HKCA Superstar Cricket Programme

Each year Horowhenua-Kapiti Cricket Association (HKCA) run a schools cricket programme called Superstar Cricket. In the first year we did this programme we had just 4 schools from Levin enter into the programme. A few years down the track we now have personalized connections with schools that have doubled that number. Each year HKCA change up the programme to make it more exciting and interactive than the last. The programme consists of awareness and development sessions that involve fulfilled cricket skills and games. At the end of the programme each school receives a certain amount of HKCA branded cricket packs that contain a ball, bat, bag, and set of stumps thanks to our partnerships with Kookaburra. Once all schools have completed their awareness and development sessions, each school then enters a certain amount of teams into a round robin tournament that HKCA hold at both Donnelly Park and Kena Kena park in term 1 where Horowhenua based schools compete against each other and the Kapiti schools compete against each other on different nights of the week. The aim of this school programme is to give kids a taste of cricket and hope they then move into clubs cricket.

For more information on Superstar Cricket or to register your school for the coming season, please feel free to contact, Community Development and Participation Coordinator Abby King at development@hkca.co.nz

Superstar Cricket Programme 2021-22

Please see below an outline of what this years programme involves and what schools have registered. If you have any questions or your school is keen to join it is not to late. Email Abby King at development@hkca.co.nz for more information.

Programme Overview

Awareness Programme

  • Delivered to all children in year groups 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6

  • 1 x 40min session per classroom

  • Delivered over the course of Term 3 and 4 HKCA

Development Lessons

  • Delivered to keen children in year groups 3, 4, 5, & 6

  • 4 x 40min sessions split over term 4 and 1

  • Separate boys and girls sessions (flexible)

  • Sessions broken up into 3&4 (boys), 5&6 (boys), and 5&6 (girls) (flexible)

  • Max 30 participants per school (10 for each group)

  • Flexibility around delivery times

  • Each Participating School will receive 6 x Cricket Packs (Bat, ball, bag) (see below) to use and keep.

School Tournament

  • NZ Cricket modified cricket games

  • Each school to enter at least one team per age grade

  • Each school to enter a girls only team

  • 8 a side • Games played over 6 weeks

  • Games played against other participating primary schools on a weeknight

  • Finals night with prize giving and awards, BBQ and Drinks

  • Umpire evening provided for parents and teachers that will be helping with scoring for the tournament

Schools Involved

Horowhenua Based

  • Fairfield

  • Levin East

  • Levin North

  • Koputaroa

  • Foxton Beach

  • Levin

  • Tokomaru

  • Manakau

  • Ohau

  • Taitoko

  • St Joes

Kapiti Based

  • Paekākāriki

  • Kapakapakanui

  • KenaKena

  • Waitohu

  • Waikane