Learner worksheet

Name: ____ Date: ______

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to identify the relevant facts in a Sevens incident, decide what happens next, calculate scoring outcomes and support a decision with a law reference.

Use the standard World Rugby 2026 Sevens framework for these fictional incidents. They are classroom exercises, not instructions for your school’s competition.

For each question, write decision → reason → law reference. State the team involved where relevant. Treat each scenario independently. Assume ordinary time remains, no advantage is being played and no additional infringement occurs. Use the teacher-supplied law extracts; do not consult the answer pages until instructed.

Eight decisions

  1. After a score: Blue scores a try and completes its conversion attempt. Which team restarts, using what kick and from where? When must it do so?

Decision: ____ Reason and law: ______

  1. Short restart: Red’s halfway restart stops eight metres beyond halfway. Nobody from Blue touches or plays it, and the referee stops play. What sanction should Blue receive?

Decision: ____ Reason and law: ______

  1. Straight out: Blue’s halfway restart travels directly into touch without touching the field or another player. What sanction should Red receive?

Decision: ____ Reason and law: ______

  1. First yellow: The referee shows Red 4 a first yellow card. What suspension duration applies in Sevens?

Decision: ____ Reason and law: ______

  1. Another yellow-card offence: Blue 6 has already received a yellow card and returned. Later in the same match, the referee determines that Blue 6 has committed another yellow-card offence. What happens to that player? Can that player return later in this match?

Decision: ____ Reason and law: ______

  1. Score calculation: Red starts on 12 points. A Red attacker legally grounds the ball first in Blue’s in-goal, then Red completes a valid conversion. What is Red’s new score? Show your calculation.

Decision: ____ Reason and law: ______

  1. Late conversion: Blue’s try is awarded. The kicker takes a drop-kick conversion 34 seconds of playing time later; it passes between the posts above the crossbar. Is the conversion allowed?

Decision: ____ Reason and law: ______

  1. Penalty try: The referee determines that an identified defender’s foul play prevented a probable try and awards a penalty try. How many points are awarded? Is there a conversion? What disciplinary action must accompany the decision?

Decision: ____ Reason and law: ______

Worked examples — reveal separately

Example A: classify before calculating. Amber has 4 points and scores a valid dropped goal in open play, with no preceding free-kick restriction. Identify the scoring method, then add its value: 4 + 3 = 7. World Rugby Law 8.1(e).

Example B: check the method before the result. A player proposes using a tee for a Sevens conversion. The required method is a drop-kick; a place-kick is not permitted. A kick’s direction alone cannot establish its validity. World Rugby Sevens Law 8.7.

Model the reasoning aloud, then hide this page before learners begin independent work.

Answer key: restarts

  1. Blue restarts with a drop-kick on or behind the centre of halfway, within 30 seconds after the conversion attempt. In Sevens, the scoring team takes this restart. Law 12.4.

  2. Free-kick to Blue. The untouched restart failed to reach the 10-metre line. Law 12.6.

  3. Free-kick to Red. A halfway restart must not travel directly into touch. Law 12.8.

These decisions use the replacements in World Rugby’s Sevens Law 12.

Answer key: cards

  1. Two minutes. This is the Sevens suspension specified for a yellow card.

  2. Send Blue 6 off. A further yellow-card offence in the same match requires dismissal, not another temporary suspension. World Rugby Sevens Law 9.29.

The dismissed player cannot return during that match: Law 9.30 says that player takes no further part. This question concerns the player’s exclusion, not competition-specific replacement eligibility. World Rugby 2026 lawbook, Law 9.30, printed page 58.

Answer key: scoring

  1. 19 points: 12 + 5 for the try + 2 for the conversion. The scenario establishes a lawful grounding; identify the scoring events before adding their values. Laws 8.1(a–b) and 8.2(a).

  2. Disallow the conversion. Thirty-four seconds exceeds the Sevens limit of 30 seconds of playing time from the try award. Passing through the posts does not cure lateness. The try remains scored. World Rugby Sevens Law 8.8(c).

  3. Seven points, with no conversion attempt. The guilty defender must receive a yellow card or be sent off. The facts do not establish which of those sanctions is appropriate; do not invent the offence’s severity. Laws 8.1(c) and 8.3. World Rugby Law 8.

Teacher lesson plan

Audience: secondary learners and adult beginners. No playing experience is required. This is a classroom activity, not contact-rugby training.

Learning objectives: learners will select the relevant Sevens variation, explain a restart or card decision, calculate a scoring outcome and distinguish established facts from missing information.

Materials: learner worksheet copies, pens, scrap paper, a board, a timer and access to the cited World Rugby laws. Keep the answer pages separate. No sports equipment is required.

Preparation: prepare access to Law 8.1–8.3, Law 9.30 and Sevens Laws 8, 9 and 12. Check that extracts show the replacement wording, not only the ordinary-law text. Review the worked examples and decide when to display them.

0–5 minutes: introduce the objectives. Ask learners what information they would need before judging an unfamiliar incident.

5–12 minutes: demonstrate how to find a base law and its Sevens replacement. Present the two worked examples from the answer pack, then hide them.

12–27 minutes: pairs complete the eight scenarios. One learner proposes a decision; the other asks for supporting evidence. Swap roles halfway.

27–37 minutes: release the answer key. Learners correct in another colour and explain one changed decision.

37–43 minutes: discuss which details determine an answer and which questions would need tournament regulations. Ask pairs to change one scenario fact and research whether their ruling changes.

43–45 minutes: exit ticket: write one decision, its law reference and one question that remains uncertain.

Teacher notes and review boundaries

Assessment: award one mark per scenario for the decision and one for a relevant explanation or locator: 16 marks available. For multipart questions, require all requested elements for the decision mark. Use errors to identify whether learners misread the incident, selected the wrong law or made an arithmetic mistake.

Support: read scenarios aloud, provide a simple field sketch and allow oral explanations. For extension, ask learners to identify a fact they would need before resolving a more complex incident. Keep extension solutions on separate answer sheets.

Scope: the named baseline is the World Rugby 2026 lawbook, checked against its online Sevens variations. The Sevens introduction establishes that ordinary laws apply subject to those variations. World Rugby Sevens introduction.

The learners’ educational ages do not establish the rules of an actual youth competition. Verify the relevant union’s age-grade provisions and event regulations before adapting this material for play. World Rugby’s foreword assigns youth pathways to unions. The 2026 lawbook also distinguishes elite replacement provisions in Law 9.30; this lesson tests the dismissed player’s exclusion without making a universal replacement claim. World Rugby 2026 lawbook, Foreword and Law 9.30.

No tournament, effective start date or disciplinary suspension beyond the match is inferred here. Retain this lesson as a draft for editorial review.

For further reading, use the existing restart guide, yellow-card guide and scoring guide.

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