How to play netball.

I am going to tell you how to play netball.

Netball is a ball sport for two teams of seven players. There are seven positions for each team which are C (centre), WA (wing attack), WD (wing defence), GA (goal attack), GD (goal defence), GS (goal shoot) and GK (goal keeper).

Each of those positions have their own job to do on the court. The court is divided into thirds and each of those thirds have names. The two thirds on the end of the court are called the goal thirds and the middle third is called the centre third.

Centre

Centres are able to move in the whole court except the two semi circles. They have to help out in defence and in attack. Centres mainly have to get the ball from the defensive side to the attack side. If a team has scored a goal the centre also restarts the game. They do this by making a pass from the centre circle.

Attacking

It is their job to create as many goal scoring chances as possible by passing the ball to the shooters. Wing attacks can move in the attacking and the centre third but not the defensive third.

Defending

Defences job is to try stop the oppositions Attacks from getting the ball off the centre or any other position from the other team . They do this by getting in front of the Attacks but you can not hit them. If you are caught hitting a player or even accidentally bumping into them when they have the ball, the umpire will blow the whistle and say “contact” which means you have to stand beside the player and you will not be able to defend them.

If the WA caught the ball from the centre you job as the  Defender is to defend the ball by standing three feet away from the opposition and defend using your hands. If you defend too close to the other player the umpire will blow the whistle and say “ stand down obstruction” which means you will have to stand down.

Sports at Tamaki.

        Sports at Tamaki.

Do you know what classes 2, 4 and 5 do for sports. Well, every week on Friday those 3 classes go down to Tamaki College for sports. We don't need any transport to go there because it is only down the road.

When we get to Tamaki we go to the field for a little meeting. Then we get into our teams. Once we are ready we walk to our area where we are going to play our games. Then our tutors put us into 2 teams. Then once we are in our 2 teams we start to play our games.

The first game that we played was this tigy game. We had to get into teams of 2 but since our whole group of kids had only 3 girls Me, Martha and Sarona were a group of 3.

After we got into our groups 1 person from each group was a tagger. Once we got our taggers they had to try and tag us, if the person that wasn’t in didn’t get tagged then they get a point. If you do get tagged then the tagger gets a point

After we finished playing that game we played a game called trustfall. Trustfall is a game game about trust. For this game we had to get into to groups. When we got into our groups one person from each team had to stand on a table.

When we were on the table the people on the ground had to put their hands out to catch us. Once I say ready they say yes and then I fall back. Once I was fell I was happy that I didn’t have to do it again because it was pretty scary.

After that it was time to go back to school so we went back to our meeting area and said thank you to our tutors and went back to school.