Sunday, July 28, 2013

Rakahuri Tourn Term 3 - Basketball, Tennis, Winter Sports Interchange



Fernside Tennis Club AGM
Tuesday, 6th August at 7.30pm. FTC clubrooms - Fernside Hall Pavilion
Please consider attending the AGM. New committee members are always welcome so think about putting your hand up and having a say in the running of the club. It is not an arduous role and the committee consists of an relaxed and efficient group of people so don't feel intimidated. We would like as many people as possible to have an input into our club.
Look forward to seeing you there.Any queries, feel free to contact me on 3131161
Lyn Crosson President


RAKAHURI PRIMARY SCHOOLS’ WINTER TOURNAMENT 2013

 DATE:             Tuesday 6h August , pp 8th
VENUES:                    Rugby                A&P Show grounds -  Anthea Beecroft, Tracey Casey, Robbie Salton
Players require mouthguards and boots if possible
                                    Football         Maria Andrews Park  - Nadja Zeitheim, Ben/Sarah Davidson           Players require shin guards and boots if possible, mouthguards optional but recommended, hair tied
                                    Hockey           Dudley Park – David Taylor, Annabel Wilson, Kirstie Carpinter   Players require mouthguards, Shin pads  and boots if possible, hair tied
Netball           Dudley Netball Courts  - Gail Power, Jodeen Marshall, Kennedy Proctor, Lou Kerr.   Nails must be cut short and hair tied up.

TRANSPORT            Bus
START and Finish TIMEs:  9:15 a.m. for a 9:30 a.m. start , finish approximately 1:30 p.m
Thank you to our parent helpers who are able to assist us this week.
Thank you for returning the notices so promptly. They were permission slips as well as checking that you had received the notices. There are still some outstanding and they must be in for the student to participate.

All players will be required to wear the Fernside Sports Uniform, have their lunch, 2 named bottles of water and warn clothing.
Ashgrove School will be running a Sausage Sizzle as well as selling snacks. 
Please note that we will be at Maria Andrews and Dudley Park ONLY. Sausages $2.00

Unfortunately we will not be at the Showgrounds to cater to the Rugby Competition, as we just didn’t have enough volunteers to man all 3 locations.  However if parents/caregivers want to pop down to Maria Andrews and purchase a Saussie or 2 they are most welcome to!

 Fernside Tennis Club AGM

Tuesday, 6th August at 7.30pm. FTC clubrooms - Fernside Hall Pavilion
Please consider attending the AGM. New committee members are always welcome so think about putting your hand up and having a say in the running of the club. It is not an arduous role and the committee consists of an relaxed and efficient group of people so don't feel intimidated. We would like as many people as possible to have an input into our club.
Look forward to seeing you there.
Any queries, feel free to contact me on 3131161
Lyn Crosson
President


Monday Night Soccer Term 4

This is held throughout Term Four every Monday night. A great way to maintain what has been learnt over the winter season or a fantastic introduction into soccer.
Teams are Year 0,1,2 and Year 3,4,5, and Year 6,7,8, there is also probably going to be a girls comp Year 1-4 (if there is enough interest).
Times will be confirmed but start at 4.00pm onwards.

So that we are prepared for term four soccer early. Could you please see Rachele George Room 1 or 2 or email rachele.george@fernside.school.nz.
If
You have a child who wants to play
Are willing to take a team (manage)
Are planning on organising/putting together a team and what level it will be.
Once confirmed team names need to be chosen.



Please refer to the winter sports page for details of term 3's sports.

Want to make the U13 Canterbury Country basketball team that attends Nationals? Or just play in a local tournament?
Come down to the Mega Centre on August 4th to trial for the U13 North Canterbury Boys and Girls team. These teams will compete in Christchurch against other associations on August 24th/25th.
From here you may be selected to attend Nationals in the Canterbury Country team or go to Mainland Champs in the North Canterbury Mainland team.
Trials are at the Mega Centre on August 4th:
Boys 10am-12pm
Girls 12pm-2pm


Fernside Tennis Club AGM

Tuesday, 6th August at 7.30pm. FTC clubrooms - Fernside Hall Pavilion
Please consider attending the AGM. New committee members are always welcome so think about putting your hand up and having a say in the running of the club. It is not an arduous role and the committee consists of an relaxed and efficient group of people so don't feel intimidated. We would like as many people as possible to have an input into our club.
Look forward to seeing you there.
Any queries, feel free to contact me on 3131161
Lyn Crosson
President

Monday, July 15, 2013

How to keep kids active and how parents turn them off sport!

Looking ahead - Rooms 8 - 10 will be participating in Sports Interchange on 16th and 23 August as well as the Rakahuri Tournament on 6 August.

Thought you might be interested in this article. It is a timely reminder of how influential we are on our child's involvement in Sport. Fernside parents are supportive of their children playing sport. They coach and manage teams, transport them to and from games and practices, support them on the sideline, help with duty and fundraising, kit them out and pay for subs.

We are all aware of expected sideline behaviour and respecting the opposition and the referee BUT what do we say on the car ride home?

If you can, try not to stuff up the car ride home, Gahan says.
The car ride home is when the kid just wants to quietly let the game sink in - whether a win or a loss.
They know if they've played well or badly. You don't need to tell them. The car's a pretty intense closed environment. They can sense your every thought, disappointment, anger, even a bit too much pride. It's all there, crowding in. Every sigh, every shrug is amplified.
So, I ask, what do you say on the car ride home?
Gahan says: "What about, 'geez, I love watching you play out there'?"

 The following article gives us some advice and presents some frightening statistics.




Below is an article passed on through Sport Canterbury which is quite interesting and outlays that one of the bigger reasons kids quit sport is negative sideline behaviour from parents! You may like to send this on to all your members.

The real reason why our kids quit sport
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Parents need to keep their egos in check and allow kids to enjoy sport. 
WHAT do you reckon is one of the main reasons most kids quit sport? While you're pondering, let's absorb this stat from the US: Each year 20 million children register for baseball, soccer, football, hockey and other competitive sports; about 70 per cent of those will quit by age 13.
Also according to the National Alliance for Sports, these kids will never play those sports again. Never.
Pass another doughnut and plonk them down at the computer screen until it's time to take them to hospital in a specially built and reinforced obese person's ambulance. Never is an awfully long time.
While you are standing on the sidelines of the cricket/netball/hockey/rowing this morning before you drive off to another sideline on the other side of town, do you think your child will be among the 30 per cent who stick at it?
Well, going by research, if you are a yeller, probably not. Children hate mothers and fathers behaving aggressively on the sideline of junior sports events, especially their own.
So, how's that new barracking rule working for you? You know the one where some sporting codes have introduced lollipops for parents to put in their mouths because their barracking became so out of hand and abusive.
I met a man in the butcher's shop (where all good gossip happens) and he's talking about his latest efforts coaching junior teams for his three kids - rugby, league and hockey. This is an intelligent, skilled, thoughtful junior coach out there in the nice suburbs of Brisbane.
"Every weekend I am called a f---wit and even a c---, on the sideline, in a carpark full of Mercedes and BMWs. Even in front of their kids."
Parents. We're just fantastic creatures, aren't we? We tell our kids how much we do for them, driving them everywhere for sport, buy all the gear so they look like mini-professionals - 10-year-olds in $300 boots and top-line $150 compression gear "to reduce lactic acid and muscular fatigue" - and what's it all about really?
If we're honest, it's ego. Not the kids'. The parents' ego. Deep down, if we interrogate our motives, what starts off as wanting our children to be active and learn to love physical activity can sometimes morph into something else.
What's all that hoopla about sons in the first XI and first XV stuff? Yes, it's admirable to strive to sporting excellence. But when I first moved to Brisbane and realised actual grown-up men were standing around at a party talking and obsessing over that kind of thing, I had to check: "You are talking about your KIDS' sport, aren't you?"
When I was growing up, parents mostly didn't really hang around. They dropped you and went off to take care of the other 10 kids in the family. Or did other grown-up things like earn a living, shop for groceries or go to the pub.
Mostly we played sport unwatched. The ref wasn't screamed at and abused by hostile parents. We played our sport for ourselves - basically for the fun of running around a paddock with our mates. And it was bloody fantastic and enormously freeing.
Someone who has spent his life playing and coaching sport and pondering how to retain young athletes in sport for life is Peter Gahan, head of player and coach development with Australia Baseball, after years at Queensland Academy of Sport. I rang him to pick his brains about kids and sport (in a month of Bernard Tomic's father assault charges and Nudgee College's steroid scandal) and to ask: "Where has all the fun gone?"
Fun needs to be at the very heart of sport, says Gahan. Even at the elite level, he says, research now shows all athletes need a fun activity in their training session. He says countries must walk the fine line of wanting elite sportspeople while encouraging mass participation.
"Research looking at 8000 schoolchildren in the UK revealed that the perceived lack of competency and ability stopped them from playing. They wanted to impress and look good but they couldn't, they gave up," Gahan says.
He says New Zealand has introduced a fundamental movement skills program in primary school with a sports officer in those schools to oversee the program.
"It covers 14 basic skills including running, hopping, throwing - the basics that are age-specific from Year 1. From what I hear, New Zealand is going to start kicking our arse at the next Olympics because, with this program, they will have a greater pool of athletes to choose from coming through."
He sees the obesity epidemic as entirely avoidable.
"A lot of the research on childhood obesity points at the fact that the kids are eating the same amount of calories as their fitter counterparts. They are just not moving. They are sitting in front of a TV or computer."
So, why do most kids quit sport? Well, one of the main reasons, apart from the obvious ones - didn't like the coach, not enough time, too much pressure - is one parents don't want to think about: The car ride home.
The car ride home after playing sport can be a game-changer. Whether you are five or 16, the journey from ground to home can be a non-stop parent teaching moment.
Whether you've played well or lousy, your dad can let you know what you should have done.
Should have run when you should have passed, should have kicked.
He becomes one of those shoulda- coulda-woulda dads.
Mum goes off about the netball umpire, bitch, and your coach not giving you enough playing time, cow. Yep, that car ride home can be pure joy.
If you can, try not to stuff up the car ride home, Gahan says.
The car ride home is when the kid just wants to quietly let the game sink in - whether a win or a loss.
They know if they've played well or badly. You don't need to tell them. The car's a pretty intense closed environment. They can sense your every thought, disappointment, anger, even a bit too much pride. It's all there, crowding in. Every sigh, every shrug is amplified.
So, I ask, what do you say on the car ride home?
Gahan says: "What about, 'geez, I love watching you play out there'?"

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Rep players, Sports in Term 3 and Sports ANZA at Kaiapoi - 16th October

Ethan Kennet has been selected for the NC U48kg rugby team.
Zara Power is playing for the NC Primary B Netball Team.
We congratulate these players and wish them well.

Looking ahead - Rooms 8 - 10 will be participating in Sports Interchange on 16th and 23 August as well as the Rakahuri Tournament on 6 August.

Kaiapoi to join top sports stars in Trans-Tasman race for charity.
On the16th October Kaiapoi will be part of an opportunity to see a host of top athletes
and celebrities in a sporting showdown against our greatest rival, Australia, while also
raising vital funds for the Halberg Disability Sport Foundation.
The Anza Challenge is a unique and engaging charitable event, which will pit two nations against each other in an international fixture unlike any other. Two celebrity teams representing New Zealand and Australia will race over 1300km around New Zealand. Over five gruelling days (from the 15th -19th October) they will push their bodies to the limit as they run, row, cycle and sail their way home with national pride at stake and charity the ultimate victor.
The ANZA challenge is coming through Kaiapoi on October 16th and Kaiapoi Promotions is thrilled to be involved with the event and encourage all schools, businesses and retailers to get behind this challenge. The opportunities are plentiful to raise funds for ‘The Halberg Disability Sport Foundation”.
Jane Seddon, Kaiapoi Promotions association co-ordinator says “Let’s put our thinking caps on and come up with challenges that can take place leading up to this event”.
The planning has started for this event and if you wish to participate locally and challenge a rival school, business or retailer, to raise funds for this foundation, contact:
Kaiapoi Promotion Coordinator Jane Seddon, 0220620785.
On the 6th day, Sunday the 20th October, the race will come to an amazing conclusion. The two celebrity teams will line up on start lines in Auckland and Sydney with a final 10km run between themselves and the finish line.
Their numbers will be swollen by the great Aussie and Kiwi public who will join their sporting heroes for this final sprint to the finish. ALL participants will be kitted out in their National Colours of Gold or Black by Puma, and every participant will be chip timed. All efforts over the distance with be collated and averaged to get a "national time" for the distance. The country with the fastest time, wins.
Media are invited to the official launch of the ANZA Challenge at Snapdragon
Kitchen and Bar, 204 Quay St, Viaduct Harbour on Tuesday 26 March at 10.30am.
From Tuesday 26 March, members of the public can also secure a limited place in
the public race by registering at www.anzachallenge.com. The entry fee is a set
donation, with 100% of the fee going towards each country’s nominated charity.
10km Entry costs $100NZD and Children’s 5KM $45NZD – Entry includes New