Flippa Ball

Flippa ball is run by the Hibiscus Coast Waterpolo Club on Sunday’s during school terms 2 & 3 at The Leisure Centre, Brightside Road, Stanmore Bay.

Term 2 starts Sunday 30 April and finishes Sunday 25 June. This term is 8 weeks long.

Term 3 satrts Sunday 23 July and finishes Sunday 17 September. 

Grades:

• Year 3-4 Junior Water Polo (Shallow End) called Kahawai
• Year 5-6 Junior Water Polo (Shallow end) called Kingfish
• Schools Year 7-8 & club U12 Water polo (Deep end) – SEE WATERPOLO TAB

Parents are expected to be at each game to supervise their own child and assist on scoring/bench if asked to by the manager.

The aims of the Sunday League are to provide a fun and exciting opportunity for children to develop their water and ball skills by playing flippa ball in a fun, mildly competitive format.

Club members provide the refereeing services, and encourage parents to help where they can.

Games start promptly at the registered start time and consist of two 10 minute half (20 minutes) and a 2 minute half time break. That gives each team 3 minutes of warm up prior to the start of the game. So Quick in and Quick out for your games.

Details are:

• Played Sunday evenings between 4pm-7pm at the Leisure Centre
• 7 Children per team plus 2 subs. So 9 per team in total.
• It is played in the shallow end of the Leisure Centre pool so students that are not strong swimmers yet, can touch the bottom.
• Games are 20 minutes long. (10 minutes each way)
• There are two levels in Flippa Ball – Year 5/6’s and Year 3/4’s.
• Mixed boys and girls teams.

For further information please e-mail sport@kingsway.school.nz

Cost for Term 3  : $72

Registrations are closed off.

Sunday League Term Three dates:

• Sunday 23 July
• Sunday 30 July
• Sunday 6 August
• Sunday 13 August
• Sunday 20 August
• Sunday 27 August
• Sunday 3 September
• Sunday 10 September
• Sunday 17 September
• Total 9 weeks

Please email sport@kingsway.school.nz if your child is interested.