Sport/PE
FITNESS
Daily fitness is expected to be 10-15 minutes.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION LESSONS
At least 1-2 lessons a week for 40-45 minutes. P.E lessons are co-planned with the PE/Sports Lead Teacher and teaching staff.
SPORTS NOTICES
These will be shared through:
P.E.N.N - Pt. England News Network (Monday - Thursday)
Touch screen devices in 'The Breeze' (hall extension)
Pt England Sports Site
Term Calendar dates in the 'Breeze'
Sports team newsletters (spare copies are in cubby holes outside the Sports Coordinator's office)
School newsletters (weekly on Thursdays)
Face to face verbal reminders by coaches and managers
Friday School Assembly
School Intercom System
Texting (sports teacher, coaches or managers to parents)
Emails
Sports Noticeboard in 'The Breeze'
Pt England School Facebook page
School APP
Pt England School Sports Blog
SPORTS NEWSLETTERS / PERMISSION SLIPS
The Sports coordinator creates the permission slips for all teams which is shared with the administration staff.
Students must return their permission slips to the sports coordinator's office, located in 'The Breeze'.
Any additional newsletters by coaches or managers must be shared with the sports coordinator and administration staff.
SPORTS GEAR
Email or text the sports coordinator either the day before or before 7:30am each morning. Gear ordered after this time may not be delivered. Borrowed gear will be recorded on a google document by the sports coordinator. After use, select 2-3 sports monitors from your class to tidily put the gear outside the sports coordinator's office.
SPORT STORAGE SPACES
Key to the sports storage spaces are held by the sports coordinator, the principal, associate principals, the school office and nominated coaching staff.
Jump Jam (aerobics) resources are found on the school network, in the 'Resource Room' folder.
MORNING TEA & LUNCHTIME SPORTS GEAR
Students can borrow gear during the break times from allocated areas around school.
Year 1 -4: outside the Staffroom, behind the white fence - managed by the Year 6 Sporty Botz monitors
Year 5 & 6: a trolley will be placed under 'The Porch'
Year 7 & 8: a large black bin outside the 'red door' of the sports shed.
Borrowers are expected to use their manners and return gear in a respectful way to the Sporty Botz monitors.
If a student doesn't want to play with the gear anymore, they must return it to a Sporty Botz monitor.
When lunchtime ends, ALL gear is to be returned to the monitors.
NO GEAR is to go back with students to their classroom after the break times.
Teachers are to send back any gear from their rooms to the sports coordinator's office.
Any sports gear that's found around the school after the bell, can be put outside the sports coordinator's office.
SPORTY BOTZ ROSTER
spreadsheet to be shared
SPORTS TRAININGS
Students are recommended to wear a change of clothes for P.E. lessons and sports trainings.
P.E tops can be purchased as part of our school uniform range, at 'The Warehouse'.
Compulsory mouthguard and a change of clothes for rugby union and league trainings.
Before school practises start no earlier than 7:30 a.m. finishing at 8:15 a.m. for Y7-8's and 8.30 a.m. for Y4-6's.
Lunch-time practices start straight after the lunch eating bell has gone at 1:00pm.
After school practices start at 2:45 p.m. and finish no later than 4:30 p.m.
Student Expectation:
Students attending lunchtime trainings are to turn up promptly straight after the lunch eating bell.
Students staying after school for practice will need a permission slip.
Students cannot go home after school to get changed, they must bring their gear to school and change straight after school.
Students cannot go to the shop straight after school to get a snack, they have to stay at school for training.
Students who have forgotten their training gear may stay for training and support the team by helping the coach with the equipment, listen and learn from the coach and to encourage their team mates.
Students who cannot make a training or are late or have missed a training, must contact the team coach or manager with a reason.
Coach Expectation:
Communicate with the sports teacher about a set training day and time for the team.
Communicate with the sports teacher about any issues, queries and cancellations.
Receive sports equipment for training and games at the start of the season. Gear must be returned at the end of the season.
Model appropriate language of success with the students.
Teachers on lunchtime sports duty - it is a compulsory to take a team or a game. Inform the sports teacher by Thursday each week, what you'll be coaching in the coming week and what equipment and space is required.
School Assembly 'Player of the Day' awards - coach to inform the sports coordinator by Thursday 9:00 a.m.
SPORTS FIXTURES
TOURNAMENT DAYS
Permission slip must be handed in before the day of the tournament. No permission, no play. Emails from parents or guardians are acceptable.
Students arrive at school by 8:00 a.m. (or earlier, depending on the event location).
Students are expected to have lunch and a drink for the day. Sports drinks such as powerade etc and fizzy drinks are not permitted.
Teams will wait in the Breeze until they are called to assemble in the hall, in team lines.
No chromebooks, ipods, headphones or mobile phones are taken to sports events - they are left at school or given to the sports teacher and handed back at the end of the school day.
Jobs are allocated to students to carry equipment, set up gear, pack down, pick up rubbish and tidying the vehicles.
Students are expected to behave appropriately and respectfully at the tournament.
Summer tournaments: 'school hats only' are worn at tournaments, no caps allowed.
Students are not to 'swap' any uniforms or gear with students from another school.
Students cannot leave the tournament with their parents and must return back to school.
Students assemble back in the 'Breeze' and do not go back to class until the sports teacher has released them.
All sports uniforms are to be left in a tidy pile outside the sports teacher's office - they are not allowed to go home.
AWARDS
Students receiving certificates and awards are acknowledged at the weekly school assembly on Friday mornings.
House Captains will read and distribute the certificates.
The following awards will be given out:
teams that have come 1st, 2nd or 3rd in a competition
player of the day, most improved and sportsmanship awards
HOUSE COMPETITIONS
We have 4 houses that signify Maori and Pacific Island voyages, recognising the significance of the historic day that the Mālama Honua landed on Pt England beach in 2015 - greeted by all of the Manaiakalani schools.
Hikianalia - YELLOW house the colour associated with the sun & celestial bodies that aid our navigation
Hine Moana - BLUE house the colour associated with te moana nui a kiwa, the great ocean we must navigate
Hokule'a - GREEN house the colour associated with the value we place on our earth
Te Aurere - RED house the colour associated with the blood, sweat & tears of our ancestors
The House Captains for 2024 are:
Hikianalia:
Hine Moana:
Hokule'a:
Te Aurere:
House points are updated on one of the touch screens located in the Breeze.
Points are awarded from lunchtime games, school wide competitions and by the staff.
House with the most points wins a trophy at the end of the school year.
The house captains organise and run inter-class or inter-house competitions during Monday lunchtimes.
Set up games for the annual school picnic, teach team chants to share on the cross country and athletics days.
Support the school prefects and the sporty botz monitors.
SPORTS COUNCIL
Comprises of the House Captains and eight other Year 8 leaders who make up the council, responsible for running house competitions throughout the year.
Meet weekly on Mondays 2:00-2:30 p.m.
SPORTS VIDEOGRAPHERS
A team of Year 6-8 students are trained by the Creative Space teacher to become sports videographers.
Their duties include:
attend training lessons on how to use a camera and tripod
attend training lessons on how to upload video footage
upload the footage to an allocated IMAC in the 'Creative Space' room
create a 2 minute movie to share on P.E.N.N
post movies to the school sports blog
store movies in the appropriate folders
returning their permission slip to attend a sports event as a videographer
be dressed in full school uniform
ensure that the camera gear is charged and ready on the day
are responsible for the care of the equipment (e.g camera, camera bag, charger, tri-pod, microphone, umbrella)
create a storyboard of what to capture on the day
film and record the events of the day
do not share the camera gear with other students or adults to use
VOLUNTEERS
All non-staff volunteer sports coaches and managers will complete a vetting form before they are able to work with students.
All volunteers must attend an induction day.
Volunteers are greatly valued at Pt England School - please take the time to thank them.d
CODE OF CONDUCT
The code of conduct below is from the Year 7 & 8 AAIMS (Auckland Association of Intermediate & Middle Schools) Organisation:
TRANSPORT
We have 2 school vans, kindly sponsored by the Ted Manson Foundation. Both 12 seater, automatic transmission vans.
Full drivers license is required to transport students
Booster seats must be provided for junior students to travel in cars.
DEVICES
Students are not to take their devices to sports games or tournaments. Chrome books can be left at school. Other devices or valuable belongings such as mobile phones, ipods, speakers and headphones are to be left at home or mobile phones can be left with their classroom teacher, to be collected at the end of the day.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Images or video footage of students is only permitted to be uploaded and shared within the school domain.
Images posted on facebook or on other social media platforms of students is not permitted due to privacy rules.
School must be informed if images are to be posted on corporate facebook pages.
CONTACT
For any queries or issues relating to physical education and our sports programme please contact the sports coordinator:
sally@ptengland.school.nz or 021 2687270