Netball is for Primary 6 and Primary 7 girls’ afterschool. This is a competitive sporting activity against other local schools in Northern Ireland.
- Introduction – what is netball and why play this game?
- Warm up – To include both netball specific and general movement skills, activation, stability exercises and landing skills
- Fitness capacity – To improve health and to get the group familiar with this requirement, may include a fun game, fitness work, ball work integrated
- Movement/footwork – Activities are designed to teach efficient movement patterns, normally with the session’s theme in mind. Such as quick decisive footwork, with or without a ball
- Passing and ball handling – emphasis here is on catching and throwing skills to include a variety of styles and release points off both sides of the body
- Skill in attack or defence
Attacking -Partner and small group activities concentrate on effective decision making, spatial relations and timing
Defence – Opportunities for all players to learn a variety of defending skills relating to starting position, creating pressure, winning ball and working as units
- Game understanding/situation – Practice games that may have conditions and game situations focused on sessional focus, time to emphasise the key points covered in the session
- Cool down – This time allows for slow jogging and walking activities to be interspersed with stretches. Players can sometimes reflect on what they might do differently in the next netball session
- Life skills – What are we trying to achieve with the groups we are working with? Quality people, good cultures and great training environments need to evolve throughout the stages.
