The North Canterbury Sport & Recreation Trust is actively involved in the development of youth sport and physical activity within primary schools through a range of initiatives.

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Primary School Sports Coaching
School Sports Competitions & Events
MainPower Primary Schools Swimming Programme

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Mainpower Primary School Coaching Programme covers 43 schools from Ouruhia, a school on Marshlands Road to Hapuku just north of Kaikoura. Over 5560 children are benefiting from the sports coaching programme as well as many teachers being up skilled each week.

Cluster coaches deliver a structured similar skills based programme to schools in the North Canterbury area.

Teachers are provided with detailed lesson plans of these session delivered. These lessons plans include; learning objective, level, equipment list, diagrams/pictures and games/ activities.

Many of the these pupils are seeing the team of coaches every 2 weeks throughout the school term delivering everything from fundamental skills to more sport specific depending on the needs and interest of the school and their students.

Benefits to the children include...

Develop a wide range of fundamental skills and sport specific skills
Ignites interest and links to local sports clubs and organisations
Provides opportunities for relationship, teamwork and personal development in a physical setting

Supports of the Primary Schools Sport Coaching Programme include the following fantastic companies...

The North Canterbury Sport & Recreation Trust runs several sports tournaments each year for the region's primary schools, as well as "Introduction to Sports" days.

Many of these events are now supported by Airpark Canterbury

As part of this sponsorship your school has been given 20% discount vouchers for Airpark Canterbury's fantastic service, so if you are planning to park and fly, grab one of these vouchers from your school today.