Builds upon the two-stream music elective program by providing a more meaningful Stage 4-5 pathway for students considering Music 1 and VET Entertainment.

Excellence Through Basketball: Providing Staff And Students The Capacity To Be The Best They Can Be

Josh Chapman

Sport is a compulsory activity for all students at The King’s School and, as such, the staff have a responsibility to provide the best coaching to them regardless of their age, ability, or background. Excellence in basketball is not necessarily about being in the top team or being the most skilled player, it is about becoming the best player that an individual can be. The only way this can happen is by staff providing students with purposeful, well-conceived and effective training sessions throughout the season.

As you can imagine, not all staff are well versed in basketball or have the depth of knowledge of the sport to afford this coaching. My goal is to create a program that can improve all students’ abilities through the upskilling and development of staff. If staff can develop the competencies needed to be a proficient coach, this can then translate to the student’s athletic and sporting development and we, as a program, will be well on the way to have excellence in basketball. To achieve this goal, The King’s School Basketball program runs staff inductions prior to each season, provides coaching professional development sessions and provides a Basketball Professional development page with resources via the School’s Canvas Learning Management System. If staff feel supported and valued in their endeavour to upskill themselves, there will be more buy-in and this will create another dimension to building excellence through basketball.