Schools

Mascot Challenge

The Mascot Challenge has been developed to assist Foundation to Grade 2 students in developing fundamental movement skills and physical literacy.

The program will promote active lifestyles and assist students in achieving 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity activity on most days of the week as outlined in the Australian Physical Activity Guidelines. The Mascot Challenge achieves this by spending 10 minutes a day developing fundamental skills that will assist them in remaining physically active later in life.

As part of the challenge, each day participants will undertake activities designed to challenge them at their own pace in a fun and inclusive environment. To measure their development, each activity has a target that must be achieved before students can move on to the next activity. Students will be able to track their progress each day on the class tally board (included).

Also included are four easy to follow activity cards and posters that show each week’s activities.

Simply place the posters and activity cards where all students can see them and with your assistance, work through each activity. As part of the Mascot Challenge, we have provided a guide that provides examples of how to best integrate cricket within the Health and Physical Education curriculum. The Mascot Challenge can also be used as an effective breakout activity for your students which will allow them to concentrate for longer periods in the classroom.

This will assist in allowing the fundamental motor skills developed as part of the challenge to be successfully nurtured in day to day class activities.

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U12’s State Team – Boys & Girls

Students must be nominated by their School, with each able to nominate up to three boys. There is no limit to the number of girls schools permitted to nominate.

Cricket Victoria will run the initial trials in all 16 regions. Regions will then nominate up to three boys and three girls to proceed through to the School Sport Victoria trials.

Important information

• Following the nomination period, Cricket Victoria will notify students of their trial date and venue.
• First round of trials will be run by Cricket Victoria’s Regional Cricket Managers across 16 regions
• Up to 3 students from each region will be nominated to progress through to SSV squad and attend the first training session in the July school holidays.
• The first SSV squad session will be run by SSV team coaches, managers and support staff. Through the four official squad sessions, a team of 13 players will be selected.
• The Championships will take place in Adelaide (SA) from 17 – 24 November 2019. Students selected in this team will be expected to cover the cost of their involvement in this team and carnival (approx. $1,000.00 – which includes transport and uniform)

Nomination criteria:

• Only children born in 2007 or 2008 can be nominated.
• Each school can nominate a maximum of 3 boys for this team who are currently playing Club Cricket.
• There is no limit placed on the number of girls that schools are permitted to nominate. Schools are encouraged to nominate all talented sports girls to trial.

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2018 Team Selection

School Sport Victoria (SSV) recently announced the Team Vic Cricket 12 Years and under Girls Team to represent SSV at the School Sport Australia 12 Years and Under Cricket Championships to be held in Bunbury, WA from 12 to 19 December 2018.

2019 U12’S State Championships – Trials

Registrations for 2019 U12’s State Championships for 2019 will open Saturday 1 December 2018.

The Championships for this will take place from 17 November – 24 November, 2019 in Adelaide, SA.

Year 7 & 8 Girls Leadership Program

Cricket Victoria’s Girls Leadership Program, proudly supported by School Sport Victoria is in its third year. The program is aimed at girls in Year 7 & 8 and is back for 2018.

The program has been developed by Mental Edge Consulting – an organisation that specialises in team and organisational culture, wellbeing, performance enhancement, professional development services and support systems for high performance sporting organisations.

Online Program:

The online program is made up of six 20 minute modules and includes the following topics:

1. Your leadership Spirit – This module introduces the girls to a range of leadership values to help them to identify their own leadership spirit. Participants will also hear from Leadership Ambassador, Sophie Molineux on what values define her leadership spirit.
2. Ignite your can do – In this module, participants begin to identify their strengths and learn to focus on what they can do rather than what they can’t do. In addition, the girls will also acknowledge the feeling associated with a ‘can do’ mindset versus a ‘can’t do’ mindset.
3. Stand Up – This module gives participants strategies to use when required to standup for themselves and others. Along with the appropriate strategies the girls are also taught when the appropriate time is to stand up for themselves and others and here from our Leadership Ambassadors about times when they have had to stand up for themselves and others.
4. Stand Strong – In this module participants are introduced to how their confidence can be influenced by something as simple as body language. Through the help of our Leadership Ambassadors, participants are asked to reflect on how they feel when practicing strong poses versus timid poses.
5. Your resilience superpower – This module introduces the participants to what resilience is and how to identify when they have a high level of energy and when their energy is quite low. They will also hear from our Leadership Ambassadors on how they feel when their resilience power is full, half and empty and how they manage this.
6. Striving for the Stars – The final modules leads the participants through goal setting. Participants hear from our Leadership Ambassadors and begin to think about their own goal; why it is important to them and what barriers are in the way of them getting there.

Application Form

Schools may nominate year 7 and 8 girls from their school for the online interactive program.

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If you’d like to learn more about the program, please contact Sophie Crockett at scrockett@cricketvictoria.com.au

Girls Leadership Forum 2018

When: Tuesday 11 December, 2018
Time: 9.30am – 3.00pm
Where: CitiPower Centre, St. Kilda

The Girls Leadership Forum is an extension of the online program, developed by Mental Edge Consulting – an organisation that specialises in team and organisational culture, wellbeing, performance enhancement, professional development services and support systems for high performance sporting organisations.

The forum will provide year 7 & 8 girls the opportunity to strengthen their leadership skills alongside their peers, with a focus on building confidence, resilience as well as exploring their leadership style. This year we’re thrilled to have a number of representatives from a range of sporting codes talk about their experiences in leadership. The keynote speaker for the day will be former Australian netballer and recent contestant from The Block, Bianca Chatfield who will share valuable experiences and lessons learnt through being an elite athlete for the past 17 years.

The forum will also include a panel discussion that will explore the importance of developing leadership skills in young girls and the panellists will talk to their own experiences. The panel includes:

• Melbourne Renegades WBBL captain, Amy Satterthwaite
• Former winter Olympian and leading expert on women’s health and fitness, Steph Prem
• North Melbourne AFLW captain and former Melbourne Stars cricketer, Emma Kearney
• Melbourne Star’s newest WBBL recruit, Holly Ferling
• Victorian Men’s Cricketer, Xavier Crone

The day also allows the girls to understand the importance of fitness in maintaining strength in leadership, and they will have the opportunity to participate in a Pilates session hosted by Studio PP, as well as Cricket Victoria’s female specific modified cricket program, Social Sixes.

HOW TO REGISTER:

To register your students for the forum, click here. There will also be a teacher professional development session run by Bianca Chatfield, which teachers can sign up for on the same form.

Please Note: To be eligible to attend this forum, we require students to be registered and complete the interactive online program.

Should you have any queries relating to the forum, please email eandrews@cricketvictoria.com.au