Netball Scotland are proud to announce their partnership with Robert Gordon’s College. This partnership will allow Netball Scotland to continue to grow, develop, and create more opportunities for young people across the country.

Carol Harvey, Director of Development at Netball Scotland said: “We are delighted to continue building our infrastructure of partnerships to support the growth and development of netball across Scotland and formally welcome Robert Gordon’s College to the netball family as a partner supporting both the growth of netball in the school estate and the wider community.  We are looking forward to supporting development opportunities and increased participation across the region.”

Robin Macpherson, Head of Robert Gordon’s College shared: “We’ve seen significant growth in our Netball programme at Robert Gordon’s and it makes perfect sense to be partnering with Netball Scotland to take this to the next level. We have big ambitions to increase participation and performance in the sport both within our school and across the region, so this partnership is a really important step forward in meeting those objectives.”

Craig Harper, Head of Sport commented: “We’re really excited about having a big impact on netball, not only at RGC, but across the wider community the school is linked with. Our pupils benefit greatly from working with our very experienced staff who are all involved in developing netball across Aberdeen. This is another opportunity to strengthen our partnership links and grow our netball even further, into new areas.”

By partnering with RGC we are able to grow our participation and opportunities for young people across the country which can lead to professional careers. Our very own Thistle player Emma Love attended RGC, class of 2017!

For more information on this partnership, you can contact us via: Rachel.Bradley@netballscotland.com

Netball Scotland today announced their partnership with Albyn School in Aberdeen. The significant growth in schools partnering with the governing body highlights the importance of inspiring girls and empowering them by creating access to netball in Scotland.

Geraldine McGuire, Head of Development at Netball Scotland said, “We are delighted to continue building our infrastructure of partnerships to support the growth and development of netball across Scotland.  Today we formally welcome, Albyn School in Aberdeen into the Netball Family as a partner who contributes to both the school estate and wider community through growing the school netball club, hosting Aberdeen District Netball Association activity and offering a range of opportunities for engagement in our sport.”

Stefan Horsman, Head Teacher, Albyn School added, “We are delighted to be working with Netball Scotland. This exciting step for Albyn will allow us to combine expertise and experience with a dynamic and forward-thinking governing body, to open up opportunities to access netball for women and girls across Northeast Scotland. This is an inspiring and important partnership for empowering girls through sport.”

Studies have found girls continue to have lower physical literacy than boys throughout every age group, and especially in relation to enjoyment, confidence and competence. The largest gender differences can be seen in school years 9-11. (www.womeninsport.org)

• Just over a third of girls (34%) in years 9-11 enjoy taking part in sport and exercise, compared to more than half of boys (55%).

• Twice as many boys (39%) in years 9-11 feel confident when exercising or playing sport compared to just 19% of girls.

Jimmy Lamont, Head of PE & Sport, Albyn School said – “It’s great to be one of the first Netball Scotland Partnership Schools in Scotland. We are really looking forward to introducing new and exciting initiatives across the North East of Scotland that will hopefully encourage more pupils to take up the sport.”

For more information on our strategic partnerships please contact Head of Development on HoD@netballscotland.com

Netball Scotland are delighted to formally welcome The Glasgow Academy into the Netball Family. This partnership will help to build on the infrastructure to support the recovery and growth of netball across schools and the wider community surrounding The Glasgow Academy.

Geraldine McGuire, Head of Development at Netball Scotland said,

“As we continue to recover from COVID-19 and with an ambitious growth strategy for our sport, it has never been more critical to work in partnership to create a world class system of people, places and programmes. 

We are, therefore delighted to welcome The Glasgow Academy into the Netball Family as a key partner supporting both the growth of netball in the school estate and the wider community. Since launching netball, the school now has a thriving club participating and competing on a weekly basis as well as being home to Glasgow Netball Association league fixtures and regularly hosting teacher CPD sessions & netball camps.  

We are also delighted to support the schools plans for Project 100 which will see a state of the art sport and wellness facility in the Kelvinbridge area of the City in due course.  This facility will enhance the places infrastructure for our sport, providing priority access to the netball community.”

Matthew Pearce, Rector, The Glasgow Academy added,

“Here at The Glasgow Academy, we are absolutely delighted to be working in partnership with Netball Scotland.  By working together, we are offering great opportunities for the pupils in our school but also much more widely.  Netball is such a rapidly growing sport, and it is easy to understand why: it is fun, can be really fast-moving and exciting and is really accessible for all young people.

 The interest and participation levels in netball from its inception in the school less than two years ago has been remarkable. Netball Scotland have provided us with great support and in formalising our partnership I have no doubt that we will continue to grow the sport in the school and also in the wider community.” 

For more information on our strategic partnerships please contact Head of Development on HoD@netballscotland.com

Help us spread some festive cheer and design our Christmas 2018 e-card for our members and partners.  Open to all aged 13 and under, we want to see your festive flair come to life.  Entrants can create whatever design they like however including an element of netball would be preferable.

The prize:
Our chosen design will be used by Netball Scotland across email, on the Netball Scotland website and used on all Netball Scotland social media.  Our lucky winner will also receive 4 tickets to the Strathclyde Sirens v Team Bath Vitality Netball Superleague match on Friday 11^th January, at the Emirates Arena, Glasgow.  Furthermore, the winner will join Strathclyde Sirens Captain, Claire Maxwell, on court as her mascot for the game.

How to enter:
Please ask a teacher, parent or guardian to take a picture of the finished design, and email this to membership@netballscotland.com

Designs must be submitted to Netball Scotland by no later than Monday 10^thDecember.

Terms and conditions:

• By entering the competition, entrants are giving Netball Scotland the right to use their design, copyright free.
• By entering the competition, the prize winner gives their agreement to publicity about their win (or if under 16 this is needs to be given by parent / guardian).
• One entry per person, multiple entries can however be made from one email address.
• The winning design will be selected by our CEO, Claire Nelson.
• Winners will be contacted via email.
• The winner’s names will be displayed on our website, social media and all graphics incorporating their design.

From all of us at Netball Scotland we wish you lots of luck with your designs, and cannot wait to announce our winner.  We will reveal our Christmas 2018 design across all digital channels on Monday 17th December 2018.