School Sport Canterbury Student Sport Sanctioning
School Sport Canterbury is an incorporated society managed by a Regional Sports Director. The organisation sanctions student sport events for over 70 different sports in the Canterbury region and South Island.
School Sport Canterbury aims are:
There are two fundamental aims of School Sport Canterbury:
To increase participation and enjoyment in sport and regular physical activity of all students.
To provide quality sporting opportunities, competitions, and events, supporting student opportunity, endeavour, development, and school representation.
The fundamental aims of School Sport Canterbury will be achieved through the following goals:
Grow participation, so more students are motivated to try, enjoy and experience success through a range of quality sport and activity opportunities.
Champion equity and the value of all young people being engaged in sport and regular activity, regardless of ability, gender, ethnicity, or background.
Student focused Our programme reflect the changing needs of our rangatahi, by putting student needs at the center of decision making.
Inspire change by challenging how success in school sport is perceived, promoting a climate of development over a culture of performance.
Despite these positive and inclusive aims and goals, School Sport Canterbury continues to exclude a minority of domestic students from competing in Sport in the South Island solely becasue of their legal education pathway.
School Sport Canterbury By-Laws (updated January 2025) state:
6. HOME SCHOOLED STUDENTS (Revised 2019)
Individual sports
i)Where event organisers wish to do so, home-schooled students that provide current evidence of MoE approval for home schooling may participate in a School Sport Canterbury sanctioned event provided that the home-schooled students have been a part of the member school team for the season and not simply joining for the event.
ii)Home schooled students are not eligible for medal placings however organisers may recognise a merit performance with a separate award/s.
iii)The parent of the home- schooled student must sign a document with the event organiser accepting full responsibility for their student including the event health and safety plans.
Team Sports
i)For events below the premier level of a School Sport Canterbury sport and where agreement of the event organiser is given, home-schooled students may be included in the Composite Team of a member school.
ii)The member school principal of such teams is responsible for providing to the event organiser current evidence of MoE approval for home-schooling for each homeschooled student included in the Composite Team.
iii)All other School sport Canterbury regulations relating to Composite teams will apply to such teams in (1) above, including the principal of the member school taking responsibility for all team members.
iv) Composite Teams made up entirely of home-schooled students i.e. not part of a member school team, will not be permitted in School Sport Canterbury sanctioned events
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