Elementary Touch Rules Course

Yesterday Grant Milne from Otago Touch came to school to run the elementary rules ref course for our top touch players. Mr Carroll, Marie W and Mrs McKenzie also attended to improve their knowledge of touch which was great to see! The course started with 50mins of open book testing on the rules of the game. The second half of the course was practical and involved participants learning to run good ref lines on the field and learn the signals refs use throughout a game. Well done to everyone who attended, the standard of touch will improve as players will have a better understanding of the rules!

Touch- Yr 5/6 Whites

Jessica R running hard:

Otago Athletics 09

Yesterday 28 students from Outram School competed at the Otago athletics champs. Stand out performers were: Georgia B-1st 800m, Zara S-5th 800m, Ella W-7th 800m, Christie W-4th High Jump, 5th 800m, Belinda S-4th High Jump, Malachi B-5th 800m, Sam R 5th Long Jump.

South Taieri School Athletics

Outram School have dominated the South Taieri Schools athletics with 28 students qualifying for the Otago Champs held tomorrow. Stand out performers on the day were Christie W, Daniel G, Georgia B, Brooke M and Nicholas Mc. Outram also won all of the relay races-this is the first time one school has achieved this! We have high hopes for our athletes at the Otago Champs and no doubt will have some Otago champions by the end of tomorrow.

Outram Touch-Blues

Outram Blue are still playing unbeaten touch with another win against St Marys, overpowering them in both attack and defence and winning 13-0. The Blues played amazing touch using two man quickies, DA(Dive Attack) and pushing St Marys to there limits by closing them down early and putting lots of pressure on them when they are on defence. The whole team played well, working together and talking to each other.

The Blues also have a night game, playing in the seniors adults grade. They came up against the Taieri College senior team 'Rush'. The 'Rush' team had the advantage being taller and some of them a lot faster. Sometimes it looked like the players learn't tap dancing by stepping and jumping away from us trying not to get touched. The Blues still didn't care about them being faster and taller and just played some good touch and eventually it came to a draw 9-9.
By Dan G