14 -16 September 2014

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14 -16 September 2014 The 2014 North Island School Sports Conference will be held at the Millennium Hotel, Rotorua from 14 -16 September. This is the premier professional development opportunity for school sport personnel in NZ. There will be 36 different workshop options available to those in attendance as well as the opportunity to network with anywhere up to 250 delegates from around the North Island. Following the format of previous events held in Rotorua in 2012 and Dunedin in 2013, the conference will begin with a dinner at the Skyline Gondola on Sunday 14th, feature an array of keynote speakers, workshops and trade shows and conclude at 1pm on Tuesday 16th. Registration includes all conference sessions, lunches, morning and afternoon teas as well as the conference dinner. Subsidised group travel to and from Rotorua will be arranged through your Regional Sports Directors, please contact them for details. CONFERENCE PROGRAMME For an outline of the Conference Programme Scroll Down. COST: $75 incl GST for School based personnel and $150 for non-school based personnel. METHOD OF PAYMENT: (Please use reference provided on invoice) ACCOMMODATION: The conference venue, Millennium Hotel, has offered a special rate to NISS Conference delegates which includes breakfasts and GST of $149.00 (single occupancy) or $169 (double occupancy). To access these rates and book accommodation at the Millennium, CLICK HERE www.millenniumhotels.co.nz/nz/nzsss Please click on the following link to register, select your workshops and book your place at the conference http://www.enternowonline.com/4123

2014 NORTH ISLAND SCHOOL SPORT CONFERENCE Millennium Hotel Rotorua, Sept 14 – 16

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME OUTLINE SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER

6pm 7pm 7.30pm

MONDAY 15 SEPTEMBER

8.00am 8.30am

TUESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER

8.00am 8.30am 10.00am 11.15am 11.30am

Buses transfer from hotel to Skyline Gondola Conference Opening Conference Dinner

Coffee/Tea available Keynote 1 Eddie Kohlhase – High Performance NZ Coaching Consultant. Eddie made history as the first New Zealander to win a World Championship as both a player and a coach with the Black Sox Softball Team and talks about both journeys including the responsibility that comes with leadership roles in sport. 9.30am Workshop Session 1 10.45am Morning Tea 11.00am Workshop Session 2 12.15pm Lunch 1.15pm Workshop Session 3 2.30pm Afternoon Tea 3.00pm Workshop Session 4 4.30pm Day 1 Finish Coffee/Tea available Workshop Session 5 Workshop Session 6 Morning Tea Keynote 2. Billy Graham. The winner of four New Zealand boxing titles and the Jamieson Belt, Billy is the only NZ’er to be invited to speak at the Million Dollar Round Table in the USA. He now runs the Naenae Boxing Academy which is changing the lives of young people – a story not to be missed! 12.30pm Conference closes Finger Food Lunch

WORKSHOP PROGRAMME: Please select one workshop from each session and indicate your selection on the registration form MON 1.1

Workshop 1: 9.30am 10.45am New Sports Coordinators

1.2

Promoting good Sideline Behaviour

1.3

Supporting emerging athletes - developing your JETs (Junior Emerging Talent)

1.4

Fitting it all in! Good Time Management PART 1

1.5

Using Social Media

1.6

Using web pages and IT solutions to support and grow sport in your school

2.1

Workshop 2: 11.00am 12.15pm KAMAR for Beginners

2.2

Growing Coaches

2.3

Using Data to Drive Change in Your School

2.4

Fitting it all in! Good Time Management PART 2

Roger Wood (SportNZ), Garry Carnachan (NZSSSC) and John Hornal (RSD) outline the structures, processes and requirements around School Sport in NZ for new sport co-ordinators and attempt to answer any burning questions! Garry Carnachan(NZSSSC)/ Roger Wood (SportNZ)/John Hornal(CSW) The Applaud programme to address poor behaviour on the sidelines was introduced in 2013. Discover how it works, the impact it is having and how you can introduce it in your school. Also learn how one school has approached the issue successfully and discuss how this and other strategies may work for you. Peter Harold (NZRU) SportNZ and High Performance SportNZ have launched a new talent development programme; Pathway to Podium. Hear how this programme works and how you might adopt similar approaches. Also experience a game analysis tool from Advantage4me and hear how some schools are successfully approaching the task of ensuring their most talented athletes are developing. Trafford Wilson, (SportNZ), Rob Neru (Advantage for Me) & Schools Time produces exactly twenty-four hours each day whether we like it or not. It is up to us whether we fill that time with trivia or with worthwhile activities. It is not time we need to manage it is ourselves we need to manage. An interactive session and participants leave the session with a personal set of key actions to improve their self-management. Roseann Gedye, (University of Auckland) .NOTE: This workshop is a 2 hour session and Part 2 will be in Workshop 2.4. If you choose 1.4 , you also need to select 2.4 Students have changed over the last decade, unfortunately the way we try to engage with them hasn’t. Could tapping into their addiction to social media and mobile devices be the solution? We will explore the challenges and benefits of using social media in an educational environment and then leave you all with a challenge! Billy Merchant (Pakuranga College), Dave McKenzie (CSW), Scott Richardson (Rongotai College) Learn how an interactive sports website can lead to increased participation, efficient communication and be used as an effective feedback tool - school case studies and presentations from specialist school sport web developers. Also hear about new IT tools to make all your admin jobs from entering teams to interacting with your website easier. Darrell Boyd (Tauranga Boys), and panel from SportsNow, SportsGround, AllTeams

Learn how to use KAMAR as an effective tool for your school sport programme. From team lists to student notices & producing the NZSSSC Census. Mere Rangihuna (Alfriston College, CM Sport) Are you keen to get more of your senior students involved in coaching? This interactive session focuses on the new Growing Coaches Programme launched by Sport NZ in 2013. Growing Coaches is a coach education programme for young people with an emphasis on young people leading through stepping up to coach. The programme is linked to NCEA credits and includes a Programme Guide, Coach Journal, and a Coach Gear Bag full of activities and games. Sue Emerson (Unitec) Principals are focussed more than ever on using data to drive change and improvement in schools. Explore how you can use existing data or collect new data to influence change in your school sport programme. Garry Carnachan (NZSSSC) See Workshop 1.4 . Roseann Gedye, (University of Auckland) NOTE: This workshop is a 2 hour session and you must also choose workshop 1.4.

2.5

National Sporting Organisations and their programmes for schools.

2.6

Reversing the trend - teenage drop-off in girls' sport

3.1

Workshop 3: 1.15pm 2.30pm Making Kamar work for you 2 - session for users with basic knowledge already

3.2

Making Musac work for you

3.3

Influencing Senior Management - the how to.

3.4

Conflict Management everyday!!

3.5

We Want it All and We Want it Now

3.6

The Kiwisport Opportunity

4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6

TUES 5.1

Workshop 4: 3.00pm 4.30pm Boys Schools Girls’ Schools Coed Schools >1000 Coed Schools<1000 Rural or Provincial schools >300 Rural or Provincial schools <300 Workshop 5: 8.30am 9.45am Organising Overseas Tours Best Practise

Many National Sporting Organisations are now planning for specific approaches to the Secondary School sector including student leadership programmes, coach development and NCEA linked curriculum programmes. Learn about how they are doing this and how you might access some opportunities for your school. FootballNZ/Futsal, AFLNZ, NZ Rugby League Teenage girls are our most at-risk group in sports participation - more of this group are leaving sport behind as they move through secondary school. Hear some of the stats and solutions to addressing this drop-off, and develop your own plans to meet the needs of girls in sport. Roger Wood (SportNZ)

Already using the basics of KAMAR? Take it to the next level. Produce data and graphs for BOT reporting and strategic plans. Provide data to support student academic monitoring & mentoring. Print custom lists & sharing of best practices. Mere Rangihuna (Alfriston College, CM Sport) Learn how to use MUSAC to manage your school sport programme. From team lists & messages to students and parents to monitoring athlete academic programmes & producing the NZSSSC Census. TBC Principals lead schools and are the key agents in innovation, development and change. Hear directly from them how principals view sport, sports coordinators and importantly, what they need from you to influence the sporting agendas in their schools. 3 x Principals In today’s school sport workplace, the ability to understand conflict and how to resolve it is becoming an important tool. This session examines some practical ways for managing and resolving workplace conflict, key elements of conflict, different personality types and how to ‘flex’ to connect with them, three key steps for conflict resolution. A practical session that will give participants some key tools for managing conflict. Roseann Gedye, (University of Auckland) The wants and needs of young people raises potential tensions for schools around what and how sport is delivered. This session looks at todays’ young people and how the characteristics of the generation might impact on how you could best deliver sport to them at your school. Dr Clive Pope(Waikato University) Kiwisport Funding delivered through RSTs is providing thousands of young people with sporting opportunities. Find out what is happening with Kiwisport and Secondary Schools, learn about some successful projects and consider how you might access funding for suitable projects in your school. Roger Wood (SportNZ) & schools

The workshop 4 forums present the opportunity to get together in a facilitated session with sport co-ordinators from "like" schools - share the successes, the struggles and the solutions

Organise an overseas sport tour to California?? Or an expedition to Namibia?? Broaden your horizons and your students' outlook on the world we live in. Create a successful overseas tour/expedition that you manage, looks great on your CV and can help to create a touring ethos for your school. Jamie Wansey (Student Horizons)

5.2

Sport improving academic and social outcomes for schools - a no brainer!

5.3

KAMAR for Beginners (REPEAT)

5.4

Pushing the Buttons for an easier life

5.5

Coaches - we really need them!

5.6

Keeping Sport Affordable

6.1

Workshop 6 : 10.00am 11.15am Assessing the state of sport in your school

6.2

Your Principal says you are the leader…!!!

6.3

Safe Sport Practices

6.4

Sport and PE - staff work synergies and interrelating with outside providers

6.5

Who will Help - finding Volunteers

6.6

This Worked!!

A Sport in Education project is making positive contributions to improved academic and social outcomes for schools and students. Learn how schools are going about this, the significant impact the SiE approach is having on educational outcomes and how your school might get involved. Garry Carnachan(NZSSSC) Learn how to use KAMAR as an effective tool for your school sport programme. From team lists to student notices & producing the NZSSSC Census. Mere Rangihuna (Alfriston College, CM Sport) Google calendars, mail merging in Outlook, setting up folders and rules and alerts and using things like teamer to keep in contact with teams etc. Just bits and bob that will make a Sports Coordinators life easier. Alex Ryder (SportsNow) As a part of its Coaching Plan, Sport New Zealand has prioritised coaching in secondary schools. Hear the strategies that will be applied and how they may help you. Also learn about a successful Coaches in Schools programme operating in the North Harbour region Andrew Eade (High Performance SportNZ) & Renate Smith (Harbour Sport) Sport is getting more expensive. Gaming trusts have historically been one of the major funding partners for school sporting programmes but with diminishing funds available, an application that stands out is a must. What are corporates looking for in partnerships? Get practical tips on both of these funding opportunities plus hear how 2 schools have used innovative approaches to fund school sport. Tony Gill, (NZCT), Mike Summerall (TSSSA), Jayne Dunbar,(Papakura HS) Craig Reddington (Kaikorai Valley Coll)

Sport NZ has developed a new online tool to help schools with their planning, and to provide a "bank" of good practice resources and links to improve school sport. Roger will run a practical demonstration of the School Sport Planning Tool and discuss the support available to schools. Roger Wood (SportNZ) All principals spoken to in the research stated that they saw the Sport Co-ordinator as the leader for Sport in the school - Victoria University Report - 2008. Sports Co-ordinators are expected to be leading but are given no training or strategies to do so. This practical workshop will provide opportunities to develop and tools to take away to improve your leadership for sport in your school. Garry Carnachan (NZSSSC) Keeping young people safe has become an increasing focus for schools in recent times. Learn about the requirements and best practices to ensure you are mitigating risk for your students in an efficient and effective way. Mark Bowden (Spotswood Coll), Mike Summerall (TSSSA) This presentation will the highlight the potential of a school’s sport staff and their PE department collaborating together with outside providers in order to provide quality, safe, enriching experiences for their students both inside and outside the classroom. TBC & schools Volunteers have been the backbone of NZ sport for ever but time is an increasingly scarce commodity for teachers, parents and in fact everybody. If students are going to get quality sporting experiences we need volunteers to provide leadership for them. This workshop looks at ways of increasing the volunteer numbers in your school sports programme. TBC Sports Co-ordinators that have implemented successful initiatives will give you the low-down on their innovative and successful approaches to improving sport in their schools. TBC