Vision:
Ensure the safety of both our athletes and coaches against the COVID-19 virus throughout practices. Ensure that effective skills are developed while adhering to all necessary safety protocols as set out by the Department of Education. Prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus during practices and to lower the risk of infection.
Mission:
Develop and implement strict rules and regulations for sport practices. Create and implement safety principles to limit the risk of infections. Create a Sport Committee tasked to communicate to parents and various school stakeholders regarding the re-opening of sport, school access and control protocols, sanitisation, and parent’s responsibilities.
Covid-19 Sport Principles of Safety:
Sport Covid-19 regulations:
- All learners participating in the practice sessions must have a consent form signed by the learner’s parents or primary care giver. No learner transport and no spectators will be allowed.
- The following Personal Protective Equipment must be available during each practice:
- Masks (shield optional) and sanitizer for hands and equipment
- Sweat towel for coach
- Thermometer
- Learner Covid-19 register
- First Aid Kit
Responsibilities before practices:
- Sanitize all equipment that will be used in the practice session.
- Ensure that you have:
- Learner register and pen
- Thermometer
- Sanitizer for learner’s hand
- Extra mask for emergencies.
- All exercise grids must be prepared before the practice starts.
- Ensure that all the indemnity forms for the learners participating are available in a file.
Responsibilities during practices:
- Before practice starts, all learners must line up for screening:
- Learner’s names must be recorded
- Learner’s temperature must be recorded
- Learner’s hands must be sanitized.
- Learners with any Covid-19 symptoms or fever will not be allowed to participate and will be isolated.
- During practice, ensure that the learners maintain social distancing (minimum 1 meter).
- Learners must bring their own water bottles. Learners, who did not bring their own water, can be allowed to drink water from the taps, but only 3 learners at a time.
- Learners will not be allowed to share any bottles or equipment with each other.
Responsibilities after practices:
- Coaches must sanitize the learners’ hands again after the practice has finished.
- Learners must go to the waiting area to be fetched by their parents
- Maintain social distancing at all times.
- Coach must wait with the learners until all learners are gone.
- All equipment needs to be sanitized for the next practice session.
- All equipment must be stored and locked up in a safe place.
