Spring League 2024! Gr 4-6

April 23rd, 2024

Dear Parents/Guardians:

This Spring Graminia School will be organizing its 15th annual basketball league designed for male and female students in grades 4-6. The purpose of this program is to introduce students to the sport, develop sportsmanship, foster school spirit, and have lots of fun! There is an information meeting for students to attend Thursday April 25 during the first recess, 9:40am, in the gym. 

As usual our Jr. High students who played for our Senior teams are going to be our coaches, officials, and scorekeepers. We have found that while our grade 4-6 students really benefit from playing, our Jr. High’s benefit almost as much from coaching. It’s great to see some of our younger students really bond with their coaches and it creates a very positive energy around the School.

Games will begin in the middle of May and will all be played predominantly on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Games will continue into the second week of June. All games will start right after school, the first one starting by 3:00pm and the second game at 4:00pm. The intention is to finish both games by 5:00pm, so students playing soccer or other activities will be able to do both. A schedule for the entire league will be sent home with your child shortly after all the teams are created. The cost to run the league will be $40 per player. If you would like your child to participate, forms must be returned to your homeroom teachers by Monday, May 6th. At that time there will be a $40 fee attached to your child’s powerschool account and this must be paid prior to the first game. The fee is used to cover player’s T-shirts, ref costs, and prize costs. If there is any surplus it will be put into the Hawks Athletics budget and used to support athletic programming at Graminia. If finances are a concern please contact us at the school; we don’t want kids to miss out if they want to play.

Additionally...

There will be a few lunch practices prior to the start of the season to go over basketball basics.
Rules will be “phased in” gradually in the first 3 or 4 games. This will give players and officials something to focus on.
We will be playing small court 3-3 this year to start the season. Following this we will transition into full court 5-5.
I will do my best to keep students who played last year on the same teams, although there may be a few changes to make sure the teams are all as evenly matched as possible.
Please complete the full permission form that you can access here and please reach out if you have any questions.

Ms Sidney Lewis