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Unit Plan
Primary School (1-7)
2013- 2015
Unit Plan
Primary (Years 1-7)
2013 - 2015
Action shot from the 2011 Junior State Cup
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Table of Contents
Unit Summary .................................................................................................................................... 1
Overview .......................................................................................................................................... 2
Implementation ................................................................................................................................. 3
Lesson Summary .............................................................................................................................. 4
Oztag Assessment Sheet ................................................................................................................... 8
Year 1 Lesson Plans ......................................................................................................................... 10
Year 1 - Lesson Plan 1 ................................................................................................................... 11
Year 1 - Lesson Plan 2 ................................................................................................................... 16
Year 1 - Lesson Plan 3 ................................................................................................................... 21
Year 1 - Lesson Plan 4 ................................................................................................................... 25
Year 1 - Lesson Plan 5 ................................................................................................................... 30
Year 2 Lesson Plans ......................................................................................................................... 32
Year 2 - Lesson Plan 1 ................................................................................................................... 33
Year 2 - Lesson Plan 2 ................................................................................................................... 38
Year 2 - Lesson Plan 3 ................................................................................................................... 43
Year 2 - Lesson Plan 4 ................................................................................................................... 49
Year 2 - Lesson Plan 5 ................................................................................................................... 54
Year 3 Lesson Plans ......................................................................................................................... 56
Year 3 - Lesson Plan 1 ................................................................................................................... 57
Year 3 - Lesson Plan 2 ................................................................................................................... 62
Year 3 - Lesson Plan 3 ................................................................................................................... 67
Year 3 - Lesson Plan 4 ................................................................................................................... 72
Year 3 - Lesson Plan 5 ................................................................................................................... 77
Year 4 Lesson Plans ......................................................................................................................... 79
Year 4 - Lesson Plan 1 ................................................................................................................... 80
Year 4 - Lesson Plan 2 ................................................................................................................... 86
Year 4 - Lesson Plan 3 ................................................................................................................... 93
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Year 4 - Lesson Plan 4 ................................................................................................................... 97
Year 4 - Lesson Plan 5 ................................................................................................................. 102
Year 5 Lesson Plans ....................................................................................................................... 105
Year 5 - Lesson Plan 1 ................................................................................................................. 106
Year 5 - Lesson Plan 2 ................................................................................................................. 112
Year 5 - Lesson Plan 3 ................................................................................................................. 119
Year 5 - Lesson Plan 4 ................................................................................................................. 123
Year 5 - Lesson Plan 5 ................................................................................................................. 128
Year 6 Lesson Plans ....................................................................................................................... 130
Year 6 - Lesson Plan 1 ................................................................................................................. 131
Year 6 - Lesson Plan 2 ................................................................................................................. 139
Year 6 - Lesson Plan 3 ................................................................................................................. 145
Year 6 - Lesson Plan 4 ................................................................................................................. 151
Year 6 - Lesson Plan 5 ................................................................................................................. 156
Year 7 Lesson Plans ....................................................................................................................... 159
Year 7 - Lesson Plan 1 ................................................................................................................. 160
Year 7 - Lesson Plan 2 ................................................................................................................. 167
Year 7 - Lesson Plan 3 ................................................................................................................. 173
Year 7 - Lesson Plan 4 ................................................................................................................. 179
Year 7 - Lesson Plan 5 ................................................................................................................. 184
Additional Drills ............................................................................................................................. 187
Tagging, Twisting and Spinning .................................................................................................. 188
Passing .......................................................................................................................................... 191
Kicking ......................................................................................................................................... 193
Attacking moves ........................................................................................................................... 195
Decision Making/Reaction ........................................................................................................... 197
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Unit Summary
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Overview
Title: Oztag for Primary Age Students
Unit
Overview:
This unit aims to provide students with an experience in a game that may not be
familiar with, Oztag. As well as teaching basic rules, tactics and game play, the unit
is designed to give students an understanding and appreciation of the skills
fundamental to Oztag, in particular those that make Oztag unique. It is also designed
to help students improve their abilities in similar sports such as touch football, rugby
league and rugby union through use of skills also used in these sports.
Duration: The unit duration for each year level is:
• Five weeks
• One lesson plan per week
• One lesson plan = 30 minutes
• Total duration = 150 minutes
Year Levels: Primary i.e. years 1 - 7
Unit
Outcomes:
The key unit outcomes offers students opportunities to develop knowledge,
processes, skills and attitudes necessary for making informed decisions about:
• Developing concepts and skills for physical activity:
o Catching
o Ball handling – running with the ball
o Passing
o Kicking
o Playing the ball
o Applying game tactics
o Offensive moves – draw and pass, wrap, switch, overs, unders
o Defensives skills – 1 on 1, 2 on 1, 3 on 2, wrap, switch
o Unique Oztag skills – tagging, twisting and spinning
• Enhancing personal development:
o Communication
o Decision making
o Team work
o Leadership
o Self confidence
o Following instructions
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Implementation
Lesson
Plans:
Lessons plans contained within the unit address specific needs of each year level
from years 1 to 7. Lessons plans allow for the Qld Education designated 30 minute
Physical Education lessons primary school students are to receive.
Teachers should allocate more time to participating/practicing and less on
explaining/demonstrating. Whilst correcting technique is the goal, more focus
should be placed on the participation and enjoyment of the skills used.
Lesson Plan
Structure:
The following structure has been applied to the five lesson plans:
• Lesson 1 = Introduction of key Oztag skills
• Lesson 2 = Revising, refining and expansion of key Oztag skills
• Lesson 3 = Revising, refining and expansion of key Oztag skills
• Lesson 4 = Introduction of game skills and rules
• Lesson 5 = Expansion and refining of game skills and rules, and assessment
Resources: Materials and resources required for the unit:
• Oztag School Development Kit
o Ball
o Rule book
o Tags
o Belts
• Markers/Witches hats
• Whistle
• Hoops
• Field space
Additional resources that can assist in the unit’s implementation:
• Qld Oztag Website – www.queenslandoztag.com.au
• Australian Oztag Website – www.oztag.com.au
• Oztag Merchandise – www. oztag.com
• Local Oztag Venue Coordinators – consult the Qld Oztag website for contact
details
• Oztag shorts are also available to be purchased from Oztag Merchandise.
These are used in replace of the Oztag belts.
Assessment: A generic assessment sheet is provided to be used for each year’s plan. The
assessment sheet provided is a starting point for developing the specific criteria
based assessment relevant to your school and year level curriculum plans.
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Lesson Summary
Year 1
Lesson Plan Focus Areas
1 • Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Defensive skills – tagging
2 • Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Attacking skills – ball handling
3 • Attacking skills – ball handling
• Attacking skills – passing
4
• Attacking skills – scoring a try
• Attacking skills – play the ball
• Basic Oztag rules
5 • Basic Oztag rules
Year 2
Lesson Plan Focus Areas
1 • Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Defensive skills – tagging
2 • Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Attacking skills – ball handling
3 • Defensive skills – tagging
• Offensive skills – twisting and spinning
4
• Attacking skills – scoring a try
• Attacking skills – play the ball
• Basic Oztag rules
5 • Basic Oztag rules
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Year 3
Lesson Plan Focus Areas
1 • Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Defensive skills – tagging
2
• Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Offensive skills – passing
• Offensive skills – ball handling
3 • Defensive skills – tagging
• Offensive skills – twisting and spinning
4
• Attacking Skills - scoring a try
• Attacking Skills - play the ball
• Basic Oztag rules
5 • Basic Oztag rules
Year 4
Lesson Plan Focus Areas
1
• Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Offensive skills – passing
• Offensive skills – ball handling
2
• Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Defensive skills – tagging
• Offensive skills – twisting and spinning
3 • Offensive skills – kicking
4
• Attacking Skills - scoring a try
• Attacking Skills - play the ball
• Basic Oztag rules
5 • Basic Oztag rules
• Attacking skills - 2 on 1 attacking (draw and pass)
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Year 5
Lesson Plan Focus Areas
1
• Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Offensive skills – passing
• Offensive skills – ball handling
2
• Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Defensive skills – tagging
• Offensive skills – twisting and spinning
3 • Offensive skills – kicking
4
• Basic Oztag rules
• Attacking skills - draw and pass
• Attacking skills - wrapping
5 • Basic Oztag rules
• Defensive skills – wrap
Year 6
Lesson Plan Focus Areas
1
• Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Defensive skills – tagging
• Offensive skills – twisting and spinning
2 • Offensive skills – draw and pass
• Offensive skills – decision making in attack
3 • Defensive skills – wrapping and switching
• Offensive skills – wrapping and switching
4
• Defensive skills – wrapping and switching
• Offensive skills – wrapping and switching
• Offensive skills – decision making in attack
5 • Oztag rules
• Offensive skills – kicking
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Year 7
Lesson Plan Focus Areas
1
• Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Defensive skills – tagging
• Offensive skills – twisting and spinning
2 • Defensive skills – wrapping and switching
• Offensive skills – wrapping and switching
3 • Offensive skills – unders and overs
• Offensive skills – decision making in attack
4 • Communication
• Offensive skills – decision making in attack
5 • Oztag rules
• Offensive skills – kicking
Action shot from the 2011 Junior State Cup
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Oztag Assessment Sheet
Level Skills Game Rules and Tactics Participation
1 Demonstrates a very limited ability Displays zero knowledge No involvement
2 Demonstrates a limited ability Attempts to use tactics, basic knowledge of rules Little involvement
3 Demonstrates a sound ability - Performed accurately Uses basic tactics, moderate knowledge of rules Moderate involvement
4 Demonstrates a high ability - Performed accurately at speed Successfully selects tactics to use, high knowledge of rules High involvement
5 Demonstrates a very high ability - Performed consistently
accurate at speed
Consistently and successfully selects tactics to use, very high
knowledge of rules Very high involvement
Student
Level
Passing Catching Tagging Tag Evasion Kicking Playing the
ball
Game Rules
and Tactics Participation Total
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
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11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
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Year 1 Lesson Plans
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Year 1 - Lesson Plan 1
Focus Areas: Introduction of key Oztag skills:
• Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Defensive skills – tagging
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Put on an Oztag belt
• Explain where to place tags on the Oztag belts
• Make a tag in a defensive situation
• Apply tagging skills in a simulated game situation
• Explain basic technique needed to make a tag
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(3 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Simon Says)
• Use the game of Simon Says to get students to do move around using various locomotion e.g.
skipping, jogging, jumping, hopping etc
• Incorporate locomotion you would use in Oztag e.g. sideways sliding, twisting, spinning
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Key Teaching Points:
• Explain the importance of warming up and stretching
• As they are warming up explain to students that they will be doing Oztag
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Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 2 – Putting on a Belt and Tags
• Have students sitting as a group
• Explain how to put on a belt and tags and demonstrate
• Have students place on their own belts (assistance will be required)
• Allocate students into two different groups (reflective of the two different colour tags). As you call
out a colour have that student go and put on that colour tags
Key Teaching Points:
• Fury side of the belt to the outside
• Oztag logo on the belt to the front and middle
• Have the belt rap around your waist
• Tags to sit on either side of your waist and hanging straight down
• Special Oztag shorts can be used and if you play at a competition you will have to play in a pair
Oztag Belts
Tags
Body
(2 minutes)
Activity 3 – Tagging
• Have students sit as a group
• Demonstrate to the students how to make a tag – use a student as a volunteer
• Ask students to stand up and practice tagging them selves
Key Teaching Points:
• Use two hands – it’s easier to make the tag
• Use the palm of your hands NOT fingers – just like swatting a mosquito
• When you make the tag just throw it on the ground – make sure you throw it straight down not away
from where you are standing
• STRESS: Zero contact including that the attacker is not allowed to push the defenders hand away
Oztag Belts
Tags
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• No jumping by the attacker in avoiding being tagged
Body
(8 minutes)
Activity 4 – Tagging One-on-One
• Split class into two teams
• Create channels using markers 2 m wide and 4 m long – enough for each member of a team
• Have both teams at the end either end of the channels, 1 player from each team per channel standing
in the middle of the markers
• Team A runs towards team B and try to run over the line without being tagged
• Team B must try and make the tag on team A
• Get 5 turns each and rotate
• Make a game of it by seeing how many tries/tags each team can make and have the other team try to
beat it
Key Teaching Points:
• Students must stay in their channel or they have run out
• No contact
• Use both hands and palms to make the tag
• Explain that the end line between the markers is like the tryline in Oztag
Oztag Belts
Tags
Markers
2m
4m
B B
A A
B
A
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Body
(10 minutes)
Activity 5 – Modified Game (Red Rover)
• Set up a field 25m wide x 30m long
• Have two defenders in the centre of the field and all other players as attackers at one side of the field
• On the whistle all attackers must run across the field to the other side (to score a try), and the
defenders must make as many tags as possible
• Once tagged the attacker then becomes a defender
• Repeat until the last two students remaining as attackers wins and becomes the first defenders for the
next game
• Variation – team 1 v team 2.
o Have 1 whole team in the middle as defenders and another whole team as attacker, then
swap. Team that has the most successful runs without all players being tagged is the
winners.
Key Teaching Points:
• Students must stay in the field or they have run out and become defenders
• No contact
• Use both hands and palms to make the tag
• If tagged the attacker simply places his/her tags on and becomes a defender
• Explain to students that the end lines are like try lines in a game of Oztag
Oztag Belts
Tags
Markers
Whistle
A
A
A
A
A
A
B
B
30m
25m
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Conclusion
(1 minute)
Activity 6 – Packing up equipment
• Demonstrate to students how to roll up belts
• Ask student to roll up belts and place tags into the two different colour piles
Key Teaching Points:
• Start rolling up belt with fury side to the outside, and at the non-logo end of the belt
Belts
Tags
Conclusion
(1 minute)
Activity 7 – Revise Key Points
• Sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the following questions:
o Where do we wear the belt on our body?
o Where do the tags sit on your belt?
o How many hands do we make a tag with?
o What part of the hand do we tag with?
o Are you allowed to push the defenders hands away when they try to tag you?
o Are you allowed to jump to avoid being tagged?
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Year 1 - Lesson Plan 2
Focus Areas: Revising, refining and expansion of key Oztag skills:
• Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Attacking skills – ball handling
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Put on an Oztag belt
• Explain where to place tags on the Oztag belts
• Apply ball handling skills in a simulated game situation
• Explain basic technique used in ball handling
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(3 minutes)
Activity 1 - Revise putting on belts and tags
• Sit students as a whole group and ask if they can remember how to put on belts and tags - ask for
volunteers to explain
• Ensure correct technique is mentioned
• Ask student to place on the belts and tags ensuring there is even numbers between the two different
tags colours – provide assistance as required
Key Teaching Points:
• Fury side of the belt to the outside
• Oztag logo on the belt to the front and middle
Belts
Tags
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• Have the belt rap around your waist
• Tags to sit on either side of your waist and hanging straight down
Introduction
(3 minutes)
Activity 2 - Warm Up (Catch/Tag)
• Ask students to partner off with someone from the opposite team i.e. with different tags on
• On the whistle students from team A must run around and students from team B must try and tag
them
• Allow sufficient time for tags to be made, or until all tags have been made
• Alternate turns
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Key Teaching Points:
• Correct technique to make a tag i.e. using two hands and palms NOT fingers
• No contact or fending
Belts
Tags
Whistle
Body
(4 minutes)
Activity 3 – Ball Handling
• Sit students as a whole group and ask explain how to hold the ball as you are running
• Provide demonstration
• Get students to practice holding the ball and running short distances with it.
• Ensure all students get a turn
Key Teaching Points:
• Both hands on the ball
• Ball held out in front of the body
Balls
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Body
(8 minutes)
Activity 4 – Oztag Relay
• Set up two relay channels (one for each team/tag colour) 30m apart
• Split each team into two
• All team members must have belts but only the 1st runners have tags on
• Have each half of the team line up at either end of the relay channel.
• One side starts with the ball and runs to the other side – to their team mates
• The 2nd runner removes the tags from the 1st runner and places them on, the 1
st runner then gives the
ball to 2nd
runner who runs back to the other side
• Repeat until all team members have run
• If a tag falls off during the run the runner must put the tag back on before continuing
• 1st team to get their last runner across the line wins
• Repeat 3 times
Key Teaching Points:
• Both hands on the ball
• Ball held out in front of the body
Belts
Tags
2 x Balls
Whistle
30m
A A A A A A A A
B B B B B B B B
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Body
(10 minutes)
Activity 5 – Red Rover Game (With Oztag Balls)
• As for lesson 1 however attackers carry balls – if there are not enough balls just ensure that students
share and take it in turns
Key Teaching Points:
• Students must stay in the field or they have run out and become defenders
• No contact
• Use both hands and palms to make the tag
• Carry ball with both hands and out in front of body
• Explain to students that the end lines are like try lines in a game of Oztag
Belts
Tags
Balls
Whistle
Conclusion
(1 minute)
Activity 6 – Revise Packing up equipment
• Ask student how we roll up the belts. Demonstrate if needed
• Ask student to roll up belts and place tags into the two different colour piles
Key Teaching Points:
• Start rolling up belt with fury side to the outside, and at the non-logo end of the belt
Belts
Tags
A
A
A
A
A
A
B
B
30m
25m
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Conclusion
(1 minute)
Activity 7 – Revise Key Points
• Sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the following questions:
o Where do we wear the belt on our body?
o Where do the tags sit on your belt?
o How many hands do we make a tag with?
o What part of the hand do we tag with?
o How many hands do we carry the ball with?
o Where do we carry the ball?
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Year 1 - Lesson Plan 3
Focus Areas: Revising, refining and expansion of key Oztag skills:
• Attacking skills – ball handling
• Attacking skills – passing
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Pass a ball in an attacking situation
• Explain basic technique needed to pass a ball
• Run with an Oztag ball
• Explain basic technique used in running with the ball
• Apply running and passing skills in a simulated game situation
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up
• Have students place on tags and belts – ensure even numbers in teams
• Set out a grid 20m x 20m – no one is allowed outside of the grid
• On the whistle students have to run around and tag as many people as they can while still avoiding
having their own tags removed
• The person with the most tags wins
• Repeat as needed
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Tags
Belts
Markers
Whistle
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Key Teaching Points:
• Enforce correct technique to make a tag – two hands and using palms
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 2 – Passing Technique
• Explain and demonstrate to students correct technique in passing the ball
• Have students pair off and practice passing to each other – no more than 2 metres apart.
Key Teaching Points:
• 2 hands on the ball
• Stand side on to the person you are passing the ball too
• Turn shoulders slightly to face the person you are passing the ball too
• Swing arms like an elephants trunk towards person you are passing the ball to and release the ball
• Point to the player you have passed the ball to once released.
Balls
Body
(8 minutes)
Activity 3 – Passing Relay
• Set out 2 lines of markers with 2m between each marker
• Have the two teams line up with one student per marker
• The ball starts at one end of the line and must be passed to the end of the line going through all sets
of hands.
• The first team to get ball up and back wins
• Repeat as needed
2 x Balls
Markers
2m
A
B
A A A A A
B B B B B
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Key Teaching Points:
• Correct passing technique
Body
(10 minutes)
Activity 4 – Modified Game
• Set up a field of 25m by 30m
• Place several hoops sporadically on the field.
• Have the two teams spread out on the field
• Each team will receive a ball
• To score a point the ball must be held inside a hoop – the ball can be carried into a hoop or passed to
a person standing in one
• Each team must focus on scoring and stopping the other teams scoring
• To stop the other team scoring they must tag the person with the ball. If this is done the ball is given
to the other side – i.e. it is possible for a team to have possession of both balls.
• Highest score wins
Tags
Belts
Whistle
2 x Balls
Markers
Hoops
30m
25m
A
A
A
A
A
A B
B B
B
B
B
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Key Teaching Points:
• Passing – two hands on ball, swing arms like an elephant, stand side on to the person
• Ball Handling – two hand on ball and ball out in front
• Tagging – use two hands and palms of the hands
Conclusion
(2 minutes)
Activity 5 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o How many hands do we use when passing the ball?
o How do we swing our arms when we pass?
o How do we stand when passing – side on or facing the person we are passing to?
o How many hands do we carry the ball with?
o Where do we carry the ball?
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Year 1 - Lesson Plan 4
Focus Areas: Introduction of game skills and rules:
• Attacking skills – scoring a try
• Attacking skills – play the ball
• Basic Oztag rules
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Explain how to score a try in a game of Oztag
• Demonstrate how to play the ball if tagged in a game of Oztag
• Demonstrate dummy half skills – run or pass
• Apply play the ball skills in a game situation
• Explain basic rules used in a game of Oztag
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up
• Have students place on tags and belts – ensure even numbers in teams
• Set out a grid 20m x 20m – no one is allowed outside of the grid
• Give 4 or 5 students a ball
• On the whistle students with a ball have to run around and avoid being tagged
• Students without balls have to tags those with the balls
• Once tagged the person must give the ball to the person who made the tag
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
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Key Teaching Points:
• Ball Handling – two hand on ball and ball out in front
• Tagging – use two hands and palms of the hands
Body
(3 minutes)
Activity 2 – Play the Ball Demonstration
• Explain and demonstrate how and when to play the ball
• In threes have student practice playing the ball – 1 as the defender who removes the tag, 1 as the
attacker who plays the ball and one as the dummy half who picks the ball up and runs
Key Teaching Points:
• Defender removes tag and then holds up the tag and drops it to the ground marking where the play
the ball should occur
• Run back to where tag is on the ground, face your try line
• Place the ball on ground in front with ends of ball pointing to sidelines
• Place the ball horizontally on the ground
• Put one foot on top of the ball & heel or gently roll the ball behind to dummy half
• Pick up and re-attach tag quickly
• Dummy half can either run with the ball or pass to the 1st receiver
Belts
Tags
Balls
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 3 – Play the Ball Tunnel Ball
• Set up two relay channels (one for each team/tag colour) 10m apart
• Have 1m intervals between markers
• All team members must have belts and tags on
• Have each team line up on the markers (1 player to each marker) all facing the same direction
• One side starts with the ball
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
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• Have 1st person play the ball, to the 2nd person who picks the ball up and plays it to the 3
rd person etc
• Once the last player receives the ball s/he picks it up and plays the ball
• Continue to the team has completed 1 full rotation – 1st team to do so wins
Key Teaching Points:
• Correct technique for playing the ball
• Assist students as needed
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 4 – Scoring
• Explain and demonstrate how to score a try
• Set up a “tryline” have students practice scoring – have students line up 5m back from tryline and
take turns running across the line and scoring the try
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
10m
A A A
B B B
Z
A A A A A A A
B B B
Z
B B B
Z
B
Z
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Key Teaching Points:
• Must place ball on the ground – don’t just run across the line
• Use whistle when student score the try
Body
(10 minutes)
Activity 5 – Modified Game (5v5)
• Set up 2 fields 15m x 25m
• Split the two teams into two again (total of 4 teams)
• Play two games of 5 v 5
Key Teaching Points:
• As the game is progressing explain basic rules as needed e.g. kick off, knock on, 6 tags =
changeover, no contact, no jumping, forward pass
• Play with no marker
• Defence cannot move forward until the 1st receiver has the ball or Dummy Half Runs
• Ensure attacking player moves forward and does not run backwards
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
5m
A A A A A
A A A A A
B B B B B
B B B B B
Tryline
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Conclusion
(2 minutes)
Activity 6 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o How do you score a try? What do you have to do with the ball?
o When do you play the ball? What has to happen?
o How do you play the ball? Can you just roll it between your legs?
o Where do you face when you play the ball?
o What happens after you play the ball?
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Year 1 - Lesson Plan 5
Focus Areas: Expansion and refining of game skills and rules, and assessment:
• Basic Oztag rules
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Apply Oztag skills in a game situation
• Explain basic rules used in a game of Oztag
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Oztag Stuck in the Mud)
• Have students place on tags and belts – ensure even numbers in teams
• Set up a field 15m x 15m – no player allowed outside of the field
• Nominate two students to be the defenders, every other student as attackers (i.e. avoid being tagged)
• If tagged the students can only be unstuck if they play the ball – dummy half must be present
o Have 3 or 4 balls on the field – if stuck another attacker must get the ball to them
• Rotate defenders
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Key Teaching Points:
• Ball Handling – two hand on ball and ball out in front
• Tagging – use two hands and palms of the hands
• Play the ball – place ball on ground, must use one foot on the ball and roll backwards to dummy half
Tags
Belts
Balls
Markers
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Body
(20 minutes)
Activity 2 – Full Game
• Play full game of Oztag with 8 v 8
• Field size for juniors = 40m x 25m
• Ensure subbing of players if frequent to involve all players
Key Teaching Points:
• As the game is progressing explain basic rules as needed e.g. kick off, knock on, 6 tags =
changeover, no contact, no jumping, forward pass
• Play with no marker
• Defence cannot move forward until the 1st receiver has the ball
• Ensure attacking player moves forward and does not run backwards
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
Body
Assessment
• As students are playing the game complete assessment sheet
• Note: You will require another person to referee the game. Alternatively complete the assessment
sheet post game being played
Assessment
Sheet
Conclusion
(5 minutes)
Activity 3 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o How many people in one team for Oztag?
o Are you allowed to jump to avoid being tagged?
o Can you push someone away when they try and tag you?
o What is the best way to make a tag?
o How do you play the ball?
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Year 2 Lesson Plans
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Year 2 - Lesson Plan 1
Focus Areas: Introduction of key Oztag skills:
• Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Defensive skills – tagging
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Put on an Oztag belt
• Explain where to place tags on the Oztag belts
• Make a tag in a defensive situation
• Apply tagging skills in a simulated game situation
• Explain basic technique needed to make a tag
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(3 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Simon Says)
• Use the game of Simon Says to get students to do move around using various locomotion e.g.
skipping, jogging, jumping, hopping etc
• Incorporate locomotion you would use in Oztag e.g. sideways sliding, twisting, spinning
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Key Teaching Points:
• Explain the importance of warming up and stretching
• As they are warming up explain to students that they will be doing Oztag
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Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 2 – Putting on a Belt and Tags
• Have students sitting as a group
• Explain how to put on a belt and tags and demonstrate
• Have students place on their own belts (assistance will be required)
• Allocate students into two different groups (reflective of the two different colour tags). As you call
out a colour have that student go and put on that colour tags
Key Teaching Points:
• Fury side of the belt to the outside
• Oztag logo on the belt to the front and middle
• Have the belt rap around your waist
• Tags to sit on either side of your waist and hanging straight down
• Special Oztag shorts can be used and if you play at a competition you will have to play in a pair
Oztag Belts
Tags
Body
(2 minutes)
Activity 3 – Tagging
• Have students sit as a group
• Demonstrate to the students how to make a tag – use a student as a volunteer
• Ask students to stand up and practice tagging them selves
Key Teaching Points:
• Use two hands – it’s easier to make the tag
• Use the palm of your hands NOT fingers – just like swatting a mosquito
• When you make the tag just throw it on the ground – make sure you throw it straight down not away
from where you are standing
• STRESS: Zero contact including that the attacker is not allowed to push the defenders hand away
Oztag Belts
Tags
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• No jumping by the attacker in avoiding being tagged
Body
(8 minutes)
Activity 4 – Tagging One-on-One
• Split class into two teams
• Create channels using markers 2 m wide and 4 m long – enough for each member of a team
• Have both teams at the end either end of the channels, 1 player from each team per channel standing
in the middle of the markers
• Team A runs towards team B and try to run over the line without being tagged
• Team B must try and make the tag on team A
• Get 5 turns each and rotate
• Make a game of it by seeing how many tries/tags each team can make and have the other team try to
beat it
Key Teaching Points:
• Students must stay in their channel or they have run out
• No contact
• Use both hands and palms to make the tag
• Explain that the end line between the markers is like the tryline in Oztag
Oztag Belts
Tags
Markers
2m
4m
B B
A A
B
A
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Body
(10 minutes)
Activity 5 – Oztag Relay
• Set up two relay channels (one for each team/tag colour) 30m apart
• Split each team into two
• All team members must have belts but only the 1st runners have tags on
• Have each half of the team line up at either end of the relay channel.
• One side starts with the ball and runs to the other side – to their team mates
• The 2nd runner removes the tags from the 1st runner and places them on, the 1
st runner then gives
the ball to 2nd
runner who runs back to the other side
• Repeat until all team members have run
• If a tag falls off during the run the runner must put the tag back on before continuing
• 1st team to get their last runner across the line wins
• Repeat 3 times
Key Teaching Points:
• Both hands on the ball
• Ball held out in front of the body
Oztag Belts
Tags
Markers
Whistle
Conclusion
(1 minute)
Activity 6 – Packing up equipment
• Demonstrate to students how to roll up belts
• Ask student to roll up belts and place tags into the two different colour piles
Belts
Tags
30m
A A A A A A A A
B B B B B B B B
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Key Teaching Points:
• Start rolling up belt with fury side to the outside, and at the non-logo end of the belt
Conclusion
(1 minute)
Activity 7 – Revise Key Points
• Sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the following questions:
o Where do we wear the belt on our body?
o Where do the tags sit on your belt?
o How many hands do we make a tag with?
o What part of the hand do we tag with?
o Are you allowed to push the defenders hands away when they try to tag you?
o Are you allowed to jump to avoid being tagged?
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Year 2 - Lesson Plan 2
Focus Areas: Revising, refining and expansion of key Oztag skills:
• Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Attacking skills – ball handling
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Put on an Oztag belt
• Explain where to place tags on the Oztag belts
• Apply ball handling skills in a simulated game situation
• Explain basic technique used in ball handling
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(3 minutes)
Activity 1 - Revise putting on belts and tags
• Sit students as a whole group and ask if they can remember how to put on belts and tags - ask for
volunteers to explain
• Ensure correct technique is mentioned
• Ask student to place on the belts and tags ensuring there is even numbers between the two different
tags colours – provide assistance as required
Key Teaching Points:
• Fury side of the belt to the outside
• Oztag logo on the belt to the front and middle
• Have the belt rap around your waist
Belts
Tags
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• Tags to sit on either side of your waist and hanging straight down
Introduction
(3 minutes)
Activity 2 - Warm Up (Missing Tag)
• Set a field of 20m x 20m
• Everyone puts on tags
• Someone is nominated as in, that person loses one tag.
• The aim of this game is to get someone else’s tag to replace yours.
• Everyone has to stay within the boundaries.
• Increase the play by taking away two tags, or have more players with only one tag to have more
chasers.
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Key Teaching Points:
• Correct technique to make a tag i.e. using two hands and palms NOT fingers
• No contact or fending
Belts
Tags
Whistle
Markers
Body
(4 minutes)
Activity 3 – Ball Handling
• Sit students as a whole group and ask explain how to hold the ball as you are running
• Provide demonstration
• Get students to practice holding the ball and running short distances with it.
• Ensure all students get a turn
Key Teaching Points:
• Both hands on the ball
• Ball held out in front of the body
Balls
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Body
(8 minutes)
Activity 4 – Rob the Nest
• Set up a grid 20m x 20m
• Split each team into two (total of 4 teams)
• Each team only has 1 set of tags – given to the first runner
• On whistle, one player from each team run to the centre and pick up a ball from the centre hoop then
run back to place ball in their teams’ hoop
• When returned, the next player takes the tags off the runner and places them on and runs to collect
another football
• If there are no footballs left in the centre, players may rob another teams nest.
• After 1 minute, blow the whistle and the team with the most footballs wins.
• Repeat as needed
Key Teaching Points:
• Cannot collect balls without tags on – only 1 person can collect balls at a time
• Both hands on the ball
Belts
Tags
Balls
Hoops
Whistle
20m A A A A
A A A A B B B B
B B B B
20m Balls in the hoop
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• Ball held out in front of the body
• Correct technique to make a tag i.e. using two hands and palms NOT fingers
Body
(10 minutes)
Activity 5 – Red Rover Game (With Oztag Balls)
• Set up a field 25m wide x 30m long
• Have two defenders in the centre of the field and all other players as attackers at one side of the field
• On the whistle all attackers must run across the field to the other side (to score a try), and the
defenders must make as many tags as possible
• Once tagged the attacker then becomes a defender
• Attackers carry balls – if there are not enough balls just ensure that students share and take it in turns
• Repeat until the last two students remaining as attackers wins and becomes the first defenders for the
next game
• Variation – team 1 v team 2.
o Have 1 whole team in the middle as defenders and another whole team as attacker, then
swap. Team that has the most successful runs without all players being tagged is the
winners.
Belts
Tags
Balls
Whistle
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
B
B
30m
25m
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Key Teaching Points:
• Students must stay in the field or they have run out and become defenders
• No contact
• Use both hands and palms to make the tag
• If tagged the attacker simply places his/her tags on and becomes a defender
• Explain to students that the end lines are like try lines in a game of Oztag
Conclusion
(1 minute)
Activity 6 – Revise Packing up equipment
• Ask student how we roll up the belts. Demonstrate if needed
• Ask student to roll up belts and place tags into the two different colour piles
Key Teaching Points:
• Start rolling up belt with fury side to the outside, and at the non-logo end of the belt
Belts
Tags
Conclusion
(1 minute)
Activity 7 – Revise Key Points
• Sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the following questions:
o Where do we wear the belt on our body?
o Where do the tags sit on your belt?
o How many hands do we make a tag with?
o What part of the hand do we tag with?
o How many hands do we carry the ball with?
o Where do we carry the ball?
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Year 2 - Lesson Plan 3
Focus Areas: Revising, refining and expansion of key Oztag skills:
• Defensive skills – tagging
• Offensive skills – twisting and spinning
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Explain the offensive and defensive skills that make Oztag Unique
• Demonstrate correct technique for making a tag
• Demonstrate correct technique for evading a tag – twisting and spinning
• Apply tagging and tag evasion skills in a simulated game situation
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Equipment Race)
• Set up a channel 30m in length
• At one end have all the belts and tags for student tom place on
• Have students run up and back the length of the channel and gradually place on the equipment:
o 1st = belt, 2
nd = tag 1, 3
rd = tag 2
• First person to have all equipment on correctly is the winner
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Tags
Belts
Markers
Whistle
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Key Teaching Points:
• Ensure there are even number of different colour tags to ensure team numbers are even
• Redistribute tags to ensure team have even number of player abilities (if required)
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 2 – Twisting and Spinning Demonstration
• Stress the two key differences in attack between Oztag and other football sports is the use of spinning
and swivelling hips
• Demonstrate how to do both twisting and spinning without defenders
• Demonstrate with students as defenders – use 2 students creating a channel approx 1m wide
• Have students practice each skill
Key Teaching Points:
• Ensure key teaching points for spinning:
Spinning of left foot:
o Plant left foot inside shoulder of the right hand side defender
o Look over right shoulder and spin
o Be sure not to raise elbows so not to collide with defenders
o Be sure not to jump
o Do not spin too early
Spinning of right foot:
o As above but opposite
• Ensure key teaching points for swivel hips:
o You want to try and get your hips perpendicular to the defenders as you cross the line of defence
Tags
Belts
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o Easiest method is to slightly lift the front foot as moving forward through the line of defence
o Try to do this at speed
o Be sure not to jump
o Think of doing the twist (rock and roll dancing)
o Do not do the twist too early.
Body
(10 minutes)
Activity 3 – Oztag Core Drill 1
• Set up 2 rows of 10 markers
o 1 Line of Blue markers approx 1m apart and 1 Line of White markers 1m apart
o Ensure width between each set of different coloured markers is minimum 4 m. Note: This can be
modified to suit ability of students
• Allocate a specific tag colour to specific marker colour. E.g. All Pink Tags stand on the white markers.
Line up facing the middle
• Give each student a number in each line starting from 1.
• Call a number. Each person called to run in the opposite direction on the outside of the line into the
middle of the drill. One player is the defender trying to stop a try, the other is an attacker trying to score
a try at the end of the drill
• Ensure all numbers on one side have a go, and then repeat so other side then becomes defenders or
attackers.
Tags
Belts
Markers
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Key Teaching Points:
• Use of spinning and twisting to avoid being tagged
• Use of correct tagging technique
o Use of palms
o Don’t attack the tags fingers first
o Like you are swatting a mossie on the side of their hip
• Stress Safety points
o Cannot palm
o Cannot jump
o Cannot tackle
o Cannot hit hand away OR cover tags with arms or hands
o Cannot run into players
4m
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
A A A A A A A A A A
Δ Δ Δ Δ Δ Δ Δ Δ Δ Δ
Δ Δ Δ Δ Δ Δ Δ Δ Δ Δ
B B B B B B B B B B
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
10m
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Body
(8 minutes)
Activity 4 – Modified Game (End Ball)
• Set up a field of 25m x 30m
• The class should be divided equally and positioned on the field.
• The ball is passed among team mates until it can be passed to a person who is stationed over the
oppositions try line to gain a try.
• Players can only run five steps before of loading the ball to a team mate.
• Passes can be no more than 5m in length (short passes only).
• If an attacker is tagged with the ball a changeover is awarded.
• Variations:
o Restrict timeframe that the ball can be held.
o Introduction of a 2nd
ball
o Change so that backward passes are the only pass allowed.
o You cannot pass the ball to the same person you received it from.
o All members of the team must touch the ball prior to an attempt at scoring being made.
• Highest score wins
Tags
Belts
Whistle
Balls
Markers
30m
25m
A
A A
A
A A
B
B B
B
B
B A
A B
Tryline 1 Tryline 2
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Key Teaching Points:
• Passing – two hands on ball, swing arms like an elephant, stand side on to the person
• Ball Handling – two hand on ball and ball out in front
• Tagging – use two hands and palms of the hands
• No contact
• No fending or jumping to avoid tags
Conclusion
(2 minutes)
Activity 5 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o What 2 offensive skills should you use to avoid being tagged?
o Can you jump when doing these?
o Can you protect you tags when running with the ball?
o Can you tackle the attacker?
o Should you twist and spin before you get to the defensive line or at the defensive line?
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Year 2 - Lesson Plan 4
Focus Areas: Introduction of game skills and rules:
• Attacking skills – scoring a try
• Attacking skills – play the ball
• Basic Oztag rules
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Explain how to score a try in a game of Oztag
• Demonstrate how to play the ball if tagged in a game of Oztag
• Demonstrate dummy half skills – run or pass
• Apply play the ball skills in a game situation
• Explain basic rules used in a game of Oztag
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (4 to Score)
• Have students place on tags and belts – ensure even numbers in teams
• Set out grids 10m x 10m – no one is allowed outside of the grid
• Split class up into groups of 4-8
• Teams must pass the ball four times between their team mates to score 1 point
• Students are not allowed to run with the ball in their possession.
• A change over occurs when the opposing side drops the ball or intercepted, or a player is tagged
while holding the ball
• Repeat as needed – highest score wins
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
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• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Key Teaching Points:
• Ball Handling – two hand on ball and ball out in front
• Tagging – use two hands and palms of the hands
Body
(3 minutes)
Activity 2 – Play the Ball Demonstration
• Explain and demonstrate how and when to play the ball
• In threes have student practice playing the ball – 1 as the defender who removes the tag, 1 as the
attacker who plays the ball and one as the dummy half who picks the ball up and runs
Key Teaching Points:
• Defender removes tag and then holds up the tag and drops it to the ground marking where the play
the ball should occur
• Run back to where tag is on the ground, face your try line
• Place the ball on ground in front with ends of ball pointing to sidelines
• Place the ball horizontally on the ground
• Put one foot on top of the ball & heel or gently roll the ball behind to dummy half
• Pick up and re-attach tag quickly
• Dummy half can either run with the ball or pass to the 1st receiver
Belts
Tags
Balls
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 3 – Play the ball relay
• Set up two relay channels (one for each team/tag colour) 10m apart
• Split each team into two
• All team members must have belts and tags on
• Have each half of the team line up at either end of the relay channel.
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
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• One side starts with the ball
• Have 1 person play the ball, next person act as dummy half and pass the ball to 1st receiver
• 1st receiver runs up to the team mates at other end of channel and turns around to play the ball etc
• Rotation = play the ball to dummy half to 1st receiver to end of the line
• 1st team to go through all players as 1
st receiver wins
Key Teaching Points:
• Correct technique for playing the ball
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 4 – Scoring
• Explain and demonstrate how to score a try
• Set up a “tryline” have students practice scoring – have students line up 5m back from tryline and
take turns running across the line and scoring the try
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
10m
A A
A
A A A A A A A
B B
B
Z
B B B B B B B
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Key Teaching Points:
• Must place ball on the ground – don’t just run across the line
• Use whistle when student score the try
Body
(10 minutes)
Activity 5 – Modified Game (5v5)
• Set up 2 fields 15m x 25m
• Split the two teams into two again (total of 4 teams)
• Play two games of 5 v 5
Key Teaching Points:
• As the game is progressing explain basic rules as needed e.g. kick off, knock on, 6 tags =
changeover, no contact, no jumping, forward pass
• Play with no marker
• Defence cannot move forward until the 1st receiver has the ball
• Ensure attacking player moves forward and does not run backwards
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
5m
A A A A A
A A A A A
B B B B B
B B B B B
Tryline
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Conclusion
(2 minutes)
Activity 6 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o How do you score a try? What do you have to do with the ball?
o When do you play the ball? What has to happen?
o How do you play the ball? Can you just roil it between your legs?
o Where do you face when you play the ball?
o What happens after you play the ball?
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Year 2 - Lesson Plan 5
Focus Areas: Expansion and refining of game skills and rules, and assessment:
• Basic Oztag rules
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Apply Oztag skills in a game situation
• Explain basic rules used in a game of Oztag
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Oztag Stuck in the Mud)
• Have students place on tags and belts – ensure even numbers in teams
• Set up a field 15m x 15m – no player allowed outside of the field
• Nominate two students to be the defenders, every other student as attackers (i.e. avoid being tagged)
• If tagged the students can only be unstuck if they play the ball – dummy half must be present
o Have 3 or 4 balls on the field – if stuck another attacker must get the ball to them
• Rotate defenders
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Key Teaching Points:
• Ball Handling – two hand on ball and ball out in front
• Tagging – use two hands and palms of the hands
• Play the ball – place ball on ground, must use one foot on the ball and roll backwards to dummy half
Tags
Belts
Balls
Markers
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Body
(20 minutes)
Activity 2 – Full Game
• Play full game of Oztag with 8 v 8
• Field size for juniors = 40m x 25m
• Ensure subbing of players if frequent to involve all players
Key Teaching Points:
• As the game is progressing explain basic rules as needed e.g. kick off, knock on, 6 tags =
changeover, no contact, no jumping, forward pass
• Play with no marker
• Defence cannot move forward until the 1st receiver has the ball
• Ensure attacking player moves forward and does not run backwards
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
Body
Assessment
• As students are playing the game complete assessment sheet
• Note: You will require another person to referee the game. Alternatively complete the assessment
sheet post game being played
Assessment
Sheet
Conclusion
(5 minutes)
Activity 3 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o How many people in one team for Oztag?
o Are you allowed to jump to avoid being tagged?
o Can you push someone away when they try and tag you?
o What is the best way to make a tag?
o How do you play the ball?
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Year 3 Lesson Plans
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Year 3 - Lesson Plan 1
Focus Areas: Introduction of key Oztag skills:
• Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Defensive skills – tagging
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Put on an Oztag belt
• Explain where to place tags on the Oztag belts
• Make a tag in a defensive situation
• Apply tagging skills in a simulated game situation
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(3 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (4 to Score)
• Have students place on tags and belts – ensure even numbers in teams
• Set out grids 10m x 10m – no one is allowed outside of the grid
• Split class up into groups of 4-8
• Teams must pass the ball four times between their team mates to score 1 point
• Students are not allowed to run with the ball in their possession.
• A change over occurs when the opposing side drops the ball or intercepted, or a player is tagged
while holding the ball
• Repeat as needed – highest score wins
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
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Key Teaching Points:
• Ball Handling – two hand on ball and ball out in front
• Tagging – use two hands and palms of the hands
• Attackers move to spaces to receive the ball
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 2 – Putting on a Belt and Tags
• Have students sitting as a group
• Explain how to put on a belt and tags and demonstrate
• Have students place on their own belts (assistance will be required)
• Allocate students into two different groups (reflective of the two different colour tags). As you call
out a colour have that student go and put on that colour tags
Key Teaching Points:
• Fury side of the belt to the outside
• Oztag logo on the belt to the front and middle
• Have the belt rap around your waist
• Tags to sit on either side of your waist and hanging straight down
• Special Oztag shorts can be used and if you play at a competition you will have to play in a pair
Oztag Belts
Tags
Body
(2 minutes)
Activity 3 – Tagging
• Have students sit as a group
• Demonstrate to the students how to make a tag – use a student as a volunteer
• Ask students to pair off and practice tagging on each other
Oztag Belts
Tags
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Key Teaching Points:
• Use two hands – it’s easier to make the tag
• Use the palm of your hands NOT fingers – just like swatting a mosquito
• Step forward to the attacker - stay on your toes, do not step backwards on your heels
• When you make the tag just throw it on the ground – make sure you throw it straight down not away
from where you are standing
• STRESS: Zero contact including that the attacker is not allowed to push the defenders hand away
• No jumping by the attacker in avoiding being tagged
Body
(8 minutes)
Activity 4 – Cats and Dogs
• Set up markers in a field 20m x 20m.
• Place two witches at half way point
• Have all players in partners on the half way line. Half of them facing one try line and the other
facing the other try line.
• Call Dogs and all players run to Dogs tryline. Same with Cats.
• If you call Dogs the Dogs must try and score a try on their tryline, and the Cats must try to stop
them by making a tag
• Mix up the calls of Cats and Dogs.
• Highest score wins
Oztag Belts
Tags
Markers
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Key Teaching Points:
• No contact
• Use both hands and palms to make the tag
• Explain that the end line between the markers is like the tryline in Oztag
Body
(10 minutes)
Activity 5 – Tag Timer
• Set up a field 25m wide x 30m long
• Have 2 teams as attackers and defenders – teams start at opposite sides of the field
• On the whistle start the stop watch and all attackers must run around the field, and the defenders
must make all the tags
• Once all tags are made stop the stop watch
• Repeat for the other side as attackers
• Fastest time wins
• Introduce balls – time stops immediately once all attackers carrying balls are tagged
Oztag Belts
Tags
Markers
Whistle
Stop watch
20m B
B
A
A
A
A
A
20m
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Key Teaching Points:
• Students must stay in the field or they have run out and become defenders
• No contact
• Use both hands and palms to make the tag
Conclusion
(1 minute)
Activity 6 – Packing up equipment
• Demonstrate to students how to roll up belts
• Ask student to roll up belts and place tags into the two different colour piles
Key Teaching Points:
• Start rolling up belt with fury side to the outside, and at the non-logo end of the belt
Belts
Tags
Conclusion
(1 minute)
Activity 7 – Revise Key Points
• Sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the following questions:
o Where do we wear the belt on our body?
o Where do the tags sit on your belt?
o How many hands do we make a tag with?
o What part of the hand do we tag with?
o Are you allowed to push the defenders hands away when they try to tag you?
o Are you allowed to jump to avoid being tagged?
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Year 3 - Lesson Plan 2
Focus Areas: Revising, refining and expansion of key Oztag skills:
• Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Offensive skills – passing
• Offensive skills – ball handling
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Put on an Oztag belt
• Explain where to place tags on the Oztag belts
• Pass a ball in an attacking situation
• Explain basic technique needed to pass a ball
• Run with an Oztag ball
• Explain basic technique used in running with the ball
• Apply running and passing skills in a simulated game situation
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(3 minutes)
Activity 1 - Revise putting on belts and tags
• Sit students as a whole group and ask if they can remember how to put on belts and tags - ask for
volunteers to explain
• Ensure correct technique is mentioned
• Ask student to place on the belts and tags ensuring there is even numbers between the two different
tags colours – provide assistance as required
Belts
Tags
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Key Teaching Points:
• Fury side of the belt to the outside
• Oztag logo on the belt to the front and middle
• Have the belt rap around your waist
• Tags to sit on either side of your waist and hanging straight down
Introduction
(3 minutes)
Activity 2 - Warm Up (Missing Tag)
• Set a field of 20m x 20m
• Everyone puts on tags
• Someone is nominated as in, that person loses one tag.
• The aim of this game is to get someone else’s tag to replace yours.
• Everyone has to stay within the boundaries.
• Increase the play by taking away two tags, or have more players with only one tag to have more
chasers.
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Key Teaching Points:
• Correct technique to make a tag i.e. using two hands and palms NOT fingers
• No contact or fending
Belts
Tags
Whistle
Markers
Body
(4 minutes)
Activity 3 – Ball Handling
• Sit students as a whole group and ask explain how to hold the ball as you are running
• Provide demonstration
• Get students to practice holding the ball and running short distances with it.
• Ensure all students get a turn
Balls
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Key Teaching Points:
• Both hands on the ball
• Ball held out in front of the body
• Thumbs running down the ball and Fingers curled underneath (like holding a hamburger)
Body
(7 minutes)
Activity 4 – Ball Handling Relay
• Split class up into 4 even teams
• Set up a relay channel for each team 20 - 30m long
• Have the 4 teams split into 2 – half at each side of the channel
• Conduct running relays – 1st team to go through the whole team wins
• Use a variety of ball handling skills during the races e.g. simply holding ball in front, wrapping the
ball around their waist as they run, passing the ball between their legs as the run
Key Teaching Points:
• All players to wear tags and belts
• If tags fall off they must return and put the tags on before they can proceed
• Stress correct technique for handling the ball – if they do not run with the ball held in front then they
Balls
Markers
Tags
Belts
20 - 30m
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B B B B B B B B
B B B B B B B B
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must run again.
Body
(4 minutes)
Activity 5 – Passing Technique
• Explain and demonstrate to students correct technique in passing the ball
• Have students pair off and practice passing to each other – no more than 2 metres apart.
Key Teaching Points:
• 2 hands on the ball
• Stand side on to the person you are passing the ball too
• Turn shoulders slightly to face the person you are passing the ball too
• Swing arms towards person you are passing the ball to and release the ball
o Arms slightly bent at elbow to make pass more horizontal
• Point to the player you have passed the ball to once released.
• Eye contact focuses on receiving players upper body
• Ball receiver to have hands up in front of chest ready to receive the ball
• Ball receiver to watch the ball into the hands
• Call for the ball
Balls
Body
(7 minutes)
Activity 6 – Captain Ball
• Use the same 4 teams as ball handling activity
• Set up teams members to stand 1 m apart and “captain” to be 2m in front of the team
• Player 1 Starts, standing pass along line.
• When the last player receives ball, he/she runs to the front of line while all other players shuffle
along 1 place.
• Continue until Player 1 gets back to the top of line – all sit down
Balls
Markers
Tags
Belts
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Key Teaching Points:
• All players to wear tags and belts
• Correct passing technique
Conclusion
(2 minutes)
Activity 7 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o Where do we wear the belt on our body?
o Where do the tags sit on your belt?
o How many hands do we carry the ball with?
o Where do we carry the ball?
o How many hands do we use when passing the ball?
o How do we swing our arms when we pass? Do we use straight or bent arms?
o How do we stand when passing – side on or facing the person we are passing to?
o What should the ball receiver do?
A
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A
A
A
A
B
B
B
B
B
B
A
A
A
A
A
A
B
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Year 3 - Lesson Plan 3
Focus Areas: Revising, refining and expansion of key Oztag skills:
• Defensive skills – tagging
• Offensive skills – twisting and spinning
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Explain the offensive and defensive skills that make Oztag Unique
• Demonstrate correct technique for making a tag
• Demonstrate correct technique for evading a tag – twisting and spinning
• Apply tagging and tag evasion skills in a simulated game situation
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Equipment Race)
• Set up a channel 30m in length
• At one end have all the belts and tags for student tom place on
• Have students run up and back the length of the channel and gradually place on the equipment:
o 1st = belt, 2
nd = tag 1, 3
rd = tag 2
• First person to have all equipment on correctly is the winner
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Tags
Belts
Markers
Whistle
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Key Teaching Points:
• Ensure there are even number of different colour tags to ensure team numbers are even
• Redistribute tags to ensure team have even number of player abilities (if required)
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 2 – Twisting and Spinning Demonstration
• Stress the two key differences in attack between Oztag and other football sports is the use of spinning
and swivelling hips
• Demonstrate how to do both twisting and spinning without defenders
• Demonstrate with students as defenders – use 2 students creating a channel approx 1m wide
• Have students practice each skill
Key Teaching Points:
• Ensure key teaching points for spinning:
Spinning of left foot:
o Plant left foot inside shoulder of the right hand side defender
o Look over right shoulder and spin
o Be sure not to raise elbows so not to collide with defenders
o Be sure not to jump
o Do not spin too early
Spinning of right foot:
o As above but opposite
• Ensure key teaching points for swivel hips:
o You want to try and get your hips perpendicular to the defenders as you cross the line of defence
Tags
Belts
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o Easiest method is to slightly lift the front foot as moving forward through the line of defence
o Try to do this at speed
o Be sure not to jump
o Think of doing the twist (rock and roll dancing)
o Do not do the twist too early.
Body
(10 minutes)
Activity 3 – Oztag Core Drill 1
• Set up 2 rows of 10 markers
o 1 Line of Blue markers approx 1m apart and 1 Line of White markers 1m apart
o Ensure width between each set of different coloured markers is minimum 4 m. Note: This can be
modified to suit ability of students
• Allocate a specific tag colour to specific marker colour. E.g. All Pink Tags stand on the white markers.
Line up facing the middle
• Give each student a number in each line starting from 1.
• Call a number. Each person called to run in the opposite direction on the outside of the line into the
middle of the drill. One player is the defender trying to stop a try, the other is an attacker trying to score
a try at the end of the drill
• Ensure all numbers on one side have a go, and then repeat so other side then becomes defenders or
attackers.
Tags
Belts
Markers
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Key Teaching Points:
• Use of spinning and twisting to avoid being tagged
• Use of correct tagging technique
o Use of palms
o Don’t attack the tags fingers first
o Like you are swatting a mossie on the side of their hip
• Stress Safety points
o Cannot palm
o Cannot jump
o Cannot tackle
o Cannot hit hand away OR cover tags with arms or hands
o Cannot run into players
4m
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
A A A A A A A A A A
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Δ Δ Δ Δ Δ Δ Δ Δ Δ Δ
B B B B B B B B B B
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Body
(8 minutes)
Activity 4 – Modified Game
• Four teams are positioned in two 30m by 20m grids.
• Each team has a score a try by placing the ball over the opposition’s goal line.
• There is no offside and forward passes are allowed to be thrown.
• Each team has six allocated tags per set with a change over occurring at the end of the set.
• Once an attacking player is tagged they simply place on the tags and pass the ball to a team mate.
• All players are allowed to move freely even when in possession of the ball
• Once the ball is dropped or an interception occurs then there is a change over.
• No kicking is allowed
Key Teaching Points:
• Correct tagging technique
• Correct tag evasion (twisting and spinning) technique
• Attacking players moving to gaps to allow the ball carrier options to pass the ball
• Communication amongst players in attack and defence
Balls
Tags
Belts
Markers
Whistle
Conclusion
(2 minutes)
Activity 5 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o What 2 offensive skills should you use to avoid being tagged?
o Can you jump when doing these?
o Can you protect you tags when running with the ball?
o Can you tackle the attacker?
o Should you twist and spin before you get to the defensive line or at the defensive line?
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Year 3 - Lesson Plan 4
Focus Areas: Introduction of game skills and rules:
• Attacking Skills - Scoring a try
• Attacking Skills - Play the ball
• Basic Oztag rules
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Explain how to score a try in a game of Oztag
• Demonstrate how to play the ball if tagged in a game of Oztag
• Demonstrate dummy half skills – run or pass
• Apply play the ball skills in a game situation
• Explain basic rules used in a game of Oztag
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (4 to Score)
• Have students place on tags and belts – ensure even numbers in teams
• Set out grids 10m x 10m – no one is allowed outside of the grid
• Split class up into groups of 4-8
• Teams must pass the ball four times between their team mates to score 1 point
• Students are not allowed to run with the ball in their possession.
• A change over occurs when the opposing side drops the ball or intercepted, or a player is tagged
while holding the ball
• Repeat as needed – highest score wins
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
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• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Key Teaching Points:
• Ball Handling – two hand on ball, thumbs on tops, fingers wrapped underneath, and ball out in front
• Tagging – use two hands and palms of the hands, stepping towards the attacker
Body
(3 minutes)
Activity 2 – Play the Ball Demonstration
• Explain and demonstrate how and when to play the ball
• In threes have student practice playing the ball – 1 as the defender who removes the tag, 1 as the
attacker who plays the ball and one as the dummy half who picks the ball up and runs
Key Teaching Points:
• Defender removes tag and then holds up the tag and drops it to the ground marking where the play
the ball should occur
• Run back to where tag is on the ground, face your try line
• Place the ball on ground in front with ends of ball pointing to sidelines
• Place the ball horizontally on the ground
• Put one foot on top of the ball & heel or gently roll the ball behind to dummy half
• Pick up and re-attach tag quickly
• Dummy half can either run with the ball or pass to the 1st receiver
Belts
Tags
Balls
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 3 – Play the ball relay
• Set up two relay channels (one for each team/tag colour) 10m apart
• Split each team into two
• All team members must have belts and tags on
• Have each half of the team line up at either end of the relay channel.
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
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• One side starts with the ball
• Have 1 person play the ball, next person act as dummy half and pass the ball to 1st receiver
• 1st receiver runs up to the team mates at other end of channel and turns around to play the ball etc
• Rotation = play the ball to dummy half to 1st receiver to end of the line
• 1st team to go through all players as 1
st receiver wins
Key Teaching Points:
• Correct technique for playing the ball
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 4 – Scoring
• Explain and demonstrate how to score a try
• Set up a “tryline” have students practice scoring – have students line up 5m back from tryline and
take turns running across the line and scoring the try
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
10m
A A
A
A A A A A A A
B B
B
Z
B B B B B B B
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Key Teaching Points:
• Must place ball on the ground – don’t just run across the line
• Use whistle when student score the try
Body
(10 minutes)
Activity 5 – Modified Game (5v5)
• Set up 2 fields 15m x 25m
• Split the two teams into two again (total of 4 teams)
• Play two games of 5 v 5
Key Teaching Points:
• As the game is progressing explain basic rules as needed e.g. kick off, knock on, 6 tags =
changeover, no contact, no jumping, forward pass
• Play with no marker
• Defence cannot move forward until the 1st receiver has the ball
• Ensure attacking player moves forward and does not run backwards
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
5m
A A A A A
A A A A A
B B B B B
B B B B B
Tryline
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Conclusion
(2 minutes)
Activity 6 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o How do you score a try? What do you have to do with the ball?
o When do you play the ball? What has to happen?
o How do you play the ball? Can you just roil it between your legs?
o Where do you face when you play the ball?
o What happens after you play the ball?
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Year 3 - Lesson Plan 5
Focus Areas: Expansion and refining of game skills and rules, and assessment:
• Basic Oztag rules
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Apply Oztag skills in a game situation
• Explain basic rules used in a game of Oztag
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Oztag Stuck in the Mud)
• Have students place on tags and belts – ensure even numbers in teams
• Set up a field 15m x 15m – no player allowed outside of the field
• Nominate two students to be the defenders, every other student as attackers (i.e. avoid being tagged)
• If tagged the students can only be unstuck if they play the ball – dummy half must be present
o Have 3 or 4 balls on the field – if stuck another attacker must get the ball to them
• Rotate defenders
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Key Teaching Points:
• Ball Handling – two hand on ball, thumbs on tops, fingers wrapped underneath, and ball out in front
• Tagging – use two hands and palms of the hands, stepping towards the attacker
• Play the ball – place ball on ground, must use one foot on the ball and roll backwards to dummy half
Tags
Belts
Balls
Markers
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Body
(20 minutes)
Activity 2 – Full Game
• Play full game of Oztag with 8 v 8
• Field size for juniors = 40m x 25m
• Ensure subbing of players if frequent to involve all players
Key Teaching Points:
• As the game is progressing explain basic rules as needed e.g. kick off, knock on, 6 tags =
changeover, no contact, no jumping, forward pass
• Play with no marker
• Defence cannot move forward until the 1st receiver has the ball
• Ensure attacking player moves forward and does not run backwards
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
Body
Assessment
• As students are playing the game complete assessment sheet
• Note: You will require another person to referee the game. Alternatively complete the assessment
sheet post game being played
Assessment
Sheet
Conclusion
(5 minutes)
Activity 3 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o How many people in one team for Oztag?
o Are you allowed to jump to avoid being tagged?
o Can you push someone away when they try and tag you?
o What is the best way to make a tag?
o How do you avoid being tagged?
o How do you play the ball?
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Year 4 Lesson Plans
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Year 4 - Lesson Plan 1
Focus Areas: Introduction of key Oztag skills:
• Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Offensive skills – passing
• Offensive skills – ball handling
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Put on an Oztag belt
• Explain where to place tags on the Oztag belts
• Pass a ball in an attacking situation
• Explain basic technique needed to pass a ball
• Run with an Oztag ball
• Explain basic technique used in running with the ball
• Apply running and passing skills in a simulated game situation
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(3 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (4 to Score)
• Have students place on tags and belts – ensure even numbers in teams
• Set out grids 10m x 10m – no one is allowed outside of the grid
• Split class up into groups of 4-8
• Teams must pass the ball four times between their team mates to score 1 point
• Students are not allowed to run with the ball in their possession.
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
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• A change over occurs when the opposing side drops the ball or intercepted, or a player is tagged
while holding the ball
• Repeat as needed – highest score wins
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Key Teaching Points:
• Ball Handling – two hand on ball, thumbs on tops, fingers wrapped underneath, and ball out in front
• Tagging – use two hands and palms of the hands, stepping towards the attacker
• Attackers move to spaces to receive the ball
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 2 – Putting on a Belt and Tags
• Have students sitting as a group
• Explain how to put on a belt and tags and demonstrate
• Have students place on their own belts (assistance will be required)
• Allocate students into two different groups (reflective of the two different colour tags). As you call
out a colour have that student go and put on that colour tags
Key Teaching Points:
• Fury side of the belt to the outside
• Oztag logo on the belt to the front and middle
• Have the belt rap around your waist
• Tags to sit on either side of your waist and hanging straight down
• Special Oztag shorts can be used and if you play at a competition you will have to play in a pair
Oztag Belts
Tags
Body
(2 minutes)
Activity 3 – Ball Handling
• Sit students as a whole group and ask explain how to hold the ball as you are running
Balls
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• Provide demonstration
• Get students to practice holding the ball and running short distances with it.
• Ensure all students get a turn
Key Teaching Points:
• Both hands on the ball
• Ball held out in front of the body
• Thumbs running down the ball and fingers curled underneath (like holding a hamburger)
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 4 – Ball Handling Drills
• Set up a small grid of 15m x 15m
• Students to hold the ball
• Move around grid lightly slapping footballs and checking correct grip. At the end of each of the
following stationary handling drills the coach checks correct grip.
• Get students to perform different moves to perform and then hold the ball again:
o Ball on the ground. One foot on top of ball. On whistle, quickly bend down pick up ball
and stand up.
o Ball on ground. On whistle, spin around once, two claps and pick up ball
o Ball in Hands. Throw ball up about head height catch in hands
o Ball in Hands. Throw ball up, one clap, catch in hands. Then try 2 claps, 3 claps, 4
claps…Count as many claps as you can!
o Bounce the ball to re-gather
o Bounce, clap and re-gather
o Move ball around waist, squeeze with thumb when ball is in one hand. Race 5 times
around waist
o Move ball around both knees, legs together. Race 5 times around knees
Balls
Oztag Belts
Tags
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o Move ball Figure 8 around knees, legs apart Race 3 times figure 8
Key Teaching Points:
• Correct technique in handling the ball
• Tags and belts on
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 5 – Off Loads Relay
• Split class into 2 teams, then each tem into half
• Set up two markers per team 10m apart
• Each half of a team to stand in a line on a marker.
• One end starts with the ball (A) and runs toward the other end.
• At the same time the person without the ball (B) runs towards their other end
• Players meet in the middle and as they continue to run the player with the ball (A) does a small and
light pass to the receiver (B)
• The student standing behind student A (C) times his/her run to receive the ball in the middle of the
markers from student B.
• This continues until the whole team has completed two full cycles – one passing left and one
passing right
• First team to finish wins
• Variations can be increasing the width of the markers so players must pass further, passing the ball
head height, passing the ball to the knees
Oztag Belts
Tags
Markers
Whistle
Stop watch
A A A A A
B B B B B
A A A A A
B B B B B
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Key Teaching Points:
• Correct ball handling
• Correct passing technique:
o 2 hands on the ball
o Stand side on to the person you are passing the ball too
o Turn shoulders slightly to face the person you are passing the ball too
o Swing arms towards person you are passing the ball to and release the ball
� Arms slightly bent at elbow to make pass more horizontal
o Point to the player you have passed the ball to once released.
o Eye contact focuses on receiving players upper body
o Ball receiver to have hands up in front of chest ready to receive the ball
o Ball receiver to watch the ball into the hands
o Call for the ball
• Timing of the run so that players meet in the middle
• Do not pass too hard
Body
(8 minutes)
Activity 6 – Tag Timer
• Set up a field 25m wide x 30m long
• Have 2 teams as attackers and defenders – teams start at opposite sides of the field
• On the whistle start the stop watch and all attackers must run around the field, and the defenders
must make all the tags
• Once all tags are made stop the stop watch
• Repeat for the other side as attackers
• Fastest time wins
• Introduce balls – time stops immediately once all attackers carrying balls are tagged
Oztag Belts
Tags
Markers
Whistle
Stop watch
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o Ball scan be passed amongst the attacking players
Key Teaching Points:
• Students must stay in the field or they have run out and become defenders
• No contact
• Use both hands and palms to make the tag
• Correct passing technique
• Correct ball handling technique
Conclusion
(1 minute)
Activity 7 – Packing up equipment
• Demonstrate to students how to roll up belts
• Ask student to roll up belts and place tags into the two different colour piles
Key Teaching Points:
• Start rolling up belt with fury side to the outside, and at the non-logo end of the belt
Belts
Tags
Conclusion
(1 minute)
Activity 8 – Revise Key Points
• Sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the following questions:
o Where do we wear the belt on our body?
o Where do the tags sit on your belt?
o How should you hold a ball?
o How do you pass a ball?
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Year 4 - Lesson Plan 2
Focus Areas: Revising, refining and expansion of key Oztag skills:
• Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Defensive skills – tagging
• Offensive skills – twisting and spinning
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Put on an Oztag belt
• Explain where to place tags on the Oztag belts
• Explain the offensive and defensive skills that make Oztag Unique
• Demonstrate correct technique for making a tag
• Demonstrate correct technique for evading a tag – twisting and spinning
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Off Loads Relay)
• Split class into 2 teams, then each tem into half
• Set up two markers per team 10m apart
• Each half of a team to stand in a line on a marker.
• One end starts with the ball (A) and runs toward the other end.
• At the same time the person without the ball (B) runs towards their other end
• Players meet in the middle and as they continue to run the player with the ball (A) does a small and
light pass to the receiver (B)
Oztag Belts
Tags
Markers
Whistle
Stop watch
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• The student standing behind student A (C) times his/her run to receive the ball in the middle of the
markers from student B.
• Continue until the whole team has completed 2 full cycles – one passing left and one passing right
• First team to finish wins
• Variations can be increasing the width of the markers so players must pass further, passing the ball
head height, passing the ball to the knees
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Key Teaching Points:
• Correct ball handling
• Correct passing technique:
o 2 hands on the ball
o Stand side on to the person you are passing the ball too
o Turn shoulders slightly to face the person you are passing the ball too
o Swing arms towards person you are passing the ball to and release the ball
� Arms slightly bent at elbow to make pass more horizontal
o Point to the player you have passed the ball to once released.
o Eye contact focuses on receiving players upper body
o Ball receiver to have hands up in front of chest ready to receive the ball
o Ball receiver to watch the ball into the hands
A A A A A
B B B B B
A A A A A
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o Call for the ball
• Timing of the run so that players meet in the middle
• Do not pass too hard
Body
(2 minutes)
Activity 2 – Tagging
• Have students sit as a group
• Demonstrate to the students how to make a tag – use a student as a volunteer
• Ask students to pair off and practice tagging on each other
Key Teaching Points:
• Use two hands – it’s easier to make the tag
• Use the palm of your hands NOT fingers – just like swatting a mosquito
• Step forward to the attacker - stay on your toes, do not step backwards on your heels
• When you make the tag just throw it on the ground – make sure you throw it straight down not away
from where you are standing
• STRESS: Zero contact including that the attacker is not allowed to push the defenders hand away
• No jumping by the attacker in avoiding being tagged
Oztag Belts
Tags
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 3 – Twisting and Spinning
• Stress the two key differences in attack between Oztag and other football sports is the use of spinning
and swivelling hips
• Demonstrate how to do both twisting and spinning without defenders
• Demonstrate with students as defenders – use 2 students creating a channel approx 1m wide
• Have students practice each skill
Tags
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Key Teaching Points:
• Ensure key teaching points for spinning:
Spinning of left foot:
o Plant left foot inside shoulder of the right hand side defender
o Look over right shoulder and spin
o Be sure not to raise elbows so not to collide with defenders
o Be sure not to jump
o Do not spin too early
Spinning of right foot:
o As above but opposite
• Ensure key teaching points for swivel hips:
o You want to try and get your hips perpendicular to the defenders as you cross the line of defence
o Easiest method is to slightly lift the front foot as moving forward through the line of defence
o Try to do this at speed
o Be sure not to jump
o Think of doing the twist (rock and roll dancing)
o Do not do the twist too early.
Body
(8 minutes)
Activity 3 – Oztag Core Drill 2
• Split the class into males and females and then split each gender into 2 groups (pink and green for each)
to total 4 groups
• Set up 4 channels
o 2 horizontal witches hats approx 10m apart
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o 2 vertical witches 1m apart set half way along (5m) the horizontal witches hats
• Have each group line up behind 1 set of horizontal witches hats
• Have 2 students on the vertical markers as defenders
• Have 1 student from the start of each line move through on your signal. DO NOT let student go through
at their own will.
• Repeat to all students have gone through and then allow to pick up tags.
• Switch defenders and repeat until all students have had a go at defending twice.
• Note: After approx 2 turns ask students methods to avoid being tagged ie swivel hips and spinning.
Provide demonstrations on how to do this and ensure students use these by allocating specific turns to do
so sample set up might be:
o Turns 1 and 2 – normal run through
o Turns 3 and 4 – swivel hips
o Turns 5 and 6 – spinning
10m
A
A
A A A A A
B
B
B B B B B
1m
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Key Teaching Points:
• Do not pick up tags until all students have run through to the other side of the horizontal witches hats
• Use of spinning and twisting to avoid being tagged
• Use of correct tagging technique
• Stress Safety points
o Cannot palm
o Cannot jump
o Cannot tackle
o Cannot hit hand away OR cover tags with arms or hands
• Cannot run into players
Body
(8minutes)
Activity 4 – Modified Game
• Four teams are positioned in two 30m by 20m grids.
• Each team has a score a try by placing the ball over the opposition’s goal line.
• There is no offside and forward passes are allowed to be thrown.
• Each team has six allocated tags per set with a change over occurring at the end of the set.
• Once an attacking player is tagged they simply place on the tags and pass the ball to a team mate.
• All players are allowed to move freely even when in possession of the ball
• Once the ball is dropped or an interception occurs then there is a changeover.
• No kicking is allowed
Key Teaching Points:
• Correct tagging technique
• Correct tag evasion (twisting and spinning) technique
Balls
Tags
Belts
Markers
Whistle
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• Attacking players moving to gaps to allow the ball carrier options to pass the ball
• Communication amongst players in attack and defence
Conclusion
(2 minutes)
Activity 5 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o How do you make a tag?
o What two things can be done when you have the ball to help score more tries?
o How do you do a spin? A twist?
o Should they be done before the defensive line of at the defensive line?
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Year 4 - Lesson Plan 3
Focus Areas: Revising, refining and expansion of key Oztag skills:
• Offensive skills – kicking
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Explain the rules surrounding kicking in a game of Oztag
• Describe correct technique for kicking
• Demonstrate correct technique for kicking in a game situation
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(3 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Back Line movement)
• Split class into two teams
• Have teams form a line across the field
• Have class run up and down field as back line play ie passing ball along the line
• Repeat as needed
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Key Teaching Points:
• Passing backwards
• Calling for ball
Balls
Tags
Belts
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Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 2 – Kicking Demonstration
• Explain the rules surrounding kicking in Oztag:
o Can only kick in general play on zero (not after a play the ball), 4 or 5
o Kicks have to be below referees should during normal play but can go any height for kick
restart and drop outs
o Attacking players cannot dive on the ball following a kick
• Explain that for kicks during play it is best to do a grubber
• Demonstrate how to do a grubber
• Get student in pairs to practice grubbers to each other
Key Teaching Points:
• Head down over the ball
• Don’t lean back when kicking
• Hold ball straight down so that it is vertical when you kick it – fingers running straight down the ball
• Kick the top of the ball to make it roll end over end
Balls
Body
(10 minutes)
Activity 3 – Gate Ball
• Split class into 4 teams – 2 separate games
• Set up two fields consisting of two makers opposite each other (approx 30m apart) and at the halfway
of those markers another two markers approx 10m apart.
• Each team stands at spreads out on the field within their own half.
• Each team takes it in turn to grubber the ball between the gate – team A starts with the ball and team
B has a gate keeper standing at the gate and trying to stop the ball rolling through the gate.
• Once the person has kicked the ball they run up to the gate to be the gate keeper, and the defending
side now become the attacking side to try and kick the ball between the gates. To do this they simply
regather the ball and pass it to their team mate waiting on the marker to kick the ball
Balls
Markers
Tags
Belts
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• Teams must rotate kickers
• Scoring:
o Teams take it in turn to grubber the ball between the gate – if successful they receive 1
point
o If the ball is kicked into the air and caught by the opposition the defending team will
receive 1 point
o Highest score wins within a given time or first to 10 points wins
Key Teaching Points:
• Correct technique for kicking
• Ball must bounce through the gate to score a point
• Defenders can only stand in their half - gate keepers cannot more forward of the gates line
• Have students wear tags and belts
30m
A
A
10m
A A
A
B
B
B
B
B
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Body
(10 minutes)
Activity 4 – Modified Game (5v5)
• Set up 2 fields 15m x 25m
• Split the two teams into two again (total of 4 teams)
• Play two games of 5 v 5
Key Teaching Points:
• As the game is progressing explain basic rules as needed e.g. kick off, knock on, 6 tags =
changeover, no contact, no jumping, forward pass
• Ensure kicking is used during the games – variation to use double points for scoring off kicking
• Play with no marker
• Defence cannot move forward until the 1st receiver has the ball
• Ensure attacking player moves forward and does not run backwards
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
Conclusion
(2 minutes)
Activity 5 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o When can you kick during a game?
o What happens if the ball is kicked over the referees should on the full? What if it bounces
that high?
o What is the best way to kick the ball during normal play?
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Year 4 - Lesson Plan 4
Focus Areas: Introduction of game skills and rules:
• Attacking Skills - Scoring a try
• Attacking Skills - Play the ball
• Basic Oztag rules
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Explain how to score a try in a game of Oztag
• Demonstrate how to play the ball if tagged in a game of Oztag
• Demonstrate dummy half skills – run or pass
• Apply play the ball skills in a game situation
• Explain basic rules used in a game of Oztag
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up
• 6 stations
• 20m between each station
• Each station stretch a different muscle group
• Each station = stretching for 1 minute
• Start at jogging and move class around each station
• Between each station use a variety of locomotion e.g. jogging, high knees, side steps etc
• Ask students to provide the different locomotion used
Belts
Tags
Markers
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Key Teaching Points:
• Ball Handling – two hand on ball, thumbs on tops, fingers wrapped underneath, and ball out in front
• Tagging – use two hands and palms of the hands, stepping towards the attacker
Body
(3 minutes)
Activity 2 – Play the Ball Demonstration
• Explain and demonstrate how and when to play the ball
• In threes have student practice playing the ball – 1 as the defender who removes the tag, 1 as the
attacker who plays the ball and one as the dummy half who picks the ball up and runs
Key Teaching Points:
• Defender removes tag and then holds up the tag and drops it to the ground marking where the play
the ball should occur
• Run back to where tag is on the ground, face your try line
• Place the ball on ground in front with ends of ball pointing to sidelines
Belts
Tags
Balls
20m
Station 2 Station 1
Station 3
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• Place the ball horizontally on the ground
• Put one foot on top of the ball & heel or gently roll the ball behind to dummy half
• Pick up and re-attach tag quickly
• Dummy half can either run with the ball or pass to the 1st receiver
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 3 – Play the ball relay
• Set up four relay channels 15m apart – with markers at 5m intervals
• Split each team into two – creating 4 teams
• All team members must have belts and tags on
• Have each team line up one end of the relay channel.
• In groups of three teams will rotate through ruck positions in a relay:
o Person play the ball to person 2,
o Person 2 to pass the ball to person 3
o Person 3 to run to first marker who plays the ball for person 1
o Person one passes the ball to person 2 etc
o Once have completed play the ball on last marker all three run back to original marker
and pass the ball onto to the next group
• 1st team to go through all players as 1
st receiver wins
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
15m
1 2
3
A A A 1
2
3
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Key Teaching Points:
• Correct technique for playing the ball
• Unless your team is playing with a dedicated dummy half it is good practice to have the person
playing the ball follow the ball carrier to be the next dummy half
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 4 – Scoring
• Explain and demonstrate how to score a try
• Set up a “tryline” have students practice scoring – have students line up 5m back from tryline and
take turns running across the line and scoring the try
Key Teaching Points:
• Must place ball on the ground – don’t just run across the line
• Use whistle when student score the try
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
Body
(10 minutes)
Activity 5 – Modified Game (5v5)
• Set up 2 fields 15m x 25m
• Split the two teams into two again (total of 4 teams)
• Play two games of 5 v 5
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
5m
A A A A A
A A A A A
B B B B B
B B B B B
Tryline
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Key Teaching Points:
• As the game is progressing explain basic rules as needed e.g. kick off, knock on, 6 tags =
changeover, no contact, no jumping, forward pass
• Defence cannot move forward until the 1st receiver has the ball
• Ensure attacking player moves forward and does not run backwards
Whistle
Conclusion
(2 minutes)
Activity 6 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o How do you score a try? What do you have to do with the ball?
o When do you play the ball? What has to happen?
o How do you play the ball? Can you just roil it between your legs?
o Where do you face when you play the ball?
o What happens after you play the ball?
o Which player should follow the ball carrier?
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Year 4 - Lesson Plan 5
Focus Areas: Expansion and refining of game skills and rules, and assessment:
• Basic Oztag rules
• Attacking skills - 2 on 1 attacking (draw and pass)
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Apply Oztag skills in a game situation
• Explain basic rules used in a game of Oztag
• Use the draw and pass in a game situation
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Activity 1 – 2 on 1 drill
• Set up two grid 8m x 5m – split class into two teams
• At one end of each grid have 1 defender
• At the other end have the reminder of the team in two lines (attackers)
• Attackers must run and score a try by beating the defender through a draw and pass
• Rotate defenders after a few turns at defending
Tags
Belts
Balls
Markers
8m
A A A A A
A A A A A
B
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Key Teaching Points:
• Ball Handling – two hand on ball, thumbs on tops, fingers wrapped underneath, and ball out in front
• Tagging – use two hands and palms of the hands, stepping towards the attacker
• Correct draw and pass technique:
o Do no pass ball too early or late
o Only pass if the defender comes to the ball carrier – do not force the pass
o Pass the ball off the back foot and rotating the shoulders towards the receiver
o Receiver to stay wide of the defender
Body
(20 minutes)
Activity 2 – Full Game
• Play full game of Oztag with 8 v 8
• Field size for juniors = 40m x 25m
• Ensure subbing of players if frequent to involve all players
Key Teaching Points:
• As the game is progressing explain basic rules as needed e.g. kick off, knock on, 6 tags =
changeover, no contact, no jumping, forward pass
• Defence cannot move forward until the 1st receiver has the ball
• Ensure attacking player moves forward and does not run backwards
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
Body
Assessment
• As students are playing the game complete assessment sheet
• Note: You will require another person to referee the game. Alternatively complete the assessment
sheet post game being played
Assessment
Sheet
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Conclusion
(5 minutes)
Activity 3 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o How many people in one team for Oztag?
o Are you allowed to jump to avoid being tagged?
o Can you push someone away when they try and tag you?
o What is the best way to make a tag?
o How do you avoid being tagged?
o How do you play the ball?
o How do you do a draw and pass?
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Year 5 Lesson Plans
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Year 5 - Lesson Plan 1
Focus Areas: Introduction of key Oztag skills:
• Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Offensive skills – passing
• Offensive skills – ball handling
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Put on an Oztag belt
• Explain where to place tags on the Oztag belts
• Pass a ball in an attacking situation
• Explain basic technique needed to pass a ball
• Run with an Oztag ball
• Explain basic technique used in running with the ball
• Apply running and passing skills in a simulated game situation
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(3 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (4 to Score)
• Have students place on tags and belts – ensure even numbers in teams
• Set out grids 10m x 10m – no one is allowed outside of the grid
• Split class up into groups of 4-8
• Teams must pass the ball four times between their team mates to score 1 point
• Students are not allowed to run with the ball in their possession.
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
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• A change over occurs when the opposing side drops the ball or intercepted, or a player is tagged
while holding the ball
• Repeat as needed – highest score wins
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Key Teaching Points:
• Ball Handling – two hand on ball, thumbs on tops, fingers wrapped underneath, and ball out in front
• Tagging – use two hands and palms of the hands, stepping towards the attacker
• Attackers move to spaces to receive the ball
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 2 – Putting on a Belt and Tags
• Have students sitting as a group
• Explain how to put on a belt and tags and demonstrate
• Have students place on their own belts (assistance will be required)
• Allocate students into two different groups (reflective of the two different colour tags). As you call
out a colour have that student go and put on that colour tags
Key Teaching Points:
• Fury side of the belt to the outside
• Oztag logo on the belt to the front and middle
• Have the belt rap around your waist
• Tags to sit on either side of your waist and hanging straight down
• Special Oztag shorts can be used and if you play at a competition you will have to play in a pair
Oztag Belts
Tags
Body
(2 minutes)
Activity 3 – Ball Handling
• Sit students as a whole group and ask explain how to hold the ball as you are running
Balls
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• Provide demonstration
• Get students to practice holding the ball and running short distances with it.
• Ensure all students get a turn
Key Teaching Points:
• Both hands on the ball
• Ball held out in front of the body
• Thumbs running down the ball and fingers curled underneath (like holding a hamburger)
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 4 – Ball Handling Drills
• Set up a small grid of 15m x 15m
• Students to hold the ball
• Move around grid lightly slapping footballs and checking correct grip. At the end of each of the
following stationary handling drills the coach checks correct grip.
• Get students to perform different moves to perform and then hold the ball again:
o Ball on the ground. One foot on top of ball. On whistle, quickly bend down pick up ball
and stand up.
o Ball on ground. On whistle, spin around once, two claps and pick up ball
o Ball in Hands. Throw ball up about head height catch in hands
o Ball in Hands. Throw ball up, one clap, catch in hands. Then try 2 claps, 3 claps, 4
claps…Count as many claps as you can!
o Bounce the ball to re-gather
o Bounce, clap and re-gather
o Move ball around waist, squeeze with thumb when ball is in one hand. Race 5 times
around waist
o Move ball around both knees, legs together. Race 5 times around knees
Balls
Oztag Belts
Tags
Markers
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o Move ball Figure 8 around knees, legs apart Race 3 times figure 8
Key Teaching Points:
• Correct technique in handling the ball
• Tags and belts on
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 5 – Off Loads Relay
• Split class into 2 teams, then each tem into half
• Set up two markers per team 10m apart
• Each half of a team to stand in a line on a marker.
• One end starts with the ball (A) and runs toward the other end.
• At the same time the person without the ball (B) runs towards their other end
• Players meet in the middle and as they continue to run the player with the ball (A) does a small and
light pass to the receiver (B)
• The student standing behind student A (C) times his/her run to receive the ball in the middle of the
markers from student B.
• This continues until the whole team has completed two full cycles – one passing left and one
passing right
• First team to finish wins
• Variations can be increasing the width of the markers so players must pass further, passing the ball
head height, passing the ball to the knees
Oztag Belts
Tags
Markers
Whistle
Stop watch
A A A A A
B B B B B
A A A A A
B B B B B
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Key Teaching Points:
• Correct ball handling
• Correct passing technique:
o 2 hands on the ball
o Stand side on to the person you are passing the ball too
o Turn shoulders slightly to face the person you are passing the ball too
o Swing arms towards person you are passing the ball to and release the ball
� Arms slightly bent at elbow to make pass more horizontal
o Point to the player you have passed the ball to once released.
o Eye contact focuses on receiving players upper body
o Ball receiver to have hands up in front of chest ready to receive the ball
o Ball receiver to watch the ball into the hands
o Call for the ball
• Timing of the run so that players meet in the middle
• Do not pass too hard
Body
(8 minutes)
Activity 6 – Tag Timer
• Set up a field 25m wide x 30m long
• Have 2 teams as attackers and defenders – teams start at opposite sides of the field
• On the whistle start the stop watch and all attackers must run around the field, and the defenders
must make all the tags
• Once all tags are made stop the stop watch
• Repeat for the other side as attackers
• Fastest time wins
• Introduce balls – time stops immediately once all attackers carrying balls are tagged
Oztag Belts
Tags
Markers
Whistle
Stop watch
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o Ball scan be passed amongst the attacking players
Key Teaching Points:
• Students must stay in the field or they have run out and become defenders
• No contact
• Use both hands and palms to make the tag
• Correct passing technique
• Correct ball handling technique
Conclusion
(1 minute)
Activity 7 – Packing up equipment
• Demonstrate to students how to roll up belts
• Ask student to roll up belts and place tags into the two different colour piles
Key Teaching Points:
• Start rolling up belt with fury side to the outside, and at the non-logo end of the belt
Belts
Tags
Conclusion
(1 minute)
Activity 8 – Revise Key Points
• Sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the following questions:
o Where do we wear the belt on our body?
o Where do the tags sit on your belt?
o How should you hold a ball?
o How do you pass a ball?
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Year 5 - Lesson Plan 2
Focus Areas: Revising, refining and expansion of key Oztag skills:
• Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Defensive skills – tagging
• Offensive skills – twisting and spinning
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Put on an Oztag belt
• Explain where to place tags on the Oztag belts
• Explain the offensive and defensive skills that make Oztag Unique
• Demonstrate correct technique for making a tag
• Demonstrate correct technique for evading a tag – twisting and spinning
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Tag Gauntlet)
• 4 Teams of 5 – 7 players
• Use tag gauntlet to count number of tags removed.
• Team with most tags removed is the winner
• Defenders cannot move forward must only move laterally on line
• Team 1 Attacks, Team 2 Defends then swap
• Repeat as many times as needed
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Tags
Markers
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• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Key Teaching Points:
• Correct tagging technique:
o do not use fingers
o use palms
o step towards the attacker
o use both hands
Body
(2 minutes)
Activity 2 – Tagging
• Have students sit as a group
• Demonstrate to the students how to make a tag – use a student as a volunteer
• Ask students to pair off and practice tagging on each other
Key Teaching Points:
• Use two hands – it’s easier to make the tag
• Use the palm of your hands NOT fingers – just like swatting a mosquito
• Step forward to the attacker - stay on your toes, do not step backwards on your heels
Oztag Belts
Tags
A A A A A B B B
B B
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• When you make the tag just throw it on the ground – make sure you throw it straight down not away
from where you are standing
• STRESS: Zero contact including that the attacker is not allowed to push the defenders hand away
• No jumping by the attacker in avoiding being tagged
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 3 – Twisting and Spinning
• Stress the two key differences in attack between Oztag and other football sports is the use of spinning
and swivelling hips
• Demonstrate how to do both twisting and spinning without defenders
• Demonstrate with students as defenders – use 2 students creating a channel approx 1m wide
• Have students practice each skill
Key Teaching Points:
• Ensure key teaching points for spinning:
Spinning of left foot:
o Plant left foot inside shoulder of the right hand side defender
o Look over right shoulder and spin
o Be sure not to raise elbows so not to collide with defenders
o Be sure not to jump
o Do not spin too early
Spinning of right foot: As above but opposite
• Ensure key teaching points for swivel hips:
o You want to try and get your hips perpendicular to the defenders as you cross the line of defence
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o Easiest method is to slightly lift the front foot as moving forward through the line of defence
o Try to do this at speed
o Be sure not to jump
o Think of doing the twist (rock and roll dancing)
o Do not do the twist too early.
Body
(8 minutes)
Activity 3 – Oztag Core Drill 2
• Split the class into males and females and then split each gender into 2 groups (pink and green for each)
to total 4 groups
• Set up 4 channels
o 2 horizontal witches hats approx 10m apart
o 2 vertical witches 1m apart set half way along (5m) the horizontal witches hats
• Have each group line up behind 1 set of horizontal witches hats
• Have 2 students on the vertical markers as defenders
• Have 1 student from the start of each line move through on your signal. DO NOT let student go through
at their own will.
• Repeat to all students have gone through and then allow to pick up tags.
• Switch defenders and repeat until all students have had a go at defending twice.
• Note: After approx 2 turns ask students methods to avoid being tagged ie swivel hips and spinning.
Provide demonstrations on how to do this and ensure students use these by allocating specific turns to do
so sample set up might be:
o Turns 1 and 2 – normal run through
o Turns 3 and 4 – swivel hips
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o Turns 5 and 6 – spinning
Key Teaching Points:
• Do not pick up tags until all students have run through to the other side of the horizontal witches hats
• Use of spinning and twisting to avoid being tagged
• Use of correct tagging technique
• Stress Safety points
o Cannot palm
o Cannot jump
o Cannot tackle
o Cannot hit hand away OR cover tags with arms or hands
• Cannot run into players
10m
A
A
A A A A A
B
B
B B B B B
1m
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Body
(8minutes)
Activity 4 – Modified Game (Money Ball)
• Four teams are positioned in two 30m by 20m grids.
• Each team has a score a try by placing the money ball over the opposition’s try line.
• The money ball starts in the centre of the field and the two teams at either end of the field
• On the whistle 1 person from each team must run to collect the money ball
• There is no offside and forward passes are allowed to be thrown.
• Once a player is tagged with the ball they are out of play and the ball is given to the opposition.
• All players are allowed to move freely even when in possession of the ball
• Once the ball is dropped or an interception occurs then there is a changeover.
• No kicking is allowed
• Once a team has scored all players come back on to the field
• Variation – make passes only able to go backwards
Key Teaching Points:
• Correct tagging technique
• Correct tag evasion (twisting and spinning) technique
• Attacking players moving to gaps to allow the ball carrier options to pass the ball
• Communication amongst players in attack and defence
Balls
Tags
Belts
Markers
Whistle
Conclusion
(2 minutes)
Activity 5 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o How do you make a tag?
o What two things can be done when you have the ball to help score more tries?
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o How do you do a spin? A twist?
o Should they be done before the defensive line of at the defensive line?
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Year 5 - Lesson Plan 3
Focus Areas: Revising, refining and expansion of key Oztag skills:
• Offensive skills – kicking
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Explain the rules surrounding kicking in a game of Oztag
• Describe correct technique for kicking
• Demonstrate correct technique for kicking in a game situation
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(3 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Back Line movement)
• Split class into two teams
• Have teams form a line across the field
• Have class run up and down field as back line play ie passing ball along the line
• Repeat as needed
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Key Teaching Points:
• Passing backwards
• Calling for ball
Balls
Tags
Belts
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Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 2 – Kicking Demonstration
• Explain the rules surrounding kicking in Oztag
o Can only kick in general play on zero (not after a play the ball), 4 or 5
o Kicks have to be below referees should during normal play but can go any height for kick
restart and drop outs
o Attacking players cannot dive on the ball following a kick
• Explain that for kicks during play it is best to do a grubber
• Demonstrate how to do a grubber
• Get student in pairs to practice grubbers to each other
Key Teaching Points:
• Head down over the ball
• Don’t lean back when kicking
• Hold ball straight down so that it is vertical when you kick it – fingers running straight down the ball
• Kick the top of the ball to make it roll end over end
Balls
Body
(10 minutes)
Activity 3 – Base tag (Kicking)
• Split class into 2 teams
• Set up a baseball field
• Play game of baseball however there is no ball pitched. The batter simply kicks the ball into the field
to constitute a hit
• Normal baseball rules apply:
o 3 out, side away
o Highest score wins
• How to get out:
Balls
Baseball plates
Tags
Belts
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o If the ball makes it to a base before the runner
o If the ball is caught by a fielder
o Runners must have tags on at all times - they cannot proceed without tags on. If a tag falls
off they must return to get the tag
Key Teaching Points:
• Correct technique for kicking
• Have students wear tags and belts
Body
(10 minutes)
Activity 4 – Modified Game (5v5)
• Set up 2 fields 15m x 25m
• Split the two teams into two again (total of 4 teams)
• Play two games of 5 v 5
Key Teaching Points:
• As the game is progressing explain basic rules as needed e.g. kick off, knock on, 6 tags =
changeover, no contact, no jumping, forward pass
• Ensure kicking is used during the games – variation to use double points for scoring off kicking
• Defence cannot move forward until the 1st receiver has the ball
• Ensure attacking player moves forward and does not run backwards
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
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Conclusion
(2 minutes)
Activity 5 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o When can you kick during a game?
o What happens if the ball is kicked over the referees should on the full? What if it bounces
that high?
o What is the best way to kick the ball during normal play?
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Year 5 - Lesson Plan 4
Focus Areas: Introduction of game skills and rules:
• Basic Oztag rules
• Attacking skills - draw and pass
• Attacking skills - wrapping
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Apply Oztag skills in a game situation
• Explain basic rules used in a game of Oztag
• Use the draw and pass in a game situation
• Use a wrap in a game situation
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(3 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Tag Timer)
• Set up a field 25m wide x 30m long
• Have 2 teams as attackers and defenders – teams start at opposite sides of the field
• On the whistle start the stop watch and all attackers must run around the field, and the defenders
must make all the tags
• Once all tags are made stop the stop watch
• Repeat for the other side as attackers
• Fastest time wins
• Introduce balls – time stops immediately once all attackers carrying balls are tagged
Oztag Belts
Tags
Markers
Whistle
Stop watch
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o Ball scan be passed amongst the attacking players
Key Teaching Points:
• Students must stay in the field or they have run out and become defenders
• No contact
• Use both hands and palms to make the tag
• Correct passing technique
• Correct ball handling technique
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 2 – 2 on 1 drill
• Set up two grid 8m x 5m – split class into two teams
• At one end of each grid have 1 defender
• At the other end have the reminder of the team in two lines (attackers)
• Attackers must run and score a try by beating the defender through a draw and pass
• Rotate defenders after a few turns at defending
Key Teaching Points:
• Ball Handling – two hand on ball, thumbs on tops, fingers wrapped underneath, and ball out in front
• Tagging – use two hands and palms of the hands, stepping towards the attacker
• Correct draw and pass technique:
Tags
Belts
Balls
Markers
8m
A A A A A
A A A A A
B
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o Do no pass ball too early or late
o Only pass if the defender comes to the ball carrier – do not force the pass
o Pass the ball off the back foot and rotating the shoulders towards the receiver
o Receiver to stay wide of the defender
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 3 – 3 on 2 drill
• As above but increase to 2 defenders and 3 attackers
• Increase width of grid to 7m
Key Teaching Points:
• Exactly the same principle as 2 on 1 – there is just 1 extra pass
• Able to pick up 2nd man straight away – stager the line so that the 2nd
man stays deeper than the 1st
receiver
• Attackers to run at “space not faces”
Tags
Belts
Balls
Markers
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 4 – Wrapping
• Explain principle of the ‘wrap’:
o Person 1 passes the ball to person 2
o Person 1 then runs behind person 2
o Person 2 pass the ball to person 1 – ensure that they create a gap by drawing the defender
• Demonstrate to the class
• Have students practice in the grid set up above – use 2 attackers and 2 defenders
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
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Key Teaching Points:
• Stress that the wrapper creates the “3rd
person” that they had in the 3 on 2
• Person 2 must draw the defender to create the gap for the person doing the wrapping
Body
(10 minutes)
Activity 5 – Full Game
• Play full game of Oztag with 8 v 8
• Field size for juniors = 40m x 25m
• Ensure subbing of players if frequent to involve all players
Key Teaching Points:
• As the game is progressing explain basic rules as needed e.g. kick off, knock on, 6 tags =
changeover, no contact, no jumping, forward pass
• Defence cannot move forward until the 1st receiver has the ball
• Ensure attacking player moves forward and does not run backwards
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
B B
A 1 A 2
A 1
A 2
B B
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Conclusion
(2 minutes)
Activity 6 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o How do you draws and pass?
o How do you execute a wrap?
o What are the kicking rules for Oztag?
o What are the contact rules of Oztag?
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Year 5 - Lesson Plan 5
Focus Areas: Expansion and refining of game skills and rules, and assessment:
• Basic Oztag rules
• Defensive skills – wrap
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Apply Oztag skills in a game situation
• Explain basic rules used in a game of Oztag
• Successfully defend against a wrap in a game situation
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Activity 1 – Wrap Defence
• Review how to execute a wrap (as covered in previous lesson) – ask students to demonstrate
• Now going to show how to defend against it
• Defender 1 sees that attacker 1 has passed the ball to attacker 2 and began to wrap.
• Defender 1 then yells at defender to “push”, defender 1 then moves sideways to attacker 2 and
defender 2 moves to the gap that attacker 1 will move into
• Split class into 2
• Have students practice in a grid 8m x 7m
Key Teaching Points:
• Must communicate
Tags
Belts
Balls
Markers
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• The defence call for the defenders to slide sideways – but must move forward at the defence first
Body
(20 minutes)
Activity 2 – Full Game
• Play full game of Oztag with 8 v 8
• Field size for juniors = 40m x 25m
• Ensure subbing of players if frequent to involve all players
Key Teaching Points:
• As the game is progressing explain basic rules as needed e.g. kick off, knock on, 6 tags =
changeover, no contact, no jumping, forward pass
• Defence cannot move forward until the 1st receiver has the ball
• Ensure attacking player moves forward and does not run backwards
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
Body
Assessment
• As students are playing the game complete assessment sheet
• Note: You will require another person to referee the game. Alternatively complete the assessment
sheet post game being played
Assessment
Sheet
Conclusion
(5 minutes)
Activity 3 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o What are some key Oztag rules we must abide by on the field?
o What are some attacking moves we can apply to score more tries?
o What defence moves to we apply to stop tries from being scored?
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Year 6 Lesson Plans
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Year 6 - Lesson Plan 1
Focus Areas: Introduction of key Oztag skills:
• Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Defensive skills – tagging
• Offensive skills – twisting and spinning
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Explain the offensive and defensive skills that make Oztag Unique
• Demonstrate correct technique for making a tag
• Demonstrate correct technique for evading a tag – twisting and spinning
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Tag Gauntlet)
• 4 Teams of 5 – 7 players
• Use tag gauntlet to count number of tags removed.
• Team with most tags removed is the winner
• Defenders cannot move forward must only move laterally on line
• Team 1 Attacks, Team 2 Defends then swap
• Repeat as many times as needed
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Oztag Belts
Tags
Markers
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Key Teaching Points:
• Correct tagging technique:
o use both hands when tagging
o step forward when making tag
o use palms
• Correct tagging evasion technique:
o Time hip movements to react to defenders attempts at tagging
o Use movement at the line, not before the line
o Correct technique for twisting - move hips away from attackers attempts e.g. if defenders
is attempting to tag the right tag, then the attackers should move that hip away from the
defender
o Correct technique for spinning – plant foot and look over opposite shoulder to tag the
right tag, then the attackers should move that hip away from the defender
Body
(2 minutes)
Activity 2 – Putting on a Belt and Tags
• Have students sitting as a group
• Explain how to put on a belt and tags and demonstrate
• Have students place on their own belts (assistance will be required)
• Allocate students into two different groups (reflective of the two different colour tags). As you call
Oztag Belts
Tags
A A A A A B B B
B B
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out a colour have that student go and put on that colour tags
Key Teaching Points:
• Fury side of the belt to the outside
• Oztag logo on the belt to the front and middle
• Have the belt rap around your waist
• Tags to sit on either side of your waist and hanging straight down
• Special Oztag shorts can be used and if you play at a competition you will have to play in a pair
Body
(2 minutes)
Activity 3 – Tagging
• Have students sit as a group
• Demonstrate to the students how to make a tag – use a student as a volunteer
• Ask students to pair off and practice tagging on each other
Key Teaching Points:
• Use two hands – it’s easier to make the tag
• Use the palm of your hands NOT fingers – just like swatting a mosquito
• Step forward to the attacker - stay on your toes, do not step backwards on your heels
• When you make the tag just throw it on the ground – make sure you throw it straight down not away
from where you are standing
• STRESS: Zero contact including that the attacker is not allowed to push the defenders hand away
• No jumping by the attacker in avoiding being tagged
Oztag Belts
Tags
Body
(2 minutes)
Activity 4 – Twisting and Spinning
• Stress the two key differences in attack between Oztag and other football sports is the use of spinning
Tags
Belts
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and swivelling hips
• Demonstrate how to do both twisting and spinning without defenders
• Demonstrate with students as defenders – use 2 students creating a channel approx 1m wide
• Have students practice each skill
Key Teaching Points:
• Ensure key teaching points for spinning:
Spinning of left foot:
o Plant left foot inside shoulder of the right hand side defender
o Look over right shoulder and spin
o Be sure not to raise elbows so not to collide with defenders
o Be sure not to jump
o Do not spin too early
Spinning of right foot: As above but opposite
• Ensure key teaching points for swivel hips:
o You want to try and get your hips perpendicular to the defenders as you cross the line of defence
o Move hips away from attackers attempts e.g. if defenders is attempting to tag the right tag, then
the attackers should move that hip away from the defender
o Easiest method is to slightly lift the front foot as moving forward through the line of defence
o Try to do this at speed
o Be sure not to jump
o Think of doing the twist (rock and roll dancing)
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o Do not do the twist too early.
Body
(7 minutes)
Activity 5 – Oztag Core Drill 3
• Set up two grids 7m long x 5m wide – one grid for each team
• At one end of the grid set up a marker 1 m in from either end – each of the 2 markers a different colour
• Have all but 1 students lining up evenly on the colour markers (attackers)
• At the opposite end have 1 person (defender) standing on the line between the 2 makers (tryline)
• The object of this drill if for the defender to collect as many tags as possible from the defenders
• The teacher will call a colour (corresponding to a colour of one of the markers the attackers are standing
on) and the student standing on that colour has to run to beat the defender using twisting and spinning
• The teacher calls out the two different colours until all students have run though
• Allow all student to have a turn as defender - highest tag count wins
• Increase difficulty by calling out the colours in quicker succession’
Tags
Belts
Markers
A A A A A
B
A A A A A
Green marker
Blue marker
7m
5m
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Key Teaching Points:
• Have the defender constantly move forward ie do not stay on the try line
• Correct tagging technique:
o use both hands when tagging
o step forward when making tag
o use palms
• Correct tagging evasion technique:
o Time hip movements to react to defenders attempts at tagging
o Use movement at the line, not before the line
o Correct technique for twisting - move hips away from attackers attempts e.g. if defenders
is attempting to tag the right tag, then the attackers should move that hip away from the
defender
o Correct technique for spinning – plant foot and look over opposite shoulder to tag the
right tag, then the attackers should move that hip away from the defender
Body
(8 minutes)
Activity 6 – Modified Game (Money Ball)
• Four teams are positioned in two 30m by 20m grids.
• Each team has a score a try by placing the money ball over the opposition’s try line.
• The money ball starts in the centre of the field and the two teams at either end of the field
• On the whistle 1 person from each team must run to collect the money ball
• There is no offside and forward passes are allowed to be thrown.
• Once a player is tagged with the ball they are out of play and the ball is given to the opposition.
• All players are allowed to move freely even when in possession of the ball
• Once the ball is dropped or an interception occurs then there is a changeover.
• No kicking is allowed
Balls
Tags
Belts
Markers
Whistle
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• Once a team has scored all players come back on to the field
• Variation – make passes only able to go backwards
Key Teaching Points:
• Correct tagging technique:
o use both hands when tagging
o step forward when making tag
o use palms
• Correct tagging evasion technique:
o Time hip movements to react to defenders attempts at tagging
o Use movement at the line, not before the line
o Correct technique for twisting - move hips away from attackers attempts e.g. if defenders
is attempting to tag the right tag, then the attackers should move that hip away from the
defender
o Correct technique for spinning – plant foot and look over opposite shoulder to tag the
right tag, then the attackers should move that hip away from the defender
• Attacking players moving to gaps to allow the ball carrier options to pass the ball
• Communication amongst players in attack and defence
Conclusion
(1 minute)
Activity 7 – Packing up equipment
• Demonstrate to students how to roll up belts
• Ask student to roll up belts and place tags into the two different colour piles
Key Teaching Points:
• Start rolling up belt with fury side to the outside, and at the non-logo end of the belt
Belts
Tags
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Conclusion
(1 minute)
Activity 8 – Revise Key Points
• Sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the following questions:
o Where do we wear the belt on our body?
o Where do the tags sit on your belt?
o How should a tag be made?
o What two things can be down to avoid being tagged?
o How do you best execute the twist and spin?
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Year 6 - Lesson Plan 2
Focus Areas: Revising, refining and expansion of key Oztag skills:
• Offensive skills – draw and pass
• Offensive skills – decision making in attack
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Use the draw and pass in a game situation
• Successfully apply decision making skills in attack in a modified game
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Square Passing Grid)
• Set up a square grid 5m x 5m
• Split students up evenly into 4 each group standing on a marker
• Have all students wearing belts and tags
• Player A runs with the ball towards player B
• Player B starts running towards player C
• Player A passes the ball to player B who receives the ball 1/3 way along the path
• Player B runs with the caught ball and passes to player C who receives the ball 1/3 way along path
etc
• Once the ball has been passed player A joins the end of the line of which player B was stationed
• Continue as needed
• Change directions
Balls
Markers
Belts
Tags
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• Introduce a 2nd
ball
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Key Teaching Points:
• Pass the ball from outside the grid in
• Must communicate
• Hands out in front to receive the ball
• Correct passing technique
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 2 – 2 on 1 drill
• Set up two grids 8m x 5m – split class into two teams
• At one end of each grid have 1 defender
• At the other end have the reminder of the team in two lines (attackers)
• Attackers must run and score a try by beating the defender through a draw and pass
• Rotate defenders after a few turns at defending
Tags
Belts
Balls
Markers
A A A A A
D D D D D
5m
5m
B B B B B
C C C C C
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Key Teaching Points:
• Ball Handling – two hand on ball, thumbs on tops, fingers wrapped underneath, and ball out in front
• Correct tagging technique:
o use both hands when tagging
o step forward when making tag
o use palms
• Correct tagging evasion technique:
o Time hip movements to react to defenders attempts at tagging
o Use movement at the line, not before the line
o Correct technique for twisting - move hips away from attackers attempts e.g. if defenders
is attempting to tag the right tag, then the attackers should move that hip away from the
defender
o Correct technique for spinning – plant foot and look over opposite shoulder to tag the
right tag, then the attackers should move that hip away from the defender
• Correct draw and pass technique:
o Do no pass ball too early or late
o Only pass if the defender comes to the ball carrier – do not force the pass
o Pass the ball off the back foot and rotating the shoulders towards the receiver
o Receiver to stay wide of the defender
8m
A A A A A
A A A A A
B 5m
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Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 3 – 3 on 1 on 1 drill
• Set up two grids 15m x 8m – split class into two teams
• Same principle as 2 on 1 however there are 3 attackers and 2 defenders at two different intervals
• Ball carrier must decide on who is the best option to pass the ball at each interval
• Switch positions from where the ball starts i.e. from the middle attacker and two outside attackers
Key Teaching Points:
• Ball Handling – two hand on ball, thumbs on tops, fingers wrapped underneath, and ball out in front
• Correct tagging technique:
o use both hands when tagging
o step forward when making tag
o use palms
• Correct tagging evasion technique:
o Time hip movements to react to defenders attempts at tagging
o Use movement at the line, not before the line
A A A A A
A A A A A B
8m
15m
B
A A A A A
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o Correct technique for twisting - move hips away from attackers attempts e.g. if defenders
is attempting to tag the right tag, then the attackers should move that hip away from the
defender
o Correct technique for spinning – plant foot and look over opposite shoulder to tag the
right tag, then the attackers should move that hip away from the defender
• Correct draw and pass technique:
o Do no pass ball too early or late
o Only pass if the defender comes to the ball carrier – do not force the pass
o Pass the ball off the back foot and rotating the shoulders towards the receiver
o Receiver to stay wide of the defender
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 3 – 3 on 2 drill
• Set up two grids 10m x 8m – split class into two teams
• As above but 3 attackers v 2 defenders at the one interval
• Switch positions from where the ball starts i.e. from the middle attacker and two outside attackers
Key Teaching Points:
• Communication amongst attackers and defenders
Markers
Balls
Tags
Belts
A A A A A
A A A A A B
8m
10m
B A A A A A
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• Emphasis is on making the correct choice in attack i.e. choosing the correct player to pass the ball to
Body
(8 minutes)
Activity 5 – Modified Game (5v5)
• Set up 2 fields 15m x 25m
• Split the two teams into two again (total of 4 teams)
• Play two games of 5 v 5
Key Teaching Points:
• As the game is progressing explain basic rules as needed e.g. kick off, knock on, 6 tags =
changeover, no contact, no jumping, forward pass
• Ensure draw and pass is used
• Defence cannot move forward until the 1st receiver has the ball
• Ensure attacking player moves forward and does not run backwards
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
Conclusion
(2 minutes)
Activity 6 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o What things do you need to do when drawing and passing in attack?
o How should you pass the ball?
o Why is communication so important? Who needs to communicate...attackers or
defenders?
o What’s the best way to make a tag?
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Year 6 - Lesson Plan 3
Focus Areas: Revising, refining and expansion of key Oztag skills:
• Defensive skills – wrapping and switching
• Offensive skills – wrapping and switching
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Explain how to execute the wrap and switch in an attacking situation
• Explain how to defend against the wrap and the switch
• Use the wrap and switch in a game situation
• Defend against the wrap and the switch in a game situation
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(4 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Square Passing Grid – Inside ball)
• Set up a square grid 6m x 6m
• Split students up evenly into 4 each group standing on a marker
• Have all students wearing belts and tags
• Player A runs with the ball towards a marker 1m towards the centre of player B
• When player A reaches the marker, Player B starts running behind/’inside’ player A
• Player A passes the ball to player B and player B starts running to the maker in front of player C
• Once the ball has been passed player A joins the end of the line of which player B was stationed
• Continue as needed
Balls
Markers
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Tags
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• Change directions
• Introduce a 2nd
ball
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Key Teaching Points:
• Turn towards the person you are passing the ball to i.e do not pass the ball ‘blind’
• Must communicate
• Hands out in front to receive the ball
• This is the principle of a switch which we will be going over in today’s lesson
Body
(4 minutes)
Activity 2 – Wrapping
• Explain principle of the ‘wrap’:
o Person 1 passes the ball to person 2
o Person 1 then runs behind person 2
o Person 2 pass the ball to person 1 – ensure that they create a gap by drawing the defender
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
A A A A A
D D D D D
6m
6m
B B B B B
C C C C C
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• Demonstrate to the class
• Have students practice in the grid set up above – use 2 attackers and 2 defenders
Key Teaching Points:
• Stress that the wrapper creates the “3rd
person” that they had in the 3 on 2
• Person 2 must draw the defender to create the gap for the person doing the wrapping
• Ball carrier to draw in 2 defenders
Body
(4 minutes)
Activity 3 – Wrap Defence
• Now going to show how to defend against the wrap
• Defender 1 sees that attacker 1 has passed the ball to attacker 2 and began to wrap.
• Defender 1 then yells at defender to “push”, defender 1 then moves sideways to attacker 2 and
defender 2 moves to the gap that attacker 1 will move into
• Split class into 2
• Have students practice in a grid 8m x 7m
Key Teaching Points:
• Must communicate
• The defence calls for the defenders to slide sideways – but must move forward at the defence first
Tags
Belts
Balls
Markers
B B
A 1 A 2
A 1
A 2
B B
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Body
(4 minutes)
Activity 4 – Switch
• Explain principle of the ‘switch’:
o Person 1 moves forward and changes direction towards person 2
o Person 2 moves forward and changes direction towards person 1
o Person 2 runs underneath person 1 – creating an ‘X’
o Person 1 pass the ball to person 2 – ensure that they create a gap by drawing the defender
• Demonstrate to the class
• Have students practice in the grid set up above – use 2 attackers and 2 defenders
Key Teaching Points:
• Stress that the wrapper creates the “3rd
person” that they had in the 3 on 2
• Person 2 must draw the defender to create the gap for the person doing the wrapping
• Ball carrier to draw in 2 defenders
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Body
(4 minutes)
Activity 5 – Switch Defence
• Now going to show how to defend against the switch
• Defender 2 sees that attacker 2 is going to switch.
Tags
Belts
Balls
B 2 B 1
A 1
A 2
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• Defender 2 then yells at defender 1 to “push – you got the switch”, defender 1 then moves sideways
to moves to the gap that attacker 2 will move into, and defender 2 slides to now defend against
attacker 1
• Split class into 2
• Have students practice in a grid 8m x 7m
Key Teaching Points:
• Must communicate
• The defence calls for the defenders to slide sideways – but must move forward at the defence first
Markers
Body
(8 minutes)
Activity 6 – Modified Game (5v5)
• Set up 2 fields 15m x 25m
• Split the two teams into two again (total of 4 teams)
• Play two games of 5 v 5
Key Teaching Points:
• As the game is progressing explain basic rules as needed e.g. kick off, knock on, 6 tags =
changeover, no contact, no jumping, forward pass
• Ensure draw and pass is used
• Defence cannot move forward until the 1st receiver has the ball
• Ensure attacking player moves forward and does not run backwards
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
Conclusion
(2 minutes)
Activity 6 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o How do you execute and wrap?
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o How do you defend against a wrap?
o How do you execute and switch?
o How do you defend against a switch?
o Why is communication so important? Who needs to communicate...attackers or
defenders?
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Year 6 - Lesson Plan 4
Focus Areas: Introduction of game skills and rules:
• Defensive skills – wrapping and switching
• Offensive skills – wrapping and switching
• Offensive skills – decision making in attack
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Explain how to execute the wrap and spin in an attacking situation
• Explain how to defend against the wrap and the switch
• Use the wrap and switch in a game situation
• Defend against the wrap and the switch in a game situation
• Successfully apply decision making skills in attack in a modified game
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Walk Tag)
• Set out a field roughly 30m x 30m
• Split class into 2 halves
• Play a game of Oztag but walking only
• Any person caught running will be penalised
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Tags
Belts
Markers
Ball
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Key Teaching Points:
• Don’t be so strict on the Oztag rules – the idea is to get the student moving to warm up
• Ensure that the quieter students receive the ball
Body
(7 minutes)
Activity 2 – 3 on 2 drill
• Set up two grids 10m x 8m – split class into two teams
• Remind students of the 3 on 2 drill they did 2 weeks earlier
• Like last time there will be 3 attackers v 2 defenders at the one interval
• However this time you are equipped with the skills we did last week i.e switch and wrap so can do
either of these as well as the draw and pass
• Remind students of how do to switch and wrap – ask for volunteers
• Have student go through – repeat as needed
• Switch positions from where the ball starts i.e. from the middle attacker and two outside attackers
Key Teaching Points:
• Communication amongst attackers and defenders
• Emphasis is on making the correct choice in attack i.e. choosing the correct player to pass the ball
Markers
Balls
Tags
Belts
A A A A A
A A A A A B
8m
10m
B A A A A A
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• Do not always need to pass the ball i.e. do not force the error
• Use of wrap and switch
• Support players to stay wide of defenders to create room for draw and pass
• Ball carrier to draw in 2 defenders for the switch and wrap
Body
(7 minutes)
Activity 3 – 3 on 2 Gauntlet
• As for the 3 on 2 drill above however have 3 intervals
• Use tag gauntlet to count number of tags removed.
• Team with most tags removed is the winner
• Defenders cannot move forward must only move laterally on line
• Team 1 Attacks, Team 2 Defends then swap
• Repeat as many times as needed
Key Teaching Points:
• Communication amongst attackers and defenders
• Emphasis is on making the correct choice in attack i.e. choosing the correct player to pass the ball
• Do not always need to pass the ball i.e do not force the error
• Correct tagging technique:
Markers
Balls
Tags
Belts
A A A A A
A A A A A
A A A A A
B
B
B
B
B
B
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o use both hands when tagging
o step forward when making tag
o use palms
• Correct tagging evasion technique:
o Time hip movements to react to defenders attempts at tagging
o Use movement at the line, not before the line
o Correct technique for twisting - move hips away from attackers attempts e.g. if defenders
is attempting to tag the right tag, then the attackers should move that hip away from the
defender
o Correct technique for spinning – plant foot and look over opposite shoulder to tag the
right tag, then the attackers should move that hip away from the defender
Body
(9 minutes)
Activity 4 – Full Game
• Play full game of Oztag with 8 v 8
• Field size for juniors = 40m x 25m
• Ensure subbing of players if frequent to involve all players
Key Teaching Points:
• As the game is progressing explain basic rules as needed e.g. kick off, knock on, 6 tags =
changeover, no contact, no jumping, forward pass
• Defence cannot move forward until the 1st receiver has the ball
• Ensure attacking player moves forward and does not run backwards
• Use of attacking and defensive skills that have been practiced
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
Conclusion
(2 minutes)
Activity 5 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
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o How do you execute and wrap?
o How do you defend against a wrap?
o How do you execute and switch?
o How do you defend against a switch?
o Why is communication so important? Who needs to communicate...attackers or
defenders?
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Year 6 - Lesson Plan 5
Focus Areas: Expansion and refining of game skills and rules, and assessment:
• Oztag rules
• Offensive skills – kicking
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Apply Oztag skills in a game situation
• Explain rules used in a game of Oztag
• Apply kicking skills to a game of Oztag
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(10 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Kicking Relay)
• Explain the rules surrounding kicking in Oztag
o Can only kick in general play on zero (not after a play the ball), 4 or 5
o Kicks have to be below referees should during normal play but can go any height for kick
restart and drop outs
o Attacking players cannot dive on the ball following a kick
• Explain that for kicks during play it is best to do a grubber
• Demonstrate how to do a grubber
• Split class into 4 teams
• Set up 4 channels 10m long – 1 per team
• Students must grubber the ball to themselves, regather and pass on to the next player
Balls
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• Players must regather the ball and pass to the next player i.e. they cannot kick the ball direct to the
next player
• First team to go through whole teams wins.
Key Teaching Points:
• Head down over the ball
• Don’t lean back when kicking
• Hold ball straight down so that it is vertical when you kick it – fingers running straight down the ball
• Kick the top of the ball to make it roll end over end
Body
(15 minutes)
Activity 2 – Full Game
• Play full game of Oztag with 8 v 8
• Field size for juniors = 40m x 25m
• Ensure subbing of players if frequent to involve all players
Key Teaching Points:
• As the game is progressing explain basic rules as needed e.g. kick off, knock on, 6 tags =
changeover, no contact, no jumping, forward pass
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
A A A A A
B B B B B
A A A A A
10m
B B B B B
Grubber Re-gather Pass
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• Defence cannot move forward until the 1st receiver has the ball
• Ensure attacking player moves forward and does not run backwards
Body
Assessment
• As students are playing the game complete assessment sheet
• Note: You will require another person to referee the game. Alternatively complete the assessment
sheet post game being played
Assessment
Sheet
Conclusion
(5 minutes)
Activity 3 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o What are some key Oztag rules we must abide by on the field?
o What are some attacking moves we can apply to score more tries?
o What defence moves to we apply to stop tries from being scored?
o What is the best way to kick during normal play in Oztag?
o What are the rules involved with kicking during normal play?
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Year 7 Lesson Plans
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Year 7 - Lesson Plan 1
Focus Areas: Introduction of key Oztag skills:
• Placing on and taking off Oztag belts and tags
• Defensive skills – tagging
• Offensive skills – twisting and spinning
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Explain the offensive and defensive skills that make Oztag Unique
• Demonstrate correct technique for making a tag
• Demonstrate correct technique for evading a tag – twisting and spinning
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Tag Gauntlet)
• 4 Teams of 5 – 7 players
• Use tag gauntlet to count number of tags removed.
• Team with most tags removed is the winner
• Defenders cannot move forward must only move laterally on line
• Team 1 Attacks, Team 2 Defends then swap
• Repeat as many times as needed
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Oztag Belts
Tags
Markers
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Key Teaching Points:
• Correct tagging technique:
o use both hands when tagging
o step forward when making tag
o use palms
• Correct tagging evasion technique:
o Time hip movements to react to defenders attempts at tagging
o Use movement at the line, not before the line
o Correct technique for twisting - move hips away from attackers attempts e.g. if defenders
is attempting to tag the right tag, then the attackers should move that hip away from the
defender
o Correct technique for spinning – plant foot and look over opposite shoulder to tag the
right tag, then the attackers should move that hip away from the defender
Body
(2 minutes)
Activity 2 – Putting on a Belt and Tags
• Have students sitting as a group
• Explain how to put on a belt and tags and demonstrate
• Have students place on their own belts (assistance will be required)
• Allocate students into two different groups (reflective of the two different colour tags). As you call
Oztag Belts
Tags
A A A A A B B B
B B
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out a colour have that student go and put on that colour tags
Key Teaching Points:
• Fury side of the belt to the outside
• Oztag logo on the belt to the front and middle
• Have the belt rap around your waist
• Tags to sit on either side of your waist and hanging straight down
• Special Oztag shorts can be used and if you play at a competition you will have to play in a pair
Body
(2 minutes)
Activity 3 – Tagging
• Have students sit as a group
• Demonstrate to the students how to make a tag – use a student as a volunteer
• Ask students to pair off and practice tagging on each other
Key Teaching Points:
• Use two hands – it’s easier to make the tag
• Use the palm of your hands NOT fingers – just like swatting a mosquito
• Step forward to the attacker - stay on your toes, do not step backwards on your heels
• When you make the tag just throw it on the ground – make sure you throw it straight down not away
from where you are standing
• STRESS: Zero contact including that the attacker is not allowed to push the defenders hand away
• No jumping by the attacker in avoiding being tagged
Oztag Belts
Tags
Body
(2 minutes)
Activity 4 – Twisting and Spinning
• Stress the two key differences in attack between Oztag and other football sports is the use of spinning
and swivelling hips
Tags
Belts
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• Demonstrate how to do both twisting and spinning without defenders
• Demonstrate with students as defenders – use 2 students creating a channel approx 1m wide
• Have students practice each skill
Key Teaching Points:
• Ensure key teaching points for spinning:
Spinning of left foot:
o Plant left foot inside shoulder of the right hand side defender
o Look over right shoulder and spin
o Be sure not to raise elbows so not to collide with defenders
o Be sure not to jump
o Do not spin too early
Spinning of right foot: As above but opposite
• Ensure key teaching points for swivel hips:
o You want to try and get your hips perpendicular to the defenders as you cross the line of defence
o Move hip away from defenders hands e.g. if defenders is attempting to tag the right tag, then the
attackers should move that hip away from the defender
o Easiest method is to slightly lift the front foot as moving forward through the line of defence
o Try to do this at speed
o Be sure not to jump
o Think of doing the twist (rock and roll dancing)
o Do not do the twist too early.
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Body
(7 minutes)
Activity 5 – Oztag Core Drill 3
• Set up two grids 7m long x 5m wide – one grid for each team
• At one end of the grid set up a marker 1 m in from either end – each of the 2 markers a different colour
• Have all but 1 students lining up evenly on the colour markers (attackers)
• At the opposite end have 1 person (defender) standing on the line between the 2 makers (tryline)
• The object of this drill if for the defender to collect as many tags as possible from the defenders
• The teacher will call a colour (corresponding to a colour of one of the markers the attackers are standing
on) and the student standing on that colour has to run to beat the defender using twisting and spinning
• The teacher calls out the two different colours until all students have run though
• Allow all student to have a turn as defender - highest tag count wins
• Increase difficulty by calling out the colours in quicker succession’
Key Teaching Points:
• Have the defender constantly move forward ie do not stay on the try line
• Correct tagging technique
Tags
Belts
Markers
A A A A A
B
A A A A A
Green marker
Blue marker
7m
5m
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• Correct tag evasion techniques
Body
(8 minutes)
Activity 6 – Modified Game (Money Ball)
• Four teams are positioned in two 30m by 20m grids.
• Each team has a score a try by placing the money ball over the opposition’s try line.
• The money ball starts in the centre of the field and the two teams at either end of the field
• On the whistle 1 person from each team must run to collect the money ball
• There is no offside and forward passes are allowed to be thrown.
• Once a player is tagged with the ball they are out of play and the ball is given to the opposition.
• All players are allowed to move freely even when in possession of the ball
• Once the ball is dropped or an interception occurs then there is a changeover.
• No kicking is allowed
• Once a team has scored all players come back on to the field
• Variation – make passes only able to go backwards
Key Teaching Points:
• Correct tagging technique:
o use both hands when tagging
o step forward when making tag
o use palms
• Correct tagging evasion technique:
o Time hip movements to react to defenders attempts at tagging
o Use movement at the line, not before the line
o Correct technique for twisting - move hips away from attackers attempts e.g. if defenders
is attempting to tag the right tag, then the attackers should move that hip away from the
Balls
Tags
Belts
Markers
Whistle
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defender
o Correct technique for spinning – plant foot and look over opposite shoulder to tag the
right tag, then the attackers should move that hip away from the defender
• Attacking players moving to gaps to allow the ball carrier options to pass the ball
• Communication amongst players in attack and defence
Conclusion
(1 minute)
Activity 7 – Packing up equipment
• Demonstrate to students how to roll up belts
• Ask student to roll up belts and place tags into the two different colour piles
Key Teaching Points:
• Start rolling up belt with fury side to the outside, and at the non-logo end of the belt
Belts
Tags
Conclusion
(1 minute)
Activity 8 – Revise Key Points
• Sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the following questions:
o Where do we wear the belt on our body?
o Where do the tags sit on your belt?
o How should a tag be made?
o What two things can be down to avoid being tagged?
o How do you best execute the twist and spin?
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Year 7 - Lesson Plan 2
Focus Areas: Revising, refining and expansion of key Oztag skills:
• Defensive skills – wrapping and switching
• Offensive skills – wrapping and switching
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Explain how to execute the wrap and switch in an attacking situation
• Explain how to defend against the wrap and the switch
• Use the wrap and switch in a game situation
• Defend against the wrap and the switch in a game situation
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(4 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Square Passing Grid)
• Set up a square grid 5m x 5m
• Split students up evenly into 4 each group standing on a marker
• Have all students wearing belts and tags
• Player A runs with the ball towards player B
• Player B starts running towards player C
• Player A passes the ball to player B who receives the ball 1/3 way along the path
• Player B runs with the caught ball and passes to player C who receives the ball 1/3 way along path
etc
• Once the ball has been passed player A joins the end of the line of which player B was stationed
Balls
Markers
Belts
Tags
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• Continue as needed
• Change directions
• Introduce a 2nd
ball
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Key Teaching Points:
• Pass the ball from outside the grid in
• Must communicate
• Hands out in front to receive the ball
• Correct passing technique
Body
(4 minutes)
Activity 2 – Wrapping
• Explain principle of the ‘wrap’:
o Person 1 passes the ball to person 2
o Person 1 then runs behind person 2
o Person 2 pass the ball to person 1 – ensure that they create a gap by drawing the defender
• Demonstrate to the class
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
A A A A A
D D D D D
5m
5m
B B B B B
C C C C C
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• Have students practice in the grid set up above – use 2 attackers and 2 defenders
Key Teaching Points:
• Stress that the wrapper creates the “3rd person” that they had in the 3 on 2
• Person 2 must draw the defender to create the gap for the person doing the wrapping
• Ball carrier to draw in 2 defenders
Body
(4 minutes)
Activity 3 – Wrap Defence
• Now going to show how to defend against the wrap
• Defender 1 sees that attacker 1 has passed the ball to attacker 2 and began to wrap.
• Defender 1 then yells at defender to “push”, defender 1 then moves sideways to attacker 2 and
defender 2 moves to the gap that attacker 1 will move into
• Split class into 2
• Have students practice in a grid 8m x 7m
Key Teaching Points:
• Must communicate
• The defence calls for the defenders to slide sideways – but must move forward at the defence first
Tags
Belts
Balls
Markers
B B
A 1 A 2
A 1
A 2
B B
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Body
(4 minutes)
Activity 4 – Switch
• Explain principle of the ‘switch’:
o Person 1 moves forward and changes direction towards person 2
o Person 2 moves forward and changes direction towards person 1
o Person 2 runs underneath person 1 – creating an ‘X’
o Person 1 pass the ball to person 2 – ensure that they create a gap by drawing the defender
• Demonstrate to the class
• Have students practice in the grid set up above – use 2 attackers and 2 defenders
Key Teaching Points:
• Stress that the wrapper creates the “3rd person” that they had in the 3 on 2
• Person 2 must draw the defender to create the gap for the person doing the wrapping
• Ball carrier to draw in 2 defenders
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Body
(4 minutes)
Activity 5 – Switch Defence
• Now going to show how to defend against the switch
• Defender 2 sees that attacker 2 is going to switch.
• Defender 2 then yells at defender 1 to “push – you got the switch”, defender 1 then moves sideways
Tags
Belts
Balls
Markers
B 2 B 1
A 1
A 2
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to moves to the gap that attacker 2 will move into, and defender 2 slides to now defend against
attacker 1
• Split class into 2
• Have students practice in a grid 8m x 7m
Key Teaching Points:
• Must communicate
• The defence calls for the defenders to slide sideways – but must move forward at the defence first
Body
(8 minutes)
Activity 5 – Modified Game (5v5)
• Set up 2 fields 15m x 25m
• Split the two teams into two again (total of 4 teams)
• Play two games of 5 v 5
Key Teaching Points:
• As the game is progressing explain basic rules as needed e.g. kick off, knock on, 6 tags =
changeover, no contact, no jumping, forward pass
• Ensure draw and pass is used
• Defence cannot move forward until the 1st receiver has the ball
• Ensure attacking player moves forward and does not run backwards
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
Conclusion
(2 minutes)
Activity 6 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o How do you execute and wrap?
o How do you defend against a wrap?
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o How do you execute and switch?
o How do you defend against a switch?
o Why is communication so important? Who needs to communicate...attackers or
defenders?
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Year 7 - Lesson Plan 3
Focus Areas: Revising, refining and expansion of key Oztag skills:
• Offensive skills – unders and overs
• Offensive skills – decision making in attack
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Explain how to execute an unders and overs in an attacking situation
• Use an unders and overs in a game situation
• Successfully apply decision making skills in attack in a modified game
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Square Passing Grid – Inside ball)
• Set up a square grid 6m x 6m
• Split students up evenly into 4 each group standing on a marker
• Have all students wearing belts and tags
• Player A runs with the ball towards a marker 1m towards the centre of player B
• When player A reaches the marker, Player B starts running behind/’inside’ player A
• Player A passes the ball to player B and player B starts running to the maker in front of player C
• Once the ball has been passed player A joins the end of the line of which player B was stationed
• Continue as needed
• Change directions
Balls
Markers
Belts
Tags
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• Introduce a 2nd
ball
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Key Teaching Points:
• Turn towards the person you are passing the ball to i.e do not pass the ball ‘blind’
• Must communicate
• Hands out in front to receive the ball
• This is the principle of a switch which we will be going over in today’s lesson
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 2 – Unders
• Revise switch and wrap covered last week – ask students how to execute them and ask for volunteers
to demonstrate
• Now going to add to the attacking arsenal
• Explain principle of the ‘unders’:
o Attacker 1 runs towards defender 1 and moves back towards the ‘inside’
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
A A A A A
D D D D D
6m
6m
B B B B B
C C C C C
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o Attacker 2 runs towards defender 1 and moves back towards the ‘inside’
o Attacker 1 pass the ball to Attacker 2 – ensure that they create a gap by drawing the
defender 1
o Attacker 2 straightens their run into the gap created by defender 1
• Demonstrate to the class
• Have students practice in the grid set up above – use 2 attackers and 2 defenders
Key Teaching Points:
• Ball carrier must draw the defender 1 to create a gap for the ball receiver
• Ball receiver and ball carrier must 1st run straight at defender before changing direction – if s/he runs
straight for the gap to be created then their defender will simply slide in defence and make the tag
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 3 – Overs
• Exactly the same principle as unders but the opposite
• Explain principle of the ‘overs’:
o Attacker 1 runs towards defender 1 and moves towards the ‘outside’
o Attacker 2 runs towards defender 1 and moves back towards the ‘outside’
o Attacker 1 pass the ball to Attacker 2 – ensure that they create a gap by drawing the
defender 2
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Tags
Balls
Markers
B 2 B 1
A 1
A 2
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o Attacker 2 straightens their run into the gap created by defender 2
• Demonstrate to the class
• Have students practice in the grid set up above – use 2 attackers and 2 defenders
Key Teaching Points:
• Ball must draw the defender 2 to create a gap for the ball receiver
• Ball receiver and ball carrier must 1st run straight at defender before changing direction – if s/he runs
straight for the gap to be created then their defender will simply slide in defence and make the tag
Body
(5 minutes)
Activity 4 – 3 on 2 Gauntlet
• Use tag gauntlet to count number of tags removed.
• Team with most tags removed is the winner
• Defenders cannot move forward must only move laterally on line
• Team 1 Attacks, Team 2 Defends then swap
• Attackers to use the draw and pass, wrap, switch, unders and overs
• Repeat as many times as needed
Markers
Balls
Tags
Belts
B 2 B 1
A 1
A 2
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Key Teaching Points:
• Communication amongst attackers and defenders
• Emphasis is on making the correct choice in attack i.e. choosing the correct player to pass the ball
• Do not always need to pass the ball i.e. do not force the error
• Use of attacking skills that have been practised
• Correct tagging technique:
o use both hands when tagging
o step forward when making tag
o use palms
• Correct tagging evasion technique:
o Time hip movements to react to defenders attempts at tagging
o Use movement at the line, not before the line
o Correct technique for twisting Move hips away from attackers attempts e.g. if defenders is
attempting to tag the right tag, then the attackers should move that hip away from the
defender
o Correct technique for spinning – plant foot and look over opposite shoulder
A A A A A
A A A A A
A A A A A
B
B
B
B
B
B
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Body
(8 minutes)
Activity 6 – Modified Game (5v5)
• Set up 2 fields 15m x 25m
• Split the two teams into two again (total of 4 teams)
• Play two games of 5 v 5
Key Teaching Points:
• As the game is progressing explain basic rules as needed e.g. kick off, knock on, 6 tags =
changeover, no contact, no jumping, forward pass
• Ensure draw and pass is used
• Defence cannot move forward until the 1st receiver has the ball
• Ensure attacking player moves forward and does not run backwards
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
Conclusion
(2 minutes)
Activity 6 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o How do you execute an overs?
o How do you execute an unders?
o How do you execute a switch?
o How do you execute a wrap?
o Why is communication so important? Who needs to communicate...attackers or
defenders?
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Year 7 - Lesson Plan 4
Focus Areas: Introduction of game skills and rules:
• Communication
• Offensive skills – decision making in attack
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Successfully apply communication skills to effect a positive result in attack and defence in a modified game
• Successfully apply decision making skills in attack in a modified game
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(5 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Walk Tag)
• Set out a field roughly 30m x 30m
• Split class into 2 halves
• Play a game of Oztag but walking only
• Any person caught running will be penalised
• Once completed take students through a light stretch of different muscle groups
Key Teaching Points:
• Don’t be so strict on the Oztag rules – the idea is to get the student moving to warm up
• Ensure that the quieter students receive the ball
Tags
Belts
Markers
Ball
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Body
(7 minutes)
Activity 2 – Communication (Line Defence Drill)
• Stress the importance of communication – particularly in defence
o Everyone must be talking – calling out who they are marking at the very least
• Split the class into two teams – 1 attackers and 1 defenders
• Set up a grid 50m wide and 10m long
• Attackers start on the 10m markers and must attempt to score a try
• Defenders stand on the try line and stop the attackers from scoring (making a tag)
• Only have 1 tag to score.
• 10 attempts each team – highest score wins
Key Teaching Points:
• Communication amongst attackers and defenders
• Emphasis is on making the correct choice in attack i.e. choosing the correct player to pass the ball
• Do not always need to pass the ball i.e. do not force the error
Markers
Balls
Tags
Belts
A A A A A A A A A A
B
10m
50m - Tryline
B B B B
B B B B
B
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• Use of unders, overs, wrap and switch
• Correct tagging technique:
• Correct tagging evasion technique:
Body
(7 minutes)
Activity 3 – Reaction Drill
• Just as important as actually talking in communication is listening – so you can react to what you
have heard
• This drill will force you to listen but also use your decision making skills to react what is in front of
you
• Set up square 8m x 8m.
• Have half of the players in Defence and half in Attack – have all students in a line at the half way of
the grid
• Students run from the half way around the end marker and begin attacking or defending
• The attackers receive the ball and attempt to score, defenders stop this by making a tag.
• The teacher will call out a numbers - that number represents the number of attackers and defenders to
be used. For example if 3 is called, they first 3 students from each line will run around the marker
and it becomes 3 on 3
• Repeat as needed
• Ensure you give swap the attackers with the defenders.
Markers
Balls
Tags
Belts
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Key Teaching Points:
• Communication amongst attackers and defenders
• Emphasis is on making the correct choice in attack i.e. choosing the correct player to pass the ball
• Do not always need to pass the ball i.e. do not force the error
• Use of unders, overs, wrap and switch
• Correct tagging technique:
o use both hands when tagging
o step forward when making tag
o use palms
• Correct tagging evasion technique:
o Time hip movements to react to defenders attempts at tagging
o Use movement at the line, not before the line
o Correct technique for twisting Move hips away from attackers attempts e.g. if defenders is
attempting to tag the right tag, then the attackers should move that hip away from the
A A A A A B B B B B
10m
10m
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defender
o Correct technique for spinning – plant foot and look over opposite shoulder
Body
(9 minutes)
Activity 4 – Full Game
• Play full game of Oztag with 8 v 8
• Field size for juniors = 40m x 25m
• Ensure subbing of players if frequent to involve all players
Key Teaching Points:
• As the game is progressing explain basic rules as needed e.g. kick off, knock on, 6 tags =
changeover, no contact, no jumping, forward pass
• Defence cannot move forward until the 1st receiver has the ball
• Ensure attacking player moves forward and does not run backwards
• Use of attacking and defensive skills that have been practiced
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
Conclusion
(2 minutes)
Activity 5 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o How do you execute and wrap?
o How do you defend against a wrap?
o How do you execute and switch?
o How do you defend against a switch?
o Why is communication so important? Who needs to communicate...attackers or
defenders?
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Year 7 - Lesson Plan 5
Focus Areas: Expansion and refining of game skills and rules, and assessment:
• Oztag rules
• Offensive skills – kicking
Learning Outcomes: At the completion of this lesson students will be able to:
• Apply Oztag skills in a game situation
• Explain rules used in a game of Oztag
• Apply kicking skills to a game of Oztag
Duration: 30 minutes
Section Activity Resources
Introduction
(10 minutes)
Activity 1 – Warm Up (Kicking Relay)
• Explain the rules surrounding kicking in Oztag
o Can only kick in general play on zero (not after a play the ball), 4 or 5
o Kicks have to be below referees should during normal play but can go any height for kick
restart and drop outs
o Attacking players cannot dive on the ball following a kick
• Explain that for kicks during play it is best to do a grubber
• Demonstrate how to do a grubber
• Split class into 4 teams
• Set up 4 channels 10m long – 1 per team
• Students must grubber the ball to themselves, regather and pass on to the next player
Balls
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• Players must regather the ball and pass to the next player i.e. they cannot kick the ball direct to the
next player
• First team to go through whole teams wins.
Key Teaching Points:
• Head down over the ball
• Don’t lean back when kicking
• Hold ball straight down so that it is vertical when you kick it – fingers running straight down the ball
• Kick the top of the ball to make it roll end over end
Body
(15 minutes)
Activity 2 – Full Game
• Play full game of Oztag with 8 v 8
• Field size for juniors = 40m x 25m
• Ensure subbing of players if frequent to involve all players
Key Teaching Points:
• As the game is progressing explain basic rules as needed e.g. kick off, knock on, 6 tags =
changeover, no contact, no jumping, forward pass
Belts
Tags
Balls
Markers
Whistle
A A A A A
B B B B B
A A A A A
10m
B B B B B
Grubber Re-gather Pass
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• Defence cannot move forward until the 1st receiver has the ball
• Ensure attacking player moves forward and does not run backwards
Body
Assessment
• As students are playing the game complete assessment sheet
• Note: You will require another person to referee the game. Alternatively complete the assessment
sheet post game being played
Assessment
Sheet
Conclusion
(5 minutes)
Activity 3 – Revise Key Points
• Once students roll up their belts have them sitting as a group ask students to call out answers two the
following questions:
o What are some key Oztag rules we must abide by on the field?
o What are some attacking moves we can apply to score more tries?
o What defence moves to we apply to stop tries from being scored?
o What is the best way to kick during normal play in Oztag?
o What are the rules involved with kicking during normal play?
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Additional Drills
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Tagging, Twisting and Spinning
Drill 1 – Still Tagging
• In pairs students take it in turn tagging each other
• Students stand no more than 1m away from each other facing each other
• Student are only allowed to move one legs if they are defending (i.e. removing tags), and no legs if they are attacking (i.e. avoiding being
tagged). This forces strong movement of hips
Key Teaching Points:
• Defenders to:
o use both hands when tagging
o step forward when making tag
o use palms
• Attackers to:
o Time hip movements to react to defenders attempts at tagging
o Move hips away from attackers attempts e.g. if defenders is attempting to tag the right tag, then the attackers should move that
hip away from the defender
Drill 2 – 4-Way Tagging
• Set up a square shape grid approx 10m x 10m
• Each corner of the square has a different colour marker
• Split the class up into 4 equal groups
• Place 1 group on each colour marker (attackers) and 1 defender in the middle of the grid
• As the teacher calls out a colour (corresponding to a coloured marker) the attacker at the start of that line must run through to the diagonally
opposite marker while trying to avoid being tagged, and the defender must attempt to make the tags
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• Go through whole class and switch defenders
• Defender with most tags made wins
Key Teaching Points:
• Attackers do not put on tags until the drill is complete – safety reasons
• Defenders to:
o use both hands when tagging
o step forward when making tag
o use palms
• Attackers to:
o Time hip movements to react to defenders attempts at tagging
o Use movement at the line, not before the line
o Correct technique for twisting Move hips away from attackers attempts e.g. if defenders is attempting to tag the right tag, then
the attackers should move that hip away from the defender
A A A A A
B B B B B C C C C C
10m D D D D D
C 10m
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o Correct technique for spinning – plant foot and look over opposite shoulder
Drill 3 – Cover Defence
• Set up a square shape grid approx 20m long x 6m wide
• Split class into two – attackers and defenders
• Attackers are to run straight up the ‘line”
• Attackers to carry a ball
• Defenders are to run across and make the tag before they score
• Students to switch positions i.e. once they have been attacker they rejoin the defenders line
• Switch attackers and defenders positions i.e. move attacker from Left side to right etc
Key Teaching Points:
• Defenders cannot place hands on the attackers – only remove tags
• Defenders to:
o use both hands when tagging
A A A A A
20m
B B B B B
6m
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o step forward when making tag
o use palms
• Attackers to:
o Time hip movements to react to defenders attempts at tagging
o Use movement at the line, not before the line
o Correct technique for twisting Move hips away from attackers attempts e.g. if defenders is attempting to tag the right tag, then
the attackers should move that hip away from the defender
o Correct technique for spinning – plant foot and look over opposite shoulder
Passing
Drill 1 – Basetag (Passing)
• Split class into 2 teams
• Set up a baseball field
• Play game of baseball however there is no ball pitched. The batter simply passes the ball into the field to constitute a hit
• Normal baseball rules apply:
o 3 out, side away
o Highest score wins
• How to get out:
o If the ball makes it to a base before the runner
o If the ball is caught by a fielder
o Runners must have tags on at all times - they cannot proceed without tags on. If a tag falls off they must return to get the tag
Key Teaching Points:
• Correct technique for passing
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• Depending on the age of the students the bases may need to be short in length given the passing may not be very far. This could also create
an issue with defending students bunching up in the infield. Creating two games with smaller numbers can alleviate this issue.
Drill 2 – Dodge Ball
• Set up a field 10m wide x 12m long – with a safety zone 1m either side of half way
• Split class into two teams
• Teams to spread out over their half
• Starting with 4 balls – 2 per team
• Teams must pass the ball into opposition players
• If the ball hits the opposition they are out
• If a players pass is caught by the opposition, the person passing is out
• The team with the last player/s remaining wins
Key Teaching Points:
12m
10m
Safety Zone
B
B
B
B
B
B B
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
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• Correct technique for passing
• Students not to enter the safety zone to catch, pass or pick up a ball
Kicking
Drill 1 - Bullseye
• Set up 6 markers 1m apart in a straight line
• Have 7th
marker 10m back from the middle of the line
• Students are to grubber kick for accuracy
o In between the 1st two marker (them idle goal) = 3 points
o The next goal to the right and left = 2 points
o And the final goal to the right and left = 1 point
• Student receive 5 kicks each – highest score wins
• No points are relieved for kicking outside the goals or if the kick is not a grubber
Grubber kick
3 pts 2 pts 1 pts 1 pts 2 pts
10m
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Key Teaching Points:
• Head down over the ball
• Don’t lean back when kicking
• Hold ball straight down so that it is vertical when you kick it – fingers running straight down the ball
• Kick the top of the ball to make it roll end over end
Drill 2 – Drop Kick Competition
• Conduct a drop kick competition
• Set up different markers surrounding football posts
• Each student to receive 1 kick from each position
• The student with the most number of successful kicks wins
• Variations:
o kicking for distance i.e. longest drop goal
o create a ‘money’ ball from one of the position – this ball is worth more points if the kick is successful
Key Teaching Points:
• Head down over the ball
• Don’t lean back when kicking
• Hold ball straight down so that it is vertical when you drop it
• Ball should be dropped so that the point of it hits the ground
• Time the kick so that you half volley it i.e. kick at just as the ball bounces up
• Kick the bottom of the ball with the top of your foot
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Attacking moves
Drill 1 - Drift
• Explain principle of the ‘drift’:
o Attacker 1 (ball carrier) and attacker 2 (1st receiver) run diagonally forward with ball carrier looking to pass the ball to 1
st
receiver.
o Attacker 3 (2nd
receiver) runs back underneath both ball carrier and 1st receiver
o Ball carrier passes the ball to 2nd
receiver
o 2nd
receiver straightens run into gap that has been created
• Demonstrate to the class
• Have students practice in the grid set up above – use 3 attackers and 3 defenders
Key Teaching Points:
• 2nd
receiver to run back inside late – if leave too early than defence can react
• All attackers to run straight first - this commits defenders
• Ball carrier to run to gap between defender 1 and 2
B 2 B 1
A 1
A 2 A 3
B 3
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• Ball carrier to pass the ball facing the 2nd
receiver i.e. do no pass the ball blind
• 2nd
receiver to straighten run into gap that would have been created by defender 1
• The 1st receiver must also be ready to receive the ball
Drill 2 – Block
• Explain principle of the ‘block’:
o Attacker 3 (2nd
receiver) acts as a decoy (block)
o 2nd
receiver runs towards gap in between defender 3 and 2
o Attacker 2 (1st receiver) runs behind 2
nd receiver towards gap created by defender 3
o Attacker 1 (ball carrier passes the ball to 1st receiver
• Demonstrate to the class
• Have students practice in the grid set up above – use 3 attackers and 3 defenders
Key Teaching Points:
• 1st receiver to run behind 2
nd receiver late – if leave too early than defence can react
• All attackers to run straight first - this commits defenders
B 2 B 1
A 1
A 2 A 3
B 3
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• Ball carrier to run to gap between defender 1 and 2
• 2nd
reliever to run at gap in between 2nd
and 3rd
defender
• 1st receiver to straighten run into gap that would have been created by defender 3
• The 2nd
reliever (block) must also be ready to receive the ball
Decision Making/Reaction
Drill 1 – Retreat and Attack
• Split class into 3 equal groups
• Set up a grid 7m wide and 8m long – with additional markers at 5m long
• Allocate 2 students to be defenders standing on the line created by 5m makers
• The 2 groups are attackers and stand in 3 lines at the start of the grid
• On the whistle the first 3 attackers move forward using any attacking moves and try to score a try, and the defenders must first run back to
the 8m marker and then towards the attackers to make the tags
A A A A A
8m
B B B B B
D
5m
D
8m
C C C C C
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Key Teaching Points:
• Reaction to what is in front of the – for both the defenders and attackers
• Communication
• Correct tagging technique
• Correct tag evasion technique
• Defenders to turn and face the ball when retreating
Drill 2 – Ruck Plays
• Set up a grid with 1 marker in the middle and 3 markers 2m back and spread out approx 2m apart either side so that it resembles a ruck in
the middle and 3 attackers either side
• Split the class up evenly so that there are students on each marker
• From the ruck the teacher calls out a specific move and the students must complete that attacking move
• Take it turn passing ball from ruck to left and right side
• Introduce defenders if needed
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Key Teaching Points:
• Ensure students rotate positions
• Don’t stand too deep in attack
• Must be able to react to what the teacher calls immediately
• Support players running correct lines to draw defenders and create holes
A A A A A
B B B B B
C C C C C
B B B B B
C C C C C
D D D D D
D D D D D
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