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ANZ COURTSIDE: DREAM BIG NETBALL GRANT APPLICATION
BETHLEHEM PRIMARY: OUR BIG NETBALL DREAM!
WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE VELCRO BIBS FOR OUR YEAR 5 AND 6 NETBALL TEAMS
Bethlehem Primary School is located in Bethlehem, Tauranga and currently has an approximate roll of 500 students.
This year our school has two Year 5 teams and two Year 6 teams competing in the Harbourside Netball Competition. The girls are aged between 8 and 12.
That is about 40 girls who turn up every Saturday morning looking forward to a fun game of netball, playing to the best of their ability.
Our Big Netball Dream is to have Velcro Bibs that stick onto our uniforms instead of the older style pull over bibs.
Our girls in the teams find the pull over bibs cumbersome and distracting: - as they keep on falling off the shoulder or the bibs are a great place to tuck your hands into…! Which isn’t great when you then need to race off to catch a ball.
Also, when looking around the netball courts on a Saturday morning, Bethlehem Primary would be one of the very few schools to still have the pull-over bibs. Most schools now use Velcro bibs/dresses and they do look very smart.
As our uniforms do not need replacing, we thought it would be a great idea to upgrade the dresses to accommodate Velcro bibs instead, making the upgrade more cost effective.
We are asking for a donation from ANZ Dream Big to the school of $840 to cover the cost of upgrading the uniforms.
We would need 6 sets of bibs @ $90 per set and the cost of getting the Velcro sewn onto the dresses would be $300 ($5 per dress : 60 dresses).
The dresses will be upgraded ready for the season next year, benefitting up and coming teams in the school.
Also the school is involved in the Inter-School Winter Tournament Competition on Monday 25 September and we would very much love to be able to upgrade the uniforms to Velcro bibs prior to this tournament so the teams members can fly about the court not having to bother about what their bibs are up to…
We look forward to your response.
Vanessa Fitzgerald
Bethlehem Primary School (Parent & Coach of Year 5 Bethlehem School Pulse Team)
027 329 0937
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