With education and social skills being embedded in the curriculum, another key component in our educational sports program is for children’s development in their academic, creativity and social skills
While children are learning a specific skill within a sport, they are also encouraged to dance, identify letters of the alphabet, recognize different sight words and uncover different sha pes, colours, and numbers. Children are directed to the relevant section of their ‘Mini Champions Readiness Handbook’ to recount their learning experiences.
Within these learning experiences, children are in a safe and fun environment where they are taught how to interact with each other and the community with respect and fairness. Children are also taught how to work and help each other out when proposed with a hard question or problem in relation to peers, the community, nutrition, literacy or mathematics.
This links to the EYLF outcome 4 – Children are confident and involved learners
Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity.
Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, enquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another
Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies, and natural and processed materials