North Canterbury News: November 06, 2020
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Celebrating10Yearsofthe<br />
MAINPOWER PRIMARY SCHOOL<br />
SPORTS COACHING PROGRAMME<br />
The<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong>Sport&Recreation Trust<br />
celebrated the 10th anniversaryofthe MainPower<br />
PrimarySchool Sports Coaching Programme last<br />
week with aspecial eventatMainPower Oval. Current<br />
and former MainPower Sports Coaches put on some<br />
coaching demonstrations with studentfrom17local<br />
schools in frontofalarge contingentofbusiness and<br />
WaimakaririDistrictCouncil representatives.<br />
MainPower CEO Andy Lester waspresentedwith a<br />
commemorativeplaque by NCSRTChair DonRobertson,<br />
commemorating MainPower’s decade of sponsorship<br />
supportfor the coaching programme.<br />
TheMainPower PrimarySchool Sports Coaching<br />
Programme is regarded as one of the best of its kind<br />
in NZ. Theprogramme startedin2010 in response to<br />
studies highlighting thatmanychildren were not being<br />
engaged in sportand physical activity. TheNCSRT<br />
then employedtwo coaches to go into schools to teach<br />
studentfundamental and specific sporting skills through<br />
fun and inclusivedrills and games. Verysoon more<br />
schools came into the programme and morecoaches<br />
were employedtodeliver the fortnightly sessions.<br />
Theprogramme nowextends from OuruhiaSchool in<br />
the South, to View Hill School in the West and to Hapuku<br />
School in Kaikoura, encompassing 42 schools and over<br />
6,000 students from years 0-8. As aresult of the regular<br />
speciliased sports coaching participating schools<br />
receive, therehas been an increase in the number<br />
of students keeping physically activeintosecondary<br />
school and moregetting involved in club sports across<br />
the region. Most importantly manychildren who are<br />
not sports-inclined areencouraged to participate in a<br />
positiveenvironmentwithout competitivepressures,<br />
and as aresult they become moreconfidentand thus<br />
morelikely to remain activethroughout their lives.<br />
Thank you MainPower, from all <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> Primary Schools<br />
and the <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> Sport & Recreation Trust
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