The expanding Torres Strait Island Program is our first focus in Term 2 with a further upskilling, coaching, and training support and delivery of Hookin2Hockey programs to support the MIGI KOKAN HOCKEY Carnival in May 2023. Wes and Sawadu will be engaging through the Torres Strait Islands Week 1 of the school term.
Aspire Empower Me Hub and School to Club supporting Trinity Bay High School and Cairns West State School programs begin Week 1 with the Hub open Monday 17th April 2023 and hockey recommencing on 21st and 22nd April 2023.
Week 2 begins the new Whitfield State School Aspire Live Well Learn Well and Lead Well Program with our in-school programs and we introduce MID WEEK Hockey for Mums 9.30am – 12 noon beginning 26th April 2023.
Aspire returns to Cairns West after school on Tuesday 2nd May 2023 and May sees Aspire supporting Cape York Girls Academy Programs and we return to Torres Strait Island to deliver the MIGI KOKAN HOCKEY Carnival 22-24 May 2023 on Ngurupai/Narupai (Horn Island)
Aspire and Cairns Hockey collaborates in June/July to celebrate Reconciliation Week through to NAIDOC and highlight the great connection Cairns Hockey community has with our First Nations people and culture. Stay tuned for more.
In June 2023, Aspire is partnering with Cairns Hockey to deliver some interactive cultural capability training for representative team officials, we are coordinating with Peninsula Schools to deliver Deadly 5’s and we are supporting the Aspire students selected in representative team pathway programs.
It’s a big Term 2 for Aspire and the ACCL Team.