Movement skills, moving with equipment and object manipulation.

We facilitate the development of both basic and advanced movement skills, with or without equipment, and with various degrees of object manipulation. From walking, running, jumping or throwing in sport to advanced somersaults in trampolining and javelin in athletics. Movement skills are fundamental to lifelong sport and physical activity enjoyment and engagement. Our active classroom KS2 series, primary and secondary multi-skill festivals, inclusion sports and tiered competition framework ensure that all abilities and ages are catered for. Providing fun, safe and appropriate competitive environments allows students to apply movement skills in context, with equipment and objects. We provide over 20 different sport disciplines and countless individual sport adaptations and variations. This ensures we provide plenty of experiences to learn to move with equipment and how to manipulate objects.

Speed

Opportunity to develop speed via various activities such as sprinting in athletics, sprinting around a pitch in rounders or softball, sprinting to stop a cricket ball from reaching the boundary.

Agility, Balance, Co-ordination, Flexibility, Strength

Opportunity to develop and demonstrate basic and advanced;

• agility via playing team invasion games evading opponents and changing directions in confined spaces or during individual sports such as badminton when quickly moving around the court in all directions.

• Balance through sport specific skills i.e receiving the ball in netball adhering to the pivot and footwork rule or undertaking a complex trampolining routine with somersaults and twists

• co-ordination skills in basic walking, running, jumping, throwing movements to more complex fine motor skills e.g. a forehand return in Table Tennis

• flexibility via pre and post match warm up and cool down routines and participation in activities which focus on flexibility as part of the scoring system e.g. dance and gymnastics.

• strength whilst working against a resistance e.g. pushing in a rugby scrum, throwing a shot putt and slinging a discus in athletics or performing a smash volley in tennis.

Muscular and Cardiovascular Endurance

Opportunities to develop young peoples muscular and cardiovascular endurance via activities which require repeated muscular contractions of a body part or extended duration of aerobic physical activity. We follow strict National Governing Bodies and sport associations guidelines to ensure all equipment, weights, distances and pitch/court dimensions are suitable for each stage of learning and development.

Reaction Time

Opportunity to develop reaction time via various activities e.g. reacting to the start of a gun in athletics or swimming, reacting to an opponent’s movement in team games and the movement of an object in a game situation i.e direction of a batters hit in a game of cricket.