Contents:
1.Development year plan
2.Coaching updates in club
3.local academy tournament dates and plans
4.season development structure
1. Development year plan
School activity:
Mackie rugby club will offer all local primary schools and all academies a block of rugby sessions. This will be offered throughout the school year. Primary
schools will be offered 6-8 week blocks of fun rugby activities, as well as The 6 week Foods standards programme in the Portlethen cluster.
All primary clusters will finish their blocks with a festival.
Mackie will also offer all academies in the region 6-8 week blocks of contact rugby pe sessions, this will be offered throughout term 1 and 2 of the school
year. Academies will have local tournaments and fixtures.
Academy pupils will also be offered a youth coaching programme to allow them to experience coaching and gain a qualification. The aim of this is to
promote coaching opportunities for the club at mini level.
Coach education:
Mackie development will offer all club coaches the chance to attend updates ran at the mini level and youth level, Concentrating on key national themes
and principles of play.
There will also be opportunities for coaches to attend regional and national updates supplied by the SRU.
All coaches and volunteers will sit through the rugby ready courses set for the start of the season. And will have chance to sit level 1s and 2 courses
throughout the year.
Club activity:
In the first half of the season, Mackie rugby club will get support from myself at all levels if required. I will coach at s1,s2 level to help the development of
the youth section as well as offering sessions at mini level. I will work with schools to gain more players into the club and keen the bridges strong
throughout.
In the second half of the season i will be taking 15 players at u15u16 level who have shown commitment, skill and focus through the first half of the season.
We will host our own club rugby academy where these players will be offered specialist sessions and coaching to get the best of their ability out. The
sessions they will receive weekly are:
Tuesday: key national themes
Wednesday: club training
Thurday: conditioning
Friday: gym work
Sunday: match
2. Coaching updates in club
mini dates
topic
age group to use
september 14th 2013
Warm ups, continuity
p7
november 23th 2013
offload, handling
p6
January 18th 2014
tackle
p5
youth dates
topic
age group to use
october 23th 2013
Defence,
s1/2
december 7th 2013
Lineouts, scrum
u15,u16
february 15th 2014
tackle, ball press
s1/s2
coaches fun day and CPD
topic
21ST June 2014
game coaching, whole part whole approach.
BBQ beers, games
3.local academy tournament dates and plans.
These games will be for Mearns academy, Mackie academy/Portlethen Academy and Montrose/ lathallan school.
Plan for next school year:
Term 1:
S1-2 u16 and u18
full match. Wednesday the 11th September. Redcloak 4-6pm
Term 2:
S1-2 u16 and u18
full match Thursday the 5th December. Mearns academy 4-6pm
Term 3:
S1-2 u16 and u18
ten aside game. Tuesday 11th February. Redcloak 4-6pm
Term 4:
S1-2 u16 and u18
ten aside. Wednesday the 12th June . Mearns academy 4-6pm
tri schools annual tournament end of June at redcloak.
There will also be regional events like s1-2 10s, u16 u18 7s, and Grampian 7s throughout the year.
3. Seasonal development plan
Year 13/14 planning
Term 1 and 2 of schools will be working on quantity of players.
Actions for term 1/2
Hours of work
Pe sessions in academies
Tuesday 9am - 4.30pm
Sessions in primaries
Wednesday 9am - 8pm
minimum of 3 primary school festivals
Thursday 11am- 9pm
Minimum of 3 academy games
Friday 9am- 12pm
3/4 club updates
Sat 9am-12.30pm then match
Afterschool clubs
Sunday verious
FSA programme
Rugby ready courses
Youth coaching course
Cluster
All
All
All
All
Club
All
Portlethen schools
Club
Mearns academy
Term 3/4 will be concentrating on quality of our youth in the club and schools producing Mackie rugby academy for 15 "elite"
players
Actions for term 3/4
Age group
Hours of work
2 club updates on KNTS.
Youth, minis
Tuesday 12pm - 7pm
2 sessions of specialist KNT coaching a week
S2-u16
Wednesday 12pm- 8pm
2/3 classes of strength and conditioning a week
S2-u16
Thursday 3.30pm- 9pm
Afterschool academy training
S1-u16
Friday 12pm-3pm then 7pm-9pm
2/3 development days for academies
All
Saturday 9am- 11.30am them match
2 development days for girls in academies
All
Sunday verious
Street rugby sessions
All
Primary activity weeks
P4-7
Age group targetted
s1-2
S1 and s2
P4-5
S1-6
S1/2, u16/18
Timescale
6 week block
8 week block
5 week block
All term
All term
S1-3
P4-5
S1-6
S1/2 u16/18
5 week block
6 week block
All term
All term
Year breakdown
Term 1
School rugby
portlethen academy pe sessions
Mearns academy PE sessions
Portlethen primaries PE sessions
3 academy after school clubs
Hold local derby games
Club rugby
Coaches updates
Coach s1/2 level.
Support coaching at minis
rugby ready courses
Term 2
School rugby
Mackie academy pe sessions
Stonehaven primaries pe sessions
After school clubs
Local derby games
youth coaching course mearns?
Club rugby
Coaches updates
Support minis
Coach s1/2
term 3 and 4
school rugby
3 academy afterschool training
local derby games
mearns academy FOODS standards
health weeks
club rugby
coaches updates
coach s1-2
Key themes training elite
conditioning elite
gym work elite
s1-6
s12. u16 u18
p5
15 players
15 players
15 players
all term
all term
6 week block