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| Vaughan Middle School tag rugby team with EDF Energy mascot Eddie Energy at the Dragon’s Mouth entrance at the Millennium Stadium. |
| Pupils play at Millennium Stadium thanks to EDF Energy |
| 4 April 2008, 11:07 am |
| By Jonathan McConnell |
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| Pupils from schools in Coventry, High Wycombe and Harrow played tag rugby in front of tens of thousands of fans at the EDF Energy Cup semi-finals at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff on Saturday March 22. |
Willenhall Wood Primary School, Naphill and Walters Ash School and Vaughan Middle School are all involved in the EDF Energy National Schools Rugby Programme, which has introduced more than 50,000 children to the sport in just a year. Pupils from the school got the chance to play in the tag demonstration games after winning a tag rugby festival hosted by cup holders Tigers as part of the schools programme.
They formed a guard of honour and played at half-time during the back-to-back semi-finals which saw Leicester beat London Wasps and Ospreys beat Saracens to reach the EDF Energy Cup Final.
The EDF Energy National Schools Rugby Programme is introducing 112,000 children to the sport by July 2009. Schools where rugby has never been played before are among those being targeted. Tag rugby is a non-contact version of the sport that teaches the skills necessary to go on and play rugby union.
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