Anyone with children will know that they usually love to be active and enjoy the freedom of moving around but do we really know the importance an active childhood? Encouraging children at a younger age to take part in sports and stay active can help to develop this routine into their lives as they grow older when staying active and participating in sport becomes more of a challenge. Developing a love for physical activity at a young age through encouragement to play sport and being an active role model can help healthy patterns last right through into adulthood. We’re always told about the importance of keeping children active and healthy, but do we really know why it is important? Regular e
Last Friday 8th March, we held our third Elite Tournament of the school year. The High-5 Netball Tournament saw 12 teams competing across 3 courts and 35 games being played throughout the afternoon. The tournament, being the biggest one that we’ve held to date, turned out to be an impressive afternoon of talent the biggest one that we’ve hosted to date! The Elite Tournament had a great mixture of boys and girls playing across all schools, with fantastic Netball being played in both groups. It was great to see the development and improvement of the children throughout the tournament. The top 3 teams of the competition went through to the main cup competition whilst the bottom 3 teams went thr
During the February half term course, we had over 50 children each day across our 3 venues at Abingdon, Botley and Didcot! The fun filled camps started at 9am and ran until 3.30pm each day and the children enjoyed activities such as the ‘Time2Bounce’ bouncy castle, ‘glow in the dark’ dodgeball, and one of the favourites - NERF Wars! We also arranged for two brand new Elite activities to come to our camps which were JD Golf’s driving range and Miss Poppy’s Gymnastics. These activities proved to be very popular and great fun for the children and even some of our coaches! Alongside the Elite Activities were the usual sports, which included football, basketball, kwik cricket, table tennis and D
