Sheffield Stormers Netball School/Club Link
Since the Year 8 netballers were introduced to Netball in January last Year as Year 7’s they have took a very keen interest to playing this sport. Regularly 24 students attend training every week to learn and develop their talents further. At the end of the summer new kit was ordered for the squad which is very modern showing off the new netball look, which is lycra tops, skirts, bodywarmers and velcro bibs.
Since then I have set up a link with the nearest Junior Netball Club in Sheffield, which is Sheffield Stormers. The idea of this link is so the girls can continue playing Netball outside of school in the community and develop their talents much further and progress through playing and representing a club within Junior Leagues. This will also hopefully continue their participation in Netball once leaving school and promote lifelong participation.
The Year 8’s are piloting a car share scheme where friendship groups students get together so parents share the driving once a month to take the girls to the English Institute of Sport for training every week. If this scheme is successful it will be introduced to future years within the school.
Head coach Kate Vivian has been a tremendous help in setting up this link, delivering free coaching sessions to the girls at the school and meeting with myself to draw up a formalised School-Club agreement. She is also going to not only help develop the girls as performers, but look at training the students to achieve various leadership and officiating qualifications.
We are also going to work together to deliver festivals at the school and develop inter school competitions within this sport. Following on from this both Primary Link Teachers in the Junior Schools which belong to “The Campsmounts Family” are ready to take advantage of this fantastic School–Club link and the next process for us is to develop this link in Norton and Askern Spa Junior Schools.
This is a fantastic link for the school especially as Sheffield Stormers have now become one of the most successful clubs not only in Yorkshire, but also nationwide, with 6 teams playing in the Sheffield league and 1 team in the premier league. This is a new exciting link and I look forward to seeing many of our Campsmount girls representing Sheffield Stormers in the future!!!!!!
C.Knowland (Campsmount School Sports Co-ordinator)