Sports In Your Backyard – Advice from the Department for Education
Backyard sports can help to get the kids outside and remain active while all community sport is put on hold. Families are encouraged to get creative, but there are plenty of ways kids can keep up their sports skills and burn off energy in the house or backyard.
The Government of South Australia’s Department for Education has published a list with lots of great new innovative ways to get kids out from behind their screens and start moving. Numerous sports organisations are producing online videos to help kids stay in contact with their sport community. The videos will also help kids to keep their skills up while they wait for their favourite school and club sports to start up again.
Backyard Athletics
Little Athletics SA are bringing everything your kids love about athletics to your very own backyard with their online Backyard PB program. During April they are sharing weekly athletics activities your kids can do at home. Participants can win medals, digital certificates and badges. MORE INFO HERE
Cricket Blast
Cricket Australia’s Cricket Blast app has great backyard activities to keep kids aged 5 to 10 active and learning the skills of cricket. The app is free and can be downloaded from the app store or Google Play Store.
Netball
Netfit Netball has live, real time online programs every Monday, Wednesday and Friday until 22 May 2020. The program includes netball specific workouts, skills, fitness, nutrition and cooking hacks, wellbeing and recovery workshops as well as the chance to ask an elite netballer your questions. MORE INFO HERE
Hockey
Every day Hockey Australia will be uploading a wide variety of hockey content – from your favourite Kookaburra and Hockeyroo players, coaches and other high performance staff. MORE INFO HERE
Soccer
Football Federation Australia has launched their Football Skills Hub to help kids master new soccer skills and stay connected with their soccer community. You can progress through different levels of core skills and participate in their #PlayAtHomeChallenge. MORE INFO HERE
Disability Sports Australia
Disability Sports Australia has a host of fun new ways people with a disability can stay active at home. From Chair Yoga to daily fitness workouts for amputees, shoulder mobility exercises and wheelchair HIIT and Zumba, there’s a range of gentle workouts, strength training and cardio to keep people busy and fit. MORE INFO HERE
School Sport SA – At home trick shot challenge
Being stuck at home gives kids plenty of time to perfect their trick shot!
It can be anything from golf putting around the lounge room, basketball shots from behind the shed or a footy goal down the corridor (using soft balls of course!)
The competition is open to all South Australian school children. All they need to do is video their ultimate trick shot and send it in to School Sport SA for judging. Prizes include new School Sport SA merchandise. Competition closes 1 May 2020 – ENTER HERE. Find out more about the Trick Shot Challenge on the SA School Sports website here.
For more information and all enquiries please visit the Dept of Education website page.
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Image Source: Department of Education Facebook page.
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