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8- and 9-year-olds within<br />
the programme is the RFL’s<br />
Primary Rugby League<br />
format. This is a modified<br />
touch game that allows<br />
children with a range of<br />
abilities to handle the ball<br />
more often and compete on<br />
an equal footing.<br />
With each team playing six<br />
games during the festival,<br />
players were able to develop<br />
throughout the day. At<br />
the end, individuals were<br />
recognised across the teams<br />
as exhibiting a range of<br />
attributes such as teamwork,<br />
honesty, self-belief and<br />
determination with special<br />
awards being given out for<br />
those players who competed<br />
in the right manner during<br />
the tournament.<br />
The event was the<br />
conclusion of a schools’<br />
Rugby League Programme<br />
that has seen the game<br />
played by over a thousand<br />
children and young people<br />
from across the county.<br />
Starting in December<br />
with the RFL’s flagship<br />
competition, Champion<br />
Schools, the <strong>All</strong> <strong>Golds</strong><br />
have worked with over<br />
40 Gloucestershire<br />
schools alongside talent<br />
development programmes<br />
and other community-based<br />
coaching.<br />
The programme has<br />
also delivered coach<br />
development programmes<br />
to 35 teachers across the<br />
primary and secondary<br />
sector and engaged with a<br />
range of new schools in this<br />
academic year.<br />
Speaking at the event, Dan<br />
Garbutt who manages the<br />
community programme was<br />
keen to praise his staff in<br />
saying: “We’re lucky to have<br />
an excellent and committed<br />
group of young community<br />
coaches, all students at the<br />
university, that make this<br />
happen.<br />
“Without their tireless work<br />
and ongoing commitment<br />
to improving, we wouldn’t<br />
have had the success we’ve<br />
had and the regional and<br />
national recognition that the<br />
programme receives.”<br />
The <strong>All</strong> <strong>Golds</strong> community<br />
programme will be<br />
continuing into the summer<br />
with community club<br />
coaching and the schools<br />
programme will restart in<br />
September.<br />
With an ever-growing<br />
programme, the community<br />
department will be planning<br />
to expand the number of<br />
schools and areas involved<br />
in <strong>2016</strong>/17, following a<br />
successful first foray into the<br />
Forest of Dean this year.<br />
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