Coach your choice of sport! Or more than
one sport - it's up to you.
This
Coaching project based in Cape Town, working with township children from
underprivileged communities.
Located in a suburb close to the centre of
Cape
Town,
the school is based at the bottom of Devils Peak, right next to the
famous Table Mountain. The name "Table Mountain" came about because of
the tablecloth of clouds that cascade down its slopes. There are
stunning views from all the slopes and an outstanding 360 degree vista
from the top of the mountain.
You don't need any qualifications to coach
on this project and we provide you with free coaching manuals to help
you make the most of your placement
In
the school we work with, there are approximately 600 children, with 20 teachers.
There are usually around 28 to 30 children in a class, but sometimes classes
will be split into smaller groups when you are coaching. You'll most likely work
with children who range in age from 5 to 13.
English is not the children's mother tongue, but the general standard is about
Fair to Good. 98% of the children at the school come from
Cape Towns townships.
Why not
combine your sports project with the upcoming 2010 Football World Cup in
Cape Town and be in the middle of World Cup fever!
The school has fairly good sports facilities with a
football field, basketball and netball courts, indoor hall which can be used for
sport, and cricket nets. The school is also situated close to an outdoor
swimming pool where swimming volunteers will be coaching the children.
As a Travellers Sports volunteer you will be
coaching your sport or a number of sports depending on your choice for around 4
- 5 hours a day. As Physical Education is now part of the curriculum in South
Africa, lessons take place during life orientation classes.
Many of the teachers don't have any training or
knowledge of sports coaching, so you'll be taking most of the sports lessons.
You may be coaching on your own, or possibly with other volunteers, you may even
have a teacher to help you, if so you can also teach the teacher how to coach a
particular sport so that hopefully they can actually confidently take a sports
lesson themselves.
Types of Sports Available to Coach and
play: As a Travellers Sports Coach in Cape Town,
you might find yourself involved in any number of sports like these below.
Please click on the link to take you to a description of that sport project:
PLAYING SPORTS
After coaching at the school you will have the opportunity to coach, train and
play (if you get selected) for a local club. All of the clubs we work with are
within walking distance of your accommodation. Please bear in mind that the
sports are played by seasons so if you wish to play a sport please come during
the advertised times.
ATHLETICS (COACH)
No qualifications required, but you must
have a good knowledge and love of the sport
On this unusual project,
you'll be involved in coaching athletics during life orientation
lessons. Life Orientation classes in South
Africa are lesson periods devoted to all aspects of life skills that are
not directly linked to academic lessons, such as sports, drama, music
and art.
The school has only the basic athletics
equipment and a fairly rough field for practice, but you will be
introducing a sport to the children that they won't have had a chance to
experience before. Unfortunately, athletics is not as popular in South
Africa as some of the more publicised sports, such as football and
cricket.
Therefore, giving the children access to all
the various elements that make up athletics will be a wonderful
experience for them. Also, without access to athletics, we will never
know whether any of the children have a natural skill for running, long
jump or any of the other elements.
Watching the kids run around
enthusiastically because they're having so much fun is heartwarming and
a sight not to be missed
BASKETBALL
No qualifications required, but you must have a good knowledge and love
of the sport
When you think of Basketball you might think
of the NBA in America but Basketball in Cape Town is a popular sport
amongst children at school. The school has a basketball court and the
children are always playing Basketball during their lunch break, the
only problem is that they have never been coached properly before.
As a Travellers
Basketball coach you will be working at the school coaching Basketball
during life orientation lessons. Life Orientation classes in South
Africa are lesson periods devoted to all aspects of life skills that are
not directly linked to academic lessons, such as sports, drama, music
and art.
As a Travellers Basketball coach you will be
able to coach the children drills and skills that they will of never
been coached before making them into better players and enable them to
have a greater understanding of the game. As the children at this school
do not receive any Basketball coaching your help will be most
appreciated.
CRICKET
You never know, you might end up coaching a future
Sprinbok!!
No qualifications required, but you must have a good knowledge and love
of the sport
Cricket in South Africa is very popular as
it is one of South Africa’s national sports with the ‘Proteas’ being one
of the best teams in one day international cricket. Unfortunately
cricket in South Africa is often seen as an elitist sport with the
national team being dominated by the previously advantaged.
As a Travellers cricket volunteer you will be giving an opportunity
to the less fortunate community to learn to play cricket. You'll coach
cricket during school hours as part of life orientation lessons. The
children are keen to learn to play cricket but have not had a chance
before this is where you come in.
Being
in the summer hemisphere the season runs from Mid October – March, if
you wish to play cricket in Cape Town this is the monthsto come.
FOOTBALL
No qualifications required, but you must have a good knowledge and love of
the sport
Football in South Africa
is huge and has got even more popular since South Africa won the right
to host the 2010 world cup. As Cape Town was named as a host city for
the world cup there has been a real interest for football in Cape Town.
As a Travellers football coach you will be working at the school
coaching football during life orientation lessons.
HOCKEY
No qualifications required, but you must have a good knowledge and love of
the sport
COACHING: Travellers have become
partners with the Western Province Hockey Union to develop hockey at
grassroots level in Cape Town. Hockey in South Africa is a very popular
sport with both with males and females, but is typically a sport played by the
more well off schools.
On your
project as a Travellers hockey coach, you will teach the children how to
play the game, including all the rules, and lessons will take place
"life orientation" classes.
Life
Orientation classes in South Africa are lesson periods devoted to all
aspects of life skills that are not directly linked to academic lessons,
such as sports, drama, music and art.
As well as coaching at the
school after school you will also have the opportunity to
work under
the guidance of the Western Province Hockey Union coaching schools at
the Heartvale Hockey Stadium which is located close to the accommodation.
The Hockey season runs from:
Mid January - early March (summer season)
Mid
April - early September (winter season)
NETBALL
No qualifications required, but you must have a good knowledge and love of
the sport
Netball is
one of South Africa’s most popular female sports along with Hockey. Netball is played in
schools all over South Africa by girls who love to play the game the
problem is that many schools lack experienced
qualified netball coaches and the children don't get the opportunity to
play often or receive good coaching.
This is where you come
in. There is lots of natural talent in South Africa for netball the
children just need to have their talent nurtured and need help in learning how to play
the game.
As a Travellers netball coach you will be working at the school coaching
netball during life orientation lessons. Life Orientation classes in
South Africa are lesson periods devoted to all aspects of life skills
that are not directly linked to academic lessons, such as sports, drama,
music and art.
RUGBY
No qualifications required, but you must have a good knowledge and love of
the sport
Travellers are
now offering the chance to coach rugby in Cape Town home of the Stormers
Rugby Team who play in the super 14. The Stormers are one of the top
teams in South Africa and feature many of the South African players
including Schalk Burger.
Rugby in South
Africa is a national sport and the national team the Springboks are one
the best rated teams in the world. Rugby is predominately seen as a sport for the
private rich schools and very few children outside of these schools get
the chance to receive coaching at school. The South African Rugby Union
over the past few years have been trying to introduce rugby to many of
the formally underprivileged communities to encourage more people to
take up rugby.
As a
Travellers Rugby coach you will be giving children who have never played
rugby before the opportunity to learn and play rugby.
As a Travellers Rugby coach you will be working at the school coaching
Rugby during life orientation lessons. Life Orientation classes in
South Africa are lesson periods devoted to all aspects of life skills
that are not directly linked to academic lessons, such as sports, drama,
music and art.
SWIMMING
This Project runs from
January - Mid March
No qualifications required, but you must have a good knowledge and love of
the sport
Very few children
in South Africa get the chance to learn to swim and very few schools
have swimming pools and the sport in South Africa is dominated by the
previously advantaged community. Cape Towns schools also lack qualified or
experience swimming coaches/teachers to teach the children how to swim
this is where you come in.
As a Travellers swimming volunteer you will
be coaching the children during life orientation lessons at a local
outdoor swimming pool. You will be coaching the very basic skills to the
children including water safety. As the standard of the children's
swimming is very poor this is a very challenging but rewarding project
to go on as many of them have not had the opportunity to learn how to
swim before.
VOLLEYBALL
No qualifications required, but you must have a good knowledge and love of
the sport
Volleyball in South Africa is a very popular sport
especially at school level. Due to the popularity of the game there is a
huge demand for coaches, unfortunately there are not many qualified
experienced volleyball coaches in South Africa. As a Travellers
volleyball coach you will be developing the game through coaching school
children.
As a
Travellers Volleyball coach you will be working at the school coaching
Volleyball during life orientation lessons.
Donating Equipment:
In Cape Town the schools and clubs we work with do not have much or very
good facilities or equipment. If you have room in your suitcase and can
take some secondhand equipment with you, it would be greatly appreciated
by the schools and clubs!
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS 2008:
Dates for the 2008 school terms (semesters) are given below.
1st Term 11 January to
20 March
2nd Term 14 April to
27 June
3rd Term 16 July to 21 September
4th Term 1 October to
30 November
Coaching is not
available during school holidays,
so if you're planning to participate in a placement, please take the
above school term dates into
account when planning the timing of your project. On the other hand, if
a holiday falls during your
proposed
placement, you could
use this time to do any independent traveling and sightseeing.
FREE COACHING MANUALS AND SUBSCRIPTION TO A COACHING WEBSITE:
As a volunteer
sports coach with Travellers, you have access to
a large number of coaching manuals for each sport - these manuals have
been produced in-house by our Sports Manager. These manuals are very
useful and will help you to plan coaching sessions for your students.
As
well as coaching manuals you also have a year’s free subscription to a Coaching website: With
this membership you automatically become a member of the International Coaches
Association (ICA) and join a community of coaches from over 65 countries.
Accommodation and Living in Cape Town
In a bohemian part of Cape Town, along the
east coast of the city near Woodstock, is a set of very
lovely lodges! The Lodge Observatory is a series of 5 houses
in Observatory, a famous Alternative Suburb in Cape Town.
Apart from other
Travellers volunteers, this hostel mainly attracts many intern students. The
Lodge is managed by Nelly and her daughter Charmaine. They are very friendly and
will always help you where needed. They can answer any questions or can een help
when you need some TLC because you feel a bit homesick!
The Main Lodge is the centre of all
the lodges and is a meeting point for everyone. You can discuss your day in the
living room, have a nice chat out on the terrace, go for a swim, watch a movie,
etc.
There are two 4-person dorms, one
3-person dorm and one double room. This lodge has a living room, two bathrooms
and a well-equipped kitchen. The back of the house has a nice covered terrace,
as well as a braai area (South African barbecue) and a swimming pool.
In the back of the garden there is a
little place called the Garden Lodge. This is basically the chill-out room with
several comfortable sofas, satellite television, VCR and HiFi system. Great for
relaxing or for parties.
The Main Lodge
also has storage facilities for surfboards etc. and space to
store your luggage if you wish to travel around the country
and leave your things somewhere safe.
Food: You
will be given a food allowance to buy your own food from the big supermarket up
the road. Each house is equipped with a kitchen with a fridge, stove, oven and
microwave, and all the necessities to cook a good meal.
To read about the extensiveSupport & Backup we provide in our countries,
please click here.
TRAVEL:
You have the option to arrange your
own flights or we can assist you with your flight arrangements. If you would
like us to do this for you, we will liaise with you regarding available flights
and dates to suit you. All arrangements for your flight bookings/payments will
be fulfilled for you by Murray Rogers Travel Ltd., ATOL No. 6856. (Read
more about Murray Rogers Travel Ltd.) Where possible, we arrange for two or
more people to travel on the same flight and we will let you have the names and
telephone numbers of other volunteers on your flight, so that you can chat to
each other or even meet up before leaving for your placement.
Where possible, all flights we arrange for you have changeable return tickets
because many of our volunteers choose to extend their stay once they are in
their destination country. Changeable return tickets enable you to do so, within
the limits of your visa and the level of your air ticket, of course. If you
choose to book your own flights, you should endeavour to get a changeable
ticket. We meet you at the airport regardless of whether you make your own
travel arrangements or not.
We can also arrange your flight
dates to give you additional time at the end of your project for travelling
around and sightseeing - this is a fascinating and wondrous country!
VISAS:. In countries where
visas or immigration documents are required, we'll send you all the necessary
forms and information and make the process very easy for you.
To
read about the extensiveSupport & Backup
we provide in our countries,
please
click
here.
PRICES:
To see the Prices of this project and all
our other projects in South Africa, please
click here
Prices
include
Food & accommodation while on your project,
unless otherwise stated,
2 T-shirts, if required
for your project
All support and backup
during your programme
Meeting you at the
nearest airport, where appropriate, but exclude international travel.
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