Tākarokaro programme in schools

Parkview Pārua School have been able to experience a brand new sports programme, thanks to the support of Canterbury Rugby, NZ Rugby and Sport NZ.

The Tākarokaro programme, facilitated by Canterbury Rugby Game Developer Claudia Bethell, has been running at Parkview Pārua School over the past term, giving students the opportunity to complete three learning experiences including, the finding out section, designing an activity and participating in the festival. 

“The finding out section involved tamariki researching how active New Zealand is and how participation levels differ depending on factors such as deprivation levels, demographic, and gender.” said Bethell. “This was completed using the Sport NZ insight tool. It was used to help inspire tamariki to become more active. This information would also later help influence the designing of their activities.”

“They then created an activity and were given resources to help create one. Their game had to include a set learning intention e.g what the purpose of the game was, the equipment they needed, how it would be set up and played, some progressions for the game and what skills are used within it”.

An important part of the programme is providing the opportunity for the school’s local clubs to get involved, with Parklands RFC the closest junior club to the school.

“They had a session with Parklands RFC where they taught tamariki progressions and regressions of rugby/rip that can suit all levels and help make it for everyone to enjoy.” Bethell said.

“We then had the final festival where tamariki created posters of their activities, they took the opportunity to teach their activities to their classmates and we finished with sharing some Barkers fruit pouches!”