Cape Town Sports Coaching & Physical Education Detail

Cape Town Sports Coaching & Physical Education

2 Weeks - GBP   725 | USD 1295 | E   945
4 Weeks - GBP 1095 | USD 1970 | E 1425
6 Weeks - GBP 1435 | USD 2585 | E 1865

Masiphumelele Primary is the only primary school servicing the township of Masiphumelele, which has in excess of 35,000 residents. This is a Xhosa speaking school with over 1300 pupils and 33 teachers. The average classroom has between 45-49 children with only one teacher, so your efforts to assist will be hugely appreciated!

Physical Education Lessons and Good Sport
The Good Sport concept is a true development model that starts from the bottom up – by reaching every child they create a very strong foundation for future success in all sporting codes. Good Sport work on SAQ (speed, agility and quickness) models, as well as team sports such as rugby, football, netball and cricket. In the morning, they run physical education classes by SAQ standards, and their after school programs consist of team sports. The program at Masiphumele is run by Nceba Johase, who you will meet, a South African trained coach, trained by Sports Coaches Outreach (SCORE).

Physical Education lessons run for 30mins each day, from 8.30am until 12.30, with each grade sending two classes at a time.

Soccer/Football Coaching
African Impact’s soccer coaching was inspired by a local guy from Masiphumelele, who single-handedly trains and coaches 5 youth football teams! Thomas has been involved with his teams for over 9 years and has reared his under 17’s to be top of the local league, despite having minimal facilities or equipment. His younger boys, the under 9’s, also look ready to take on the challenge as they have also stormed to the top of the league this year! Thomas and his boys are training to be the best, under conditions which are unusual to an average football team; they do not have a flat or football pitch sized bit of land to train on, instead they use a sandy and rocky outcrop in the middle of the township. They also do not have enough football boots for everyone’s feet. Instead, Thomas keeps all the football boots at his house, and the boys share odds and ends of old and donated boots, when it comes their time to train. They own minimal training equipment, cones and footballs and use whatever they can find to be their “goalposts”!

Although the football coaching is very rural and grass-roots, Thomas is an extremely dedicated individual whose passion rubs off on his enthusiastic and football fanatical boys! Volunteers will assist Thomas in coaching the various teams and contribute to sports development in an underprivileged township.

Volunteer Objectives

-To assist the coaches in the planning and execution of physical education lessons
-To create structure for the children during the lesson time
-To maintain consistency in the structure of the lesson
-To provide or assist with any other additional work-load necessary to the program
-To assist in the daily/weekly tasks/duties to achieve optimal operation of facilities
-To take the initiative to use resources for afternoon projects – this is when you can independently flare!
-To ask for direction from coaches and African Impact staff when necessary

Note that during school holidays schools will be closed and neither physical education lessons nor sports coaching will take place. During this time holiday clubs will be running and there will be no shortage of amazing, rewarding and exciting work to do with the local kids and in the local communities. The school holiday dates for 2012 are as follows: 

24th of March-10th of April
23rd of June-16th of July
29th of September-9th of October
7th of December the project CLOSES until mid January 2013

After morning projects, you will assist in the local community with various aspects in the afternoon. You will rotate between the following community projects (Please also understand that our projects are continuously evolving, being improved, and adapting to the needs of the local communities that we are involved with, so involvement areas do change from time to time. Rest assured your work will be necessary, rewarding and exciting) :

Building and painting schools 
Schools in Red Hill deal with a great shortage of classrooms and facilities, as a result of which they are limited to the amount of children they can accommodate. As a volunteer, you will assist with fixing fences and windows, and rebuilding and painting classrooms. This project will also involve community litter, glass and rubbish collection.

HIV and AIDS Orphanage
As one of our afternoon community projects, African Impact works alongside a home for children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS situated in the heart of one of the peninsula townships, providing a safe and healthy home to children whose parents and family members are unable to look after them. As a volunteer, you will be involved in spending invaluable time with the wonderful children there, including supervising homework and playing educational games, as well as making friendships. The children at the home make this community project a delight and an incredible amount of fun!

Mini Farming Projects
At our preschools, African Impact have developed an initiative to allow the school to grow a sustainable source of food to contribute towards the community partnership initiative which provides two meals a day to otherwise very hungry children. The vegetable gardens, looked after by the children and teachers of the school, provide carrots, beetroots, cabbage, onions, spinach and lettuce, as a way of adding nutrients to their meals. While volunteering with African Impact, you might get the opportunity to immerse yourself in a mini-farm project, ranging from the basics of a vegetable garden, to building an underground drainage system to save on water.

Masiphumelele Library
Masiphumelele has been blessed with a wonderfully-resourced library and great facilities. The library offers many services to the community and volunteers slot into some of the existing programs at the library offered to members of the township. These include arts and crafts, puzzles, games, literacy, one on one reading, homework club and math club.

Children’s Safe House
You will also be involved in entertaining and being entertained by the children of a safe house in the local area. Here, crafts, games, dressing up and getting to know each and every wonderful personality is first and foremost. Volunteers also help out with homework for the older children and provide support, encouragement and laughter throughout.

Educare Centre
Volunteers will assist teachers with after school care by helping with game playing, reading (both one-on-one with the kids and to the group during story time), and with other activities they engage the children with i.e. art, music, and dancing.

Cape Town Township Physical Education & Sports Teaching Project