Rugby League is a great team game.

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• Rugby League is a great team game.
• Every year the two best teams battle it out for
  the title of champions in the Grand Final of
  Super League which is played at Old Trafford.

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• One of the greatest ever team efforts in Rugby
  League was made by the Great Britain team of
  1958.
• In those days injured players could not be
  replaced during a game.
• The British captain, Alan Prescott, led his side
  to Ashes victory despite breaking his arm in the
  third minute of the match.
• He played on for the sake of the team.

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• For teams to be effective then everyone in the
  team must play their part.
• Think about this as you listen to the amazing
  story of the golden plover.

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The Migration of the Golden Plover

• Stick Together!

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The Golden Plover

• This bird is a Golden Plover
• Pluvialis Dominica Fulva

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The Golden Plover

• Every year the Golden Plover migrates over 4000
  kilometres (about 2,500 miles)

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It travels from Alaska to Hawaii
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The Golden Plover

• The entire journey is over the sea.
• Golden Plovers cannot swim.
• They have to fly none stop.
• The journey takes 88 hours.

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The Golden Plover

• To make the journey
• the Plovers have to beat their wings over
  250,000 times!

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The Golden Plover

• At the start their average weight is 200 grams.
• 70 grams of this is fat (padding) which acts as
  fuel.
• AT THE RATE AT WHICH THEY FLY THEY WOULD NEED 82
  GRAMS OF FAT FOR THE JOURNEY

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The Golden Plover

• This would mean they would drop into the sea and
  die about 800 kilometres (500 miles) from land!
• But they do not.
• WHY???

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The Golden Plover

• Scientists have worked out that by flying
  together in a V formation, the plovers save 23
  of their energy.
• They could not do it alone.

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The Golden Plover

• People are a bit like that.
• In Galatians 62 in the Bible it says
• Carry each others burdens and in this way you
  will carry out the law of Christ.

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So Remember

• we are stronger and achieve more when
• we work together
• we help one another
• we encourage one another

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• when we are a team

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• because there is no I in TEAM!