Launched in September last year, Sport and Leisure Management Ltd (SLM) is currently trailing Sporting FUNdamentals in four of its Everyone Active centres – Grimsby Leisure Centre, Grimsby, Ongar Sports Centre, Epping, St Paul’s Community Sports Academy, Bristol and Burbage Infant & Junior School Sports Partnership. The idea behind Sporting FUNdamentals is to provide of a variety of essential activity skills in a series of fun and enjoyable sessions.
Targeted at children under 11, the sessions are well structured through the use of innovative resource cards. The sessions use different sports such as tri-golf, indoor curling, badminton, basketball, athletics and tennis to provide activity skills that will set the children up for life. This course has been designed to provide children with the FUNdamental sporting skills that will help them achieve excellence at sport in future life.
Sporting FUNdamentals is all about the overall development of the child’s physical capabilities, learning movement skills and the ABC’S of athleticism – Agility, Balance, Co-ordination and Speed.
All the children participating are monitored by qualified coaching professionals in a safe and secure environment. All the children involved are given an activity diary that they fill in at the end of each session with their coaches and their coaches will provide with them activities they can do during the week to help them further develop their skills. “Sporting FUNdamentals is a great way of introducing kids to activity and keeping them active for life by encouraging them to enjoy physical activity and getting reward from that activity,” comments Luke Parratt, Group Children’s Activity Manager at SLM.
“Sporting FUNdamentals sessions are run after school and at weekends revolving around the school year. During the holidays, multi-sport camps will be available to children wishing to continue with their development. It’s all about keeping kids hooked on exercise and introducing them to something that they wouldn’t otherwise have access to.”
Issued on 22.01.08