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COACH SPORTS IN SCHOOLS IN AUCKLAND
Sports in New Zealand is a big part of their culture.
You'll have first-hand experience of coaching a variety of sports to
children from all backgrounds. The Auckland schools include Maori
children and refugee children from the South Pacific Islands, amongst
others. You'll help these children to integrate into the Kiwi school
system.
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►SUMMARY
FACTFILE |
| Start Dates |
All year round - you choose your
start and finish dates! Placements may be subject to school terms
and sports seasons |
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Duration |
From 4
weeks to 1 year, subject to visa requirements.
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| Requirements |
No
qualifications or experience required, but you must have a very good
knowledge of your sport and lots of enthusiasm!. |
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Price |
From
£1,395 for 4 weeks, ranging to £2,395 for 12 weeks.
Full Price List |
| What's included |
►Accommodation
►Food (excluding
lunch)
►Meeting you at the Airport
►Transfer to your accommodation
►Full
pre-departure support
►Local in-country team support and backup
►24-hr emergency
support
►2 free T-shirts. |
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What's not included |
Flights, Insurance,
Cost of Visas (if a visa is required, but we'll provide necessary documents and
assistance), Transport to and from your
project, Return transfer to the airport. |
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Who can do this Project? |
All projects are
open to all nationalities.
You need to be aged between 17 and 70+ |
PROJECT OVERVIEW
This project provides you with a diverse experience in that your
activities will take place in two locations and will also give you the
opportunity to coach other sports as well:
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During the mornings and early afternoons, for about 4-5 hours
every day, you'll bring very welcome
sports coaching skills in the School Sports project. This project takes place in a school in one of the suburbs
of Auckland and here you'll coach a variety of sports to children
from the Maori community and other countries.
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You'll spend your afternoons and evenings coaching
and/or training at a sports Club of your choice in Auckland.
The school we work with in Auckland has a large number of disadvantaged children
from the Maori community as well as children from the South Pacific and many
refugee children from countries such as Sudan and Ethiopia.
WHAT YOU'LL GAIN FROM DOING THIS PROJECT:
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An exciting, never-to-be-forgotten adventure into
New Zealand and you'll learn about the Maori culture that makes
this country so fascinating!-
The enormous satisfaction of also helping disadvantaged children and
knowing that you made a difference to them.
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New skills, more confidence, a greater understanding
of a different culture, invaluable personal and professional
development.
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An entry on your CV or résumé that will put you head
and shoulders above most others in the job market
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And best of all ... an unforgettable experience!
WORK CONTENT:
1. YOUR PROJECT AT THE SCHOOL:
The School Sports Project will take place during the day. For this element
of your programme, you will be working at a school located in Auckland. The
school has children from a variety of backgrounds and countries such as
Maori children and children from Sudan and Somalia who are refugees, as
well as children from other lower economic countries such as
Samoa and Tonga. The school has good facilities that will enable you
to coach a variety of different sports.
There are a wide number of sports available to coach on
this project and you will be involved in a wide range of sporting activities,
giving you great diversity. The sports are generally coached
by season, but if you wanted to coach a sport that was not in season, or if
you wanted to introduce a new sport to the children, the school would welcome
it as long as it was of benefit to the children. Each school offers
different sports so if there was a particular sport that you were interested
in coaching please let us know and we will make
arrangements for this.
The sports vary with each term, as follows:
Term 1: Tennis, Cricket, Athletics
Term 2: Rugby Union & League, Football, Hockey,
Netball
Term 3: Rugby League, Football, Netball
Term 4: Athletics, Cricket, Cross Country & Football.
COACHING TIMES AND PROJECT
DATES:
The school dates for 2008 are:
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Term 1: 4th Feb - 18th April
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Term 2: 5th May - 4th July
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Term 3: 21st July - 26th Sept
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Term 4: 13th Oct - 15th Dec
The lessons you will be coaching in will
last for 45 minutes and the school day runs from around 8:30 - 3:00 pm.
You'll assist the sports teacher to coach the
children. You'll spend about 3 to 5 hours a day
helping the children at the school.
"The school has also been great. Like the hockey
club the staff are forever going out of their way to show their
gratitude, from great multitudes of tea and biscuits to lifts home and
advice on touring the city. All the kids are fantastic, showing great
enthusiasm and energy in every aspect of the curriculum. Also, almost
without fail the kids love me! Fighting for my attention and approval
all the time, which is really flattering. I have very much been placed
in some areas of the school as a male role model which is a role I am
more than happy to play. All said, I have really enjoyed my time at the
school so far and would undoubtedly advise it to anyone else who was
planning a venture such as mine".
Simon Thomson
2. YOUR PROJECT AT THE CLUB:
This element of your programme will take place in the
late afternoons and evenings where you'll have the
opportunity to coach and train at a sports club in Auckland. We work with a
wide variety of sports clubs, so no matter what field your skills lie in,
you will
be able to coach and train in your field. Coaching and playing sport at a
Kiwi sports club will give you a real insight into the Kiwi sporting
culture.
Please click on the sport that you'd
like to coach from the list
below for more detailed information about the
project:
FREE COACHING MANUALS:
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.
REQUIREMENTS - POLICE CHECKS:
As part of the law in New Zealand, it is compulsory
for all volunteers who work with children to undergo a police check.
These checks are done to ensure the safety of children in New Zealand.
The checks are a simple process and we will provide you
with all the details of what identity you need to take with you.
On your arrival in Auckland, our New Zealand manager will complete the checks
with you and take you through the process. As soon as you have
registered, you'll be allowed to start working with children. We will ensure that you have all the
relevant information before you come to New Zealand.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Maori Village on North Island |
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