Sport Hawke's Bay

Frimley School have showcased the importance of listening to student voice to provide opportunities and the impact that it can have within their wider school. To encourage more inclusive opportunities and to coincide with the new basketball hoop, Sport Hawke’s Bay’s Disability and Inclusion Advisor, Blanche Paewai- Ashcroft delivered two teacher inclusion training sessions. These sessions were focused around adaption to their current teaching methods, inclusive language and ensuring all students receive an inclusive physical activity session within their schooling curriculum.

Sport Hawke’s Bay were able to support this kaupapa through Stevie Nicholson, Frimley School’s Healthy Active Learning Advisor. Frimley are part of Healthy Active Learning, a multi-organisational initiative with Sport New Zealand, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education involved.

28th of February 2022 saw 16 sport leaders come together at Hawke’s Bay Hockey’s pavilion in Tamatea for a Trainers workshop designed to explore the Good Sports initiative and how it could impact children’s sport in the future.

All six members of the Hawke’s Bay Sports Coalition, Hawke’s Bay Hockey, Hawke’s Bay Netball, Hawke’s Bay Cricket Assn, Hawke’s Bay Rugby Union, Central Football and Basketball Hawke’s Bay were represented by Regional Managers, Coach Developers, Administrators and Development Officers alongside Sport Hawke’s Bay leaders within secondary school and disability sport.

In 2019 Sport Hawke’s Bay Sport Development Manager, Tim Motu, commenced a project collaborating with Waka Ama Kahungunu in developing a coach training programme tailored to the needs identified by coaches for the benefit of tamariki, rangatahi and all kaihoe participating in this traditional Māori sport.

The coach development strategy involved gathering insights from the Waka Ama Kahungunu coach community, workshop planning, deliverer engagement, workshop delivery, a series review and reiteration.

Sport Hawke’s Bay have been working within the Te Tupu project
with the outcome of enabling children to move safely through their
community without having to rely on vehicle transport while enjoying
their freedom from what their community has to offer. To achieve this a cycling session every week is held named ‘Wellness Wednesday’.

Through the programme, students have been on a variety of excursions. Trips of cultural interest are incorporated, with students visiting the Ātea a Rangi – Waitangi Regional Park, Waka hourua in Ahuriri, various Pā sites, the New Zealand Aquarium as well as other rides to the Hastings Sports Park, Pakowhai Park, Te Awanga and along the Tutaekuri River.

In early 2020 Sport Hawke’s Bay held a Disability and Inclusion Information Gathering Event to determine what is currently happening within the disabled community, what they perceive is missing, what they would like to see happen and how to get there. One theme that emerged was they would like more regular and diverse opportunities. StarJam is just one of these opportunities to present itself.

Working alongside Sport Hawke's Bay, the StarJam Trust made a successful application to the Tū Manawa Active Aotearoa Fund.

Young people, known as ‘Jammers’, who participate in these workshops experience respect, confidence and empowerment as well as gain new friends,

As a coastal region, Sport Hawke’s Bay understands the importance in increasing peoples confidence and knowledge within the open water and have been running block courses since 2012. The courses, ranging from 4 - 6 weeks depending on weather conditions, focus on how to manage the conditions, entering and exiting the water safely, treading water, extending
strokes, breathing and what to do when feeling anxious.

Open to all ages, the 2021 course saw an increase of 167% in participation from tamariki and rangatahi compared to the 2020 course.

In 2015 Wayne Forrest was at his local school swimming sports when he
saw a child who seemed confident in shallow water seriously struggle
as soon as they entered the deep water. Wayne had lost a friend to
drowning in the sea years ago and these 2 incidents sparked a desire to
want to help our young people be safer in the water, so CHB Swim-4-
Lives Group was formed and the idea of a swim-a-thon quickly followed
as a way to raise funds, which was welcomed by the community as a
fun, active and relevant fundraising project to support programmes
that would improve children’s safety in and around water.

Supported by a a range of organisations, including Sport Hawke's Bay, this initiative works alongside local schools across the Central Hawke's Bay district.

Sport Hawke's Bay, alongside the Hastings District Council brought together 7 organisations to deliver a collaborative cycle instructor training session to support more people living with a disability to be able to take part in cycle skills training.

The two main objectives of the two-day workshop were for instructors
to leave with an increased confidence around including disabled
people within the existing cycle skills programme and to have an
increased knowledge around disability with practical skills to modify
activities.

Special thanks to Hastings District Council, Halberg Foundation, Deaf Aoteaoa, Blind Sport NZ, Paralympics NZ, Special Olympics, Blind and Low Vision NZ and Autism NZ.

Across two days, over 100 people from our play, active recreation, sport
and education sectors joined us at one of three workshops to discuss
the Balance is Better philosophy. We were joined by guests Alex Chiet, Sport New Zealand’s National Sport Development Consultant, Donna Trow, Badminton New Zealand Development Manager, Charissa Barham, Netball New Zealand National Youth Development Manager and Dillon Boucher, ex-
Tall Black and ex-NZ Breakers player and General Manager to discuss
the meaning behind Balance is Better and what is happening across the
country.

The philosphy is in place to ensure that all young people who play sports receive a quality experience, irrespective of the level at which they compete, and develop a life-long love of sport and physical activity.

Local residents of a Napier community got in behind a new initiative that saw a local cul-de-sac closed and allowed for the neighbourhood to get out and play safely and freely outside their own front door. With thanks to support from Waka Kotahi and Napier City Council, this close knit community were able to deliver the first ever 'PlayStreets' in Hawke's Bay.

If you are interested in a PlayStreets happeing in your local community, contact Tina Haslett here

Through the support of Sport Hawke's Bays Regional Active Recreation Advisor, Jackson Waerea and funding via the Tū Manawa Active Aotearoa fund, Te Aratika were able to provide an opportunity for their students to be active and learn at the same time.

Outcomes for the camp were to provide a series of experiences that would not be readily available to rangatahi and their whānau, upskill rangatahi through active recreation, promote transferable soft skills such as confidence and leadership, create supportive networks for rangatahi and identify, promote and connect with kaupapa Māori.

For more information on Tū Manawa, click here

Sport Hawke’s Bay and the Central Hawke’s Bay District Council have been working together to create healthier and stronger communities by creating safe and accessible residential play areas for kids to be active, to learn, and for neighbours to come together. Following a social media campaign to find local ‘street champions’, Sally from Francis Drake Street was found, and it was agreed this particular street would be ideal for the first PlaySteets Central Hawke’s Bay pilot.

Play Streets are short, resident-led road closures for neighbours to play safely and freely outside their own front door. The focus is on encouraging play and physical activity by temporarily opening the street for play and closing it to cars. They are small, local events on quiet, low risk streets and the process to close the street for this type of event should ideally be simpler than the process for closing a high-volume, high-risk street for a large-scale event.

In a team effort, Sally engaged with Sport Hawke’s Bay and Central Hawke’s Bay District Council to go through the revised street closure process, complete the application form and submit it to the traffic management team at Council for their approval and sign-off and on Sunday 23^rd May, the street was turned into a safe area to play for 21 children and their whānau.

Wellness Riders create a safe and inviting space for kotiro (girls) to explore and experience skating. Established 6 years ago in Auckland, they have brought their sessions and kaupapa to Hawke’s Bay.

Holding youth-led sessions, creating space for wellness conversations and discussions as well as skate carnivals to showcase new skills, Wellness Riders are breaking down barriers and stigmas.

Tū Manawa funded the Wellness Riders to purchase protective equipment and skateboards so the girls are confident and safe when performing their new tricks and skills.