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Criteria for Approved Sports
RATIONALE
1.
Metropolitan East Region supports the representative
sporting programs endorsed by Education Queensland.
Metropolitan East Region will provide all students from
affiliated schools with access to competition at state
level.
2.
The Board has a statement of policy on approved sports to:
2.1.
ensure the safe and efficient management of regional
sports events.
2.2
present approved sports with a set of criteria upon
which they can assess their future as approved sports
2.3
provide a set of criteria as an indication to sports
seeking status as approved sports of what they must do
to be considered for inclusion on the list of approved
sports.
POLICY
1.
Each year, the Metropolitan East School Sport Board will
finalise its list of approved sports for the following
school year.
2.
A sport may be deemed to be an approved sport in
Metropolitan East Region when all of the Essential Criteria
below have been met.
Additional Criteria may be considered.
3.
The Board will remove a sport from the list of approved
sports for the following school year if one or more of the
Essential Criteria cannot be met.
4.
A sport which fails to meet most of the Additional
Criteria may be removed from the list of approved sports.
5.
Once removed from the list of approved sports, a sport
may apply for reinstatement as an approved sport after two
years out of the list.
GUIDELINES
1.
The Board is under no obligation to list a sport as an
approved sport regardless of the sport’s qualifications for
listing. In coming to its decision, the Board will consider
the welfare of students as well as the human and physical
resources and the resource of time which it has available to
conduct an additional sport.
2.
Essential Criteria for
listing as an approved sport:
2.1.
A suitably qualified Regional Convenor for
the sport has been appointed by the Board for the year in
which the sport has
the status of an approved sport.
2.2.
The Regional
Convenor can demonstrate that health and safety issues have been catered
for at all levels
of the Region’s
involvement in that sport.
2.3.
It can be
demonstrated that a panel of suitably qualified team coaches and team
managers is available
for appointment by
the Board for the year in which the sport has the status of an approved
sport.
2.4.
The sport is
listed as an approved sport at state level.
2.5.
It can be
demonstrated that there is a sufficient depth of talent to participate
competitively at the state
level.
3.
Additional
Criteria which could be applied in the consideration for listing of
approved sports:
3.1.
There is a
demonstrated participation in the sport at school and district level
within the Region.
3.2.
There is
support for the listing from the sport’s club network and particularly
from clubs at junior level.
3.3.
The Region
has demonstrated high levels of success at state championships in the
sport in previous
years.
3.4.
The sport
can demonstrate that it has had consistent success in placing students
in Queensland teams
over recent years.
4. 4.1.
The Board will develop a
tentative sporting calendar
in August for the
following year.
4.2.
The Board
will set a list of approved sports for the following calendar year at
its August meeting.
The
tentative calendar
for that following year will consist of the sports on that list.
4.3.
At its
December meeting the Board will adopt its actual calendar for the
following year. This calendar
will contain those
sports from the tentative calendar which have continued to meet the
Essential Criteria.
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