The Six Nations Championship
The 2026 Six Nations Championship is here! It’s a great topic for PE lessons, with the chance for children to learn more about rugby and competitive sporting tournaments, and a chance for you to inject some added excitement into PE! The Six Nations Championship is an annual international rugby union competition between England, France, Ireland, […]
The 2026 Six Nations Championship is here!
It’s a great topic for PE lessons, with the chance for children to learn more about rugby and competitive sporting tournaments, and a chance for you to inject some added excitement into PE!
The Six Nations Championship is an annual international rugby union competition between England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. It takes place around the same time very year – February and March – and this year takes place from 6th February to 20th March. That means you have plenty of time to consider using it for PE lessons.
Six Nations History
Why not bring a little bit of the history and spirit into your class with some of our Six Nations Rugby Activities.
The Six Nations Championships is the oldest international rugby tournament in the world, dating back to 1883.
It is an annual competitive Rugby Union tournament, which starts at the beginning of February every year and runs through to the middle of March. Each Nation hosts their home fixtures at a stadium in their capital city.
The competition is organised through Six Nations Championships, who work with the governing bodies of each nation to help develop rugby at all levels and ensure the best possible future for the game.
Up until 2000, the competition was known as the Home Nations Championship, and only included England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
England have won the tournament the most number of times at 25. France won the tournament in 2025.
The Six Nations also organise a Women’s Championships, which started in 1996, and an U20s (2008) and includes the same six nations competing.
In the Women’s competition, England have won 21 out of the 30 competitions.
Try our Six Nations Quiz below with your class to test their knowledge. Let us know how they get on using our twitter or Facebook page.
Six Nations Quiz
1. 1883-2000, the competition was known as ‘The Home Nations Championship’ as it was only against the four home nations. Can you name the four? (England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales)
2. Who won the Men’s Six Nations Championship in 2025? (France)
3. Is this tournament Rugby Union or Rugby League? (Rugby Union)
4. Which nation has won the Women’s championship the most? (England – 21 times)
5. If you win the metaphorical ‘Wooden Spoon’ Award, what does it mean? (You finished in last place)
6. Each Nation has a stadium which their home fixtures are played. Where is the English Stadium? (Twickenham, London)
Additional Resources
Our Calendar events in our PE Resources section of our website has games and activities for not only the Six Nations Rugby. We have resource cards for sporting events such as The British Golf Open (July) and Wimbledon (June), to name a few. Outside the sporting calendar, we have activities for awareness days and occasions such as Red Nose Day (20th March) and Easter (5th April).
These resources are constantly being updated and added to so keep checking back. And, if there’s an event, celebration, or awareness day, that isn’t currently in our calendar, that you’d like please get in touch!
