Annual Report 2015-2016

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Harbour Sport
As the community sport development lead, Harbour Sport have
continued growing relationships and engaging key leaders in
sport and the community to grow the participation, capability
and capacity for sport and recreation in the North Harbour area.
Working closely with the
community, ascertaining needs
and understanding the
demographics of a growing
and changing community, are
at the fore of leadership and
responsibility of an outward-facing
community-based organisation.
Harbour Sport continues to show leadership in the coaching
space. Eight different RSO/NSOs requested support
and guidance in the development of their coaches and coach
development programmes. Outside of this support, 49 coach
development opportunities (workshops and observations)
were delivered to 422 coaches from 17 different organisations.
Significant support in coach development continues to be
offered to secondary schools. The Coach Support Initiative
has grown again this year, with four secondary schools on
the project receiving more funding to grow links with primary
schools, intermediate schools and clubs in their area through
coaching initiatives. This has resulted in the engagement of an
additional 17 new schools/clubs.
The North Harbour Secondary School Regional Sports Plan
was developed as a collective agreement for the continued
support of sport within the schools.
The main focus being to ensure that sport is valued and
students have access to a diverse range of opportunities
in sport.
The Harbour Student Sports Council was created as a direct
result of the Regional Sports Plan, with each school able
to have representation in ‘the student voice’. Another new
initiative which has been very positively received has seen the
introduction of the Secondary Student Volunteer of the Month,
recognising student volunteers in sport within their school.
Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) remain a crucial part of
development in engaging and retaining young people in sport.
Harbour Sport has continued to focus on upskilling teachers, by
delivering professional development sessions in schools,
on a variety of FMS topics. This year 509 teachers participated
in sessions, impacting on 11,710 children.
The SportSPasifik programme developed by Harbour Sport
addresses barriers to healthy lifestyles by facilitating
well-being and community cohesion, improving health
outcomes by increased participation in sport and physical
activity. The development of the project over a number of
years has created a life stage model which now enables
engagement with all ages in the Pacific community.
A number of new ActivAsian initiatives were implemented
including ‘Walk With Us Albany’ which has grown from a
small group of 20 new migrants, to a record group of 61
participants. This shows a great interest by the group in
both walking as a physical activity along with the desire to
learn more about their new home.
Harbour identified the need
for leadership in the area of
water safety within the new
migrant community. Working in
collaboration with a number of
organisations, to date 18 new
bi-lingual swim instructors have
been trained, with a further 22 to
be trained in the coming months.