Cornerstone is not a large school but does have over half its students playing organised sport in any given year.
When placing students into teams we consider a wide range of needs for each year including Tournament teams, Social needs (an important focus), number of players, coach, and so on. We do our best to meet everybody's needs. If you want more information about your child's placement see Jannell Eades.
We try to accommodate all students into CCS teams, however, sometimes this is not possible so we have created this procedure to ensure that all children are catered for...
We ask our children who would like to play an Extra-Curricular sport or sports.*
We confirm with the parents that the children are able/allowed** to play the sport/s they have chosen.
From this list we form Cornerstone teams***, and assign coaches (which have sometimes already been prearranged)
If the numbers**** don't allow us to form a Cornerstone team, we ask the children if they would like to play a different Extra-Curricular sport for Cornerstone, again confirming with the parents that they are able/allowed to play.
If any child cannot be accommodated in a team because we are unable to form it and they really want to play the sport they originally selected, they will be given the option of going to our Sports Coordinator, Jannell Eade, who will make contact with the governing body, or another Primary or Secondary School, so that the child can play the sport they are keen on. Once initial contact is made it will be up to the parents to liaise with the other school.
The Principal, Peter Ferrar, will sign a letter that allows the child to play for that school in the local Competition. No child can have a letter signed who opted out at step 1 or 2.
There may be consequences from adhering to this procedure...
Due to our small size, sometimes our teams will have children of varying abilities.
Because we are a Christian School, sometimes people will look at us from a different world-view.
Sometimes, we may find ourselves in a completely new sporting situation.
All these scenarios, and more, create a great opportunity for children (and adults) to put into place our Cornerstone Values: Integrity, Kindness, Respect, Diligence and Humility.
* For children to play at representative level, they generally have to play for their school.
** Cost and Time are the main factors parents are consulted before we begin to form our teams.
*** At this stage we do our best to form teams. The reason why we must have a commitment from the child to play for the school is simply to ensure that all children at Cornerstone Christian School can have the opportunity of playing in an Extra-Curricular sports team. If children opted to play for another school, it could mean that other children, who wanted to play for Cornerstone in a particular sport may not have a team to play in. In a small school, this is a very real possibility.
**** There are 2 scenarios here; sometimes there are not enough children and sometimes there are too many. eg we could form 1 team but not quite 2.