coaches are fully RFU qualified and their contact numbers are:

Under  7	Peter Bradshaw Carl Handley Sue Hillan	07771 672279 07808 771515
Under 8	Tony Burton Steve Williams	07930 113043
Under 9	Tim Hassall Jimmie Mackie Jo O'D (Hillan)	07799 233107
Under 10	Mark Hillan Derek Prescott Steve Roper	07720 636692
Under 12	Martin Varley Ian Westwater Eddie Flynn	07873 245983 07930 404643

We are still looking for other volunteers to help with the coaching, in the kitchen and with the clothing so feel free to contact Mark, Tony or Jane.

Seal of Approval

Parkonians Rugby Club has achieved RFU Seal Of Approval accreditation thanks to a lot of work from Junior section coaches Tony Burton and Mark Hillan.

The RFU has worked with Sport England to integrate the Mini and Youth Seal of Approval accreditation with the Sport England Clubmark Scheme to ensure that safe, effective, child-friendly club standards are met, with stringent policies and procedures adhered to by all club coaches, officials, members and supporters.

Any club awarded the Community Rugby Mini and Youth Seal of Approval will also have achieved Clubmark accreditation.

Club coaches Tony Burton & Mark Hillan with Matthew Burton & Luke Hillan and the Seal of Approval Certificates & the Coaches, children and Certificates Click a picture to see the detail

Mini Rugby ~ from aged 6

We run a mini rugby section for boys and girls aged from 5 upwards. They are coached by Tony Burton, Mark Hillan and Martin Varley (all qualified level 1 coaches) with assistance from other members.

We need to congratulate Mark Hillan who has applied for and been granted a substantial amount of money from the Your Wirral fund to set the mini section up.

This will be used to buy equipment and pay for other members to become qualified as coaches, also hopefully seeing Old Parkonians coaches going into the local schools to train the children.

If we can bring the children in at  a young age hopefully they will be the Old Parks of the future!

Anyone interested in the Mini Rugby section should contact either or .

u7 and u9 Tag Rugby

Tony Burton coaching Tag Rugby

We are now running Tag Rugby training for under 7s and under 9s. Tag rugby is a fast-moving, non-contact game suitable for boys and girls to play together.

We are now running sessions on Sundays for 1 hour from 11 o'clock.

Qualified coaches Tony Burton, Martin Varley and Mark Hillan aided by Ian Westwater run the session, with around 25 young enthusiasts regularly turning out to train.

It a a fun morning with tea, coffee and toast provided for the adults and hot dogs and juice for the kids after they've used up all their energy!

Anyone interested in learning tag rugby and joining the training should contact either or .

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Junior / Mini Rugby Fixtures ~ 2010 / 2011

The current fixtures are as follows:

Date	Under 7	Under 8	Under 9	Under 10	Under 12
03/10/2010	Helsby Home	Helsby Home	Helsby Home	Helsby Home	Helsby Home
10/10/2010	Caldy Away	Caldy Away	Caldy Away	Caldy Away	Caldy Away
17/10/2010
24/10/2010	Wirral Away	Wirral Away	Wirral Away	Wirral Away	Wirral Away
31/10/2010
07/11/2010
14/11/2010
21/11/2010	Hoylake Away	Hoylake Away	Hoylake Away	Hoylake Away
28/11/2010	Helsby Home	Helsby Home	Helsby Home	Helsby Home	Helsby Home
Mid - Winter Break
20/02/2011	Wirral Home	Wirral Home	Wirral Home	Wirral Home	Wirral Home
27/02/2011
06/03/2011	Caldy Home	Caldy Home	Caldy Home	Caldy Home	Caldy Home
13/03/2011
20/03/2011
27/03/2011	Hoylake Home	Hoylake Home	Hoylake Home	Hoylake Away
03/04/2011
10/04/2011
17/04/2011	Helsby Away	Helsby Away	Helsby Away	Helsby Away	Helsby Away
24/04/2011

 

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