The following resources are available to help you get a team started at your school:
The starter pack contains plenty of information to help anyone wishing to set up a Junior team - covering everything from 'health and safety' and how to obtain funding, to training ideas.
An introduction to Ultimate Frisbee - explaining how the game is played and providing examples of drills suitable for school-aged children.
These are currently being updated. Please contact admin(at)ukultimate(dot)com for further information or to obtain copies of the lesson plans.
Everyone plays inside a marked area about the size of an endzone. One disc is used, and the aim is to throw the disc at anyone to hit them (head shots are discouraged). Usual Ultimate rules apply in that the person with the disc cannot move, everyone else can run away or get as close as they dare. If the disc hits anyone before it hits the ground, that person is 'out' and is a prisoner of the thrower. They remain outside the marked area until the person who caught them is out of the game. People can also be out by having their throw caught (before it hits the ground). If only two people are left inside the area (I.e. everyone else is a prisoner of one of them) then everyone comes back in to the game (we don't like outright winners)
The result is a game that is instant for kids to understand, very fast moving, initially rewards poor throwers (whose throws tend to go in to the ground, or are quite uncatchable), rapidly improves people's catching skills, and throws up some surprising team work. We normally have to introduce a couple of extra rules like you cannot throw it twice in a row unless you get someone out with a shot, dangerous play (thrown too fast at someone very close) results in losing your prisoners and dropping out until someone else is caught out, must hit people above knee to discourage aiming too low, etc.