Sports Tots Connect
Sports Tots Connect is an Early Childhood Sports program that that spans across Disability Sports and multiculturalism to increase awareness of inclusion and recognise all abilities.
Childrens Goalball
For sighted individuals, it is a fun activity that promotes awareness of what individuals and specifically children with a visual impairment can do. Below are a few of the bene-fits playing goalball can provide those who take up the challenge of this unique and fun sport:
- Improved cardiovascular endurance
- Improved upper body strength
- Improved sensory motor skills
- Improved agility and balance
- Improved auditory awareness and tracking
- Improved self-confidence and self-efficacy
- Improved mind/body connection
- Reinforcement of healthy life skills such as friendship, team building, respect, perseverance and courage.
Sports Tots Connect - Language
VAMOS! SPORTS TOTS
MERGING LANGUAGE WITH SPORT
Introducing foreign languages to sports program through picture cards and fun exercises.
Brain research has shown that the brain is “plastic” in that it can adapt continuously, and its structure can be changed by certain kinds of stimulation, including movement.
The body is a sensory-motor response system that uses the brain to organize itself. Movement is essential to learning and can be regarded as the door to learning.
Introducing foreign languages to sports program through picture cards and fun exercises.
Spanish is spoken by 400 million people and is the 2nd most spoken language behind mandarin.
Through our multi-sports program children learn to follow rules and multi-stepped directions essential for everyday life. It allows children to develop skills in working cooperatively with a partner or in a group, as well as, discipline and persistence to achieve their goals. It teaches conflict resolution and most importantly resilience and self-confidence.
