Introduction to Water Polo Programme

For Year 5 & 6 Students

Term 1 2020

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER YOUR TEAM!!

How the programme works:

Each Saturday we will hold a coaching session for your team, followed by a game of water polo - using the skills learned in the coaching session. Approximately 50 minutes in total.

Please scroll down for more detailed information about the programme.

Dates:

• Saturday, February 22
• Saturday, February 29
• Saturday, March 7
• Saturday, March 21
• Saturday, March 28

(Times vary but generally between 2.00-6.00pm)

If you have any questions please email Margaret (coordinator)

What?

Water polo is a team water sport. The game consists of swimming - with and without the ball - using a special form of treading water known as the eggbeater kick, throwing, catching and shooting the ball. The programme takes place in a deep water pool, but we will use a shortened pool for this programme, to minimise but not eliminate, the swimming factor of water polo. At the early stages of this programme we will focus on teaching the most important thing to a beginning water polo player - the ability to stay afloat using the eggbeater kick. Once a child can do this, they develop their confidence in a deep pool and can participate in the sport regardless of their swimming speed.

Why?

Water polo is an exciting, physical sport that requires fitness, endurance, great ball skills and the ability to swim. Many of our young people can’t swim too well yet, but if they are able to swim a bit and can master the eggbeater kick – this growing sport is a remarkable way to increase swimming prowess in a fun environment. We find that children enjoy the game and want to improve – and in order to get better, they work on their swimming.

We will provide:

A water polo programme specifically for the Year 5 and 6 age group with a great programme delivered by our club’s youth coaches and referees. We will also provide very close supervision of the children during the programme, coaching of all the teams, refereeing of the games and all the necessary equipment – caps, balls and goals. There will be a Manurewa Pool lifeguard on duty at all times during the programme.

Your school can help your students take advantage of this opportunity by:

• Promoting the opportunity to your Year 5 and 6 students
• Identifying a coordinator (parent or volunteer or teacher) willing to be a contact person and to form a mixed team of boys and girls - minimum of 8 to a maximum of 11 children
• Advising the children and their parents that players will need some basic water skills, i.e. they must be able to swim 50m without stopping, even if this is very slowly
• Advising the children and parents that they need to be available to practice on Saturday afternoons in Term 4 and be able to get to Manurewa Pool.

If there are not enough keen and eligible Year 5 and 6 students at your school to make a team, we can try and coordinate individual students and find a team for them. Just let us know.

There is a cost of $210 per team (approximately $21 per student) for the 4 week programme. For further information, please feel free to email me

If you wish to confirm a place in this programme for your team of Year 5 & 6 students, please complete the Year 5 & 6 Registration Form.

Given pool space constraints, we are limited in the number of teams we can accept on this programme – so please register soon to avoid missing out.

Margaret (Coordinator)