School Club Links
Strong links between schools and Netball clubs are an essential way of ensuring young people enjoy Netball both within school and in the community at a club.
England Netball recognises the pressure on both the education sector to deliver against National Curriculum targets and the growing demand on clubs to ensure they are delivering in a high quality environment. Therefore, the England Netball School Club Link programme has been developed as a 'support tool' for both schools and clubs to ensure an integrated approach is taken. The England Netball School Clubs Links Guide provides all the information required to create a high quality Netball school club link. The '5 Stage Delivery Model' enables schools and clubs to work together to create their own unique school club link programme.
Benefits from creating a link
- Greater numbers of young people participating in the club
- Increased membership in the club
- Increased number of coaching opportunities
- Increased number of young volunteers (leaders and officials) in the club
- Increased accessibility to School facilities
- Greater accessibility to funding to further develop the club and its volunteers/coaches
- Increased profile within the local community
- Increased profile within the sports community
How to set up a link
Whether you are a school or club, contact your County based Netball Development Officer (NDO) in the first instance for support.
Results of a Successful School Club Link
Hello from Rudgwick Netball Club,
Well, yesterday we finished training for our summer break and held our prizegiving. I thought you would all be interested in hearing how we have got on this year.
As you will know we started very small in September (with about 7 girls regularly turning up to training at a local leisure centre). In January we were generously offered training facilities by Pennthorpe School and we moved our sessions to their indoor court. Since then our numbers have grown exponentially!
We now have nearly 60 registered players. We have competed in over 30 matches, including 4 tournaments and we have fielded 51 different players in these matches, ranging from Year 4s to Year 10s. We reached the semi finals of the Sussex knock out, were placed 1st equal at the Peacehaven Tournament (but lost out to Lewes on goal difference) and had a special mention and the Fair Play trophy at the nationally renowned East Grinstead Tournament.
Thank you so much to all the schools who have supported us in finding new club members. We really hope to continue with our club school links next year and look forward to coming in to run workshops/watch training sessions and promote the club in September. If you would like to arrange dates for this now then please get in touch. If not then enjoy your holidays and we look forward to hearing from you next term.
Yours, Emily King
Lead Coach, Rudgwick Netball Club
