#Sports
Target:
Brigidine College St Ives
Region:
Australia

The Brigidine Netball Club has a proud tradition with more than 40 years of history and continues to contribute strongly to the school community and vision. The partnership approach offered by volunteer parents and ex students to sustain the club has provided immeasurable benefits to our girls and has meant that very few resources have ever been required of the school.

The school attended the meeting of the Brigidine Netball Club Committee on Wednesday, 1 August 2012 and informed the club that it has reached a decision regarding the future of the Netball Club, indicating that it wishes to cease the club and in particular, the school’s participation in the Ku-ring-gai Netball Association (KNA) competition.

The school outlined to the Committee;
• that it does not see a future for Brigidine’s participation in community sport,
• that the resources required by the school to sustain the most popular sport in the school is unsustainable, citing in particular the demands of netball on school facilities and staff time,
• that participation in the KNA netball competition prevents girls from participating in other activities in the school and
• that netball within the school should occur through school based competition only.

The Committee wishes to express its utter disappointment with both the school’s decision and the reasons asserted for disbanding the club. The Committee sees a future for netball in the school community that is only centred around IGSSA and Catholic Girls School competition as a poor substitute for the current programme that includes not only playing but coaching and umpiring development and team work.

The committee strongly believes that the school should consult more broadly with the netball community in the school, not simply inform them of the decision.

This petition provides an avenue to indicate your support to ensure the continuation of Brigidine Netball Club.

We, the undersigned, call for Brigidine College St Ives to withdraw its decision to end the Brigidine Netball Club and instead support its ongoing existence, including an amount of support equivalent to provided to other co-curriculum activities in the school with similar numbers of participants.

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The Keep the Brigidine Netball Club Alive petition to Brigidine College St Ives was written by Brigidine Netball Club and is in the category Sports at GoPetition.

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Netball Club Brigidine