EDUCATION
JUNIOR ARMSTRONG TEAM LEADER
Empowering Young People through Sport
College, “Student Success is the only option”, and William Colenso College, “Aspire, act, achieve”.
delivery to the teams they coach.
Sport provides young people with the opportunity to develop their leadership skills, communication skills, confidence and problem solving skills. Utilising sport as a vehicle to develop young people is a priority for the Sport Hawke’s Bay Education Team, which is achieved through programmes such as Physical Activity Leaders (PALS) within primary schools, and Growing Coaches within secondary schools.
When we play sport we learn team-work skills, communication skills, leadership skills, relationship skills, how to deal with pressure, how to deal with adversity and also success – all of these are attributes potential employers seek and will ask candidates during job interviews. Sport can add value in developing a well-rounded young person and presenting them with increased readiness and opportunities for employment. Within this approach we have created a pathway for students to use sport to develop their leadership (employability) skills through primary and secondary schools.
Further to this, empowerment programmes have also been delivered to Flaxmere College, William Colenso College, Taradale High School, Karamu High School, Napier Boys’ High School, and Central Hawke’s Bay College.
We’ve shifted our thinking and approach away from counting numbers in sport and now we’re asking the question of how sport can be used to develop a well-rounded young person. Through the New Zealand education system and the school setting, young people are presented with opportunities to develop skills to achieve in life and to continue onto tertiary study and employment. We’ve aligned our vision and way of working to the vision of individual schools e.g. Taradale High School, “To nurture individual potential”, Flaxmere
STUDENT WORKFORCE
In 2016, over 50 schools and over 600 students participated in our Physical Activity Leaders (PALS) programme aimed to teach year 5 and 6 students the skills to lead and deliver lunchtime activities.
This has seen the student workforce grow to over 200 students with exciting initiatives planned for 2017, as Taradale High School and Havelock North High School also join the workforce. Utilising sport as a vehicle to develop young people and teaching students tangible skills they will use for life is a priority for Sport Hawke’s Bay.
This year saw the ‘Growing Coaches’ programme, a Sport New Zealand developed student coach programme, introduced to Hawke’s Bay Secondary Schools. The programme has empowered over 30 students from Hastings Girls’ High School, Napier Girls’ High School, Woodford House and Iona College. Students have received coaching support in their leadership roles, as well as having been assessed based on
“THE INFLUENCE THAT A GOOD COACH HAS ON AN ATHLETE’S LIFE CAN GO BEYOND THE SPORTING FIELD WHICH IS WHY WE ARE LOOKING TO DEVELOP THESE SKILLS AT THE SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL.” CHRIS MCIVOR, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT OFFICER – SECONDARY SCHOOLS
SPORT HAWKE’S BAY ANNUAL REPORT
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