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On this page you will find information relating to all community and school delivery programmes & festival days offered by Wairarapa Cricket Operations staff at a variety of levels.
Some of these programmes are NZ Cricket initiatives which are delivered nationwide by Association staff (Yeah! Girls +Smash Play) and others are Wairarapa Cricket created (Back Yard Cricket & Girls Cricket Hubs) which have been designed to cater for the specific needs of our community.
Back Yard Cricket
A Wairarapa designed skill delivery programme for secondary school students. The delivery involves basic transferable fundamental skill coaching (catching and throwing), combined with more specific cricket elements (bowling and batting) over a couple of lessons with the other lessons being games of Back Yard Cricket (all equipment provided by Wairarapa Cricket) These sessions incorporate all class participants and all skill development.
Yeah! Girls
This is a national dedicated girls only cricket programme that we can run at schools during school time lunchtime / in class PE time or after school.
More information about this programme can be found by clicking the below link
Kia Hakinakina
Kia Hakinakina has a strategic vision of:
Our Community, Living The Best Actively Connected Lives
Built upon a purpose of: Elevating our community through our principles, our actions and our support.
Kia Hakinakina is a Wairarapa established approach, incorporating best practice through connected relationships with local, national (Aotearoa) and international leading expertise.
Our focus is our community, creating connections, belonging (whanaungatanga), and personal social responsibilities and competence all through the conduit of Play and Physical Activity.
For more insights head to the below
Festival Days
SmashZones – School Year 5-8 mixed teams festival day, teams of 8. Playing pairs cricket with 4 games over the day.
November 13th 2024 at Rathkeale College
Girls Smash -Girls only School teams for Year 3-6’s, 6 per team, pairs cricket with everyone involved. Games last 40 minutes. With 4 games within the day
Greytown Festival – 12th November
Masterton Festival – 14th November