Hockey Academy 
 

 

Philosophy

Goals

About the Sentinel
Hockey Academy

Fact Sheet

Sample Daily Timetable

Program Components

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WEST VANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT (#45)

"To develop a talent to its full potential, 10 000 training hours are required. 
This equates to three hours of daily training over 10 years."

Academy Location
Sentinel Secondary School
1250 Chartwell Drive
West Vancouver 
B.C. V7S 2R2

Contact
Diane Nelson Director of the Sentinel Hockey Academy
Phone: 604-435-6440 or 604-981-1150
Email: dnelson@sd45.bc.ca

Sentinel Secondary School Mission Statement
To enable students to become lifelong learners by providing quality learning opportunities in supportive environments and by encouraging personal growth through active involvement.

 Open House & On Ice Evaluation for September, 2010

Monday, January 25, 2010 @ Hollyburn Country Club

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

 The Open House is designed to inform parents about the Sentinel Hockey Academy and to have potential student-athletes participate in an on-ice evaluation. If you and your son/daughter would like to be a part of the Open House, the process is as follows:

      1.     Complete and submit an on-line registration form.

On-line registration period: November 1, 2009 - January 21, 2010

2.     You will receive a telephone confirmation by Diane Nelson once the on-line registration form has been completed and submitted.

3.     You will be contacted via telephone in early January to re-confirm parent and student participation at the Open House and to answer any questions about the Open House process.

Parent & Student Preparation for Open House 

1.     Interested students arrive to the Sports Entrance of the Hollyburn Country Club at 1:00 on Monday, January 25 with their hockey bags. Students will be escorted to a dressing room to change and be ready for a 1:30 start time.

2.     Parents arrive to the Sport Entrance of the Hollyburn Country Club at 1:00 p.m. on January 25 and are escorted to the large ice viewing area.

3.     At 1:40, Diane Nelson will escort all parents to an upstairs meeting room at the Hollyburn Country Club for an information session. The session will be conducted by Diane Nelson, District Principal, as well as Sentinel's Senior Counsellor and Advanced Placement Coordinator, Kathy Grant.

4.     Registered parents will receive a prepared package of information about the academy and Sentinel Secondary.

5.    Parents are to arrive prepared to submit a photocopy of the student’s latest report card.

For example, if the student is currently in grade 7, bring a complete copy of the first term report card. Eventually, a copy of the student’s full year’s report card will be required.

If parents/students are still interested in the academy after the Open House, parents are to contact Diane Nelson @ dnelson@sd45.b.ca or 604-981-1150. 

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Sentinel Hockey Academy

Philosophy
The Sentinel Hockey Academy is one example of the school district's commitment to facilitating increased access to athlete development through sport pathways in education. We recognize that sport is a viable pathway to meet numerous educational, societal and personal objectives.

Goals
To work in cooperation with the Hollyburn Country Club, GDI (The Goaltender Development Institute), and Twist Conditioning to provide student athletes with the opportunity for excellent in instruction in quality facilities, in order to complete their hockey skill development training.

Sentinel Hockey Academy - The Concept
The Sentinel Hockey Academy is a choice program within Sentinel Secondary School. This program offers young hockey players the opportunity to complete their academic requirements in the mornings and then the ability for students to participate in hockey skill development training in the afternoons, all during school hours.

Fact Sheet

This program is:

  • Designed for students, male or female, grades 8-12 who are registered as full time students at Sentinel Secondary School.
  • Conducive to scheduling students' full academic requirements in the mornings in order to allow students the ability to participate in hockey skill development training during school hours each afternoon.
  • Strictly supplementary to the existing programs run by various Minor Hockey Associations.
  • Focused on academic achievement, individual skill improvement and overall character development
  • Designed to be a part of the regular public school program, not as an adjunct to it.
  • Not designed to establish or develop teams for competition.

TopSample Daily Timetable

8:25

Warning Bell for 1st Period

8:30 - 9:49

1st Period (79 minutes)

9:49 - 9:55

Recess #1

9:55

Warning Bell for 2nd Period

10:01 - 11:20

2nd Period (79 minutes)

11:20 - 11:27

Recess #2

11:27

Warning Bell for 3rd Period

11:32-12:53

3rd Period (81 minutes)

12:53 - 1:33

Lunch

1:33

Warning Bell for 4th Period

1:38-2:57

4th Period (79 minutes)

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Typical Block Rotation

  Morning Afternoon
Monday Day 1-123 4
Tuesday 2-123 4
Wednesday 1-231 4
Thursday 2-231 4
Friday 1-314 4
Monday 2-314 4

 The afternoon blocks rotate and are the assigned blocks for students registered in the hockey academy. All students receive credit for for Physical Education. Students in Grades 8 & 9 receive credit for Health & Career Education. Students in Grades 10-12 receive credits for our locally developed Board Authority Authorized Courses (BAA) -Theory & Principles of Hockey 10, 11, & 12.
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Planning 10 Mandatory
Students at the Grade 10 level must complete the manadatory Planning 10 course. However, students may schedule this course within their regularly scheduled timetable or they may elect to complete teh course on-line, via correspondence or during summer school. Students are encouraged to meet with one of our counsellors to plan the best route to completing this required course.

Program Components
Skills and Fitness Tests
Students participate in a number of skills tests throughout the year to monitor their progress throughout three phases: Developing, Executing and Refining Skills.

Developing Skills Phase Executing Skills
Phase
Refining Skills Phase On-Ice Skills Tests Include:
Basic and Advanced Skills: Offensive and Defensive Play/Checking: Offensive Skills and Defensive Skills/Checking:  
Skating
Stick Handling
Passing
Shooting
Checking
Goaltending
Defensive Zone
Regroup
Entries
Offensive Zone
Checking
Goaltending
General (game sense, read and react, support, communication, switching positions, one vs. one, using the turn-backs, etc.)
 
Skating
Stick Handling
Passing
Shooting
Goaltending
Skating Speed (One lap)
Stick Handling & Agility
Skating Speed (forward & backward carrying the puck)
Shooting Power
Shooting Accuracy
Passing Skills

Dryland or Off-Ice Training

Mondays: Group One
Fridays: Group Two

Alternating Tuesday / Thursday

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

Location: Twist Conditioning Facility or Hollyburn Country Club

Classroom Component
Wednesdays 1:40 - 3:00 p.m.
Location: Sentinel Secondary School

The classroom component involves a complete course designed to help students be the best that they can be. The content focuses on a number of sport and lifestyle topics. The information is designed to assist students to develop good, strong habits that will guide them throughout their lives. Messages include: taking responsibility for your life, defining your goals in sport and school, prioritizing and doing the most important things first, having an ‘everyone-can-win’ attitude, active listening, working together as a team, and taking care of yourself. Hockey skill development is important but teaching life strategies for our young teens is equally important.

Other topics of interest include: identifying personal strengths and areas of interest, sports nutrition, psychology tests for teens, mental training, game preparation, performance enhancing substances, team building, communication skills, game tactics and situational play.

TopNational Coaching Certification Program (NCCP)
Students in Grades 10, 11 & 12 have the opportunity to participate in the National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) which is recognized as one of the best coaching certification programs in the world. Each of the three progressive levels consists of three parts: THEORY or Sport Science is generic to all sports; TECHNICAL is specific to each sport; and PRACTICAL requires one season of coaching.

The first two levels of the Theory have recently been rewritten and are now called Part A & Part B. The modules in the two programs are:

A: Introduction to Coaching
Making Decisions
Planning a Practice
Nutrition

B. Teaching and Learning
Designing a Basic Sport Program (Season Plan)
Basic Mental Skills

The value for students is threefold: (1) The course will enable students to further their understanding of sport science principles, which are the foundation of performance in all sports, thus assisting their own sport performance. (2) Students who pass the course are able to coach a school or community team.(3) Upon successful completion, students may obtain credit for the course from the Provincial Ministry of Education as part of a career program.

The course will be offered to students (Grades 10-12) beginning February, 2010. The students, upon successful completion, have their results reported to the Coaching Association of Canada to be entered in the National Database.

TopOn-Ice Component

Monday

Tuesday   
Thursday
Friday

1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Group 1
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. All Groups
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. All Groups

1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Group 2

Location: Hollyburn Country Club

2010 - 2011 Tuition

Duration: September - mid-June
Tuition: $4850 or $525 per month - Sept. - May; June - $125

Tremendous Value! Sentinel Hockey Academy program provides the following:

  • Premier place for learning: Sentinel Secondary School
  • 9 months (36 weeks)
  • 5 afternoons per week
  • Premier facilities for training: Hollyburn Country Club, Twist Conditioning Facility
  • Access to dressing rooms to store and secure hockey bags during on-ice days
  • Daily supervision & monitoring of students during training sessions
  • Ratio of 1 instructor to 6 students on ice
  • Classroom component taught by: Diane Nelson, Jack Cummings
  • Excellent, qualified & competent hockey instructors and certified personal trainers
  • Power skating instruction by Olympian, Karen Magnussen
  • Special guest appearances on specific topics: concussions, sports injuries, nutrition, performance enhancing substances, game and situational play. Guests have appeared on-ice, during dryland training and within the classroom setting to help educate our student athletes.
  • Exposure to a variety of off-ice activities - squash, tennis, badminton, swimming, karate
  • On-going assessment and evaluation on the ice, off the ice and within the classroom
  • Formal evaluation and written reports 3 times per year: December, March & June
  • Parent-instructor interviews: offered formally 2 times per year but available at any time
  • Open door policy for parents all year long – excellent and ongoing communication
  • Year end celebration evening recognizing and honoring all students
  • Program Completion Certificates (Hockey Skill & Theory 8, 9, 10, 11, 12); On-Ice Skills Test Awards; Numerous Specialty Awards
  • Credits for Health and Career Education (Grades 8 & 9)
  • Credits for Physical Education (Grades 8 - 12)
  • Credits for Theory and Principles of Hockey (Grades 10, 11 & 12)
  • National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP)

TopProgram Requirements

Students are required to enter the Academy with the following:

  • Black pants
  • Black helmet
  • Regular hockey gear, including face cage and neck guard
  • Off-Ice/Dryland training gear to include shorts or sweat pants and appropriate running shoes
  • Water bottle for dryland training sessions
  • Sentinel student planner or agenda book
  • Journal for ongoing goal setting and reflection
  • IAP Active Plan Insurance (24 hours per day) coverage: $32 for the year
  • Textbook/resources deposit of $25 – refundable upon return of resources in good condition
  • Equipment/clothing cost $125 (Pro Joy jersey, 2 pairs socks, 2 t-shirts)

If you are interested in the Sentinel Hockey Academy,
the procedure is as follows:

Contact Diane Nelson, Director @ 604-435-6440.
Complete and submit the on-line registration form.

Students selected to participate in the Sentinel Hockey Academy must provide evidence of good progress in their academic subject areas, socially responsible behaviour, along with a good work ethic and positive attitude. A copy of the student's report card is a requirement.

The Sentinel Hockey Academy is a wonderful program for the student who wants to develop his/her potential as a high performance athlete or just simply wants to learn and enjoy playing the game. Students enrolled full time at Sentinel now have the opportunity to pursue the passion of playing hockey, while continuing to receive an excellent education. So, for the 'hockey passionate' students, we are very proud to offer this very exciting program just for them!

Further inquiries:Top

Diane Nelson
Director of the Sentinel Hockey Academy
Email: dnelson@sd45.bc.ca
Phone: 604-435-6440 OR
Sentinel Secondary: 604-981-1150

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